Excellent Landscape Colour Grading With Affinity Photo LUTs

[@christianpetersen1782]

Thank you Robin for sharing your knowledge and explaining it so slowly, clearly and extremely well. 👏

[@RobinWhalley]

You're very welcome. It's nice to hear my style suited you.

[@jeremyhendersonphotography]

Useful tips and a prompt to revisit LUTs. However the lack of preview makes it really a labour to try out different LUTs

[@RobinWhalley]

Thanks. You may not be ablet o preview the LUTs but there is an easy way to switch between them with a single click. There's a link in the KZbin description to an article on my website where I explain.

[@ianbrowne9304]

Someone has finally given me a reason to explore LUTS . Thank you :)

[@RobinWhalley]

Happy to help!

[@ianbrowne9304]

@@RobinWhalley I still have not gone any further with it 🤣 . Maybe next year 😇

[@ptst19]

Thank you

[@RobinWhalley]

You're welcome. Thank you

[@c.augustin]

Thanks for this one! I wasn't aware that AP2 now can also save LUTs (I think this was missing in AP1). Professionally I use Photoshop (for over a quarter century by now), but I've started to use AP2 for photographic work (still "not suitable for work", sadly the same with Affinity Designer 2, even though the gap to PS and AI is narrowing with both, and being able to edit AP2 and AD2 files in both apps interchangeably without loss of functionality is a really useful thing).

[@RobinWhalley]

Yes, the LUT saving is a useful edition in AP. It was there in version 1 but I can't recall when it was added. I don't use Designer that much but the results from Affinity Photo will certainly stand up to Photoshop for most peoples needs.

[@alangauld6079]

I also use Luminar Neo and one of its nice features is that it comes with lots of LUTs that work well in a wide variety of shots. But, even better, they show the effect on the image when you hover over them, a pity Affinity doesn't do that too. In practice, I use the LUTs to give me some ideas and a direction to go. Then I delete them and use Nik Color Efex to reproduce the concept but with more control. I could do the same as you did with masking I guess but I prefer the finer control I get in Nik. But the LUTs are a great prompt for ideas. I use them often in Neo but very rarely in Affinity because of the lack of a hover-preview.

[@RobinWhalley]

Yes, Luminar Neo is very good for LUTs. You can also make life easier for yourself in Affinity Photo. It isn't quite as good as being to mouse over a thumbnail to see an effect but it isn't too far off. It allows you to switch between imported LUTs with a single click. I explain when to do in the article I linked to in the KZbin video description.

[@JulesMoyaert_photo]

Wow!!! Thank you so much!

[@RobinWhalley]

You're welcome. Thank you

[@danbuchman7497]

Hi, thanks for sharing these tips as LUT’s seem like a bit of magic to me. One question, can you achieve similar results using Viveza or Color Efex in NIK?

[@RobinWhalley]

The nice thing about LUTs is that it can be difficult to understand what you might create when you apply them. The reason I say this is good is that it can open a lot of creative possibilities that you might not otherwise think of. If I were editing the same image with the Nik Collection I would probably find myself trying hard to keep it "looking real". With LUTs I'm responding to what I see and what I like and don't like about the effect. Could I create similar effects with Color Efex Pro? Probably but I would probably not think to make this type of adjustment.

[@technodrone313]

s luts are the best

[@Martinbeef]

What’s a LUT?

[@RobinWhalley]

It's a Lookup Table. The software uses it to translate colours and tones in an image to new values.