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LUTs for Lightroom

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Lutify.me is an image effects package with a difference. It gives your images an instant one-click ‘look,' but by using a Look Up Table (LUT) rather than a particular set of tone, colour or curve adjustments.

A LUT is effectively a conversion profile that takes a colour value in your original file, looks it up in a table and returns a new colour value.

In principle, it's no different from a monitor calibration profile designed to correct the colours a monitor displays, or a printer profile to produce accurate colours in a printed image. Here, though, this conversion process is being used to shift tones and colours for a creative, rather than a corrective, effect.

LUTs are just starting to capture the interest of stills photographers and software companies, but they're already well established in the world of video editing and

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