Uploaded January 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Hello! We already discussed RAW developing settings and tools in previous videos. It’s time for practice! In this tutorial I will be developing RAW images from different cameras with 3D LUT Creator!
This is how it appears right after opening in 3D LUT Creator. The photo was taken with Nikon D600. I’m going to increase contrast and saturation. I will increase exposure a little and here it is! The photo has very smooth tonal transitions. RAW editors often produce dirty colors in the shadows but it looks ok here.
Let’s move on to the next photo!
This image was taken with Nikon D750. I’m going to decrease the exposure until I get details back on the skin. For example, like this. Now it is time to raise the contrast! I will move the center of the contrast curve towards the shadows to lighten them up. I will set up Blacks. There is a camera’s white balance here. I just tweaked the contrast with exposure and everything looks fine. Let’s increase saturation a little. Additionally, if you need to lighten the shadows up you can use curves.
The photo was taken with Canon R. I’m going to increase the contrast and make the shadows brighter. I will raise saturation and adjust Blacks. Here is the result!
I'll load another photo sent by the user “It’s me”. It has higher contrast. There are details in the background. By the way, if you want to check RAW image for details in shadows or highlights, just look at before version of the photo. This is how it looks. I'm going to bring back the details in the highlights. I'll lower the exposure, raise the contrast and move Pivot slider to the left. I will increase saturation, and adjust Blacks. There are chromatic aberrations in the photo; I will remove them with the color grid. There are purple aberrations left over, I will also remove them. Despite the fact that there were knocked out highlights in the photo, I fixed them without using Luminosity masks. I will also raise the contrast with master curve. For example, like this.
And finally, I will develop a photo with a very contrasting scene. Before I loaded it into 3D LUT Creator, I'll choose a color space with a large Gamut in the area of saturated colors: RAW ProPhoto. This is how my image appears when loaded into 3D LUT Creator. It is a photo of the rising sun shot with a telephoto lens with Fujifilm X-T2. Even if I decrease the exposure now, I won't get the color I want and smooth color transitions in the sky. Therefore, here I’m going to do the trick that I talked about in the previous video dedicated to the tools for developing RAW images in 3D LUT Creator: I’m going to change the cutoff level of the camera sensor. I'll click on this field and choose white color here. Well, it looks like a dawn now! I will decrease exposure and adjust contrast. There is a big peace of ice at the bottom of the frame, so I’m going to make it bluer with the help of double grid. I’m holding Alt key and setting the border between highlights and shadows. The lower grid affectes shadows, and the upper one - highlights. Let’s make the shadows colder. I can brighten the shadows with curves. I will set up Blacks and here is the result! Let me develop this photo in Lightroom for comparison. This is how it looks when opened in Lightroom. Decreasing of the exposure won't end well here. I need the yellow color rather than the orange one. Therefore, I will need to find appropriate color profile. I will choose Vivid profile. This is the most color-saturated camera profile for Fuji cameras. I want to restore details from the brightest areas using Highlights slider. A yellow halo forms around the sun. Actually, in general, it is difficult to get more details here. I will brighten the shadows.
Let’s compare it with what I did in 3D LUT Creator. I'll make the white balance a little warmer. I wouldn’t say that in Lightroom I can see more detail in the highlights, even though Lightroom uses tonal mapping tools. In addition, in Lightroom I got a yellow halo around the sun trying to squeeze overexposed areas, while in 3D LUT Creator the color transitions look smoother. I will raise the saturation a little.
3D LUT Creator doesn’t have tools like Highlights and Shadows sliders in Lightroom, but despite this, it can be used to develop highly contrasting scenes without fear of losing details in shadows and highlights. Also, do not forget that you can save this development in the LUT, load the LUT into an adjustment layer and assemble your mini-RAW converter in Photoshop. I'll show you how to do this in the next video.
Bye everyone!
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Hello! We already discussed RAW developing settings and tools in previous videos. It’s time for practice! In this tutorial I will be developing RAW images from different cameras with 3D LUT Creator!
This is how it appears right after opening in 3D LUT Creator. The photo was taken with Nikon D600. I’m going to increase contrast and saturation. I will increase exposure a little and here it is! The photo has very smooth tonal transitions. RAW editors often produce dirty colors in the shadows but it looks ok here.
Let’s move on to the next photo!
This image was taken with Nikon D750. I’m going to decrease the exposure until I get details back on the skin. For example, like this. Now it is time to raise the contrast! I will move the center of the contrast curve towards the shadows to lighten them up. I will set up Blacks. There is a camera’s white balance here. I just tweaked the contrast with exposure and everything looks fine. Let’s increase saturation a little. Additionally, if you need to lighten the shadows up you can use curves.
The photo was taken with Canon R. I’m going to increase the contrast and make the shadows brighter. I will raise saturation and adjust Blacks. Here is the result!
I'll load another photo sent by the user “It’s me”. It has higher contrast. There are details in the background. By the way, if you want to check RAW image for details in shadows or highlights, just look at before version of the photo. This is how it looks. I'm going to bring back the details in the highlights. I'll lower the exposure, raise the contrast and move Pivot slider to the left. I will increase saturation, and adjust Blacks. There are chromatic aberrations in the photo; I will remove them with the color grid. There are purple aberrations left over, I will also remove them. Despite the fact that there were knocked out highlights in the photo, I fixed them without using Luminosity masks. I will also raise the contrast with master curve. For example, like this.
And finally, I will develop a photo with a very contrasting scene. Before I loaded it into 3D LUT Creator, I'll choose a color space with a large Gamut in the area of saturated colors: RAW ProPhoto. This is how my image appears when loaded into 3D LUT Creator. It is a photo of the rising sun shot with a telephoto lens with Fujifilm X-T2. Even if I decrease the exposure now, I won't get the color I want and smooth color transitions in the sky. Therefore, here I’m going to do the trick that I talked about in the previous video dedicated to the tools for developing RAW images in 3D LUT Creator: I’m going to change the cutoff level of the camera sensor. I'll click on this field and choose white color here. Well, it looks like a dawn now! I will decrease exposure and adjust contrast. There is a big peace of ice at the bottom of the frame, so I’m going to make it bluer with the help of double grid. I’m holding Alt key and setting the border between highlights and shadows. The lower grid affectes shadows, and the upper one - highlights. Let’s make the shadows colder. I can brighten the shadows with curves. I will set up Blacks and here is the result! Let me develop this photo in Lightroom for comparison. This is how it looks when opened in Lightroom. Decreasing of the exposure won't end well here. I need the yellow color rather than the orange one. Therefore, I will need to find appropriate color profile. I will choose Vivid profile. This is the most color-saturated camera profile for Fuji cameras. I want to restore details from the brightest areas using Highlights slider. A yellow halo forms around the sun. Actually, in general, it is difficult to get more details here. I will brighten the shadows.
Let’s compare it with what I did in 3D LUT Creator. I'll make the white balance a little warmer. I wouldn’t say that in Lightroom I can see more detail in the highlights, even though Lightroom uses tonal mapping tools. In addition, in Lightroom I got a yellow halo around the sun trying to squeeze overexposed areas, while in 3D LUT Creator the color transitions look smoother. I will raise the saturation a little.
3D LUT Creator doesn’t have tools like Highlights and Shadows sliders in Lightroom, but despite this, it can be used to develop highly contrasting scenes without fear of losing details in shadows and highlights. Also, do not forget that you can save this development in the LUT, load the LUT into an adjustment layer and assemble your mini-RAW converter in Photoshop. I'll show you how to do this in the next video.
Bye everyone!
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Platform supported: Windows and Mac
Download 3D LUT Creator Demo and try: 3dlutcreator.com
FOLLOW US:
► facebook.com/3dlutcreator
► vk.com/3dlutcreator
► instagram.com/3dlutcreator
DOWNLOAD 3DLUT mobile app HERE:
► App Store: goo.gl/vneRGx
► Google Play: goo.gl/CqN55x
Music: audionautix.com
