New Lut : PictureFX Channel Swap for IR

The new PictureFX Channel Swap for IR Lut is designed for enhancing photos taken with infrared (IR) filters like 550nm, 590nm, 665nm, and 720nm. Simply load your IR picture into your preferred image editor, apply the PictureFX Lut, and fine-tune settings like White Balance and Contrast for desired effects. Perfect for transforming your IR shots

Unlock Your Creativity: Why LUTs Are Changing the Game in Photography

I’ve been into this story since 2010, starting with Ufraw for Raw photos and Rawtherapee. Trey Radcliff’s stunning photos and Nik Efex opened up a new world. I began creating presets for Rawtherapee, inspired by Pat David’s Haldcluts. PictureFX Haldcluts launched around 2015. In 2020, I switched to Fuji, diving into .Cube Luts for color

New Free Film Simulation Lut : Infrared with PictureFX WhiteIR

Infrared pictures always have something special, I think, but using real IR film to create them can be quite cumbersome. That’s why there’s this PictureFX digital Film Simulation – and as always, it’s FREE ! Like with many Film Simulations, it looks great on one picture but not so much on another. So, it’s all

PictureFX Pro ©2024

Last Updated : April 28, 2024 – Transformed this post into a page, you can find it at the top of the menu. April 5, 2024New Lut added : PictureFX Lac du Connemara – Rugged, Rich and Earthy ! January 26, 2024Start and publish of a new PictureFX page.Most downloaded Luts added. Added page to

PictureFX Ektachrome 1966 E4 Lut

The use of LUTs is also, and perhaps especially, known in cinematography, much more than in digital photography. Many people want their footage to look like well-known blockbuster films, and the variety of LUTs of this type is overwhelming. The problem is mainly that they all strongly resemble each other, and the used names are

PictureFX Luts Download on freshLUTs

As mentioned earlier this week, there was a problem with uploading on FreshLuts, but it has been successfully resolved. You can now download the latest PictureFX Leica M8 Camera Black and White from FreshLuts! To access the download page, simply click here. Compatibility with different software packages includes :Adobe Photoshop CS6 and up (Cube)After Effects

New Lut Update – PictureFX Leica M8 Camera Black and White

The Leica M8 remains a highly desirable camera, and it’s not just because of its color capabilities; it appears that its Black & White output is particularly sought after. If you’re interested in discovering more about this, I can certainly suggest checking out the links provided below. Joshua Wilfred Sekar wrote “An Unlimited Roll of

New Lut/Cube Update – PictureFX Leica M8 Camera Standard – FREE download

Intro : Why I created a Lut to simulate the Leica M8 camera jpg output ?Well, although the Leica M8 was not initially regarded as the best Leica camera, it eventually gained popularity and became highly sought after, partly due to its relatively attractive price. Many photographers aspire to shoot with a Leica at some

3DLuts .Cube format in RawTherapee ?

Nowadays you can find loads of free Luts – 3DLuts .Cube format as used in Adobe, Luminar, Darktable ON1 etc…How great would it be if you could just use it in Rawtherapee Film Simulation !But, no, unfortunately not.Rawtherapee can only work with PNG HaldCluts.But wait !There is a simple solution!The Vertopal Free Online ConverterHere you

Two New Luts Update – PictureFX J.S. Style Ethereal Purple and Pink

The Luts and the Style : The last two Luts from the PictureFX J.S Style series, Purple and Pink Ethereal.I was searching for photos of Bluebells when I first discovered Jo’s Ethereal photos, they were the first thing I really liked about her remarkable style. These photos eventually led me to Flickr and then to

New Lut Update – PictureFX J.S. Style Mystical Dusk + Gimp Instructions

PictureFX J.S. Style Mystical Dusk is the more dark and gloomy version of the style found on Jo Stephen’s website.But as written before, the result depends very much on the chosen photo and its color pattern.If you have visited Jo’s website you will most likely have also read about ICM – intentional camera movement.You can

New Lut Update – PictureFX J.S. Style Wildflowers

My new Lut Update – PictureFX J.S. Style Wildflowers – is a Film Simulation/Style that gives a color palette and tonal partition specially intended for nature shots, wild flowers, etc J.S. style stands for the style of Jo Stephen, a North Dorset based photographer. I could write a lot about her but better if you

New Lut & Cube Update – PictureFX Kodak Aerochrome

What is Kodak Aerochrome and what was it used for.The first versions of infrared film date back to the time of the First World War for spectroscopic analysis.In the 1930s it was made commercially available and quickly became very popular among photographers, and it was also used in the news for landscape and aerial photos,

New LUT Update – Rob Shea Infrared Photography

A new update for the “The Largest Collection of HaldClut/Luts brought together“. Interested in Infrared Photography?A digital dedicated camera is too expensive,and 35mm IR film is too much hassle ?Well, then here you have a very nice series of .Cube files with which you can still get started, and make beautiful Infra Red creations..Cube files can

NEW PictureFX Lut Update – PictureFX Perfect Sunset

Surprise !Not one but two new PictureFX Updates in One Day!Yes, you may have noticed while visiting the Fresh Lut’s website that there were also PictureFX Luts.Well, for the past few weeks I’ve been busy converting existing PictureFX PNG film simulations to a different format HaldClut, which made it possible to create much smaller Lut

NEW PictureFX Lut Update – PictureFX Classic Chrome Gold

The new PictureFX Classic Chrome Gold LUT was created by combining an existing HaldClut (PNG) – namely my PFX Classic Chrome – and Color Mapping of very specific color oriented photos – in this case a photo by Lisa from Conwy UK (instagram – Lis welshie.wonders) Golden Textile @ https://www.pexels.com/ – Thank you Lisa !

New Luts Update – Fresh LUT’s

A database of Luts (all .cube format), searchable in various ways via keywords.The Sites “About” : “freshLUTs is the world’s largest collection of free LUTs. You can browse and download any LUT you like. You can also add LUTs to your favorites and keep track of all the LUTs you downloaded. Filmmakers can upload their

“Unboxing” GrossGrade Professional Color Enhancement & Grading

Hey, A “normal unboxing” is a video in which someone receives a package and unpacks it. The unpacker provides a video and the steps he takes with comments and thus gives his very first impression.Well, I don’t have a package here, but I do have some new software that I found on the internet –

New Lut Update – Juan Melara

Oh boy, yes, again a great set of Luts in Cube format, my computers disks are exploding of the many luts !Getting the “largest Collection Luts/Presets and Recipes” together, runs like clockwork.And I’m very happy for that.My advice is : create an extra folder for newly downloaded Luts, and keep the ones you really like

New Film Simulation: PictureFX Cinematic – National Geographic

National Geographic, a new PictureFX Film Simulation in the Cinematic series.The previous Cinematic Simulation called “Crime Scene” was published in November 2020, so it’s high time for a new one !This one (and another one) actually stayed in the drawer for a long time, on one hand because I was also working on other simulations,

125 Free Luts

Yes, 125 free Luts – all in Cube format, this time from commercial manufacturers : ON1 and Rocketstock.But they are free, only an email is required but no registration for ON1, direct download for Rocketstock.Just to be clear, I don’t get money to promote someone or a company, normally I don’t like to use commercial

PictureFX Fujifilm Classic Chrome – Cross Processed

As with the PictureFX versions of the “in camera” Fujifilm Simulations and the “real film” based Superia 200, I had spend a lot of time researching, in this case how to Cross Process digitally.I am not going to explain what Cross Processing is, because you probably know that, but we will go over the techniques

New page for Film Simulations added in the menu …

It was probably already clear that a new page was coming, and here it is: “The Largest Collection for Nikon, Sony, Pentax, Canon, Olympus …”And in the meantime, and by the help of good friends, also updated with new links for Nikon, but also Canon and Olympus.Like all other pages, I only post links to

PictureFX Pro Fujifilm Superia 200

Although Fujifilm Superia is not one of the standard film simulations on a Fujifilm camera, Fuji still has a “similar to” (as they say themselves) in their options, namely the Classic Negative.For some strange reason, Fujifilm Superia was not considered a film for “Professional” use.But after reading countless reviews, visiting chat rooms and forums, photo

PictureFX Lomo Flower Power

Hi Guys! Whasup ! Feeling Lomo and a bit Flower Power! No, I haven’t been smoking something 🙂This is just a new PictureFX creation.The next Film Simulation is still days if not weeks away, To put it briefly, for a sunset filter you need a sunset, for a “real film” simulation I need specific subjects

PictureFX Color Toning Pro – Topaz – Topaz Silver and Topaz Gold

Very popular with many photographers were and still are the well-known effects from Nik Collection (now Dxo) with names of precious metals like platinum efex and palladium efex, first applied to Black and White and later also in Color photography. These effects were the reason that I started creating Haldcluts myself to have my own

PictureFX Pro Base Tone Curve – Cube/Lut for Adobe, Rawtherapee, Luminar …

Probably the most important part in RAW development : the “Tone Curve”. Technically, this new PictureFX Tone Curve is not a Film Simulation, however, it has been developed for en is part of the PictureFX Pro Fujifilm Color series.This specific Curve has been further fine-tuned since then, and is now intended as a starting point

PictureFX Fujifilm v3.0 Acros 100 I & II and Acros 400 IR in Adobe Cube format

The previously released Acros 100 I & II and the not really existing Acros 400 IR, now also in Adobe Cube format. I don’t have a list of all compatible software at the moment, but I think that with either one (Haldclut or Cube) you can use almost any image editing software.The biggest problem is

PictureFX Fujifilm V3.0 Color Filmpack – 3D LUT – Cube

The legendary Fujifilm Film Simulations – Astia, Provia, Velvia and Classic Chrome – Who doesn’t know them ? The first one I made was the Provia, here the article about it with the Haldclut version: The first I PictureFX Fujifilm Provia – a brand new Lut ! After that the Classic Chrome in Haldclut version here

Agfa B&W Haldclut & 3D LUT – Cube downloads

Featured picture is the skyline of Antwerp during the Tall Ships Race in 2016, old photos are also worth reviving, dreaming of those beautiful memories of when it was still “different”. Now it seemed worthwhile to “color” them or should I say decolorize them.I have used the Agfa 200X in Cube format in Darktable here.

New ! PictureFX Film Simulations now also for Adobe, Luminar …

Apparently there is an interest in PictureFX Luts but for use in programs other than Rawtherapee/Artherapee and Darktable.It is my good friend Mark G Adams who brought this to my attention.Unfortunately, I don’t have one of those image editing programs, but I do have a converter to convert Haldclut’s to .cube format.Mark has been so