Creating Presets, LUTs, and Profiles for Photography

Learn how to build custom presets, LUTs, and profiles in popular photo editing applications, including Photoshop, Lightroom, Capture One, and Nik.

Introduction

• LUTs, presets, and profiles for photographers
• Exercise files

1. Understanding Presets for Adobe Applications

• The role of presets
• Creating a Lightroom Classic preset
• Creating a Lightroom preset
• Creating a Photoshop layer style
• Creating a Photoshop action
• Creating a Camera Raw preset

2. Working with Presets in Other Photo Applications

• Creating a Luminar Look
• Creating an Aurora HDR Look
• Creating an ON1 Photo RAW preset
• Creating a Capture One preset
• Creating a Nik preset
• Creating an Affinity Photo preset

3. Understanding Lookup Tables (LUTs)

• What is a LUT?
• What are the limitations of a LUT
• Using LUTs with photo applications

4. Creating LUTs

• Creating a LUT with Photoshop
• Creating a LUT with 3D LUT Creator
• Creating a LUT with IWLTBAP LUT Generator
• Creating a LUT with Adobe Premiere Pro
• Manipulating LUTs with Lattice

5. Using LUTS

• Using LUTs with Photoshop
• Using LUTs with Luminar
• Using LUTs with Aurora HDR
• Using LUTs with ON1
• Using LUTs with Affinity Photo

6. Understanding Custom Adobe Profiles

• What is a Camera Raw profile?
• Using Camera Raw profiles in Adobe Camera Raw
• Using Camera Raw profiles in Lightroom Classic
• Using Camera Raw profiles in Lightroom
• Building a custom Camera Raw profile
• Refining a custom Camera Raw profile
• Organizing Camera Raw profiles

7. Understanding DNG Camera Profiles

• What is a DNG Camera Profile (DCP) file?
• Using a color profile target
• Creating a custom profile with the Adobe DNG Profile Editor
• Creating a custom profile with ColorChecker Passport software
• Using DNG Camera Profiles with Adobe apps
• Using DNG Camera Profiles with Skylum apps
• Using DNG Camera Profiles with Capture One

8. Using Lens Correction Profiles

• What are lens correction profiles?
• Capturing lens correction data with a target
• Creating a custom profile with Adobe Lens Profile Creator
• Using custom LCP files with Adobe applications
• The Lensfun profile library

Conclusion

• Next steps