Free LUTs for Photoshop

Installing a LUT in Photoshop

1. Layer → New Adjustment Layer → Color Lookup.
2. In the Properties panel open the 3D LUT File dropdown and choose Load 3D LUT…, then pick the .cube.
3. Grabbing several? Drop them into Photoshop’s Presets → 3DLUTs folder and restart — they then appear in that dropdown directly, with no loading step each time.

Photoshop reads .cube and .3dl.

Which slot to use

We ship two kinds of LUT and Photoshop has a place for each. A conversion LUT is technical — it puts log footage into Rec.709 correctly. A creative LUT is a look, and expects footage that is already in Rec.709. Correct, convert, then look.

• The adjustment layer is the creative slot. It sits above your image, is non-destructive, and can be reordered, masked and blended like any other layer.
• There is no technical slot — Photoshop has no equivalent of Premiere’s Input LUT. See below.

If the look is too strong

Lower the opacity of the Color Lookup layer. That blends it back toward the untouched image, which is the only honest way to soften a fixed mapping.

Use the creative looks, not the conversions