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Creating custom lookup tables

Creating custom lookup tables - Photoshop Tutorial

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Creating custom lookup tables

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- Everything that can be done with an adjustment layer can be bundled into a LUT. This can be a great way to take a complex effect and make it a single layer for easy reuse. In this case here, you see we have a multilayered effect. And it's not a dramatic effect, but it is creating a nice change to the blue and the exposure. All of these adjustment layers can be simplified to one LUT. Now, in order for this to work, your background needs to be a locked layer. If it doesn't exist, for example, if it was floating or named something like Eagle, you would need to select it. Notice here that this is a traditional layer with opacity. With that layer highlighted, you could choose Layer, New, Background from Layer, and you'll see that it becomes locked, and it's renamed Background. Now what you can do is turn on the adjustment layers that you want and then choose File, Export, Color Lookup Tables. Give it a name and feel…

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