From the course: Photoshop: Advanced Adjustment Layer and Blend Modes
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Creating custom lookup tables - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop: Advanced Adjustment Layer and Blend Modes
Creating custom lookup tables
- As an advanced user, you're probably excited by LUTs and what' I'd like you to do now is realize that anything you can do with an adjustment layer can be stored as a lookup table. This means some of the complex recipes that you've discovered in this course, with blending modes and adjustment layers, can all get bundled up into one lookup table. Now it doesn't support masks or anything like that. But it does allow you to take multiple adjustment layers and concatenate or build those into one lookup table, which can then be applied to images in Photoshop, video editing applications or even Adobe Lightroom. In the case of this image, I've already applied several adjustments to enhance the photo. First, a curves adjustment, which is a subtle adjustment on the image, just a little lit. Then a black and white conversion using the overlay blending mode. A little pop to the color, the hue and saturation and some selective color adjustments. Now, you'll notice that the background layer is…
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