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Using a lookup table to refine the black-and-white effect

Using a lookup table to refine the black-and-white effect - Photoshop Tutorial

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Using a lookup table to refine the black-and-white effect

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- Lookup tables, or LUTs, are a great way to simulate different film stocks, or to encapsulate a color grade into one effect. LUTs are widely used in the film and video industries as a way to express color between cameras, editing applications, and more. And they're becoming more popular in the photographic space as well. In this case here, you see we have a very rich black and white image. This is the end result. We pop the curves for rich dynamic range. Then made a hue saturation to really boost the color. Sometimes before creating the black and white, you want a really contrasty, saturated image. Then a gradient map was layered in, followed by the color lookup table for the black and white conversion. It is possible to use LUTs, to actually shift the black and white conversion and dial in all new recipes than what you can do with the black and white adjustment layer. Let's go ahead and put this to life. We'll…

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