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Create soft, atmospheric cool tones with ease.
The Cool Tones LUT Pack includes 10 painterly LUTs designed to bring gentle blues, cool neutrals, and a soft, moody finish to your photos and digital art. Perfect for portraits, landscapes, and composites, these LUTs add depth and harmony in just one click.
WATCH HOW THIS PRODUCT can add subtle colour depth to your photos and images.
Why Use LUTS?
LUTS (Look-Up Tables) are an easy and powerful way to add professional colour grading to your images. With just a few clicks, you can completely change the mood, enhance tones.
Using these LUTs, you'll notice that the colour grading effect will vary depending on your image’s tones, lighting, and style — making each result uniquely tailored. Colour grading is a big part of my creative process, and these LUTs reflect the style I love to weave into my digital art — muted but rich, emotional but soft.
Perfect for photographers, and digital creators who want to add depth, mood, and magic to their work.
Includes:
10 Photoshop LUTs (.CUBE format) - Misty Vintage Blue, Moonlit Blue Fade, Nordic Blue, Silver Blue Matte, Soft Cornflower Matte,
Snowy Tranquility, Winter Dawn, Crisp Winter, Frosted Morning and Silent Forest.Soft blues, cool neutrals, and subtle tones
Whether you’re after soft cool blues, gentle neutrals, or atmospheric shadows, this collection helps you create images with a calm, cohesive feel. Each LUT is part of my own creative workflow—now you can use them to enhance yours.
Compatible With:
Photoshop
Any software that supports .CUBE LUT files
These are NOT Lightroom presets.
NOTE:
Please keep in mind that the LUTS may require some tweaks to suit the individual image, as the final result can vary from one image to the next, depending on lights, shadows, colours, tones. If you have any questions or need help with additional adjustments, please feel free to contact me.
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TERMS OF USE
Personal and commercial creative use is permitted. You may use these resources to create your own finished artwork, composites, photography and client work.
You may not resell, redistribute, share, give away, extract or claim the original files as your own. The resources must be used as part of your own creative work and cannot be made available for others to extract, reuse or redistribute.
This is a single-user licence. Copyright remains with SandraD Imagery / Sandra Dann and ownership of the original files does not transfer.
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A while back I created a series of photos taken at Hobbiton, New Zealand with this technique. The photos were taken in the daytime, with blown out skies and no inspiring light. They sat in the folder waiting for something to happen and be brought to life. I wanted to create something magical that reflects this location.
The technique I used is a LUT (or known as a Look Up Table) in Photoshop. The LUT I used gives the colour range I wanted to achieve to start the process for the image, a night time feel!
What is a LUT? They are files that embed instructions to change the hue, saturation or luminosity of pixels in an image, LUTs are used very often to colour grade or add colour effects. Photoshop comes with a number of LUTs out-of-the-box, you apply them as an adjustment layer. They will change the colours of the image and some of them will also change the contrast. I have been using them for a number of years, they can give a colour grading effect or tonal range to your images, depending on what you are looking for. There are a number of LUTS already installed in Photoshop (later versions)
I will either apply a LUT at the beginning (like the day to night time image) or toward the end of the processing or during. I can apply more than one LUT if I am looking for something different in the colours or tones.
Here are the steps to get that day to night time look.
Step 1
Choose your photo
Duplicate layer (Ctrl J for windows and Cmd J for mac)
Step 2
In Photoshop I applied a Levels Adjustment Layer as the base tweaking. Levels has the power to adjust brightness, contrast, and tonal range by specifying the location of complete black, complete white, and midtones in your image. I apply the Levels as my basic workflow adjustment layer.
Step 3
Now is the time to apply the LUT Table. From the menu choose:
Image > Adjustments > Colour Lookup.
In the first field, select Load 3D Lut… from the pop-up menu.
Select Moonlight or NightfromDay see which one works for your image
Click OK to apply the LUT
If you added the LUT to a duplicate layer, change the layer’s opacity to control the intensity of the effect if it is too intense ( I changed the opacity to 82%)
From here I used a mask to brush out the LUT colour (or to add lighter areas in image for example the windows and door) using a black soft brush. I lowered the opacity to brush out the intenseness of colour from the LUT
The LUT set the foundation for the colour and then I replaced the sky (using one of the techniques ) I’ve shared.
It was a learning curve at first, but fun and rewarding. I have used this technique on several images, play, experiment and have fun.
Colour plays such a big part in shaping the mood and story of an image. LUTs are just one tool, but they’re a great starting point when you want to explore different looks quickly.
And if you want to try a few ready-made colour looks, I’ve added some LUT packs and creative tools in the shop that might help you experiment.
