![]() I mean the presets are good, some are great, but they teach little about what makes the images look good, a lot of them rely on colour LUTs for the more complex colour modifications, in Lightroom they’d be icc or dpp profiles I believe, and most people wouldn’t really look even if everything was showing. ![]() It was a lot of work, and although I am still trying to work out how on earth achieved his amazing Fujifilm 400H rendition in his LUT, the process taught me a huge lot about what it is that make films so well liked while at the same time I also noticed the online photography industry, almost in its entirety outsorcing processing to presets like VSCO, Mastin labs, and so on. So I decided I’d need to reverse engineer the look I wanted from scratch. Of course I wanted the awesome film look that, say Jose Villa ( ) produces with his Fujifilm 400H, but since I was using RawTherapee exclusively I was neither able to use Lightroom presets, nor did RawTherapee (at the time) have equivalents for most Lightroom features. ![]() It all began back in the day when Lightroom presets became super popular and tried to mimic films. Since you brought them up here I might as well talk about them a little since there is a bit more to it than just presets.
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