Thanks. You may not be ablet o preview the LUTs but there is an easy way to switch between them with a single click. There's a link in the RU-vid description to an article on my website where I explain.
I also use Luminar Neo and one of its nice features is that it comes with lots of LUTs that work well in a wide variety of shots. But, even better, they show the effect on the image when you hover over them, a pity Affinity doesn't do that too. In practice, I use the LUTs to give me some ideas and a direction to go. Then I delete them and use Nik Color Efex to reproduce the concept but with more control. I could do the same as you did with masking I guess but I prefer the finer control I get in Nik. But the LUTs are a great prompt for ideas. I use them often in Neo but very rarely in Affinity because of the lack of a hover-preview.
Yes, Luminar Neo is very good for LUTs. You can also make life easier for yourself in Affinity Photo. It isn't quite as good as being to mouse over a thumbnail to see an effect but it isn't too far off. It allows you to switch between imported LUTs with a single click. I explain when to do in the article I linked to in the RU-vid video description.
Thanks for this one! I wasn't aware that AP2 now can also save LUTs (I think this was missing in AP1). Professionally I use Photoshop (for over a quarter century by now), but I've started to use AP2 for photographic work (still "not suitable for work", sadly the same with Affinity Designer 2, even though the gap to PS and AI is narrowing with both, and being able to edit AP2 and AD2 files in both apps interchangeably without loss of functionality is a really useful thing).
Yes, the LUT saving is a useful edition in AP. It was there in version 1 but I can't recall when it was added. I don't use Designer that much but the results from Affinity Photo will certainly stand up to Photoshop for most peoples needs.
Hi, thanks for sharing these tips as LUT’s seem like a bit of magic to me. One question, can you achieve similar results using Viveza or Color Efex in NIK?
The nice thing about LUTs is that it can be difficult to understand what you might create when you apply them. The reason I say this is good is that it can open a lot of creative possibilities that you might not otherwise think of. If I were editing the same image with the Nik Collection I would probably find myself trying hard to keep it "looking real". With LUTs I'm responding to what I see and what I like and don't like about the effect. Could I create similar effects with Color Efex Pro? Probably but I would probably not think to make this type of adjustment.
