agorka wrote:
Hello everyone!
I'm the author of 3DLutCreator.
Finally I've got my MM account approved, so I can answer your questions, you have ones.

Hi,
Nice to see you around, I do not like FaceBook...

Pictus wrote:

Hi,
Nice to see you around, I do not like FaceBook...

Glad to see you too!
If anyone want to try the program, you can e-mail me at [email protected]

Oleg.

agorka wrote:
Hello everyone!
I'm the author of 3DLutCreator.
Finally I've got my MM account approved, so I can answer your questions, you have ones.

Welcome to MM -- it's great to have you around!

I have four questions off-hand....

1.) What is the (tentative - I do this too and know how it goes!) timeline for a public release?
2.) What (ish) will the pricing be?
3.) Is there any possibility of a native Macintosh version in the next 3-6 months?
4.) Any chance of moving to 3D projection of the LUT, or will it remain 2D?

Thanks in all cases for making what looks to be a much-needed / long-neglected tool for the serious PS user.

Sean Baker Photo wrote:

Welcome to MM -- it's great to have you around!

I have four questions off-hand....

1.) What is the (tentative - I do this too and know how it goes!) timeline for a public release?
2.) What (ish) will the pricing be?
3.) Is there any possibility of a native Macintosh version in the next 3-6 months?
4.) Any chance of moving to 3D projection of the LUT, or will it remain 2D?

Thanks in all cases for making what looks to be a much-needed / long-neglected tool for the serious PS user.

1.) There's no real timeline yet, but there going to be stream featuring this program at November 19th and November 22nd. Both of them are going to be in russian, but I hope to shape the program into public beta before that date.
2.) It's $50 for now, and will be in the near future.
3.) It would require huge amount of luck. I have a plan in my mind, but there's a lots of things that can go wrong. So I'd say the answer is 95% no.
4.) I'm going to add another grid, so you'll be able to apply corrections at 2 luminance levels, one for shadows and one for highlights. It seems to me that going further is too complicated for a human perception, maybe until the moment when we the holographic displays arrive, who knows

Thank you for your interest!

Clear Touch wrote:
I've started using LUTs quite extensively for the past 6-7 months now (I have a collection of about 50-60 of them). I have 3 photos in my MM portfolio where I've used them. Mostly just artistic choice rather than emulating a certain look. However I've found that SOME of them, in the right blending mode, give the image a painterly effect (that wasn't present when I got done retouching).

Examples:

Tulack wrote:
Yes, they can. Give me a reference, and I will make you one.

Thks. Any comment about this "look"

Tulack wrote:
Do you have an image you want to look like that?

I searching for approaches, not for a specific file.

Han Sam wrote:

I searching for approaches, not for a specific file.

The approach is to make parts of the image orange, and other parts - teal. Usually people go for orange highlights / teal shadows. Seriously, that's about it as far as approach goes.

Tulack wrote:
Luts are not flexible. Even different color temperature, would give you different result. What would work for one image, wouldn't work for other. You create LUT, you apply it, and then you throw it away, because it would not work on anything else. Why aren't you get DEMO version of the software and play with it? If you have questions, I will try to answer.

IMO for photographers (or those who have good relationships with their photographer clients), this may be a workflow issue then.  My advocation for quite some time has been to apply two layers of color calibration, which at the quality available is likely to hit the mark for most retouchers on here and only require tweaks for the real sticklers [Bob among them!].  To get to the meat of it, the workflow would be to shoot with whatever color balances in available (respecting color ratios and that they will still have an impact on the result), to shoot a color calibrator on set under the model's light, and to then correct for that lighting as the first step of post production.  This normalizes the shot color and allows that when you next apply the LUT to the image it will look very very much as would be 'expected'.

Now of course if Adobe'd had the vision to integrate something like a LUT builder within PS, you'd be able to make any little tweaks necessary in a completely nondestructive fashion, but that's a battle for another day.

$.02

Tulack wrote:
It's finally out. With all the updates. Check it out.

http://3dlutcreator.com/

It looks interesting but I think the English grammar on your web page could use a little tweaking if you want it to sound as if written by a native speaker. If that matters to you.