huemantone-lut-pack.afluts is greyed-out

[kat]

My huemantone-lut-pack.afluts disappeared from my Luts Adjustment layer, and also Layers>Luts Adjustment. When I try to import the file it is greyed-out. 

Help please

To import LUTs:

1. Create or open a document.
2. In the Photo Persona or Tone Mapping Persona, select the Adjustment panel.
3. Click the LUT adjustment.
4. Click Options, then do one of the following:
   • Select Import LUTs if the add-on is a .cube, .csp, .3dl, or .look file.
   • Select Import LUT Category if the add-on is an .afluts file.
5. Browse to and select the file you want to import.
6. Click Open.

[walt.farrell]

Do you have any LUTs showing up in the Adjustment panel at all, kat? Can you provide a screenshot of that panel?

[kat]

Creator of huemantone-lut-pack.afluts, Ivan Weiss helped me. Evidently there are 3 places for LUTs, but only my LUTs show up in the separate Adjustment Panel. Confusing.

Still don't understand why LUTs don't show in Menu>Layers>New Adjustment>LUTs or the Adjustment at the bottom on the layers panel.

[walt.farrell]

On 12/9/2024 at 8:13 PM, kat said:

Still don't understand why LUTs don't show in Menu>Layers>New Adjustment>LUTs or the Adjustment at the bottom on the layers panel.

You can only see Adjustment Presets that exist (including installed LUT packs) from the Adjustments panel. When you want to use Presets, you use Adjustments. When you want to create your own, you can use the Layers panel or menu.

[smadell]

Good morning @kat. To use Layers>New Adjustment>LUT or the Adjustment panel (selected from the Layers panel) you have to point it at an individual LUT file (with extension .cube, .csp, .3dl, or .look). The file you’re dealing with is an .afluts file, which is not an individual LUT - it is a LUT Category. You’d need to import it into the Adjustments panel and, from there, choose an individual LUT to apply.

[JMichael]

I’ve just spent around 4 hours trying to sort out the way to access *.afluts files. Whilst smadel is correct, the wording is not very explicit. The ‘secret’ is to click on the gear wheel alongside LUT in the Adjustment panel and then choose ‘Import LUT category…’.  

Frankly I think it pretty irresponsible of Serif to rake money in from selling LUTs in *.aflut format and yet fail to provide adequate information on how to apply them in Affinity Photo. Numerous problems seen in posts here in this and previous years.

Michael

[R C-R]

7 hours ago, JMichael said:

Frankly I think it pretty irresponsible of Serif to rake money in from selling LUTs in *.aflut format and yet fail to provide adequate information on how to apply them in Affinity Photo.

It seems pretty obvious from the LUT Adjustment help topic how this is done. It even includes a link to the Importing Add-ons help topic with the same info. (These topics are easily found if you search on "LUTs" in the online or built in help system.)

[JMichael]

I stand by what I said. The Serif instructions refer to the adjustment’s Options menu. But to me (and I suspect others) the adjustment is the LUT adjustment, and its drop-down box, that one has just loaded for the image. That has no Options menu as referred to by Serif. So I was completely lost.

The methodology only started to fall into place when I read the post from Walt Farrell in another thread which explained that one had first to open the Adjustments panel then go down to LUT, revealing the options. Up to that point I had never used the Adjustments panel because it was superfluous to my routine editing. Serif does not explain this vital requirement.

Even then I made a mistake because I did not refer back to the Serif instructions. So I was trying to load a *.cube LUT file that did not exist. Eventually I found that one had to select ‘Import LUT Category’ to load *.aflut files – success at last.

[walt.farrell]

22 hours ago, JMichael said:

Frankly I think it pretty irresponsible of Serif to rake money in from selling LUTs in *.aflut format and yet fail to provide adequate information on how to apply them in Affinity Photo. Numerous problems seen in posts here in this and previous years.

Specifically for the LUT pack under discussion here: 

1. As it comes from the Affinity Store, you can use the Account dialog in an Affinity application to automatically download and install it. You don't need to do any of that manually, nor figure out how to do it.
2. But, if you want to do it manually, there's an Installation Guide supplied in your Store account with instructions. They could perhaps be clearer, but they at least get you started and provide two simple solutions (Account, and File > Import Content) that don't involve any searching to find the more complex method.