Importing LUT's into Affinity Photo

[Affinity Sarah]

18 minutes ago, MikeW said:

Whether you are associated with the site or not, you should state so.

Hey MikeW,
no, I'm not, although I am new here. Just thought the info might be helpful. I'm relatively new to it and have been looking for posts about LUTs here on the forum itself. Since I found them and think they are great, I wanted to answer the question 🙂 

[Patrick Connor]

@Affinity Sarah

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums  thanks for your contribution.

[wuye9036]

Please add the feature that import multiple LUTs at once. Importing several LUTs into Affinity is nightmare for now.

[ETL]

At least in 1.9, you can add many in one shot (not sure when this was added).

 

 

Edited February 6, 2021 by ETL

[walt.farrell]

@ETL

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums  

10 hours ago, ETL said:

At least in 1.9, you can add many in one short (not sure when this was added).

(1.9)

[slim barrowstone]

how about some Aftonemap ????

[madmadeleine]

I'm brand new to Affinity software and I bought some LUTs with my new Photo software. I am using a Mac Desktop - Catalina.

Everyone seems to assume I know where the program put the LUTS. I can't find them, so I can't navigate to them or use them. 

It would be nice if someone explained where the files that were automatically downloaded by the program put them. 

It would be even nicer if when the luts were downloaded automatically, they were also loaded into the program. 

For now, I am frustrated and annoyed. 

[jmwellborn]

8 minutes ago, madmadeleine said:

I'm brand new to Affinity software and I bought some LUTs with my new Photo software. I am using a Mac Desktop - Catalina.

Everyone seems to assume I know where the program put the LUTS. I can't find them, so I can't navigate to them or use them. 

It would be nice if someone explained where the files that were automatically downloaded by the program put them. 

It would be even nicer if when the luts were downloaded automatically, they were also loaded into the program. 

For now, I am frustrated and annoyed. 

Welcome to the Forums!  If you will go to FINDER and in the search box type .cube you should be directed to the place on your computer where the LUTS were downloaded.  Note the location of the file.  You can use the Adjustment Panel (VIEW>STUDIO>Adjustments) to scroll down to LUT then click on the word “Default.”  A small window will open which will permit you to add any of your LUTs as presets.  When you click on “Load LUT” in that small window, go to your file in FINDER.  I hope this helps.

[walt.farrell]

45 minutes ago, madmadeleine said:

It would be even nicer if when the luts were downloaded automatically, they were also loaded into the program. 

If they were downloaded by the program then they were automatically installed.

Open the Adjustments panel and you should find them in the LUT adjustment category. There's a pulldown for the category name that will say Default. Click it to see what else is available, and it should have the others that were installed.

[madmadeleine]

Your prompt responses are greatly appreciated. 

Before I posted in this forum I tried searching for .cube using spotlight on my mac and it ignored the dot and only gave me documents that contained the word cube. Well, after it gave me the definition for cube. I did not find it helpful, nor was I able to find the files.

I tried adding an adjustment layer and that gave me the dialog box to search for the LUTs manually.

Using the way Walt described allowed me to access the LUTs I had been looking for. 

Thanks!

I just realized that this forum has labeled me a Newbie. Ouch. But true. I hope to do better. 

Edited May 31, 2021 by madmadeleine

[jmwellborn]

23 minutes ago, madmadeleine said:

Your prompt responses are greatly appreciated. 

Before I posted in this forum I tried searching for .cube using spotlight on my mac and it ignored the dot and only gave me documents that contained the word cube. Well, after it gave me the definition for cube. I did not find it helpful, nor was I able to find the files.

I tried adding an adjustment layer and that gave me the dialog box to search for the LUTs manually.

Using the way Walt described allowed me to access the LUTs I had been looking for. 

Thanks!

I just realized that this forum has labeled me a Newbie. Ouch. But true. I hope to do better. 

I did not use Spotlight.  I typed .cube in the Search  box at the top of the Finder window,  I was sent directly to the folder where I have 80 LUTs downloaded.  I am using Big Sur.  Perhaps it is different than Catalina.  Sorry I couldn’t help you.

[walt.farrell]

41 minutes ago, jmwellborn said:

I did not use Spotlight.  I typed .cube in the Search  box at the top of the Finder window,  I was sent directly to the folder where I have 80 LUTs downloaded.  I am using Big Sur.  Perhaps it is different than Catalina.  Sorry I couldn’t help you.

Your approach would work to find manually downloaded LUTs, but it would not work for the ones automatically downloaded via My Account. Those files would have been downloaded into a temporary folder, and possibly in some different format, and installed directly into Photo's adjustments.propcol file.