Interesting software.

@Faudel reposting your video, hopefully it works. In 2007 el compi Guillermo Luijk developed a very similar idea with Tone Hacker, check it out it is free but windows only, BTW his Perfect Raw and Zero Noise are also really nice, he used dcraw as engine... I invited him to chin in, inshallah!

@Vitaliy_Kiselev indeed

@derek that's exactly what I'm missing, a Russian wifi wife :P

Could someone pls help translate. Vitaliy? Cant read Russian for the life of me. I know something good is happening, but couldnt make head or tail when I got to the website

@tonalt: And where and how did you download it, even to try at first? I couldn't find any link there.

Just 1 word: awesome!!!

3D LUT Creator demo direct download link. Demo mode does not allow to save 3D LUTs or image in other formats, play with it, at VK there are a ton of LUTs and meshs to download for free.

For mac users use Wine and X11 or Quartz. Mavericks folks Wine and Quartz, this last one has a buggy installation mode but works =)

I'm wondering how command "File/Import curves from file" works. If you import a picture RGB curves are changed for pre-loaded picture. Maybe it's somewhere mentioned on their websites and somebody who is familiar with Russia can help.

Would be great if it is based on "Automated Colour Grading using Colour Distribution Transfer" where another solution was discussed at http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/2237/automated-color-grading/p1

Finished project using 3D Lut Creator. IMO my color corrections haven't ever looked so good. Especially making skin tone look better is so easy. Just hover mouse cursor on the face and look where are the nearest points in the grid and drag them around until it looks good. To fix greenish GH2 look, drag points to opposite direction from green. Then use curves to add little bit "S-shape" to main curve. Then use blue curve to add maybe little bit blue to the shadows. Then finally reduce little bit saturation and voilà! Just add little bit vignette in AE and depending on scene maybe noise reduction and that's it!

Maybe a suggestion to Oleg that he might want to consider: it would be nice to give the user a better view of the true color palette in the source image. Working on the palette itself instead of the total color space would make things easier. There are ways to extract a color palette from an image but it is more difficult to get a smoothly ordered one. It is possible though as the attached image shows: on the right a smooth palette of the 625 most important colors in the source image in the upper left. To show that the palette does a good job at capturing the source colors, the bottom left image is the source image where all the colors have been changed to their closest color in the palette: the 2 images are very close. The colors in the palette are neatly arranged in color blobs smoothly blending into each other and as a bonus, the more a color is present in the image the bigger the blob, so you also have a kind of color histogram info. Now each blob could be individually graded by the process used by 3D LUT Creator and not only in hue, but also in saturation and value...

@Jasketti No virus in the one I downloaded, using mac

@pwc

Unfortunately browsing through the menus I haven't seen this possibility: you can export a LUT file but not import it.

Yes, other than (from) images, it looks like you can only import icc and icm color profiles.

it would be nice to give the user a better view of the true color palette in the source image. Working on the palette itself instead of the total color space would make things easier

That's just great feedback / idea ;-) Oleg are you reading this? je je

I have zero knowledge in this field, so forgive me if I say something stupid. If only the image colours are (re)presented in the palette, wouldn't that limit the options in the tweaking range of the colours? ... maybe the inside of whole colour spectrum could be inhabited by the the image specific palette blobs you're suggesting / showing - nice picture BTW
But then wouldn't be so different as it is now, I don't know, I might have got it all wrong {head scratching monkey}

Now each blob could be individually graded by the process used by 3D LUT Creator and not only in hue, but also in saturation and value...

That would be neat. I can imagine a tridimensional interactive scope like thingie

a smooth palette of the 625 most important colors

That reminds me a bit how apple color made scopes work, by reading the whole image and downsampling the info.

Thanks so much for taking the time and chimming in @pwc
I'm big fan of your Automated Colour Grading using Colour Distribution Transfer project, all good!!!

@maxr

If only the image colours are (re)presented in the palette, wouldn't that limit the options in the tweaking range of the colours? ... maybe the inside of whole colour spectrum could be inhabited by the the image specific palette blobs you're suggesting / showing

That's an idea, but the only changes you can see in 3D LUT Creator are the changes made to the image colors: out of gamut colors changes cannot be represented, so you would be working blindly, unless the program offers to supplement the source image with additional out-of-gamut color patches so that you see what your are doing... Since you can clearly see the grid points outside the gamut, showing, alongside the source image, an additional color patch for each one can be easily implemented.

Here's another one, tried that classic "green-to-blue" trick (didn't work too well for this one) and played with curves. Vignette added in Lightroom.

 
Hi there guys, quick Q&A (questions and answers) with Oleg Sharonov, developer of 3D Lut Creator.
The program is in version 1.0 and very frequently updated
 

• Is there a team or is it only you developing the program? - BTW great great work =)

I'm the only one developing the program, thank you =)

• How much does 3D LUT Creator costs and what is included?

It's $70 right now, updates for versions 0.x and 1.x are included

 
• Is there (would be) any support for non-russian speaking customers? Manual?

Yes, some guys are going to join me and found a company, then there will probably be site and manuals translation

• What are development / expansion plans? Is there going to be a mac build version?

I'm working on Mac version, and also going to implement some never-seen-before color corrections =)

• Where can 3D LUT Creator be used other than as a standalone? PS, Lightroom, video NLE, Davinci, After Efects?

It's hard to make a plug-in from it, because it's written on Delphi / Lazarus. I'll have to rewrite it in C++ to make plug-ins

 
• Which image formats does 3D LUT Creator work with? Which can export?

It uses freeimage library, so it can load and save everything it supports, including jpg, png, tiff, etc.

• Which LUT formats does 3D LUT Creator work with? Which can export?

It currently could not load LUT, because general LUT can't be presented using tools 3D LUT Creator have. I tried to make some approximations, discarding brightness information and so on, but it doesn't work well yet. So 3DLC is mainly to create LUT's, not to edit third-party ones. It can export 3DL, CSP and CUBE formats, and also I'm going to add ACV export for curves

• Would be possible to use it with video... in the future?

It's possible to use with video using single frames, in the same way lightroom does. Adding support for video files directly into program would require huge amount of work, and probably making it in form of plug-in would be a better way of doing it. But I can't say anything about plug-ins yet, if I would be able to make them or not.

As a side note
There's a video explaining curves and curves extraction, but it's in russian. If you know someone who can voiceover it, I can write english subtitles
So if anyone english and russian speaker is interested, feel free to contact Oleg, Facebook link above

 
Well, that's all folks... for now
A sunny sunday for you all • gashô