Phil Chester LUTs

They’re finally here! 32 Video Editing LUTs focused on skin tones, simplicity and timelessness. After making photo presets for Lightroom and Photoshop, I wanted to create a way to easily grade video with the same focus on skin tones, tweak-ability and simplicity.

LUTs Used: Flat Fix Contrast at 100% PC Highlight Warm at 70%

LUTs Used: Flat Fix at 100% PC Dark and Heavy at 30%

LUTS Used: Backlit at 93%

LUTs Used: Flat Fix Mid Boost at 100% PC1 at 71%

WHAT’S INCLUDED:

FLAT/LOG CONVERSIONS:

•Flat Fix // A great starting point for grading flat footage

•Flat Fix + Mid Boost / /Same as before but with a boost in skin tone luminosity

•Flat Fix + Contrast // Same as the original with a boost in contrast

BLACK & WHITE:

•PC BW // Go to starting point for all things black and white

•PC BW + Mid Boost // Same as original with a luminosity boost in the skin tones

•PC BW + Contrast // Same as original with a boost in contrast

COLOR:

•PC1 // My go to, clean and warm, golden skin tones.

•PC1 Warm Contrast// Original (PC1)+ Darker Shadows

•PC1 Shadow Boost // Original (PC1) + Shadow Boost

•PC1 Magenta // More generalized, lighter on the LUT, not as warm of skin

•PC1 Magenta Contrast // Original (PC1) + contrast

•PC1 Cool// Original (PC1) but with cool skin tones

•PC1 Cool Contrast // Same as pc-1 cool 1 but with added contrast

•Bright Day Tame – Very Bright Sunlight, Warm Skin Tones

•Bright Day Muted – Very Bright Sunlght, Muted Colors

•Bright Day – Contrast – Very Bright Days, Heavy Contrast

•Backlit – Contrast// Warm Days Backlit Deep Shadows – Warm Skin tone

•Backlit 2 // Backlit + Adds contrast and Lifts Skin tones, warming

•Backlit Less Contrast // Same as above, less contrast

•Highlight Save // For bright contrasty areas, this crushes the highlights and makes them creamy

•Highlight Save – Split tone – Same but with warmer shadows and even warmer skin tones

•PC Highlight Warm 1- Same but with warmer skin tones

•Forest 2 // Heavy Contrast, Enhanced Greens

•Forest // Enhanced Greens, Less Contrast

•Flat // General Enhancing, very minimal toning, slight detach, muted look

•PC2 Color Boost  // Cool Shadows, Even Skin tone

•PC2 – Contrast  // + Saturation

•PC Creamy // Creamy Golden Warm Tones

•PC Dark and Heavy // Heavy Contrast, Dark, Moody, Warm