Presets and LUTs: a look in one click
Litria comes with eleven looks, saves your own presets and reads .cube LUTs. Here is how to apply a look, set how strong it is and keep your own.
A preset is a set of adjustments you apply to a photo in one click. Litria comes with eleven looks, saves your own presets, and reads .cube LUTs. This post goes through the three in the order you would meet them.
Start from a built-in look
Open a photo in the editor and open Presets. Under Built-in you find eleven looks: Natural, Vivid, Warm, Cool, Matte, Film fade, Cinematic, Moody, Portrait soft, B&W and High-contrast B&W. Each has a short line under its name that says what it does, such as "Teal and orange" for Cinematic.
Click a look and the photo changes. The look's row stays selected, and an Amount slider opens under it.
A look sets Contrast, Saturation, Vibrance, Curves, Color Grading, the Color Mixer, and the Vignette, Grain and Creative effects. It replaces what those held before, so looks do not stack. Click Warm after Vivid and you get Warm, the same as on a photo that never had Vivid.
A look leaves the corrections you make per photo alone. Your exposure, highlights and shadows, white balance, sharpening, noise reduction and crop stay as you set them.
Set the Amount
Amount runs from 0 to 100 and starts at 50, which is the look as it was designed. Lower it to ease the look, down to 0 for no look at all. Raise it to push the look further.
Applying a look is one step in History, and so is a drag of the Amount slider. Undo takes either back.
If you then change one of the settings the look made, for example Vibrance, the row is no longer selected and the Amount slider closes. Your photo keeps the values it has. They are your own edit from there.
Save your own preset
When you have an edit you want to use again, save it.
- In Presets, choose Save current adjustments.
- Type a name of up to 80 characters. Two presets cannot share a name.
- The dialog lists the adjustments you changed on this photo, all of them checked. Uncheck any you want to leave out.
- Check Include masks if the preset should carry the photo's masks.
- Choose Save preset.
The preset appears under Your presets, with the number of adjustments it holds. Click it on any photo to apply it. It sets the adjustments it holds and leaves the others alone, and like a look it is one step in History. If a photo lacks one of those adjustments, that one is skipped.
A preset holds adjustment values only. Crop, rotation, straightening and flips are never saved in one. A preset that carries masks replaces the masks of the photo you apply it to.
A saved preset cannot be renamed or changed. To replace one, remove it with the button at the end of its row and save again. The built-in looks cannot be removed.
Your presets are kept in your browser's storage on this device, or in the desktop app's own storage.
Import a .cube LUT
A LUT is a color look stored as a table. Litria applies it as an adjustment of its own, in the LUT group under Adjustments.
- Open Adjustments and open the LUT group.
- Click "Choose a file" and pick a
.cubefile. - The LUT joins the list in that group, under the title written in the file, or under the file's name if it has none.
- Click it. On a photo that has no LUT yet, it is applied at Amount 100.
Amount runs from 0 to 100 here too, and sets how much of the LUT is blended in. At 0 the photo is untouched.
The same list holds five LUTs that come with Litria: Warm Portrait, Vivid Slide, Everyday Color, Cinema Print and Monochrome.
Litria reads 3D .cube files with 2 to 64 points along each side, up to 32 MB. A 1D file is refused, with a message that says so.
An imported LUT is kept on this device and is still in the list after you reload. To take one out, select it and choose Remove.
A built-in look does not touch the LUT, so you can use both on one photo. And if a LUT is on the photo when you save a preset, LUT is one of the adjustments in the dialog's list.
Open Litria
Open Litria in Chrome or Edge, or download the desktop app. Open a photo, open Presets, and click a look.