I created the Color Response Curves preset packs to quietly bring film-like tonality to your digital photos. It leans on classic color-response behavior like gentle highlight rolloff, a forgiving shadow lift, and subtle per-channel shifts. The images gain a calm, filmic feel without looking overcooked, and you don't lose any of your usual controls, so you can keep editing your photos. Color response curves are designed and tested for people who prefer film emulations that support their edits and let them shine without stealing the scene.

You can either use them as Simple Curves or as Camera Profiles. This enables a clean interface so you can do the editing as you would normally do, while helping you achieve natural film-like colors without forcing you into a specific edit.

Set Four is called Cinematic Stills, and it focuses on color response curves built from four well-known motion picture stocks. These profiles lean into the cinematic palette people recognize from modern films, mixing clean daylight looks with tungsten-balanced tones that shift the mood instantly.

• Cinestill 50D gives you a crisp, clean daylight look with smooth highlights and a soft, low-grain finish. It works well for controlled daylight scenes, studio setups, and any situation where you want clarity without harsh contrast.
• Cinestill 800T brings its signature tungsten balance with cooler shadows and warm halation around bright points of light. It’s ideal for night scenes, neon, and atmospheric low-light situations where you want that distinctive cinematic glow.
• Kodak Vision 250D offers natural daylight color with a gentle contrast curve and plenty of latitude. It’s stable, versatile, and great for portraits, outdoor scenes, and balanced lighting where you want a filmic look without strong color shifts.
• Kodak Vision 500T delivers a tungsten-balanced palette with deeper shadows and rich color separation. It shines in mixed or low light, keeping skin tones controlled while letting highlights bloom in a very cinematic way.

Cinematic Stills captures the look people associate with motion picture film: soft highlight rolloff, controlled contrast, and hues that sit comfortably between realism and stylization. These curves create a grounded, cinematic atmosphere that feels immediately familiar thanks to decades of film and television imagery shaping our visual memory.

Sample Edits:

Edited with the color response curves of Kodak Vision 3

Edited with the color response curves of Cinestill 800T

Edited with the color response curves of Cinestill 800T Cinestill 800T Push

What are Color Response Curves?

Color Response Curves is a way to map out how the different color layers of film react to light, giving each film stock its unique look. I painstakingly recreated these curves from complex film emulations inside Davinci Resolve and baked them into easy-to-use Lightroom Camera profiles so you can use them to give your photos the film vibes without taking over your Lightroom sliders. So you can now fine-tune the tones in your images while retaining the nostalgic filmic hues.

It's basically like picking a film stock after you have already taken the photo, and you also have the power to influence the rest of the film properties afterwards. They're not magic, but man, they make film emulation feel like a breeze.

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In the video industry, there are already many techniques for bringing the characteristics of famous film stocks into digital workflows. But as photographers, we’re still catching up in that department. To bridge this gap, I’ve adapted DaVinci Resolve’s film emulation LUTs to Lightroom by reversing their Color Response Curves.

Using Color Response Curves, you can bring those same classic tones and color nuances into your photography editing environment while maintaining the possibility to edit your images however you see fit.

What is included?

After purchasing this set, you will receive three folders:

• The first contains camera profiles with the color response curves baked into them. This will provide a great starting point for your edits, with the characteristics of the film stock imbued in it, but will allow you to use all the Lightroom settings you might want to create your final look. Keep in mind, these will be applied first before your basic raw file edits
• The second folder holds presets that provide a quick way to apply those profiles in Lightroom from the preset menus. If you prefer browsing through the camera profiles directly in Lightroom’s menus, you don't need to install these. However, for faster previewing, I find it easier to have them as presets as well.
• The third folder contains the actual curves designed for the tone curve panel. I recommend pairing these with either the Adobe Neutral or Adobe Standard profiles for optimal results. Mixing them with Adobe Color will result in oversaturated images with way too much contrast. The main difference between using camera profiles versus curves is the order in which they get applied. These edits will be applied after the basic adjustments you made to the RAW file.

For optimal results, I recommend applying the camera profiles as early as possible in your editing process, right after you set a proper white balance for your images.

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The Color Response Curves are not a 1-click preset!

Please note that these are custom response curves saved as camera profiles, not a one-click preset. They are great building blocks that will help you create nostalgic film emulations with amazing colors, but you will still have to make basic adjustments to your RAW files to bring the best out of your photos, add grain, and create the complete look.

INSTALLATION:

Copy the .xmp files to the specific folder:

Windows: C:Users\[your username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CameraRaw\Settings

macOS: User Library>Application Support>Adobe>CameraRaw> Settings

You can make as many subfolders and organize the files however you see fit, as Lightroom won't care and will load everything inside the folder

WARNING: Your Lightroom Version has to be somewhat recent. This won't work with versions of Lightroom that do not have a curve panel inside their masks.

To learn how to add any presets to Lightroom, you can follow these steps:

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-cc/kb/faq-install-presets-profiles.html

Purchase of these Lightroom presets and Camera profiles grants the buyer a personal, non-transferable, and non-exclusive license to use the presets. This license strictly prohibits resale, redistribution, or sharing of the presets in their original or any modified form, whether for commercial or non-commercial purposes.