001 Film emulation with Color Response Curves

Film emulation with Color Response Curves [Lightroom Camera Profiles] - Starter edition was just the beginning!

I have a few more packs that include a vast collection of camera profiles based on color response curves of famous curves. But if you don't know what I'm talking about here's a refresher: You can emulate the color response of film stocks of any film stock with a gradient, a LUT, Davinci Resolve, and a lot of patience.

Yes, there are presets for film emulation but they can feel like they're locking you in, not letting you tweak things just the way you want. Well, these profiles are different. They're more like a friendly nudge in the right direction, a first step to help you build the look you are going for with ease and accuracy, helping you emulate the colors of certain film stocks without getting in the way of your creativity.

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Read a more detailed article about color response curves: https://vmoldo.com/film-colors/

Color response curves 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 Resolved 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 fine-tune your images the way you like them.

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 sure make film emulation feel like a breeze.

Pack One contains the basic color film that will most probably generate nostalgia in anyone who photographed something in the 90s. This pack includes some of the most commonly available films that were available to the masses. Kodak Color 200 is the film stock on which most of my childhood memories were captured on. My parent were not photographers, they had no idea, that Kodak's film stock looked very different from the Fuji. All they knew was that 200 was for daylight and 400 was for evening.

The colors you will get with these film emulation camera profiles are on the neutral side of things and will produce very pleasant looks as these film stocks were intended for general use, so any camera owner can use them back in the day but they are filled with nostalgia and produce a very easy-to-recognize look just because of that. They were widely used, and people will recognize these color palettes without even realizing it.

001 KODAK COLOR 200

001 FUJI SUPERIA 200

001 FUJICOLOR 200

001 KODAK GOLD 200

You’ll receive three folders. The first contains camera profiles, and the second holds presets that provide a quick way to apply those profiles in Lightroom. If you prefer browsing through the profiles directly in Lightroom’s menus, you only need to install the camera profiles folder. However, for faster previewing, I’ve also created presets to make accessing them easier.

The third folder contains the actual curves designed for the tone curve panel. I recommend using these with either the Camera Neutral or Adobe Standard profiles for optimal results while avoiding Adobe Color. The main difference between using camera profiles versus curves lies in when the color response curve is applied in the editing process—either before or after basic adjustments of the RAW file.

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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 you can do whatever you want with them.

They 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.

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.

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 it will load everything in them

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 maks.

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