Cinematic Color Grades – 12 LUTs for Moody Footage

There's a reason your footage looks like footage and theirs looks like cinema. It's not the camera. It's the grade.

This pack includes 12 LUTs pulled from the visual language of films that understood color as storytelling: the teal shadows of Fincher, the amber warmth of Villeneuve, the desaturated tension of the Safdies.

## The Grades

**COLD OPEN** – Blue-black shadows, lifted midtones. For nighttime urbanity.

**GOLDEN HOUR** – Warm highlights that don't clip. Magic hour that works at noon.

**FADED MEMORY** – Lifted blacks, slight magenta push. Nostalgic without being Instagram.

**CLEAN CORPORATE** – Neutral with presence. When you need professional, not boring.

**NOIR LITE** – Crushed blacks, minimal saturation. Drama without melodrama.

**ANALOG DRIFT** – Halation, lifted shadows, subtle grain response. Film without the hassle.

**DESERT CHROME** – Orange/teal done right. Warm skin tones, cool backgrounds.

**NORDIC FLAT** – Desaturated, even exposure. Scandinavian restraint.

**NIGHT SHIFT** – Sodium vapor orange meets moonlight blue. For anything after dark.

**MACHINE VISION** – Clinical, slightly cyan. Tech aesthetic without going full Matrix.