Match a look once, use it everywhere: what LUTForge solves

Every editor knows this loop: you nail a look on one image, in one app, and then spend an evening trying to rebuild the same grade in another tool, for another client, from memory. The look lives in your hands, not in a file you can carry.

LUTForge closes that loop. Give it a before/after image pair (the original and the graded version) and it derives the color transformation between them as a 3D LUT. Export it as an industry-standard .cube file and the look drops into DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, Lightroom, or Photoshop like any other LUT.

Why image pairs?

Because that’s the form your work already takes. You don’t need to reverse-engineer your own grade node by node. If you have one corrected frame and its original, LUTForge learns the mapping between them. The look becomes portable: a file you can archive, reuse on the next shoot, or hand to a colleague.

Precision when you need it

The Basic tier builds 17³ LUTs (4,913 color nodes) with trilinear interpolation, plenty for most stills work. Pro unlocks 33³ and 65³ ultra grids with cinema-grade tetrahedral (Sakamoto) interpolation, for grades where smooth gradients and skin tones can’t afford banding. Every export carries JSON sidecar metadata, so pipelines can track where a LUT came from.

Try it on your own images

LUTForge is a one-time purchase: Basic and Pro are lifetime licenses, no subscription. And there’s a 14-day free trial with full Pro features, no credit card, started right inside the app. Details, downloads, and checkout live on chromablender.com/lut-forge.