Black & White LUTs

The Look

Black and white grading is harder than it looks. Pull the saturation slider to zero and you get a muddy, low-contrast image that screams amateur. Real monochrome grading is about contrast curves, channel mixing, and where the silver sits. This pack handles the math for you: classic high-contrast variants for noir and drama, matte versions for editorial and fashion, bleached variants for documentary and journalism. Each LUT processes the underlying color separately before desaturating, so reds drop to a different grey than blues, and skin tones hold the dimensional separation that real B&W film delivers.

Best For

• Black-and-white short films and noir pieces
• Fashion and editorial content
• Music videos with vintage or minimalist direction
• Documentary sections that benefit from the gravity of monochrome
• Photography portfolio reels

Color Notes

Channel separation matters. These LUTs use the underlying color of your footage to determine grey values, so the same scene shot under tungsten vs daylight will produce different monochrome results. Bracket your grade choice against the lighting condition. The high-contrast variants suit interior portrait work; the matte variants handle mixed exterior lighting better.