Authentic black & white finishing looks for Rec.709 — from classic silver to deep noir.
Every Monochrome look is a complete, finished rendering — channel-mixed and toned to deliver an authentic black & white the moment it lands. Built on a neutral Rec.709 foundation: correct your exposure first, then apply a look to translate your world into monochrome. Designed to be used at 100%. These are true black & white, not a desaturation you dial back. Throw some film grain over these looks and get transported back in time.
Classic Silver
Classic Silver is the everyday monochrome — a balanced panchromatic rendering that keeps skin luminous and tones true. Reds and skin sit bright and smooth while the full range holds from clean black to open white, giving you a faithful, documentary-grade black & white with no stylistic agenda.
Best for : portraits, interviews, documentary, street. The safe default when the footage just needs to be black & white beautifully.
Red Filter
Red Filter recreates the classic landscape photographer’s trick — a heavy red-channel response that drops blue skies toward black, makes clouds leap off the frame, darkens foliage and renders skin bright and clean. The most dramatic way to shoot a sky in black & white.
Best for : landscapes, travel exteriors, dramatic skies, adventure and outdoor work.
Noir
Noir renders the world the way 1940s film did — an orthochromatic response that darkens skies and warm light, lets skin take on texture and depth, and keys the whole frame down into moody, cinematic shadow. Crime-film atmosphere without touching your exposure.
Best for : narrative, 1940’s, night interiors, anything that wants tension and mood.
Warmtone Fade
Warmtone Fade is the nostalgic darkroom print — a warm selenium-sepia paper tint, gently lifted blacks and a soft highlight rolloff that trade clinical contrast for memory and mood. The cosy, timeless end of the monochrome spectrum.
Best for: nostalgic personal work, wedding and family films, memory montages, warm storytelling, anything that wants to feel like a remembered moment.
Cool Selenium
Cool Selenium echoes the selenium-toned darkroom print — a cool steel-blue cast that settles into the shadows and low-mids while highlights stay clean and crisp. Modern, gallery-grade and quietly expensive-looking.
Best for: fashion, architecture, fine-art stills, overcast coastal and urban work, contemporary brand content.
Ink
Ink is the bold, modern high-contrast look — deep crushed-feeling blacks and bright clean whites with punch through every midtone, while keeping skin luminous against the drama. The contemporary monochrome of music videos, fashion and social-first content.
Best for: fashion, music video, high-impact social, album-cover stills, anything that needs to stop the scroll.
Negative Flash
Negative Flash is a creative inverted-monochrome utility built for the fast-cut, strobe-edit moment — a softened photographic negative with fogged blacks and whites rather than a harsh graphic flip. Drop it on a few frames for an instant, intentional jolt.
Best for: transitions, beat-synced cuts, music video accents, title hits, experimental edits.
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Built to work across all major editing platforms — including Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Photoshop, and any software supporting 3D LUTs.
Each Finishing LUT is optimised for standard Rec.709 video, ensuring reliable results straight out of camera. For footage captured in LOG or other colour spaces, simply normalize your image to Rec.709 before applying a Monochrome Cinema LUT for a consistent, true-to-life finish
Yes these Monochrome Black and White LUTs slightly adjust contrast but not exposure. The contrast adjustment is very mild and will work comfortably on rec.709/Neutral footage.
Yes. It works on all smartphone footage unless you’ve shot in Apple Log. In that case, convert your footage to a standard Rec.709 color space before applying the LUT.
Yes. Simply transform your LOG footage to Rec.709 before applying the LUT for accurate results.
It’s built to professional standards but simple enough for beginners to use.
Each LUT is provided as a 65-point 3D LUT (.cube) file.
Yes — the Afterglow Collection offers all LUTs at a reduced bundle price.
Yes, commercial use is fully permitted.
Combine these LUTs with world class sound design.
