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Introducing Finishing LUTs

While most LUTs out there are heavy-handed at the expense of quality, Finishing LUTs offer a lighter touch and are rigorously stress-tested to work well across a wide variety of footage and lighting conditions.

SFX Techniques

One of the best ways you can enhance your visual projects is to use the power of sound. In this 12 minute tutorial, we take you behind the scenes of many Lens Distortions videos to see the tried and true techniques we’ve been using for years.

Statement Sound Effects

Cutting edge brand pieces, innovative product launches, and revolutionary campaigns evoke more emotion by using meaningful sound design. Statement SFX gives you the essential sounds to make your mark.

Portrait Light with Matt Ferreira

Matt Ferreira is a photographer, creative director & content creator, and a regular user of Lens Distortions effects. We caught up with Matt to learn about how he’s grown as an artist and how he brings concepts to life.

Snow for Video

Time and time again we’ve witnessed how great directors use snow to create a feeling of transcendence. We worked with the visual experts behind the snow scenes in many of today’s top films and series to make this iconic filmmaking aesthetic available to you in an easy-to-use format.

Cinematic Editing with Matt Komo

Get a behind the scenes look at some of Komo’s best editing techniques in these exclusive tutorials. Matt shares some very clever use cases for our visual effects and a full breakdown of how he did the sound design in his Sequoia film.

Rolls Royce + The Mill

Working with Daughter.Studio, Mill+ created this stylish spot for Rolls Royce and their latest Ghost model. The Mill’s VFX team utilized 4K Signature Glass Effects from Lens Distortions to create a highly stylized aesthetic.

Classic Light Hits and Modern Light Hits for Video

As visual creatives, we all obsess over light. At Lens Distortions, we’ve developed two libraries to make it more available in post for today’s filmmakers, editors, and VFX artists.

Classic Light Hits and Eclipse for Photoshop

Since their inception, our Light Hits™ effects have been one of the best-kept secrets of photographers around the world. The line has been updated with a fresh execution in Classic Light Hits.

Also new, a selection of firey ring effects called Eclipse.

Weddings + Lens Distortions

Whether you want to better frame up the focal point, frame out a distraction, or dial in the intensity of some memorable weather, effects can help you tastefully shape wedding stories.

Introducing Maven

For our next video product, we wanted to offer something a bit more provocative and stylized… for filmmakers who aren’t afraid to push their visuals.

Rain Effects

Rain has the ability to add a certain mood to moments in our lives but it doesn’t always come through in-camera as powerfully as we might like. See how natural rain effects can help fine tune the look.

A week in Hawaii with Matt Komo

Get an adventurous perspective on one of the most beautiful states in the union and see how Matt uses our Luminary 4K glass overlays.

Endurance

Syncopated percussive elements, pulsing drones, abstract patterns, organic textures — Endurance blurs the line between sound design and soundtrack.

Paul Tellefsen

Get a glimpse inside the head of an empathetic portrait photographer and see how he used our Skylight pack to dial in the look of his most recent SoCal shoot.

“The Bowl” by Peter McKinnon

See how Peter uses a powerful visual metaphor, cinematic footage, and well-executed sound design to convey a life-changing experience in Kenya.

What’s New in Luminary for Video

To better showcase the diversity of looks in this pack, we’ve organized it into curated categories, created some quick clips to make one of the most popular use cases (transitions) easier, and added a few previously unreleased overlays to really round out the mix.