.CUBE File Extension
Luminar Lookup Table
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A CUBE file may also be a lookup table used by various versions of Luminar, a digital photo editor. It contains settings used to remap an image's colors and adjust its tone. Luminar includes default CUBE files, and photographers can create or load custom CUBE files.
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Photographers use Luminar to edit digital photos. The program is published by Skylum Software and available for Windows and macOS.
In Luminar 2018, the program gained the ability to load and apply lookup tables (LUTs). Using the program's tool, photographers can select a lookup table to automatically remap an image's colors to a new set of colors, defined in the LUT. Photographers can then use the tool's , , and settings to refine this remapping.
Luminar LUTs are saved as CUBE files. Several succeeding versions of Luminar, including Luminar AI and Neo, also use LUTs saved as CUBE files. However, to load CUBE files in these versions, photographers use the or tool, not the tool.
NOTE: The video editing program DaVinci Resolve can also import and export LUT lookup tables.
How to open a CUBE file
You can open a CUBE file with Luminar 2018 and later versions (Windows, Mac). To do so, select your version of Luminar's LUT tool (such as , , or ). Then select, . Finally, navigate to and open your CUBE file. After you do, Luminar will apply the LUT your CUBE file contains.
To use a CUBE file with Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve, place the file in the directory from which DaVinci Resolve loads LUTs and then update the app's LUT list:
- Open a project and select .
- Select .
- Click .
- Place your CUBE file in any of the LUT directory's sub-directories.
- Click .
- Click .
The LUT your CUBE file contains will then appear in DaVinci Resolve's panel (within the sub-directory in which you placed it).