Using a Wildlife LUTs preset from ON1 for the 12 Apostles

I had to try some of the photos in ON1 Photo Raw to see what I could do with them. I know I’ve said it before, but I use it a lot now and love processing my photos with it.

I like using the presets, though I don’t like all of them, but there are some great ones. You do have to get the right images for many of them, however, I like that you can make your own as well. I know I’ve spoken about how many I have that I love that I created myself.

I am going to show you two of the images that I took on a recent trip to the 12 Apostles. I opened them up in ON1 and did the basic processing. Once I was finished with that, I started going through the presets and trying them on the image.

It took a while, but in the end, I chose one of the new presets that I got from ON1 in a group called Wildlife LUTs presets. Really, all they do is add some colour. I’m not entirely sure how they work, but I do like them.

The one I chose just put more of the orange/yellow colour into the image and made the rock stacks a better colour. I love it when something like this works so well. So, of course, I had to try it on another image.

I used an image of the two Apostles, which I took on that day, and it is a view that we haven’t been able to see for a while.

I love how both of these have turned out. I like how the LUTs only affected the colour and nothing else. I will have to try more of them.

I looked up what they were, and this is what Google told me.

LUTs, or Look-Up Tables, are used in post-production to systematically change the colours and tones of an image or video. 

I have been scheduling all my posts and trying to get a few weeks ahead, so I think by the time this post is published, the new ON1 Photo Raw 2026 will be out, and I’m hoping I will be spending a lot of time working with it. I can’t wait to see what its capabilities will be. It keeps getting better.