colour negative · Kodak · ISO 400
Kodak Portra 400
The default modern portrait film: warm, forgiving skin tones and a very long highlight roll-off.
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Kodak Portra 400
Drag to compare. 16 renderings of Kodak Portra 400 are included.
Try it on your own photo → Download .cube
What this look does
Lifts and slightly warms midtones while keeping highlights from ever going hard. Reds and oranges stay creamy instead of saturating, greens are pulled slightly toward yellow, and blues stay muted. The result reads as gentle rather than colourful.
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About Kodak Portra 400
Portra 400 replaced the older 400NC (Natural Colour), 400VC (Vivid Colour) and 400UC (Ultra Colour) emulsions in 2010, folding their behaviour into one film. This collection still carries all three, so you can compare the neutral, punchy and saturated renderings side by side — NC for editorial skin, VC for a little more snap, UC for consumer-print colour. Portra is famously hard to overexpose; the +1 and +2 variants here mimic that latitude rather than blowing out.
Included renderings
In Filmgrid each rendering carries its own name. The exposure and temperature labels describe how it differs from the base look.
| Filmgrid name | Rendering | LUT |
|---|---|---|
| Clear Spring | -1 stop | .cube |
| Lively Seaside | base | .cube |
| Cool Melbourne | +1 stop | .cube |
| Light Daylight | +2 stops | .cube |
| Wistful Hometown | NC, -1 stop | .cube |
| Grainy Grandma | UC, -1 stop | .cube |
| Analog Memory | VC, -1 stop | .cube |
| Bygone Memory | NC, base | .cube |
| Faded Postcard | UC, base | .cube |
| Warm Cassette | VC, base | .cube |
| Rustic Summer | NC, +1 stop | .cube |
| Retro Album | UC, +1 stop | .cube |
| Weathered Provence | VC, +1 stop | .cube |
| Sunbleached Porch | NC, +2 stops | .cube |
| Old Highway | UC, +2 stops | .cube |
| Sepia Seoul | VC, +2 stops | .cube |
How to use this LUT
The download is a standard .cube 3D LUT, so it loads in almost anything: Lightroom Classic (Profile → Browse), Photoshop (Color Lookup adjustment layer), Premiere Pro (Lumetri → Creative), DaVinci Resolve (LUTs panel), Final Cut Pro (Custom LUT effect), Affinity Photo, Capture One and OBS. See the step-by-step guide if you have not loaded one before.
If you only want the finished picture, skip the download: open the tool, drop a photo in and export at full resolution. Nothing leaves your device.
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