One engine, three places to run it
Luma Owl is a developing and colour app with a LUT engine. It develops your RAW as light, matches any photo to a reference, and prints film on top. It runs in your browser at lumaowl.app. The Mac desktop app is coming soon.
The same grading engine everywhere. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is rendered on a server.
In your browser
Open the app and drop a file in. No install and no upload: the RAW is decoded and graded on your own machine.
Mac desktop app
The same app, native. Full-resolution export, the preset library and offline work, with your files staying on your disk.
Windows
A Windows build of the desktop app is in development. No date announced yet.
A grading engine, not a filter stack
Every dial moves real light. The order is the order of a darkroom: develop, match, print.
RAW developed as light
A 16-bit linear pipeline decodes the sensor data and works in light, not in pixels. Cleaner highlights, truer colour and a highlight recovery that actually recovers. Log footage and standard formats come in the same door.
Scene Match by reference
Point at a reference image and your photo adopts its palette and white balance. References are saved and keep responding to the dials, so a look can follow a whole shoot. Strength goes up to 150, and there is a single-colour mode when you only want one hue moved.
Film you can steer
Each stock carries its own Contrast, Fade, Saturation, Warmth and Crosstalk. Fast, predictable, and the right choice for everyday files.
Film simulated by its spectrum
The stock is modelled from published datasheets and simulated spectrally, with Scan and Print modes and Push/Pull. Recommended for log profiles and RAW.
Bloom, halation, grain, emulsion
Lens & Film is split into Bloom, Halation, Grain, Emulsion and Vignette, each with its own section, its own reset and its own summary. Light spills, highlights halate, the emulsion breathes.
Warper and local work
A sharp, touch-friendly warper for the geometry, plus the usual local tools. Everything renders live at screen resolution and exports at full size.
Four destinations, one grade
You grade once and choose where it goes. LUTs and presets drop straight into the classic editors, so the look survives outside Luma Owl.
Image
The graded photo, at full resolution.
- JPEG
- PNG
Video
The same look for footage, encoded for a video timeline.
- .cube with a Rec.709 encode
LUT
A standard LUT that any app reading .cube will load.
- .cube at 17, 33 or 65
- HALD image
Preset
For the classic editors: a preset and a colour profile that show up in the profile browser with an Amount slider.
- .xmp preset
- Colour profile
Every exported LUT, preset and profile carries a short attribution line inside the file. It is a line of provenance only: what you make is yours, to use and to sell. The detail is in the Terms.
Try it for five days. Then decide.
No free plan and no surprises: five days with the whole editor, then a Pro licence for a set period. One person, one licence, up to two devices, and the Mac app included when it ships.
- Every tool, every film stock, Scene Match
- Image exports carry a watermark
- LUT and preset export arrive with Pro
- Clean exports, no watermark
- LUTs and presets for the classic editors, no limits
- Mac desktop app included when it ships
- One person, up to 2 devices
- Test Luma Owl and tell us what breaks
- Share it on your channels
- A promo video or photo is very welcome
The licence is personal and not transferable. Luma Owl is owned by Di Capitan Ltd and may be transferred to an associated company; your licence continues unchanged. Full text in the Terms, third-party credits in Licenses.
What is being built
Announced when it ships, not before. No dates here.
Luma Owl for Windows
The desktop app, native on Windows, with the same engine and the same licence as the Mac build.
DCTL pack for DaVinci Resolve
Four spatial effects that a LUT physically cannot carry, as native nodes.
- Bloom
- Halation
- Film Grain
- Density
Library for Luma Owl
Your photos, references, LUTs and presets in one place, with folders and search, inside the app.
Ask for a key
Luma Owl is opening in rounds. Tell us what you shoot and where you would talk about it, and we will get back to you by email.