LuttieThe Kodak Gold 200 look
Kodak Gold 200 is Kodak's affordable everyday colour negative, and its look is warm and nostalgic: golden highlights, saturated reds and yellows, and a little more contrast than professional film. Luttie's Warm 200 is shaped after it, and it defaults to the scan look, because a scanned negative is how most people know Gold today.
Where it comes from
Gold has been Kodak's consumer colour film for decades, the roll in family cameras and holiday albums, which is why its colour reads as nostalgia to so many people. It was made to look good straight from an ordinary lab: punchy enough to lift an ordinary day, warm enough to flatter skin in sunlight. As one of the most affordable colour films still made, it's where a lot of people start with film, and its warm, golden look is all over social media.
How to grade it
In order. Every control below exists in the Luttie editor, free to use in your browser.
Film panel → Warm 200
Pick Warm 200 as the negative.
Print → Scan
Keep it on Scan. Gold is known as a scanned negative; a print stage adds contrast on top of contrast.
Exposure
0 to +0.5 EV. Gold has less latitude than Portra, so heavy overexposure washes it out rather than making it airy.
Scan balance
Blue +2 for an even warmer, older-print feel; Red +2 to rein the warmth in. More light on a colour means less of it in the image.
Crosstalk
100 is the stock as modelled. Lower it towards 70 if reds and yellows get too loud.
Export
Export a .cube (Luttie Pro) for Resolve, Premiere or Final Cut, or a graded image straight from the editor.
When it works
Sunny travel and holiday photos
Anything that should feel like a family album or an old summer
Skin in warm daylight, which Gold renders golden
Everyday snapshots that need a lift without looking edited
When to avoid it
Cool, moody or neutral work: Gold pushes everything warm, so blue-hour scenes and clean product shots fight it. For skin that should stay natural rather than golden, Portrait 400 (shaped after Portra) is gentler.
Frequently asked
You can put the Kodak Gold look on your own photos and footage free in Luttie's browser editor, and download the graded image. Exporting it as a .cube LUT to use in other apps is part of Luttie Pro.
Gold is warmer, more saturated and a little more contrasty, and it pushes yellows and reds. Portra is softer and more neutral, built for natural skin, and takes heavy overexposure in its stride. In Luttie, Warm 200 and Portrait 400 can be compared on the same photo by switching the negative.
Lightroom can't load a .cube file directly, but Adobe Camera Raw can build one into a profile that Lightroom then uses. Photoshop's Color Lookup adjustment layer takes a .cube as-is.
No. Warm 200 follows the general shape of Kodak's published Gold 200 curves, with its golden highlights and saturation chosen by eye. It hasn't been measured against real film, and Luttie isn't affiliated with Kodak.
Build it on your own footage
Drop in a photo or pull a frame from a video, grade it in the browser, and export a .cube LUT for DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro or CapCut.
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Kodak and Kodak Gold are trademarks of Eastman Kodak Company. Luttie isn't affiliated with Kodak; its film stocks are inspired by published data about real films, not copies of them.