LuttieBleach Bypass LUT — Silver Retention Film Look
Bleach bypass .cube LUT. Crushed contrast and collapsed saturation with metallic residual colour. The silver-retention film process, included with Luttie Lifetime, or bought on its own.
Skipping the bleach step in film processing left the silver in the emulsion: contrast went through the roof, saturation collapsed, and what colour survived turned metallic. This LUT reproduces that: harsh, desaturated, but deliberately not monochrome, because the residual colour is the entire point of the process.
A one-time purchase, or included with Luttie Lifetime.
What it looks like
Heavy contrast with crushed blacks and a slight cool cast through the shadows. Saturation drops to roughly 40%, leaving a metallic, washed palette, with a protected band keeping enough life in skin that faces don't read as corpses.
What it's good for
War, thriller and gritty drama: the look those genres established
Action sequences: harsh contrast reads as urgency
Industrial and architectural: concrete, steel and machinery
Music videos: when full black and white is too far
It is not a subtle look
Bleach bypass is an extreme process and this is an honest reproduction of it. If it's too strong, drop the opacity to 50–60% for a partial-bleach look, which is closer to what most modern films actually use. The opacity visualiser shows each level side by side.
Make it yours
Load it in the Luttie editor, adjust how much colour survives, and export your own .cube.