What's up guys, welcome back once again
to the Gaming Careers YouTube channel.
Today's video, we're going back to
tutorials you'll be glad to know, and we
are looking at how to apply a filter or
a look up table within OBS or Streamlabs
OBS for your webcam. Now this might be
the first time you've ever heard of
look up tables or filters but I'm sure
if you've used any app on your
smartphone in the last five years
Instagram, Snapchat, even your camera,
you're going to know what filters
are. They're basically ways of adjusting
how a picture or a video looks by
applying slightly different effects to
the colors, and you can get some really
cinematic and nice-looking shots.
We're gonna be doing that within OBS for
your webcam. Now probably one of the
hardest things about creating these
LUTs or filters is going and finding
them on the internet, converting them
into the right format and then you apply
it to your webcam, it doesn't look any
good so you go and try and find another
one. I've taken that whole process out
for you and I have got 30 LUTs that you
can download and you can apply each one,
find the one that suits you the best.
I've tried to get a complete range so
that it suits all kinds of webcams and
environments, all you have to do is
download and apply the LUTs and that is
what we're going to be looking at today
in this video. So we're now at the
computer and as you can see I've got OBS
open, this exact same process applies to
Streamlabs OBS, maybe if I've got time
at the end of the video I'll also show
that, but it's exactly the same because it's
part of the core OBS functionality. So I
have my webcam fullscreen and I know
that I'm going to get a comment on
"your webcam looks amazing that's why
these LUTs look amazing", yes that is
true I am using a proper camera
connected to an Elgato CamLink, but this
process works exactly the same for any other
video capture device, so if you've got a
webcam or you've got a camera connected
to something like a camlink, this will
work just fine.
Also my advice as always if you want to
have a good looking shot with your
webcam is to have some lighting setup,
but that's all for another video. For all
intensive purposes this is my webcam
connected to OBS and I've got it full
screen, you might have yours in the
bottom corner with your game in
the background, but I just want to try
and get this example through. So in the
description of this video
I have a pack of the 30 LUTs that I
put together for you guys and converted
to the right format for OBS to use. So if
you head down to the description, click
that, download the zip file and save that
somewhere on your computer. Once you do
you should have something like this
saved somewhere on your computer, so you
just need to extract that using
7-zip or any unzipping program.
I'm just going to extract it here to
this folder and if you go into that
folder, when I open it correctly, you should
have these 30 LUTs and they just kind of
look like a grid of color, that's exactly
what they should look like. They're PNG's
which is what OBS uses and they've all
got some funny names. I couldn't work out
what to name each of these LUTs so I
just went on a website and randomly
generated some surnames and used those, I
don't know why I couldn't think of
anything inventive to call each one
because they all do the same
thing with different colors so it's hard
to come up with the names. I've
just given them surnames which I think
will work fine. So these are all PNG's
that we're going to apply as a filter to
OBS. So if we head back to OBS and we
right-click on our webcam or our camera
source and head to filters, we should get
this new box popping up. So what you want
to do is you want to apply an effect
filter, so if you come down here to the
effect filters and click the plus icon,
we should have one which is called apply
LUT. If we click that we can name the
LUT, let's just leave it as apply LUT and
then we get the option to browse to the
path of the LUT that we want to use as
well as set an amount. So let's go to our
folder where we've just saved those
LUTs.
It'll by default open up OBS's LUT
pack, it sort of has black and white, red
isolated, really basic ones. Let's
just show as an example red isolated, so
these are the five that come with OBS, if
we take the red isolated one and apply
it you can see that it's sort of made a
lot of the image black and white and
pulls out anything that is red
or kind of orangey
colors. But we want to do one of the ones
that we've just got from our pack, so if
you head to the folder where you
extracted it and choose any of them, I
would probably suggest starting with the
first one and going through all 30 and
finding the one that you think looks
best for your image and your background.
For my purposes let's go with
Swanson, so if we click apply you can
instantly see the change that has had.
I'm going to move this over so you can see
it in full screen and I'm going to
toggle apply and taking it on and off
and you can see how much difference that
is making. It's darkening a lot of
the highlights and it's making the whole
image I think look a lot more
professional and cinematic. So as
I've said 30 LUT's in here, go and find one
that you think looks kind of ok, what I
have done is I created the LUTs
to be a bit overpowering, because you can
actually turn down the amount that you
want the LUT to apply within OBS. So
some of them might really change your
image quite a lot but I intended
for people to be able to turn them down
to a level they think that's
reasonable. This one actually looks quite
good fairly high, so I'm going to leave it a
9.0 which means it's
applying 90% of the LUT through the
image. And then you just click close and
that is it, now my webcam source has this
LUT applied to it and it really is as
simple as that. It's the exact same
process in Streamlabs OBS, you just
right-click on your video source, add the
filter and it's called a LUT, you just
find the LUT, apply it, choose how much
you want to apply and click OK. So it's
the exact same process I don't think you'll
have any trouble following this tutorial
and using it in Streamlabs OBS. Let me
know which LUT you guys liked the most,
obviously I've named them separately so
that you guys can tell me which one
you're using, I want to know which one of
these 30 is the most popular and which
looks good in your background. So if you
have followed this tutorial and you're
using one of the LUTs that I have
provided for you do send me a tweet with
a screenshot of your webcam
with the LUT applied and let me know
which LUT that is. I'd love to see how
many people are using these and which
one is the most popular. If you guys
would like to see how to create your own
custom LUT using Photoshop or some
similar photo editing software, then let
me know down in the comments because
obviously I've gone through that process
a bit for this video, so if you have
enjoyed this video and you want to learn
how to make your own LUT and apply your
own sort of colors and filters, let me
know down in the comments and that's
definitely a video that I will be do for you
guys in the future. If you have found
this video helpful and you may be using
one of the LUT packs that we created in
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