iPhone 15, 16, 17 and 18 Pro owners: followed every step of the tutorial and your footage still looks flat?
Finally: An Apple Log Grade That Won’t Leave Your Footage Flat, Washed Out… Or Worse Than Your Normal Camera!
Works in DaVinci Resolve Studio · Mac or Windows
- Apple Log and Apple Log 2 that stop looking flat and gray, without swinging into oversaturated colour. Skin stays skin.
- Picks up where Apple's LUT or a CST stops. The shot gets balanced first, so the look sits on a clean image instead of fighting it.
- Every node named. Nudge one without wrecking the rest, and see what each one did. Your grade, not a borrowed one.
- Drop it on a clip, pick Apple Log or Apple Log 2 in node one, nudge exposure. Built for DaVinci Resolve Studio.
Instant download. Yours forever. 14-day refund, keep the files.
Commercial License
Grants full usage rights for commercial projects, client work, advertising, and more.
Without it: your own projects, your channel and your portfolio. Reselling the files is never allowed either way.
What's a PowerGrade?
A saved grade for DaVinci Resolve: the whole node tree, not a single LUT. You apply it to a clip the way you'd apply a LUT, and every step inside it stays open to adjust.
Why not just use Apple's free LUT, or a CST?
Both turn log into a viewable image and stop there: one fixed conversion. Keep Apple's LUT for seeing your shot in the camera app. Node one does that same job here; the 21 nodes after it balance the shot, shape the colour and put the look on.
Do I need the paid version of DaVinci Resolve?
Yes. It's built for DaVinci Resolve Studio. The look uses Studio-only tools, so it won't work in the free version.
Will it work on my camera?
The footage on this page was shot on an iPhone 17 Pro, and it works with iPhone 13 and above and almost any camera. Choose your camera in the first node and the rest of the tree behaves exactly the same, whether the footage came from an iPhone in Apple Log, an FX3 in S-Log3, or a Blackmagic in BRAW.
I've never touched the colour page. Too advanced?
Drop it on a clip, set the CST, nudge exposure. That is the whole first session. The labels are there for when you get curious.
What if it doesn't work on my footage?
It comes with in-depth training on every node. If you go through it and still struggle, email me inside 14 days: I'll break down your case, or refund you fully if it still doesn't work.
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Who's behind this
I'm Andres.
I manage a content marketing agency, and despite generating over 700 million views, my own iPhone footage still looked like iPhone footage.
I spent dozens of late nights trying to fix that.
And I failed every time.
Three things kept happening:
- I followed every step of the tutorial, and the clip still came out flat and washed out.
- The LUTs I bought looked great in the seller's video and weird on mine.
- My Log footage looked worse than if I'd shot it in the normal camera app.
And I couldn't tell which step was breaking it.
I blamed myself. Then I blamed the LUTs.
But I knew the look was possible.
I kept seeing it in other people's YouTube videos, shot on iPhone 17 Pros like mine.
If I'm honest, I didn't need a Hollywood grade…
I just wanted my footage to stop giving away the phone it was shot on.
So I made it my one goal for three months: master the cinematic look on iPhone.
It took hundreds of node combinations and more slider-tweaking than I'd like to admit.
The fix wasn't another LUT. It was the order: balance the shot first, then put the look on top.
That's when it landed:
- Clips that come out rich, not flat and washed out.
- A grade that works on the clips I actually shoot.
- Log footage that finally looks better than the normal camera.
I put it all inside the Radiant Lowland PowerGrade. Every frame on this page is my own footage graded with it.
It's easy to use, it bends to your footage, and it won't force every clip you shoot into the same look.
Don't take my word for it, please take a look for yourself.
It’s not you, and it’s not the LUT. The conversion only converts, and nothing balanced the shot.
The fix has a name. Balance First: the footage gets balanced underneath, then the look goes on top of it.
Where Apple's LUT stops, and the grade after it.
One frame, three stops. Drag the slider from the flat log file to the finished grade.
Apple's LUT, a LUT pack, or this.
| Feature | Apple's LUT or a CST | LUT pack | Radiant Lowland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adjustable stages | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Balanced before the look | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Named nodes you can learn from | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| After the first pass | viewable, not graded | minutes, then hours fixing it | graded |
| 14-day refund, keep the files | free | often all sales final | ✓ |
Two files and the training. That's the whole product.
No locked project, no cloud login, nothing that expires. A zip, on your drive, forever.
RadiantLowlandPowerGrade/
- └─RadiantLowland-Studio.drxthe full 22-node tree, for DaVinci Resolve Studio
- └─RadiantLowland.dpxthe same grade as a gallery still
- └─Training/video walkthrough — every node, what it does, how to adjust it
22 nodes, 3 parallel branches. Balanced first, then shaped: contrast through the mids, warmth held out of the skin, highlights that roll instead of clipping. The names on the graph tell you what each node is for; the curves, qualifiers and values inside them come with the file.
Three steps. Graded on the first pass.
The installation guide in the download covers the same three, with screenshots.
Step 1
Import the .drx into your gallery
Once. From then on it's right-click, Apply Grade, on any clip.
Step 2
Set the CST to your camera
Node 01 is a colour space transform. Pick your input, Apple Log 2, S-Log3, V-Log, BRAW, and the rest of the tree behaves.
Step 3
Nudge exposure
One offset wheel. Everything downstream is already balanced, so this is the only control you touch on day one.
Who this is for
This is for you if
- You just got an iPhone 15, 16, 17 or 18 Pro, turned on Log because everyone said to, and it still looks like phone footage. You paid for the Pro camera, and you want the footage you paid for.
- You have a trip coming up, or you're back from one with a folder of flat clips, and you want yours to look better than everyone else's phone video.
- You tried Apple's LUT or a CST. One gave you the contrasty phone look straight back, the other left it flat. You want what you switched to Log for.
- You bought a LUT pack, followed the instructions, and it still looked wrong on your footage. You want a grade you can adjust, not one you undo.
- You've lost whole evenings pushing sliders on log that still looked washed out, and you want the shot to land on the first pass.
- You don't want twenty looks. You want one that lands, and a tree you can push until it's yours.
- You're not a colourist and don't plan to become one. You don't need to be one to shoot Log. You need the step after it. Every node is named for the day you get curious, so it never feels like you're borrowing someone else's grade.
This is not for you if
- You edit in Premiere, Final Cut, CapCut or LumaFusion. This is a .drx node tree. It opens in DaVinci Resolve Studio, the paid version, and nowhere else: not the free version of Resolve either. It won't load into the Blackmagic Camera app on your phone either.
- You shoot in the standard or HDR profile, not log. The tree expects log in. On regular video it will look wrong, and that's the input, not a bug.
- You expect your footage to look like my reel. Same tree, your light, your white balance, your exposure. If the shot was underexposed in a dark venue at 2am, no node fixes that.
- You want to scroll through forty presets until one clicks. This is one look. If variety is what you're after, a pack will serve you better.
- You want to hit Apply and never open the Color page again. You still set node one to your camera and nudge exposure. If that sounds like too much, please don't buy this.
- You'd rather build the tree yourself. Honestly, Resolve's free training and a wet Sunday get you most of the way. This is for people whose Sundays are booked.
Try it for 14 days, or your money back.
Install it, run it on your own footage, take it through a real edit. If it isn't what you wanted, email me inside 14 days and we'll refund you fully. A lot of LUT stores are all sales final. This one isn't.
You keep the files either way. I am not going to chase you for a download you already paid for once.
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What's a PowerGrade?
A saved grade for DaVinci Resolve. Where a LUT is one fixed transform, a PowerGrade is the whole node tree: every correction and every look step, in order, saved as one file. You apply it to a clip the way you'd apply a LUT, and everything inside it stays open to adjust. This one is 22 nodes, each named for what it does.
How is this different from a LUT pack?
A LUT is one fixed look. It can't change, no matter what you shot or what time of day you shot it. If it looks wrong, you're stuck, and pushing sliders on top of it usually makes it worse, because the LUT went onto footage nobody balanced. This is the node tree that builds the look, balance first: exposure and white balance sit ahead of the look, so it lands on a neutral image, and every step stays open so you can adjust it. One is a photo of a meal. The other is the recipe and the kitchen. And if it still doesn't work on your footage, the refund is real.
Why not just use Apple's free LUT, or a CST?
Keep using Apple's LUT in the camera app to see what you're shooting. That's what it's for. It's a conversion: it turns Apple Log into a viewable Rec.709 image, one fixed way, whatever you shot and wherever you shot it. Some shooters find it hands back the contrasty, saturated look of the normal camera mode, which is the look they switched to log to get away from. A colour space transform in Resolve is the same job done more precisely, and it stops in the same place: converted, often still flat, not graded. Node one of this tree is that conversion, and the 21 nodes after it are the grade: balance, colour, and the look on top, all of it adjustable.
Do I need the paid version of DaVinci Resolve?
Yes. This one is built for DaVinci Resolve Studio, the paid version, and it won't work in the free version. The look depends on Studio-only tools: ResolveFX halation, glow and prism blur, Film Look Creator for the grain, and a Magic Mask node. In the free version those nodes don't render, so you wouldn't get the look you see on this page. It needs Resolve Studio 18 or newer, on macOS or Windows. If you're on the free version, don't buy it yet.
Will it work on my camera?
The footage on this page was shot on an iPhone 17 Pro, and it works with iPhone 13 and above and almost any camera. Choose your camera in the first node and the rest of the tree behaves exactly the same, whether the footage came from an iPhone in Apple Log, an FX3 in S-Log3, or a Blackmagic in BRAW. On iPhone, log is native from the 15 Pro up, in the camera app or the Blackmagic app. Older iPhones can shoot it with the third-party LogCam app, which records Apple Log, Apple Log 2 and even Arri Log C and S-Log.
Apple Log or Apple Log 2: which do I pick in node one?
Whichever your phone recorded. The iPhone 17 Pro and 18 Pro (and their Pro Max models) record Apple Log 2; an iPhone 15 Pro or 16 Pro records Apple Log. Not sure? Try both on one clip. The wrong one looks obviously off.
I shoot in the normal iPhone camera mode, not Log. Will it still work?
No, and I'd rather tell you here than in a refund email. The tree expects log in. On standard or HDR footage the colour space transform in node one has nothing to undo, so the whole grade lands wrong, and no nudge fixes it. Turn Log on first: on a 15 Pro or newer, Settings → Camera → Formats, switch on Apple ProRes and set the encoding to Log, or open the Blackmagic Camera app and pick Apple Log. On older iPhones, LogCam (see above). Shoot one clip that way and the tree does what the page shows.
Can I load it into the Blackmagic Camera app, or use it as a LUT on set?
No. This is a node tree, a .drx, not a .cube. It opens in DaVinci Resolve Studio and nowhere else, so it can't go into the camera app, a monitor, or Premiere. If you want to see something close to the finished image while you shoot, use Apple's own Log to Rec.709 LUT in the camera app for monitoring; the grade itself happens in Resolve after.
I've never used the colour page. Is this too advanced?
Drop it on a clip, set node one to your camera, adjust exposure. That's the whole first session. The labels are there for when you get curious. Most people start editing the tree in week two without deciding to.
Can I use it on paid client work?
That is the commercial licence, a $10 add-on at checkout. Tick it and you can use the grade on client work, ads and anything else you are paid for, unlimited, with no attribution. Without it the files are yours for your own projects — your channel, your portfolio, your reel. Either way, what you can never do is resell or redistribute the files themselves.
How do I get it after paying?
Instantly. Checkout lands you on a page with an "Open your files" button; the zip lives in your Whop account under Radiant Lowland → Files, tied to the email you paid with, and you can re-download it whenever you change machines. Whop also emails you a receipt.
What if it doesn't work on my footage?
The PowerGrade comes with in-depth training on how to use every node in it. If you go through it and still struggle with your footage, email me within 14 days and I'll break down your specific case, or refund you fully if it still doesn't work. You keep the files either way.