Correct color with AI, curves and LUTs

What you will do

When a JPEG needs color correction, use AI Color Correction for a starting point, refine the tones with an RGB curve if needed, and add a LUT when you want a particular color look. Each control contributes separately, so you can keep only the changes that improve your photograph. When the color feels right, export a full-size JPEG for review outside Arams.

The screenshots show one possible progression through these controls. Choose settings by watching how they affect your photograph.

Add a point to the master RGB curve, then use the section reset to restore the straight curve. This is an example adjustment, not a recommended setting. English interface · No audio.

Before you start

• Create a project and import the photograph you want to correct.
• Keep the original file unchanged. Export the corrected JPEG to a new subfolder so that it cannot be confused with the source.
• If you plan to add a LUT, choose one that is already available to you. LUTs with a purchase badge require separate access.

This workflow starts with a JPEG. Develop RAW files and make any RAW white-balance or color-profile decisions before following these steps.

Steps

Inspect the unprocessed photograph

1. In the photo grid, select the photograph you want to correct.
2. Double-click the photograph to open the larger image view.
3. Inspect skin tones, neutral areas, highlights, shadows, and strong colors. This gives you a reference for judging each correction.

The uncorrected JPEG provides a visual reference for judging later color changes. Arams 1.10.2 · Windows · American English

Apply AI Color Correction

1. Open the right-side Color correction panel.
2. Find AI Color Correction and choose Full. Wait for the AI loading spinner to disappear and the photograph to update before comparing.
3. Compare the corrected view with the original. Look at exposure, white balance, and color, and decide whether the result gives you a useful starting point.

In this example, Full lifts the face and makes the background more neutral; curves and the LUT are off for the comparison. Arams 1.10.2 · Windows · American English

In the example, Full lifts the face and other midtones and shifts the brown-gray background toward a more neutral gray. When judging your photograph, check that neutral objects remain neutral and that important highlight detail and skin texture remain visible.

AI Color Correction, curves, and LUTs are separate adjustments. You can use them together or keep only the controls that help the image.

Refine tone with RGB Curves

Use RGB Curves when the AI correction still needs a tonal adjustment. If the AI result already has the contrast and tonal balance you want, leave this section off and continue with a LUT or review the correction as it is.

1. In the same panel, expand RGB Curves.
2. Enable the section and select Master.
3. Add a point and move it gradually while watching the photograph. A gentle S-shaped curve can add contrast; lifting or lowering the middle of the curve changes the midtones. Avoid losing important highlight or shadow detail.

The added point modifies the Master curve; inspect the photograph together with the graph. Arams 1.10.2 · Windows · American English

Choose and adjust a LUT

Add a LUT only when you want a styled color treatment. You can export without one if the AI correction and curve already give you the result you want.

1. Expand LUT Library.
2. Choose an available LUT that supports the mood and color palette you want. The example uses Toning-Warm Only (Yellow) from Warm Only. Arams clips the name in the compact selected-LUT summary, so use the full name shown when you select the entry.
3. Adjust Intensity while watching skin tones, neutrals, and saturated colors. Intensity changes only the LUT contribution; it does not change the AI mode or curve. The example uses 100% to make its yellow-warm shift easy to see, but a lower value will often blend the look more gently.

The screenshot isolates the LUT effect by turning off AI and curves. You do not need to turn off corrections that you want to keep.

At 100% intensity, Toning-Warm Only (Yellow) gives this portrait a strong yellow-warm shift. Arams 1.10.2 · Windows · American English

Optional: compare or remove an adjustment

These comparisons are optional. Use them only when you are deciding whether an adjustment improves the photograph.

To remove a curve that does not help, use the reset control for RGB Curves. This returns Master to a neutral curve.

Reset returns the Master curve to its neutral state and clears the modified indicator. Arams 1.10.2 · Windows · American English

To preview the photograph without the LUT, clear the LUT Library checkbox. Arams keeps the selected LUT and intensity ready for you to enable again. Re-enable it before export if you want the LUT in the saved JPEG.

LUT Library is disabled; the selected LUT and intensity are retained. Arams 1.10.2 · Windows · American English

Review the combined correction

Enable the AI mode, curve, and LUT that you want in the exported photograph. Review the result at a useful size, looking for balanced color and tone as well as unwanted casts, clipped detail, or an effect that is too strong. Adjust or disable each control separately until the photograph looks the way you want.

The separate combined example enables AI Full, a modified Master curve, and Toning-Warm Only (Yellow) at 100% before export. Arams 1.10.2 · Windows · American English

Export and inspect the result

1. Open Export settings.
2. Choose Hard drive to save locally, Selected photos to export only the photograph you reviewed, and Original Files Folder as the destination.
3. Enable a new subfolder to keep the export separate from the original. Leave Resize to fit off to retain the original pixel dimensions, and choose JPEG.
4. Start the export and wait until the export history shows Completed and 100%.

The history confirms one completed local export task; the saved JPEG is inspected separately. Arams 1.10.2 · Windows · American English

5. Open the exported JPEG in an image viewer. The task is complete when the file opens at the original pixel dimensions, shows the correction you approved in Arams, and the source photograph remains unchanged. Check skin tones, neutrals, saturated colors, and highlight and shadow detail at a useful viewing size.

If it does not work

• AI Color Correction is missing or does not update the image: confirm that you are signed in and check any availability, model, or network message shown by Arams.
• The curve does not change: make sure RGB Curves and Master are enabled before adding a point. Use the section reset to return to a neutral curve.
• No included LUT is available: entries with a purchase badge require separate access. You can finish the correction with AI Color Correction and curves, or obtain a LUT separately before returning to this step.
• The LUT looks too strong: reduce Intensity, or clear the LUT Library checkbox to compare without the LUT.
• Export does not complete: inspect the export task for an error and try again after resolving it. Open the JPEG itself before relying on the exported result.

Related tasks

• Import photos
• Inspect a photograph and zoom in
• Set up retouching
• Save JPEG copies