Vivid bright primary colours for cheerful rock-and-roll 1950s diners and cafés.
- XMP · Lightroom Classic, CC & Camera Raw
- .costyle · Capture One
- .cube · 3D LUT (DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro)
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Jukebox Colours
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Character and mood
Jukebox Colours does exactly what the name suggests. Red becomes properly red. Yellow pops. Blue has weight. This is a preset for photographs you want to finish with confidence, not caution. The mood is 1950s America: chrome, vinyl, neon signs, milkshakes on formica counters. Like the jukebox just picked a song and nobody is heading home yet.
Technically, the preset pushes saturation noticeably in the primary colours red, yellow and blue. Shadows stay relatively open, keeping details visible in darker corners of the frame. Contrast is firm but not harsh. Highlights are pulled back slightly to prevent white walls or windows from blowing out. The result is an image that reads bright without going flat. The colours work together like a period poster, full and direct.
Jukebox Colours works best in environments with strong colour and artificial light. Think retro diners with red booths and yellow pendant lights, American-style lunchrooms, rockabilly bars, vintage arcade halls, or event venues with coloured lighting. It also holds up outdoors when there is already plenty of saturation in the scene: a red and white striped awning, a bright blue delivery van, a market with vivid stalls. Portraits taken in these environments benefit too, as long as the skin tone is not too warm. With very warm or orange-leaning tones it may help to ease back the HSL orange slider slightly.
You reach for Jukebox Colours when you want a series of location or event photographs to share a clear visual identity. Not as a filter imposed on reality, but as an honest translation of what you saw and felt in that place. If the colours were already there and you want them to speak, this preset helps them do that. It amplifies, it does not invent.
One practical tip: adjust exposure on each photograph before applying the preset. Jukebox Colours is built for correctly exposed images. With underexposed shots the shadows close up and with overexposed ones the colours blow out. Get the exposure right first and you will find there is very little left to tweak afterwards.
Installation
Lightroom Classic & CC (desktop)
Unzip the downloaded file on your computer. Open Lightroom Classic and go to the Develop module. Right-click the Presets panel, choose 'Import Presets', and select the .xmp file. The preset appears in your list immediately and can be applied to any photo straight away.
Lightroom Mobile
Lightroom Mobile syncs presets via the cloud. Import the .xmp file into Lightroom CC on your desktop first. Once cloud sync completes, the preset is automatically available on your phone or tablet. An Adobe CC subscription is required for this sync feature.
Capture One
Unzip the file. Open Capture One and navigate to the Styles panel. Click the arrow next to 'Styles' and choose 'Import Style'. Select the .costyle file. The style is available in your library immediately. Works with Capture One version 21 and later.
DaVinci Resolve / Premiere Pro (3D LUT)
Copy the .cube file to your application's LUT folder. In DaVinci Resolve via Project Settings → Color Management → LUT folders. In Premiere Pro via the Lumetri Color panel → Creative tab → Look → Browse. The LUT works on both LOG and standard exposed video footage.
