Nothing's Camera Presets Transform The World Into Your Favorite Movie With This Clever Idea [Gallery]

Just after the launch of the Nothing Phone (3a) series, “Camera Presets” were added to the latest Nothing Phone’s as a way to adjust the look of the camera, and share those presets with other users. Now, someone has found a clever way to use AI to quickly create presets to transform shots into recreations of the worlds from your favorite movies and shows.

Camera Presets on the Nothing Phone (3a) series work by allowing users to customize the camera’s settings to create a specific look, and then save that preset for later use. Presets can also be shared and imported using QR codes. These are “.cube” files and can use a LUT (Look-Up Table) to create that look, meaning you don’t have to use a Nothing Phone to create presets.

On Nothing’s forums, one user had the clever idea of using ChatGPT to generate LUTs and turn those into a “.cube” file, something that’s claimed to work on free accounts.

The results (below) created a blue color palette based on Apple’s Severance, and an orange palette to replicate the look of Mad Max, and the results look pretty cool.

Using a prompt along the lines of “make me a LUT based on [insert name here] color palette and create .cube file” seems to do the trick in ChatGPT, though it didn’t work in our testing. Instead, ChatGPT said it couldn’t create the file, and instead explained how to do it, providing code for the LUT in the meantime. Google’s Gemini also couldn’t create the file, but offered Python code which could create it in a terminal on a PC. Nothing published a guide on how to create these files last week.

Since AI tools are pretty good at creating these, it would be rather cool if Nothing eventually integrated a feature like this into its own apps to offer a consistent way to make camera presets. Maybe that’s part of the Nothing Phone (3)’s “AI platform.”