Comments on: Using Camera Raw Profiles in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom’s Develop Module

By: David Marx

David Marx — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:16:51 +0000

Dear Igor,

You are right that Adobe’s camera raw profiles are not an exact match but the fault lies with the camera companies. It is the camera manufacturers, like Canon and Nikon, who have chosen to keep their raw processing code a protected trade secret. Adobe is doing customers like us a favor when they attempt to reverse engineer something that the camera companies should probably make public.

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David

By: Igor Levicki

Igor Levicki — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:39:55 +0000

Not a single one of those profiles matches the original profile used in the software of the camera manufacturer. Adobe should work with camera manufacturers to correct this.

If you don’t believe me, take any image with red or orange tones (sunset for example), try all the presets in ACR, then open the image using your camera manufacturer’s software.

By: gaby torres

gaby torres — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 23:47:49 +0000

Hi!! i have a problem and i think you could help me.
I’ve been shooting in raw with my Nikon D60 and I’ve been importing them into my mac, some times into iphoto and just this week i started importing them into lightroom 2, but i just notice that the files have been change automatically to jpegs files and i don’t know why? I’ve look up the raw files in my HD and i still have them but when I have tried to open the file in photoshop just to check if the problem is just in lightroom, well it didn’t let me open the file in photoshop it said that it wasn’t compatible or something like that!.

please if you could help me, because i don’t have does files any where else and i need to know if i can go back to the raw files, is very important for the project i have to do this summer.

many thanks

gaby torres

By: Shot in RAW... now what? - The Photo Forum - Photography Discussion Forum

Shot in RAW... now what? - The Photo Forum - Photography Discussion Forum — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:05:50 +0000

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By: Scott Rouse

Scott Rouse — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:46:43 +0000

Thanks for the link, Mark. Good stuff!

-Scott

By: Mark Wilson

Mark Wilson — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:10:21 +0000

You can do the same thing with Adobe’s DNG Profile Editor and a standard 24 colour chart. I put together instructions here:

http://blog.rusticolus.co.uk/2009/08/create-custom-colour-profile-for-your.html

Looking at the video above, it does look like the colorchecker passport is more practical in the field though and the export plug-in seems a little easier than the profile editor!

By: Zach

Zach — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:50:41 +0000

Poor advice

Also, the red channel is totally out of wack in Lightroom’s interpretation of Sony Raw Files. It makes LR near useless.

By: David Marx

David Marx — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:26:59 +0000

Hi friends, I also just found out about an interesting tool that lets you make your own custom profiles. It's called the X-Rite ColorChecker Passport. I can't say I have tried one yet but the promo video makes it look pretty powerful and I am big fan of X-Rite's other products. Here's a link to it from Amazon. Here's a video on how this gizmo works. Again, I have not tried one but I am intrigued. --David

By: David Marx

David Marx — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:21:21 +0000

Zach-

Thanks for your comments. I didn’t know that the profiles for the Sony Alpha were missing so I did a little bit of research. I did indeed find 3rd party profiles for that camera here.

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1037&message=29151124

But I also found a post that makes me think that Adobe’s profiles are available for that camera if you convert your files to DNG. For more on this, and lots more detail on the camera profiles feature in general, try this link.

http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/08/the_dng_profile_editor.html

I hope this helps, but since I don’t have that camera please let me know if this is lousy advise.

–David

By: Zach

Zach — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:44:28 +0000

It’s important to note that these Landscape, Faithful, etc, profiles are developed for specific camera brands/models. E.g. those profiles show up if you import Canon and Nikon Raw files, but they do NOT show up for Sony Alpha raw files.

There are however various profiles created by third parties that you can download from the web.