Video - Camera Profiles for Lightroom
This one has been causing quite a bit of buzz. When Adobe released Lightroom 2 (and the accompanying 4.5 update to Camera Raw) they released these camera profiles on the Adobe Labs website. In a nutshell, these profiles match the camera manufacturers color appearance of your photos. So if you’ve ever opened your photo in Nikon’s or Canon’s software and been happier with the way it looked there vs. Lightroom, then you’ll love these things. I’ll tell you all about ‘em, where to download them, and how to use them in this week’s video. Make sure you let us all know if and how they’re working out for you in the comments section here. Thanks!
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on August 27th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Excellent video Matt thanks,
However, It’s thrown up a question I’d like to ask.
In my Lightroom calibration profile I’ve only got the choice of ACR4.4 or ACR 3.6 and Adobe Standard Beta 1. No camera profile details show up even though I use a Pentax K100d and Panasonic LX2 both set to capture Raw images!
Am I doing something wrong?
Paul
on August 27th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Finally! - to bad they only made them available for LR2 and not LR. Thanks Matt
on August 27th, 2008 at 11:39 am
There don’t seem to be any profiles available other than ACR 4.3, 4.4 and Adobe Standard Beta 1 for RAW files (.ARW) coming out of a Sony Alpha 100… Would anyone be able to confirm this, please?
Kudos!
Patrick
on August 27th, 2008 at 11:52 am
I have been waiting forever to find out about the camera profiles, as I had heard about it when it was being released. Then when I went to the calibration section, it was the same.. Now we finally know.. Matt thanks a bunch.. this will be great.
on August 27th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Have a Fuji S5, the standard setting appears to make my people portaits way too red/magenta. Particularly the guys, lighter skinned gals, less so.
Other than this, everything else seems ok. Whites stay white.
on August 27th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
I love the idea of camera profiles. I just wish Adobe would have made Canon profiles to match the look of Canon Raw Image Task as well as Digital Photo Professional. (RIT is more true to out-of-the camera JPEGs.)
on August 27th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Loving this matt. thanks as always! you just made my day.
I will be using develop settings in the import screen from now on (and choosing my camera calibration presets). Never had a use for this until now.
on August 27th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
There is another useful way to set your preferred camera profile so that it applies to all newly imported images by default: Select the desired profile and press the option key. The Reset button changes to “Set Default …” - now the profile is applied on import or you can apply it to images already in your catalog by pressing the Reset button.
on August 27th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
I’ve read that you can apply, say, the nikon vivid pic control to your canon raw files but what you show in the video is that the calibration drop down options only list what match the camera manufacturer of the picture.
Is there a way to apply other manufacturers profiles?
Surely there must be as the editor allows you to create profiles, so is there an import profile or something?
on August 27th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Matt-Can i use a nikon’s vivid profile on my canon’s RAW or a JPEG Image.now that all the profiles are available, why not provide this option?I mean i am not sure whether this feature exists, but i love nikon’s colors more than canon’s.that is why i want that feature-any answers?
on August 27th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
I don’t understand why there is no way for LR2 to read the “As Shot” profile that was assigned by the camera, and then automagically apply that setting in the Develop Module. This would be similar to choosing “As Shot” as the default White Balance setting. I still want to be able to change it manually, but I want to use the setting from the camera as my default starting point.
on August 27th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
What’s the chnace of adobe engineers providing prests for those of us who use Olympus (E3) dslr?
on August 27th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
I must be doing something wrong. I am using LR 2.0 and I installed the profiles — and checked that they did indeed install, but all that shows up is “Embedded”. That is all I have ever had visible, something I had wondered about but not paid much attention to.
on August 27th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
I installed the camera profiles and they do not show up. ONly embedded is listed. What can I do to make the camera profiles active?
on August 27th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
If I had stopped to think about it. The word RAW should have been the key word. It does function on RAW files.
Thanks
on August 27th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
I have just installed them und it works for my canon raws perfectly.
But I’m not sure which profile (ACR 4.4, Adobe Standard Beta, Canon Standard) I like best. For my eyes they are just different. I can’t say the Canon profile is better than the Adobe one or vice versa.
on August 27th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
I use the Nikon profiles and really like them. Since these are a Beta version, what happens to the beta profiles people already use for weeks when the final versions are released? Keep up the good work. LR2 is awesome. Looking forwarad to HDR and stitching in LR some day.
on August 27th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Matt, I had all the software installed correctly, but DID NOT know that you had to select the profile from the list. I had chosen the beta 1 pick. I was puzzled because opening the (Nikon) files still showed the camera profiled image quickly was changed to the duller LR profiled image. Thanks for clearing it up!
on August 27th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Good one Matt. Like Swanny there is too much choice but I’ll get used to it. A very useful feature.
George, don’t wait for HDR, do what Matt said and use Photomatix, it is really good. Just don’t get too heavy handed with the controls……like most people like to do. Export Tiff from LR, do the Photomatix thing and save and re-import into LR for final editing. Too easy.
The Captain.
on August 27th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Matt, Thank you so much for sharing this new capability. I have referred to you as a guide that helps us find the treasures. Appreciate you walking us through the download and how to load the presets. You made it so easy that even I could do it. Works great. Thanks, Paul
on August 27th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
I’m loving this! Good start, I can say it is very accurate from the original. Now I feel more confident with my photos because now Lightroom won’t mess with my colors like it used before! Wow, I have no words to describe how I feel about this (yes I’m crazy). Thank you very much! The best killer tip of the year!
on August 27th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Been using these since I picked up LR2 and they’re great. I don’t find myself flipping through them much as part of the develop process though.
Shooting with my D80 I’ve always had it in Mode II color mode because its most pleasing to me, and I think it translates well onto the LCD when i’m chimping. I never really minded the preview shifting on bringing it up in LR, but with the new Profiles I’ve added the selection to my preset run on import [along with clarity boost, sharpening tweak, etc]. So far its worked pretty well, and may have cut some develop time, though I can’t say it has for sure and I think the particular profile can feel a bit saturated at times to me.
on August 27th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Why they leave Olympus out
on August 27th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Wait a minute! I thought we were all to convert to dng?
When we import to LR2 and convert to .dng, this is all wasted right? Am I missing something?
on August 28th, 2008 at 12:13 am
Canon shooter, LR2 owner less than a week, new convert to RAW and converting all to .DNG….. Wow–this was incredibly easy to download. You know the “i swear this looked better in real-life” feeling you sometimes get when you look at your pics–that may go away-or at least not be a camera/software translation problem anymore. Thank you for the video…..as always you’re a great source of info in a clear concise way.
on August 28th, 2008 at 12:24 am
So many choices now! Thanks for the lesson. It was easy to follow your instructions and see the results! Thanks a bunch.
on August 28th, 2008 at 5:52 am
Matt,
I tried these camera profiles and they worked well, but the weird thing is they only worked with camera raw and not with Lightroom 2. They didn’t even appear in Lightroom 2. And also in Camera Raw there was now ACR 4,3 but instead ACR 3,3. Did anyone experience that Problem and has a solution?
BTW: I’m using a Nikon D300
Alex
on August 28th, 2008 at 7:08 am
I first used the new profiles (LR2 and the beta profiles) on Tiger Lily photos from my Pany FZ8. The RAW files with 4.4 were too orange and it frustrated me that I could not get it close to the excellent incamera orangey-red JPEGS. But with the Profiles it really brought out the REDS. I noticed this more recently with some red maples leaves (early fall in NH?) … the new Profiles did a much better job making the the red I remember them being, while the older ACR4.4 made them too orange. The difference was subtle, but obvious as I clicked back and forth.
Peter F.
on August 28th, 2008 at 8:01 am
Hi Alex,
if when in LR and a non-DNG photo is selected in the Develop module the Camera Calibration will show “Profile: Embedded” only. Selecting a DNG file in the module makes the Calibration options change to all the profiles for your camera. Maybe that was it?
on August 28th, 2008 at 9:03 am
I’m finding that skin tones from my Canon 30D raw files end up far too red and lacking in yellow with the new “Adobe Standard beta 1″ profile. This coincides with what Mark Hansen indicated above with his Fuji S5.
To my eye, ACR 4.4 looks far more natural. Is anyone else seeing this?
on August 28th, 2008 at 9:42 am
Hi Matt,
Great suggestion and video as usual. It’s working fine with our Nikon RAW files. There is a download there at Adobe for dng. Just below the one for Camera profiles. Should we be taking that one also? What is that all about?
on August 28th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Hi BH,
I have to agree with you. I own a Canon 30D. The skin tones with Adobe Standard beta 1 are red. What do you think for the Camera Standard beta 1 ? I think it’s close to natural.
on August 28th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Wow! What a difference! Thanks a lot for a great tip!
/BonneSwe
on August 28th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Does anyone know if this will work when taking pictures in JPEG?
on August 28th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Great video Matt, it answered the questions I still had with these profiles. Thanks!
on August 28th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Hey Matt;
Thanks for all the killer tip’s. I all ready knew about the camera calib’s but enjoy the little extra info you add.
Lou
on August 28th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Matt, WOWOWO, unbelievable. You have helped me so much in many ways and this is fantastic.
Exactly how you said to do it.
For those people who said it doesn’t show up in LR2, you have restart LR2.
on August 28th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Thanks for the the Tip Matt. I can’t imagine using one of these settings very often but it’s nice to know they`re available.
Jim
on August 28th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
“Why they leave Olympus out ”
What is Canon’s market share? What is Nikon’s? What is Olympus? Adobe’s engineers are going to put their time where the market is, and the market is owned by Canon and Nikon.
on August 28th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Thanks Matt, I’ve been using these for a week or two and have found that they are a lot better than the ACR for the images from my 40D.
on August 28th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Matt,
I am a newbee to Adobe Lightroom 2 and Adobe Photoshop CS3. I was
searching the net looking for instructions and came across your lessons. I liked
your presention. Do you have a video that will cover all of instructions for
Lightroom 2 and/or Photoshop CS3. If not what are good reamedial books?
on August 28th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Matt K-ski,
I am new to Adobe Lightroom. I’ve been following your killer tips for a while now and love them.
Most recently I noticed my export files lack the color and saturation of the RAW file previews in Lightroom. Am I doing something wrong, or is there a option I’ve missed?
thx,
jude
on August 28th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Matt,
Thanks so much for the video. I d/l’ed the profiles last week but didn’t understand them so they went unused for the photowalk. I’m stoopid that way.
Anyhow, I got a handle on how to use ‘em and I’ve got my presets made with some sharpening & clarity thrown in. They’re gonna come in right handy at import.
Hey man, thanx again for the tutorial, and most especially, thanx for everything you do for us!
Regards,
Mike
on August 28th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
What’s interesting is viewing RAW images in LR2 with the new profiles side-by-side with the same image in the camera’s native viewer (ViewNX in my case for Nikon). The two are strikingly similar when selecting corresponding picture styles - really quite amazing how great a job Adobe did here. They may not be exact but they are so close that you really have to know color or be exceptionally picky to be concerned. Matt, this kind of comparison would have really drove the point home on your otherwise excellent (as always) tutorial.
on August 29th, 2008 at 6:08 am
Thank you so much ! It’s look much better when using those profiles !
on August 29th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Great that they finally pushed this through!
From the moment I noted that the colors in Lightroom were not the same as the ones in DPP from canon (using EOS 400D) I abandoned lightroom 1.
Now that they implemented these color profiles I am again a big fan of Lightroom as it is so much faster to work with than DPP.
Thanks to the lightroom team that implemented this, but I wonder why they cannot implement it in lightroom 1 in the first place.
Roel
on August 29th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Camera profiles sealed the deal for me and I just purchased LR 2. It’s amazing how quickly I became hooked on them once I bought my D300.
on August 29th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Ok, WOW. I am preparing to enter an amateur photo competition and had a beautiful mountain shot. The colors didn’t pop like they did in person. I have a Canon 40D and I shot in RAW. Downloaded the profiles according to the instructions in the video. When I applied the Landscape Profile - POP. A few little tweaks with clarity and vibrance and WOW!!
Thank you for the tip!! It was killer for me!
Kristen
on August 29th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
when i first saw this boy what i excited!!!! no more greenish kids. but it does not work for my Pentax it seems.
too bad i cant use canon’s!!!!!! a friend download it for her Canon and boy WHAT a difference!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am insanely jealous
guess i will keep fixing it it manually for now.
on August 29th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Thanks for explaining this on the video. You uncomplicated something that looked complicated on Adobe’s site. I downloaded them and started using them. They’re awesome on my Nikon files!
on August 29th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Hi Matt…thanks for the great video! I downloaded the profiles and noticed the change, but all I see come up is ACR 4.3…I don’t get any of the other options…checked on the Adobe support pages as well and not sure what I’m doing wrong - they’re definitely RAW files…
In either event, keep up the great work!
on August 30th, 2008 at 4:23 am
Looks pretty good and works just fine with the canon of my girlfriend but it seems that this beta version doesn’t support many camera manufacturers (only canon / nikon it seems to me). I hope there will be support for Sony / Minolta etc. too in the final version.
on August 30th, 2008 at 4:54 am
Thanks Matt - This is a real timesaver !
rock on !!!
on August 30th, 2008 at 7:21 am
Just to answer a question further up in the comments, no the camera profiles do not work on JPEGs. That’s because when you get a JPEG out of the camera, it has already had the selected profile applied to the raw data. So they work OK on RAW or DNG files, but not on JPEGs. Actually I thought Matt might have clarified that in the video
on August 30th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
I’ve install the profiles but i can see them under Camera Calibration,
The only think i see is
Profile : Embedded, Why
on August 30th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Thank you so much for this information! I don’t have Lightroom 2.0, but the settings do work with CameraRaw through Photoshop CS3. I’ve never liked the straight NEF images from my camera, and have always had to do a lot of work to make the images look good to me. The camera calibration setting make a great image almost without having to do any other changes in Camera Raw/Photoshop. Thanks to the Adobe engineers for making this available to us.
on August 30th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Like the others, the only thing I see is embedded?? Please help.
on August 31st, 2008 at 4:02 am
i also found the “too red” issue.
my camera is canon 5d. by using portrait (and other) presets from the beta profile, the image becomes too reddish… i have to tune it down using color balance slider.
on August 31st, 2008 at 4:31 am
Looking good, but mostly looking forward to some additional profiles… have you heard about Pentax…
All I get is a an Adobe Standard Beta 1 and not much of a change from the original Pentax 1.0 version…
on August 31st, 2008 at 6:54 am
‘ me thinks the profiles are file specific, use Cannon raw see cannon use nikon see nikon, use a fuji you just get Acr’s and Standard Beta…
I thats my take on it, good tip and heads up thought thanks 4 that…
from over the pond GB
on August 31st, 2008 at 11:01 am
Thanks for the excellent work on the video. Shame that Pentax don’t appear to be supported yet.
on August 31st, 2008 at 11:56 am
What a great feature!
I’ve installed these and am using them as import presets. That way my photos come in with D300 standard.
Big improvement over the Lightroom default. Thanks, Matt!
on August 31st, 2008 at 11:42 pm
With my Canon G9 shooting raw I only get the Adobe standard beta 1 profile. However, with my Canon D10 I get 6 profiles. Can you explain please.
Thank you for your informative information.
Aloha.
on September 1st, 2008 at 6:58 am
Matt,
I already installed the profiles a while ago. Because I have different subject with different lighting conditions, I’m still ’struggling’ to find the right profile for each subject/situation.
on September 1st, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Hi Matt,
thx for the tip… It´s really timesaving…
on September 2nd, 2008 at 2:37 am
Hi there,
Canon 5D shooter here. The camera profiles appears to be adding chromatic aberration in several of my pictures.
See before:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3115/2820093815_c96d85e0d4_o.png
After:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3135/2820093379_9873336f27_o.png
Anyone else have this problem? Maybe it’s just the shoot?
Fred
on September 2nd, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Hi Matt! I tried this on and it is amazing!
I shot a few days ago some pictures of our open MRI System with ambilight. And as I looked at my photos I was quite disappointed as the colored lights were burnt out even with best exposure, flash HDR and so on like that
http://flickr.com/photos/zeile/2822150858/
Then i tried the Standard profile and -tatataaaahhhh!!!! Smooth light, perfect detail, no burnt out color. Amazing!!!!
See here:
http://flickr.com/photos/zeile/2821314023/
Now I can get to work to apply it to my good shots which I like to present to the public.
Thanks a lot!!!
on September 2nd, 2008 at 5:01 pm
LR 2.0 does not load/recognize any of my icc profiles for my epson r1800 printer. PS CS3 has all of them, and I can print on any paper to my epson, but when I’m in LR print module, nothing shows up but one HP profile that I don’t use.
on September 2nd, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Matt…
Thanks for these calibrations…they are great. I have used them several times in Lr2 and PSCs3…
Again thanks for a great video…alway great…
Frank
on September 2nd, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Thanks Matt .. that makes things very clear. I’m a Nikon chooter, and lover of CNX2, but purchased LR2 to help make my workflow a bit quicker. I’ve been really unhappy because of the way Adobe tended to drop all my wonderful Nikon settings, both in CRS3 & LR2, before downloading these presets.
I don’t find the colors exact, but close enough. But I have 2 questions. I sometimes shoot Standard with a saturation level of 2 … do I set my calibration in LR2 to Standard, and then pump up the saturation in each color channel to 2? This comes close, but again only approximates what my CNX2 shows. Is there another way to do this?
Also … LR2 does not capture my in-camera white balance in the As Shot mode … is there any way to do a preset of something that approximates what I get in-camera/on CNX2?
Thanks.
on September 3rd, 2008 at 6:26 pm
I have installed the download and all I see in my calibration window on any photo is “embedded”. What am I doing wrong?
on September 3rd, 2008 at 10:19 pm
@Jim
It only works on RAW file; for jpg or other formats lightroom can only read the embedded colour profiles and hence can’t make the changes.
on September 3rd, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Hi Matt,
Thanks for pointing out the camera profiles! I was not aware of them. I have been struggling with whether to use RAW or JPEG because of this very issue. However, after some quick test with the new camera profiles, I must SAY I am kind of disappointed. It still doesn’t get close to what the JPEG looks like. In fact, I found that the “D200NX” presets created by Lars Gotfredsen at http://www.onethirdstop.com creates a much better picture. Of course this is subjective and I only work on a small sample. The downside to Lars’s preset is that it will affect the hue and saturation sliders, whereas the Adobe one doesn’t. Oh well… I will have to keep taking both the JPEG and RAW until Adobe can get it right…
on September 4th, 2008 at 12:46 am
Matt - These camera profiles are really helpful. I’ve put LR1 snapshots on some of my best photos, and then gone back to the Imported or Cropped imaged, and then applied a camera profile and the LR preset landscape sharpening — and I was already 90% done! 2 settings replacing 6-12 settings & adjustments before! Once these shots were 100% done, I did a “Y” for before & after, and the differences are significant. The time savings x the improvements + a grad filter or adjustment brush here & there — OMG, I feel like I’m working with LR 4.0 in comparison to what we could only do in LR1! And BTW, the grad filter & adjustment brush alone are worth the cost of LR2! Not to speak of the creative time saved during a shoot, when we can compose and capture images, instead of messing with grad filters! It feels like the digital darkroom has now really come of age.
on September 4th, 2008 at 7:37 am
I looked at the video on 9-3-08, downloaded the profiles, tried them out
right away, and like you was very pleased with the results. Very easy to download and use. Also downloaded and use the other presets you had
for downloading. Thanks for your good tips.
on September 4th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Matt, thanks a bunch for bringing these to our attention! Since installing them for LR2, my starting point for image editing is looking much better.
on September 4th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Installed the camera profiles and “Camera Portrait beta 1″ for the Canon 5D is making skin look way too red. Actually there seems to be a redish tint to all the Canon 5D profiles. I believe another user with Fuji camera had the same problem.
on September 4th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
For those that are only seeing “Embedded” as a profile. This is because you are looking at a JPG where the profile is basically “baked in” by the camera. The profiles only work on RAW and yes, DNG files as well.
I tested these against the same images opened in NX2 and they are really close. Not an exact match, but a really good approximation.
It was enough to pull me back to Lightroom. Good job Adobe!
on September 5th, 2008 at 12:38 am
Matt,
If you could put in a good word for those of us who shoot with Pentax
on September 5th, 2008 at 6:45 am
Hi
I wonder if these presets substitute the calibration presets I made with my cameras with the gretag color chart? I used AcrCalibrator (which works in Photoshop) from ‘chromoholics’ for that.
How accurate are these profiles? Canon’s Digital Photo Professional is well known for its fantastic skin tones. I haven’t tested it yet with my pictures but do we really get these colors in LR now?
Thanks for this great site!
Sacha
on September 5th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Hi,
Do we just see different colours in lightroom with these presets and then when jpgs are exported they go back to looking like they did before? Is there any actual advantage, apart from feeling a bit better when looking at the shots on screen and they look a bit more pleasing? The shape of the histogram is changing between presets.
Also, when it says ‘Camera D2X’ - Is it wrong to assume that this is for a D2X and not a D3, which I am shooting on?
Sorry but I am a bit confused!
Thanks
Nick
on September 6th, 2008 at 6:38 am
First class video, and obviously enthused many to use the new profiles. Maybe time to start encouraging Adobe to include a conversion element for v. high ISO noise in their next version. All the recent Nikon SLRs are offering outstanding RAW files at previously unheard of ISOs, and View/CaptureNX is converting them, using the Nikon secret sauce, far more effectively than even the new Lr profiles. Two years ago, few would have imagined shooting at ISO 6400. Today it is an every day - or night - occurrence with the D3. And where that leads, the rest will soon follow.
on September 6th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Is this for Nikon only? I’m a Canon users
Debbi
on September 6th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
Thanks for the calibration info Matt.. What a huge difference - and a very nice place to start as well…
-Rick O - CT
http://www.rickophotography.com
on September 7th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Matt: After downloading the profiles I tried the Faithful for the Canon canera and boy did that make a word of difference not only in the background color cast but skin tone. I unfortunately had to shoot in high noon daylight but also in a forest where the green color overtook the image. But the profile changed all that and I have less work to do on the pictures.
Thanks for the update.
David-NY
on September 8th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Matt,
Thank you very much for the video on the profiles. However, I would like to know something about the flower used as an example. Was it shot outside in available light and if so, how do you get the lighting to look so soft and even across the entire photo? Thank you for any time you can afford towards a reply!
Greg Zenitsky
Lee’s Summit, MO
on September 9th, 2008 at 9:32 am
i have an incredible change at color gradient.
sample pictures are here:
http://www.taog.de:/austausch/lr-killertips/drummer-acr4_4.jpg
http://www.taog.de:/austausch/lr-killertips/drummer-camera_standard_eos20d.jpg
on September 10th, 2008 at 9:19 am
Hi,
Thanks for the excellent video.
This is an improvement respect to the old situation, but still is not satisfying. My jpg’s in camera or with Canon DPP are still better than LR using the profiles. LR does not read the camera settings and even tweaking around it is difficult to get nice colors as you get in DPP or jopg.
It is an step in the right sdirestion but I guess is not that easy to mimic other manufacturer experience in converting and interpreting raw data
on September 11th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
I too only get “embedded” HELP
What do I need to do to see what I installed?
on September 13th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
is anyone having trouble loading profiles. i can’t get the file to unzip and load.
on September 14th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Difference in colours and vibrancy was noticed immediately. Sometimes I find that the presets are all that really need tweaking. Thanks for the tip.
on September 19th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Mat,
You said that using a camera profile affects just the apperance of the image on the screen. Then, if I print an image twice, one with a particular profile, and the other one with a different one, the printed result would look the same ????
Thanks !
Daniel.
on September 24th, 2008 at 12:00 am
Matt -
I installed the camera profiles, but they are not showing up in lightroom. This works for DNG and NEF files, correct? I have a new D90, so I downloaded the new ACR 4.6 beta, and installed the Lightroom 2.1 release candidate. Could that be why they are not showing up? Or is it because the D90 is a new camera? Sorry, just not quite sure why I’m not seeing the profiles.
Kevin
on September 27th, 2008 at 10:18 am
I’ve encountered the same problem as Kevin.
Dale
on September 30th, 2008 at 3:56 am
What is the trick to make my let say Canon to show for example Nikon profile?
on October 4th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
I installed the Nikon profiles. But, they don’t seem to work. They are showing up in the user presets and not under the Camera Calibration Module.
on October 5th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
All I get is “embedded” too. Would appreciate some help. Thanks
on October 9th, 2008 at 10:23 am
I spent a couple of hours last night trying to install the Camera Profiles.
The download and installer ran just fine. However, when I start LR2.1 and
go to ‘Develop/Camera Calibration’, I have only ACR 4.6 displayed as the
only choice. I have yet to see ‘Adobe Standard’. Is it possible ‘Camera Profiles’ will not install with LR2.1/ACR 4.6? The documentation states:
LR2.0/LR2.1 and ACR 4.3 OR LATER. HELP!
on October 9th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Update: I’m pretty sure the current beta version of ‘Camera Profiles’
does not include the D90. I’ll try to prove that tonight.
on October 10th, 2008 at 12:00 am
It’d be really nice if this video had a recognisable extention, Matt
I have save this file, rename the .m4v extention to .mp4 and then try and play it… sheesh! What happend to just having it play directly in the browser?
on October 10th, 2008 at 11:46 am
Yes it appears the Camera Profiles do not ‘talk’ to the D90 NEFs. With
a D90 NEF ACR 4.6 is the only Camera Calibration choice. However,
D70, D80, and D300 NEFs all have ‘Adobe Standard’ plus several other
choices in a drop down menu..
on October 11th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
I just read about these profiles in the latest PSU in the Lightroom section. Of course I was eager to get on board, especially after watching the video. When I tried to access the download profiles page, I was put off because the site is unavailable. Any word on when these profiles will be back up…or if they will?
on October 12th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Matt…love the profiles…but….I just purchased the Nikon D90 and have had to update ACR to 4.6…is there any profiles for this version? Thanks. Frank
on October 22nd, 2008 at 9:20 am
I hadn’t noticed this problem in LR 1.4 until last week when I shot a bunch of fall foliage. I was out looking for a specific shade of orange — which I found and shot — but then when I got home, that orange turned into yellow in LR 1! I was very confused when I opened up the same Nikon D80 RAW file (.NEF) in the Nikon NX software and it looked correct.
Anyhow, I tested these beta profiles last night with LR 2 and it worked right away! I now see exactly the same colours in LR 2 as I see in my Nikon NX software. Thanks Matt!
on October 25th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
I would like to know how i can uninstall the profiles if i wanted too.
on October 26th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
After a bit of searching on DNG profiles, I came across this article. Excellent explanation of installing and using the camera profiles. I’ve been using Photoshop and Lightroom for a while, and decided to give Nikon Capture NX 2.1. I don’t care for its interface or performance, but I noticed immediately that images appeared just as I expected from the Camera. I always needed to do work in ACR to get what I was expecting. This is just what I needed to get the RAW images I expected out of the camera, while continuing to take advantage of the Lightroom and Photoshop workflow and options. Thank you for helping me make the most of my D90.
on November 2nd, 2008 at 6:13 pm
That is a very useful piece of information.
I was considering to move back to shooting JPG since shooting RAW is too much bother with little reward.
Using these profiles makes using RAW that much easier. Also, it makes me glad I haven’t converted all my old photos from RAW to JPG!
Sam
on November 5th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Matt,
When I installed the camera profile and open LR2 it doesn’t appear in the Camera Callebration tab. What am I not doing? I can’d find where it is installed on my Mac. Thanks, love your videos.
Jonathan
on November 5th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
found it…was working on jpeg…works on NEF. Thanks
on November 13th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Mark me down as another who has installed the camera profile file but can’t find them as working or available in the Calibration tab; I have LR 2.1 and CR 4.6 on a PC laptop
on November 13th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Never mind; I had a jpeg selected but not a raw file. Sorry to bother.
on November 20th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Well, I have to say the profiles do make a difference, but I am wondering if they are universal in the sense that they are equally applicable to the D3 as they are the D90. I have not seen D3 mentioned in any discussion of the profiles.
on December 10th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Please revisit this topic. (and delete old info if necessary)
Video refers to a changed web pages and ACR 4.6 has no apparent support for camera profiles (As far as I can figure out . . .)
I found a camera profile zip file, but no installer is with it as far as I can see.
on December 17th, 2008 at 12:49 am
Oh, FANTASTIC. This is the most exciting thing I’ve learned all week (and I’ve been catching up on a lot of podcasts). I never understood why my RAW files usually had “the wrong” colors; I thought it was something inherent in the RAW format. Now I can delete all those JPEGs I’ve been hanging on to when I couldn’t adjust the RAW images to match the JPEGs I prefer.
THANKS, MATT.
on December 31st, 2008 at 12:59 am
I downloaded your 2X2 preset onto my LR print module successfully. However, I am not able to download it to my develop module. I have downloaded the lomo effects onto my develop module but it will not load onto the other modules. What am I doing wrong, please help! Thanks in advance.
PS: I like the font of your name Matt on the 2X2 preset, what is it?
on January 1st, 2009 at 2:05 am
Hey Matt, I’m really diggin’ the idea of the camera profiles. I shoot on a 40d and REALLY love the Monochrome setting but am forced to shoot RAW plus JPEG to preserver the monochrome effect. Can you talk with Adobe and ask them if they would make a Monochrome setting?
on January 1st, 2009 at 11:21 pm
The Canon profiles are fine if you use Digital Photo Professional. I prefer to use the EOS Viewer Utility with my 20D, however, that accurately translates the in-camera settings for saturation, contrast, etc. None of the profiles in Lightroom match what I see in the EOS Viewer Utlility, which I find superior to DPP and LR. Sucks.
on January 4th, 2009 at 10:59 am
I also have the same problem with Monochrome Setting in RAW as mentioned above. Shooting on D90 and really enjoy Black and White, but, when I take my images onto my computer (mac) I find that Lightroom/photoshop/aperture/finder do not recognise the Monochrome Camera setting. The funny thing is that my images initially appear as being Mono but then the preview is updated and they end up in colour. HELP?!?!?