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Presets – Camera Profile Presets
First off, a big thanks to all of the readers/visitors who were at Photoshop World last week and came up and introduced themselves. I had a great time there and it was so cool to get to meet some of the people that visit/post here. Now, on to the presets…
A couple weeks ago, I posted a video on the beta Camera Profiles that Adobe has released over at the Adobe Labs website. At the end of the video I mentioned creating Develop presets for those profiles you like the most, so I decided to do just that for myself. Then I figured I might as well share them this week so you don’t have to do the work. The really neat part about using presets for these profiles is that you don’t have to select them in the Camera Calibration tab to see what they look like. Instead, just hover over the preset name in the Presets panel and the Navigator will show you a preview so you can quickly see what each looks like. I’ve created presets for all of the Nikon and Canon profiles (separate downloads below). The one prerequisite is that you’ll need to have the camera profiles installed in order to use them so make sure you go back and watch the video to see how.
READ THIS FIRST: These presets only work if you’ve installed the profiles first. They are not the profiles themselves, but presets to apply the profiles. Also, since the profiles only work with Raw or DNG files, the same holds true with the presets.
• Click here to the video about the new camera profiles.
• Click here to download the Nikon Camera Profile presets.
• Click here to download the Canon Camera Profile presets.
• Click here to see a video on how to install presets.
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Matt
I’ve moved over to Lightroom because of these coloUr profiles. Because I shoot Nikon the white balance is ALWAYS wrong so I combine the colour mode with a white balance and sharpening (with medium or strong contrast) for a few presets.
I can then use them on import or for fine tuning in the develope module.
Goodbye Capture NX 1.3.1?
Where do these profile presets installed? In the regular develop modules Preset Folders?
Aloha Matt,
When are you coming back to Hawaii?
Love this set of presets it sure saves time in the sense I forget about these profiles. Now if Adobe or someone can make these profiles work across camera manufacturers. I know camera manufacturers more than likely won’t like this but it sure would be really cool.
Willy
As a few other readers have explained, they have downloaded and installed the camera profiles and they have not shown up in the camera calibration pane in light room. Whats up?
Gary
Hey Matt,
Any chance to get some for the Fuji S5 Pro?
Hi Matt
I am a bit stumped and hope you or someone can help. I loaded the camera profiles beta 2 and your LR templates but I am not seeing the camera profile anywhere inside Lightroom or in Camera Raw. How is one supposed to make use of those camera profile (.dcp) files ???
I am at my wits end with trying to get LR to render D3 and D3x images correctly and have spent months fiddling and trying things but it still messes up the rendering and I cannot believe that there is not some simple way to tell LR to render these files correctly. Every other imaging program I have ever used, Capture NX, DXO, CaptureOne, even IrfanView, all show the D3/x files the way they should appear but Lightroom/Adobe seem to have their own idea of what the image should look like and no matter how much tweaking I do it’s still not right. For instance I may be able to tweak the develop setting for one set of images and get them to look “ok” but then that same set of tweaks applied to other images makes them look even worse than what LR rendered them.
What irks me most is that when new images are imported into LR their thumbnails look 100% like they looked in camera, after double clicking on an image to view it at 1:1 for a mere 2-3 seconds the full size image looks perfect but then LR does it’s rendering guesswork and messes it up. I wish there was some way to tell LR not to render the file but rather just display it 1:1 based on the embedded thumbnail, it seems to have the ability to do this for the first 2-3 seconds after opening it at 1:1.
This is the one and only thing keeping me from using Lightroom in a production environment and I wish this was not the case. I have worked with numerous professional image editing suites and LR is the only one to not be able to render my files correctly. Lightroom hands down beats any other software as far as cataloging and ease of raw processing goes and if I can resolve this one major problem I would put it into full swing. I just cannot manage images where I cannot see what the image truly looks like without spending time fiddling with it to appear sort of correctly.
Help !!!
I just watched the video on camera profiles. I’ve even gone back and forth with the NAPP Help Desk. The Adobe camera list includes the Sony Alpha 900 but no specific profiles show up under the Camera Calibration Panel. All that is listed is Adobe Standard and ACR 4.6. Why can’t I see anything for the Alpha 900?
I have installed the beta camera profiles from the Adobe web site I am running LR V2.5 but cannot see them in the camera calibration section of the develop module. I am shooting a Panasonic G1 and converting the raw files out of the camera to DNG at import. What am I not doing? Are there no G1 profiles available at this time?
I downloaded the Nikon camera presents, but dont know how to install them.
It is very difficult to find a a profile, that gives a picture close to the real out-of-camera picture…
I suppose it is better to build a real Camera Calibration profile using Adobe tools.
And much better is to use a special color grid to calibrate your camera. That’s the most precise way.
Hi, I use LR 2.3. I’ve also installed the presets, but they seem to make no difference at first. When I’m hovering over the presets the preview image does not change nor does the image when click on the presets.
But this changes when I first enter the Camera Calibration section and change the profile. After that, when I hover over the presets, the Navigator Preview shows the changes and clicking on them changes the image.
Does Matt or anyone else have a reason for this strange behavior?
Sjouke. The Netherlands.