ACR 5 - Support for Custom Camera Profiles

ACR 4 allows users to select from a list of four device-independent colour spaces (Adobe RGB 1998, ColorMatch RGB, ProPhoto RGB and sRGB). Unlike other RAW processors, it does not allow selection of a custom camera profile. This capability is very useful when colour accuracy is of considerable importance (e.g. reproduction of art works). Does ACR 5 allow for selection of custom profiles?

When this question had been asked in the past the answer has always been, "No, because these choices are all that you need." This may seem to be a rather close minded answer. But in reality the Prophoto color space encompasses everything else that is available. So the solution has been to do all of your work in ACR in Prophoto and send the image on to Photoshop in that color space. Then convert to the desired color space in Photoshop.

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What do I need to do? Thanks!

Yes, thank you, very helpful! ... I am able to see my custom profile in the DropDown list of Camera Calibration options in Camera Raw now.
One tricky part ... I am also new to the feature of the "hidden folders" in OS X Mavericks ... So, I realized I could installthe X-Rite DNG profile manager from the X-Rite support site and ask that utility to open the DNG Profile folder. That way, I could see the folder path referenced in the above KnoweldgeBase article was actually there on my hard drive. Then I was able to place a copy of my custom profile in the correct spot.
Here is info from Apple Support site about how to see the hidden folder:
"The Library folder contains files used by OS X and your apps, including your personal fonts and preferences. The Library folder is hidden. If you need to open it, make sure you are in the Finder, hold down the Option key, and then choose Go > Library."
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Where to store custom camera profiles on a MacBook Pro 17" OS X 10.8.5

I recently created custom camera profiles for a friend's Nikon D700 using the Adobe DNG Profile Editor. She does not know where to install or store the dcp files so they can be used when she converts her RAW files. She is using Photoshop CS6 on a MacBook Pro 17" with OS X 10.8.5. I created the profiles on a PC. Can anyone help?

See this link - the location for custom Camera Profiles for LR and ACR is the same:
http://members.lightroomqueen.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/1373/205/lightroom-5-default- locations

Removing custom camera profiles on a Mac? Lr4

I have some old colorchecker camera calibration profiles I would like to delete on a Mac. I don't know where to find them. I am using Lightroom 4

See this link - the location for custom Camera Profiles for LR and ACR is the same:
http://members.lightroomqueen.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/1373/205/lightroom-5-default- locations

Can't load custom camera profiles

I'm using both Lightroom 3.5 and Photoshop CS5 on a 64-bit Windowx XP-Pro system with 8GB of RAM and plenty of disk space.
I use an X-rite color checker to generate custom camera profiles whenever I do portraits or other color critical photo sessions. The camera profile is generally placed in the
"Documents and Settings\...{user...}Application Data\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles " folder.
When I try to apply a profile in either lightroom or ACR the newely created profile is not visible in the camera profile drop-down box. When I check to see if the profile exists in the appropriate folder, it does.
I've used color profiles before and have always been able to create and select a profile. Now I'm no longer able to do this. I would prefer to not re-install all my Adobe software since then I'd have to reinstall all the updates and plug-ins.
How can I get lightroom and ACR to see these profiles and use them?

OK I figured out my problem and it seems as though it was a combination of things.
First: The X-Rite color checker can't create a profile if any of the color channels in the image are clipped. Adjusting the exposure via Camera Raw/Lightroom and saving the file as a DNG doesn't help since the changes are in metadata and not the actual raw file. I tried converting the file to a TIF after making the exposure adjustment then to a DNG, this allowed me to then save it as a DNG which the X-Rite software then allowed me to create a custom profile without errors. This new profile however, was not visible from the Camera Calibration menu. The reason for this is that in the actual .dcp file, instead of having the camera type specified, it had TIF.
Second: The imbedded camera type (Canon 5D, Nikon D90, etc.) in the profile has to match the camera type in the metadata of the image you're trying to apply the profile to. Apparently, Lightroom/ACR, only allows you to see profiles that match the images taken by the same camera type. This makes sense since my two different bodies have different profiles. If you shoot with two different bodies you need to apply the profiles separately in lightroom. You need to sort the images by camera type then apply/sync the camera profile applicable to each camera seperately.
Third: I figured out a solution to the issue of my overexposed color checker, but unless your are comfortable with editing the binary .dcp file with a binary editor, I suggest you add 1/2 to a full stop when shooting the color checker. The problem is that red typically clips before any other color and since your meter does an 18% average (including the incident meter in the studio), it's possible to clip Red while Green and Blue are fine.

[4.3] Custom camera profiles now ignored

Hi,
After installation of LR 4.3, my custom camera profiles are no longer recognized. They are still in the correct folder along with the other camera profiles installed by LR but these custom profiles are not shown in the drop down list in the Camera Calibration panel.
Any similar experience?
Any fix?
Thanks in advance.

Aaaah, it seems that custom profiles now need to be stored in another folder, different from the one where the default profiles are stored.
Previously, all profiles (default and custom) were stored there for my 5D :
C:\ProgramData\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles\Camera\Canon EOS 5D
Now the custom profiles need to be moved there (create the folder if it doesn't exist) :
C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles\Canon EOS 5D
A warning about this change would have been nice and time saving.

Q: Custom camera profiles and process 2010 - incompatible?

I have two digital cameras that I've had modified to shoot in the infrared. I have to use custom camera profiles (created with the DNG profile editor) when I import IR images, otherwise the custom white balance is not preserved correctly. However, even though the Develop module shows that the process is 2010 for my IR images, the Detail and Contrast sliders under Noise Reduction are grayed out.
I read somewhere on the web that custom camera profiles used on import effectively negate the ability to use the new features in process 2010 - can anyone confirm this, or otherwise explain why I'm not able to use the Noise Reduction features of process 2010 in their entirety?
Thanks much.

sandrift71 wrote:
I have two digital cameras that I've had modified to shoot in the infrared. I have to use custom camera profiles (created with the DNG profile editor) when I import IR images, otherwise the custom white balance is not preserved correctly. However, even though the Develop module shows that the process is 2010 for my IR images, the Detail and Contrast sliders under Noise Reduction are grayed out.
Even with the amounts at non-zero values?

Custom Camera Profile List (Color Checker Passport)

Hi
I am new to Lightroom 4.3 and have a question regarding Custom Camera Profiles. I have created custom profiles using Color Checker Passport for sunny, cloudy, flash, tungsten etc but would really like to create one for most shoots. I thought it would be a good idea to name it say "Temp" and overwrite each time so that I dont end up knee deep in camera profiles. But I am guessing if I do this will the latest saved version of "Temp" change the camera profile of all other previously saved versions of "Temp" from other shoots?
It would be good if the saved version of "Temp" resided within the folder of that particular shoot only.

twenty_one wrote:
In fact I'm amazed at how good the Adobe Standard profile is (Nikon D300/700) - I have never been able to improve on it for sheer accuracy.
ColorChecker Passport profiles I created for my Canon 5D MKII, 600D and 300D bodies looks better than the Adobe Standard profile, with both set to the same neutral white balance. This includes both single-illuminant and dual-illuminant profiles.
Take a look at the below images which were adjusted in LR using normal adjustments for a "picture" image, and not adjusted as a test chart. The Deep Blue and Purplish Blue patches have a slightly different hue and are more saturated on my non-wide gamut display. I'm sure they would look even more different on a wide gamut display. The ColorChecker profiled image looks closer to the actual ColorChecker when compared side-by-side. Some of the other color patches also have more saturation, which again appears more accurate.
I am certainly no "expert" on color management, but do have over 40 years of film, color darkroom, and digital imaging experience. To me the ColorChecker profile image looks better and more accurate than the Adobe Standard profile image, and that's just my opinion. Maybe it's something unique to Adobe's Canon profiles, but I have no Nikon equipment to test this assumption.
Concerning the OP's creation and use of multiple "sunny, cloudy, flash, tungsten etc. profiles," I did the same thing when I first used the CC Passport. And you're correct that for normal sunlight pictures only one (1) profile is actually needed, with changes made to white balance for the different conditions. But there is nothing wrong with creating multiple profiles and saving them with their matching white balance settings as a Develop preset. Disk space is cheap and IMHO LR simplifies the process and organization of presets, just as Rob Cole suggested.
I would suggest further that under some natural lighting conditions white balance alone may not totally correct the image. Examples would be high-altitude, early morning and evening low-angle sunlight, etc. Of course this begs the question of how much should you actually "correct" these images – It depends on the purpose, such as artistic versus clinical usage, or a balance of both.

Created custom camera profile in DNG editor and can't find it in LR

I have created custom camera profiles and can't find them in Lightroom 3. Can someone help? I'm a Mac user.
David

I figured it out. I saved the profile, but I did not export it.
Thanks for the help everyone.
I was primarily interested in doing a custom tone curve to match my Mark IV to my 5D. The results were really bad, so I re did the profiles to simply get close colors, and I used the Point Tone Curve to match the two cameras. I've always liked the tone curve from the 5D, and I've always hated the one on the Mark IV.
Problem Solved.
Thanks again.
David

DNG Converter support for New Camera

What is the approximate usual time from the release date of a new camera
(specifically the Sony DSC RX100) and support for the camera by ACR or
DNG Converter ?

ACR and the Adobe DNG Converter are updated in an orderly fashion from three to four times a year. So you'll see a new version every three to four months.
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Support for USB cameras in VBAI?

NI have a free driver that allows Vision 7.1 to access USB 2 cameras. Is there anything similar available for VBAI that would allow me to use an industrial USB 2.0 camera?

The free NI-IMAQ for USB Cameras driver is meant to support simple USB webcams that use DirectShow. For machine vision or scientific imaging applications, most USB cameras don't have the performance or the features needed, like triggering. The primary "customer" for the free driver has been universities that use webcams in labs.
With that said, there are a few industrial USB cameras out there that can be used for machine vision. The problem is tha there is no industrial USB camera standard that covers them all (like there is with FireWire), so companies like National Instruments would have to provide and support different drivers and software tools for every indutrial USB camera.
A better solution is IEEE 1394 (or FireWire). They offer the same performance as USB 2.0 cameras and are around the same price. On top of that, almost every large industrial camera manufacture has a line of industrial FireWire cameras (including Sony, Basler, FLIR, and Cohu), and they all conform to the same DCAM (or IIDC) standard. WIth this standard, our one driver, NI-IMAQ for IEEE 1394 Cameras, works with all of them.
Vision Builder AI is designed to solve machine vision applications without programming, while USB cameras usually don't provide the triggering or advanced modes necessary for machine vision. Because machine vision and USB cameras don't usually go together, we didn't provide support for USB cameras within Vision Builder AI. My question to you, another_novice, is why would you like to use a USB camera with Vision Builder AI? Are there particular features in a certain USB camera that you can't find in other cameras? I would really like to know so we can get a better picture of how our customers are using our products.
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Removing custom camera profiles

I am running windows 7. How do I remove custom camera profiles created by x-rite passport?
thanks,
Randy

Randy,
Be careful deleting profiles, particularly from the OS. I think the x-rite manager actually hides profiles instead of deleting them which is probably just fine.
Regarding actual deletion, I am not certain so please test this - if the profiles are not being used by any images, deleting should not be a problem. If some images are using them however and the profiles are deleted, the next time that image renders it won't be able to find the profile and will have to render using an Adobe default color profile. To compound this problem, there is no easy way to filter by color profile (a couple of plug-ins exist I think) so it becomes difficult to know if it a particular profile is being used.
One way around this, again I believe this is correct but please test for yourself, is that if you use the DNG format for your RAW images, when you update the DNG Preview (instead of Ctrl-S) you embed the color profile into the image and therefor you can delete them. This can be handy when you have one-time uses for the special color profiles.
Jeff

Support for safety camera locations when using off...

I've seen people manually post the file (as text) that you can put in the relevant folder on your phone's data card - but is there any ongoing support for safety camera updates when using your phone's mapping / sat nav offline (ie no data usage)?

Jaff0 wrote:
Doesn't seem like there's any option through the PC map loader program, so the only option seems to be if anybody has posted the file - which may not always happen?
Safetyspots are not updated that often and I am sure someone on the forum would try to help you out if you asked.
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Add support for custom xmp panels

Please add support for custom xmp panels.
Thanks

I would strongly support that too!!!
Here is why: We have been working at an XMP implementation of the Darwin Core to support standardized metadata on biodiversity information. Have a look here. I would love to have an Panel in Lightroom to support the metadata that I am embedding with IDImager:
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Custom camera profiles have stopped appearing in LR4.3/ACR 7.3

Really odd... I've been using custom profiles that I created using a ColourChecker Passport for sometime now. I just updated LR and ACR to the latest versions, and I've noticed that they are no longer selectable under the Camera Calibration tab - I just get the standard list of profiles for my camera (Nikon D7000).
I checked in the the relevant folder for LR and they weren't there, but they are in the ACR folder. I copied them across to the LR folder as well, but this has had no effect. In both cases, they're in the root-level folder for all profiles, so in LR's case, they're in C:Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.3/resources/CameraProfiles. This is where both the CCP and Adobe DNG Profile Editor have previoulsy placed them by default - I've never needed to place them in the actual camera model folder itself. Both applications have always found them there without issue.
Anyone else had this problem since upgrading, or have a solution?
M

OK- I am being a total dummy and need some help, please. I have put the KM7D and Sony A700 camera profiles in the above mentioned places
C:\Users\<yourusername>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.3\Resources\CameraProfiles\Camera
AND am still not seeing them in either PSE11 or in LR4.3
I also installed CR 7.3 and DNG 4.3 per the Adobe forum.
So, I guess either it is not working or I am looking in the wrong place in PSE11 and LR to find them.
I assume in LR I should be in Develop and I look on the right side under Camera Calibration and try to pick it there somehow. If not- where? Where would I find this in PSE11?
I also tried a little experiment. I have my profiles in
C:\Users\SRose\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles\Sony DSLR-A700
and I renamed "Faithful" to Faithfula700" and then opened Lightroom and went to Camera Calibration and only Faithful was there- no Faithfula700. So, either LR truncates the file name or there is some internal name in the dcp files that LR uses or these profiles are not being recognized.
Sorry to be such a noob- everything else I know how to find and LR help was none at all.
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