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February 12, 2019
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P: Support for Canon .CR3 Camera-matching Profiles

  • February 12, 2019
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There is currently zero support for .CR3 camera color profiles in Lightroom... especially since the newer Canon cameras use a .CR3 format... making it difficult to get work done. Only slightly surprised that this wasnt planned for beforehand since there still isnt a 64bit version of the adobe programs that i can use on the most current version of MacOS.

473 replies

Participating Frequently
November 3, 2020

lol love it! andrew_rodney your the greatest!

TheDigitalDog
Inspiring
November 3, 2020

thank you again for another riveting response Andrew

OK, since you must have an answer (date) accurate or made up, the profiles you desire will be released on February 29. <g>. 

Author “Color Management for Photographers" &amp; "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
Participating Frequently
November 3, 2020

thank you again for another riveting response Andrew

TheDigitalDog
Inspiring
November 3, 2020

Someone else did answer: John Ellis below. 

 it's very unlikely that you'll get a timeline from Adobe 

Author “Color Management for Photographers" &amp; "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
TheDigitalDog
Inspiring
November 3, 2020

Nothing at all vague. You didn't hear an answer you want to hear, oh well. 

Those who know when (because they either work for Adobe or are under NDA) can't say. Those who are not might tell you something you want to hear that's not accurate. 

Rikk provided the facts directly from inside Adobe, it's a real answer. You can accept or ignore the actual answer; it's not going to make the profiles appear for you. 

ok, I'll stop here, your not getting were i am coming from and that's fine, you can release me back into the wild. 

Released <g>

Author “Color Management for Photographers" &amp; "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
Participating Frequently
November 3, 2020

I read Rikk but its a vague "we aren't going to answer answer and then there is andrew_rodney who must sit next to Rikk but Ill keep asking hope there will be a real answer soon instead of the not going to answer that answers................

Using a profile now from conlorfidelity but its not the same and tried using my color chart from Xrite, but it not the same, it has been said it only take a few minutes in this thread multiple times but if so then adobe could do it better than me.

Participating Frequently
November 3, 2020

take a break andrew lets hear from someone else,  

johnrellis
Legend
November 2, 2020

Note that there is an official response from Adobe employee Rikk Flohr at the top of this conversation, posted 13 hours ago.

Also note that Adobe has marked this feature request as "planned". But it's very unlikely that you'll get a timeline from Adobe -- to quote Rikk, "ETA for any type of camera support is generally not announced in advance of release."

TheDigitalDog
Inspiring
November 1, 2020

Creating a profile is about 5 minutes to produce after shooting a target. 

I never said nor suggested editing any profile to mimic a JPEG would take 5 minutes. Might, probably not. Absolutely doable either with the free DNG camera profile editor OR using the Calibration Pane and other sliders then produce a preset. Does it or will it match ALL JPEGs? Doubtful nor can Adobe or anyone else guarantee such profiles or presets will always do so.

I do want to easily get a BASELINE on RAW that looks close 

The key word is close.  

Author “Color Management for Photographers" &amp; "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
carlitosmg
Known Participant
November 1, 2020

nice thread. 


- I paid the $15 to ColorFidelity for the M6mkII profiles.  I didn't want to spend time creating my own DCP, but I do want to easily get a BASELINE on RAW that looks close to what Canon JPG is.
Although not imposible by any means, I don't think creating a good profile is 5 minutes, and if it were, Adobe could've done it already

- I know I can use Canon's DPP to get an exact match. But I actually enjoy doing all my photo processing in LR. 

- I don't DEMAND Adobe to get these camera matching profiles out. It would be nice, that's all. Again, because I actually enjoy doing 100% of my processing in LR. 

- In other words, Adobe Product Managers, I think there's some need for these profiles..