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April 7, 2018
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Creating Custom Profiles for use in LR and PS Classic CC

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Can someone either explain how or direct me to a tutorial about how to create custom profiles that will show in the LR Basic panel?

Thanks.

Steve

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    Bill SpragueCommunity Expert
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    April 7, 2018

    I stumbled onto this in two places.  Victoria Brampton and Matt Kloskowski are well know trainers in the online Lightroom world.  Both provided a link to an Adobe document that, although complex, explains how to do it.   In fact, Victoria, along with the link provided a half dozen names of people that are already selling profiles, including Matt.  I assume that each had advanced copies of the document.  

    I suspect that more will come from Adobe to simplify the creation of Profiles.  For now, this appears to be it. 

    Fair warning....  This link does not go to a website where you can read about it.  Instead, clicking it will immediately launch the download of a zip file to your computer.  Inside the zip file will be 5 files, two of which are examples.

    http://www.adobe.com/go/profile-sdk

    Good luck and please post back with what you think!  If you find a YouTube or other tutorial, please share!

    Bill

    robgendreau
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    April 7, 2018

    I haven't seen a video, but if you follow the tutorial in the PDF it's quite easy to do.

    The trick is that you've gotta hit the little triangle in ACR when opening a RAW in Photoshop. I mean geez, they coulda made that a little easier. Especially since in Ps you can create a layer with a LUT and then save it as a .cube file, which is then just imported into the profile when you make it. Seems Ps should just have a "Export...as Lr profile" option right there. But in any case, it's actually easier to follow than to describe.

    And note once you get around to the step in making a profile and you see the option to bring in the .cube file, that you can use any of 'em. There are lots out there you can download.

    Another way to create profiles is directly using Adobe's free DNG Profile Editor, available for download somewhere. Here's a video on how that works: Photoshop Playbook: How to Use the DNG Profile Editor to Adjust Color and Light - YouTube

    The process there is basically picking an image color, then swapping it. It allows you to pick any individual color from the DNG you use to create it. And has a section specifically for the Colorchecker. You save a a dcp, and it puts it in that folder. On restart Lr will convert that to the new format for profiles.

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      Bill SpragueCommunity Expert
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      April 7, 2018

      Is it Rob?

      Thank you very much for the reply.  I'm pleased that it works with relative ease.

      My photography is more of a one image at a time procedure.  I don't do high volume wedding shoots where a consistent "theme" needs to be applied.  Consequently, even presets get little use.  I'm not sure how I'm going to find a use for profiles!

      For now, profiles are on my back burner while I try to learn Premiere Pro and (maybe) After Effects and Audition.  The "little triangle in ACR" is nothing compared to the abundance of little things to poke in Premiere Pro!

      Bill

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