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February 8, 2025
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How to Change the Name of a Normal(?)/Special(?) LrC Profile

  • February 8, 2025
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I successfully used J.R. Ellis’ Fix Presets Plugin for LrC – many tanks to John! Alas, it does not change normal(?)/special(?) profiles, only “creative” ones. I can’t even change the names of these normal (?)/special(?)  profiles, what I’d like to do. The creator of about 100 “camera profiles” that I bought did not put any camera name as a part of the profile name – you only find e.g. “aRGB Vivid …” (followed by the name of the producer’s company). When this is shown in LrC or ACR “Profile”, in LrC favorites or LrC History you have to solve a riddle if you own all 12 camera profile groups, the riddle “The profile of which camera did I use with this picture?”. One can change the names of creative profiles easily in Camera Raw (not in LrC - at least not after having used Fix Presets😞  After right-clicking on the profile name an according pop-up menu appears. But you do not have that possibility with these normal (?)/special(?)  profiles – another pop-up menu shows up.

So I tried to change the profile code with Notepad ++, a programming editor. Exchanging the old profile name with one including the camera name – e.g “aRGB Vivid …” with “Sony A7R4 aRGB Vivid,”...(followed by the name of the producer’s company) – stopped the profile from appearing in ACR and LrC, it did not show up anymore. I twice wrote to the creator, firstly he answered to something else than my question, a second answer I did not get. (But at least some of his profiles are really good.)

   I put 2 screenshots below: #1 is the profile code shown in Notepad ++ of a normal (?)/special(?)  profile, of which I cannot change the name, #2 is the profile code shown in Notepad ++ of a creative profile, name changeable. These two profiles I attached to this text. "aRGB Vivid..." is a normal (?)/special(?)  profile, of which I cannot change the name, "Crisp Warm soft" is a creative profile, name changeable*. Or you can download them from my account at MEGA’s if you like to help me or find out if your thoughts how to solve the problem are right - Link for downloading: https://mega.nz/folder/QsIjCRZL#xpJRVPPmT3CfZl3HJjMJ7A

 

Thank you for reading all this - and even more in advance if you will give me a hint or more!
Liw
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*The first profile one also gets in the creator’s  free sample, the second is a free profile of Matt Klokowski’s.

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    Community Expert
    February 8, 2025

    There are two types of profiles. Camera specific profiles and creative profiles. The aRGB Vivid profile is a camera profile that can only be used with raw files from the camera. You can see that from the "crs:CameraProfile" and "crs:SupportsOutputReferred="False" " properties. The Klokowski profile is a normal creative profile that is not camera specific. Those are the main differences between these two.

    The property you should change for the name on of a prifle like this is all the way at the end:

     

    <crs:Name>
    <rdf:Alt>
    <rdf:li xml:lang="x-default">aRGB Vivid - PerfeFilm Standard</rdf:li>
    </rdf:Alt>
    </crs:Name>

     

    I just tried that and indeed it does not work and the profile simply does not show up. I would guess that there is something else going on with this profile but not sure what exactly. This approach normally works just fine and should work here.

    liwAuthor
    Known Participant
    February 8, 2025

    Thank you, Jao vdL!

    Especially for the hint about  "camera specific" (profiles).

    All these about 100 profiles I bought emulate different looks you get with 12 cameras, from Canon 5D III over Fujifilm X-T4 to Ricoh GRIII. They are adapted to the color of my camera, a Canon EOS D6 II - what means that these profiles should reproduce the looks very well to perfect for the photographs I shoot with this camera. And they don't appear / work with an older camera of mine, Canon D600.

    liwAuthor
    Known Participant
    February 8, 2025

    PS. These profiles  don't appear / work with pictures of camera Canon D6 (I), either.

    kglad
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    February 8, 2025

    in the future, to find the best place to post your message, use the list here, https://community.adobe.com/

    p.s. i don't think the adobe website, and forums in particular, are easy to navigate, so don't spend a lot of time searching that forum list. do your best and we'll move the post (like this one has already been moved) if it helps you get responses.



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    liwAuthor
    Known Participant
    February 8, 2025

    Thank you, kglad!