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rajmc79
rajmc79
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April 8, 2023
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ICC Profile not showing up in Mac LRC

  • April 8, 2023
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I downloaded a ICC profile from a print company and added it to the ColorSync folder.  I restatred LRC and I can select in in the Print tab but in the Develop tab it won't come up there.  I attempted to add it but when I navigate to the ICC profile I downloaded it is greyed out and I can load it.  What I am I doing wrong.  TIA.

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rajmc79
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April 9, 2023

UPDATE:  I found out my error, I didn't have Softproofing selected, now I can see my profile that I loaded up.  Thanks everyone!

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Jao vdLCommunity Expert
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April 8, 2023

ICC profiles are not applicable to the develop tab. They are only relevant to printing and exporting images. Camera profiles like you see in Develop are completely different beasts. They have zero relation to each other. ICC profiles define an output color space that your output file will conform to. Camera profiles describe the color repsonse of the camera and define some transforms to create a certain creative rendering of the colors. So basically output vs input.

JohanElzenga
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JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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April 9, 2023

@Jao vdL is correct. I didn't read your initial post carefully enough. The profiles in the Develop module are entirely different profiles. They have nothing to do with ICC-profiles. You can load them in the Develop module for soft proofing, but not as camera profiles.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
rajmc79
rajmc79Author
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April 9, 2023

Thanks. Yeah I am trying to soft proof in the develop tab to see the ICC profile what it will look like when I print but I can't see that ICC profile I loaded up.  

JohanElzenga
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JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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April 8, 2023

Check that the ICC-profile isn't CMYK based. Lightroom can only work with RGB based profiles.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
rajmc79
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April 8, 2023

Edit, I am using LRC 2023 from CC

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