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DavePinMinn
Inspiring
October 25, 2012
Question

Where do I put Camera Calibration Profiles?

  • October 25, 2012
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Running LR 4.2 64-bit on Windows 7 64-bit.  I"m shooting with a Nikon D300.

When I look at an image, in Develop, I have a set of choices for "profiles".  These include Embedded, ACR4.3, ACR 4.4, Adobe Standard, Camera D2X mode 1,2,3, Camera Landscape, Camera Standard,

Camera Vivid, and so on..............

Before I go wasting everyone's time with questions about additional profiles, is there any advantage to downloading D300 profiles from the Internet?  Are they different/better than the standard ones I've listed above?

Presumig I SHOULD get additional profiles, I downloaded (among others) Matt K's "matts_nikon_profiles.zip", profiles.  When expanded, these become a set of .lrtemplate files.  Are these camera calibration profiles or something else?  In the "Adobe Standard" folder, the files are all .dcp extension.

Anyhow, at this point I'm not even sure I've got what I'm supposed to have, so can y'all recommend a source for additional profiles (again, if there's any advantage to having them), AND tell me EXACTLY where to put the files?  So far, in my rummaging, I've found references to putting them in

C:\ProgramData\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles

c:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.2\Resources\CameraProfiles

and so far, nothing seems to get seen when I put them in either place...

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    areohbee
    areohbee
    Legend
    October 25, 2012

    lrtemplate files are presets, not camera profiles.

    ssprengel
    ssprengel
    Inspiring
    October 26, 2012

    Those Matt K “profiles” you mention are presets that merely set your Profile in the Camera Calibration area to whatever the preset says.  You can just as easily do it via the Camera Calibration section in Develop, or create your own presets that do the same thing, by setting the Camera Calibration Profile to whatever you want and then create the Develop preset and put a checkmark in Camera Calibration only, before you save it.

    Some Matt Kloskowski content: http://www.getapodcast.com/feed3062.aspx

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    DavePinMinnAuthor
    Inspiring
    October 26, 2012

    I've pretty much figured things out now...  Although, there seem to be WAY too many places where Lightroom is sticking stuff!

    I"ve even got some stuff on the partition where the cataslogs are, inside the catalog tree...

    Anyhow, I"ve now got a bunch of calibration profiles.  I'll have to figure out which ones are actually different, and useful.

    areohbee
    areohbee
    Legend
    October 25, 2012

    dcp are camera profiles, and need to go in

    C:\Users\{you}\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles\{model}, e.g.

    C:\Users\Dave\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles\NIKON D300

    Restart Lightroom

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    elie-d
    Participating Frequently
    October 25, 2012

    First, every hardware device has its own unique color capture (in the case of cameras or scanners) or color display (monitors and printers) characteristics. That is why we profile them.

    Moreover, it should be noted that camera profiles are specific for the lighting under which they are made. There is probably little advantage in profiles for daylight unless your particular camera has chromatic Raw capture characteristics that are very different from the camera used by Adobe to make their "canned" profiles and profiles made under artificial lighting will be accurate only if you can recreate the original illumination. And again, their is no guarantee that the profile made by somebody else with his camera will be appropriate for your camera.

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