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mpdeboer08
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February 9, 2020
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Converting VSCO presets to profiles

  • February 9, 2020
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Hello all,

For most of my editing I am using the VSCO film packs, especially Provia and Velvia. I just love the color and punch that they add to Canon Raw files. After upgrading from a 5DIII to a 5DIV only half of the profiles were available to use since VSCO discontinued and didn’t update the camera profiles anymore. I will soon be upgrading to the 1DX mark III which will mean that all the presets from VSCO are not usable anymore. I have been looking for solutions but with no luck so far.

 

Will converting the presets to profiles in photoshop work? I have also thought of converting the presets to capture one styles and the convert them back to profiles.

 

Does anyone have a solution for this?

 

Marc

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TheDigitalDog
TheDigitalDog
Inspiring
February 9, 2020

Are you asking about converting a preset to a DNG/DCP raw camera profile? If so, no, you can’t convert such presets to camera profile, they are utterly different beasts. You can attempt to use the various rendering sliders (like Vibrance, etc) to mimic the effect and make a preset for the newer camera but this isn’t anything like an actual DCP camera profile made for a specific raw camera capture. 

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    mpdeboer08Author
    Participant
    February 9, 2020

    By profiles I mean a non-camera specific profile (which I think is called DCP). So if I can convert a VSCO preset (with the included camera specific profile) to say a color lookup table (LUT) and apply that LUT to whatever raw file of the 3 cameras I own.

    The goal is not to get a perfect similar assimilation, just very close. So if it were possible to convert a VSCO preset applied with a 5D IV profile to a LUT and giving similar levels of contrast and color intensity that would be what I am looking for.

    Thanks!

    TheDigitalDog
    TheDigitalDog
    Inspiring
    February 9, 2020

    DCP camera profiles are camera specific and built from a ColorChecker target. You cannot have such a profile built for one camera and use it on another. You might be able to render a raw ColorChecker into a LUT using these presets but I have no idea if this can be done or transefer over to another camera, now used as a LUT/Preset but neither is a DCP camera profile. You could edit an exciting DCP camera profile to have a certain look using the Adobe DNG Camera profile edtior. https://blogs.adobe.com/labs/archives/2011/04/dng-profile-editor-update-released.html

    Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
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