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October 15, 2015
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How do I download lens profiles to LR6?

  • October 15, 2015
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How do I download lens profiles when "Lens Profile Downloader" does not install.  It keeps saying that the file is corrupt.  Support has been non-existent.  I had a chat started, and they guy hung up one me.  The only reason I purchased Lightroom was for the additional Lens Profiles.  I've wasted my money.

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benjaminschaper
Participant
December 26, 2017

Hey there,

I can't download the Lens Profile Downloader for Mac on die adobe Website. can somebody may help me and post a working Download-Link?

Todd Shaner
Legend
December 26, 2017

The links are broken! Here are the direct links:

Adobe - Adobe Lens Profile Downloader : For Macintosh

Adobe - Adobe Lens Profile Downloader : For Windows

Install the lens profile .lcp files in the below folder and then restart LR or Camera Raw:

Mac—Macintosh HD / Users / [your username] / Library / Application Support / Adobe / CameraRaw / LensProfiles /

Windows—C: \ Users \ [your username] \ AppData \ Roaming \ Adobe \ CameraRaw \ LensProfiles \

benjaminschaper
Participant
December 26, 2017

Thank you.

But, Your Adobe Link open this site (picture below). There ist noch button to download it. I were on the shown site before and I don't see any download button. Can you please help me?

Mohit Goyal
Community Manager
Community Manager
October 16, 2015
October 16, 2015

Hi,

I have problems installing LPD.

Downloaded and installed AIR (version 19) first.

Then downloaded LPD 1.0.1

Click on LPD download (it has .air extension). 

CS6 launched automatically.

But I have "could not complete your request because it is not the right kind of document."

Any thoughts?

Appreciate any feedback.

Thank.  Mark. Oct 16 2015.

Todd Shaner
Legend
October 16, 2015

CS6 applications should not be launching when you try to open the Lens Profile Downloader. Please make sure you are downloading the correct installer for your OS:

Windows

Adobe - Adobe Lens Profile Downloader : For Windows : Adobe Lens Profile Downloader 1.0.1

Mac OS X

https://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5491

It should look like the below screeshot:

Todd Shaner
Legend
October 15, 2015

To use the Lens Profile Downloader you need to install Adobe Air: Adobe - Adobe AIR

The below list of lenses are all supported by LR 6 and CC 2015:

https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/multi/lens-profile-support.html#main_List_of_supported_lenses

Are any of the lens profiles you are looking for missing from this list?

WaddizzleAuthor
Participating Frequently
October 18, 2015

I don't know why your answer is marked correct.  It doesn't answer my questions.  After repeatedly installing AIR and trying to install the downloader program on three different machines, at three different locations, it suddenly woke up and installed on each machine.

My initial question was motivated by my using Lightroom 6, and not finding a lens profile for my third parry lenses.  Lightroom promised to provide those profiles, which your link would seem to suggest.  However, that was not the case when I began using LR6.   For example, I wanted profiles for my Sigma telephoto zoom.  The default install of installation of LR6 only included four Sigmas, all of them extreme wide angle lenses.

Thanks for posting your link to "supported lenses", because that link is central to my issue.  One, that link neglects to tell you how to obtain the profiles.  Two, once I finally figured out that I needed to install the profile downloader, I discovered that almost none of the Sigmas listed at the link were available for download.

That is what I see, just four profiles.  If I switch to my brand of camera, Canon, I still do not see the profiles that your link link claims are available.  As near as I can tell, the claims of support at your link do not exist.  The Adobe software is unreliable and unstable.  The downloader has a link to log in, which doesn't work.  It would seem that I will need to create my own profiles, which means obtaining calibration targets [$$$], taking precise photos of them, and using yet another Adobe application, lens profile creator.  For what?  Why, should I?  Your link suggests that I should not have to jump through hoops.

Lightroom is not the "total solution" that it has been claimed to be.  I cannot edit photos with it, for example.  Please, do not sell me on the cloud.  NO THIANKS, thank you.  I have no wish to do photo editing on a smartphone, or a tablet.  Don't ask me what I think of the idea of photo editing on those small screens. Would I be correct to conclude that I need Elements to edit photos?

Todd Shaner
Legend
October 18, 2015

you would have saved everybody a lot of time:

"Are any of the lens profiles you are looking for missing from this list?"

So now we know that you're seeing only a short list of profiles for Sigma lenses. The answer is simple and so is the solution. Lens profiles are specific to file types camera raw and camera JPEG. The two profiles have to be different because a JPEG file is already toned in-camera and some cameras "automatically" apply vignetting and distortion correct in-camera to the JPEG file. When importing raw file format images all of the lens profiles will be available. Adobe creates far fewer JPEG lens profiles since most people shoot raw file format.

What camera model are you using?