P: Adobe Lens Profile Creator is not supported on Mac OS 10.15 and later

[Oliver Nelson]

At Adobe MAX, users hinted me to the Adobe Lens Profile Creator (last version 1.0.4) to create profiles for lenses not supported. However, as I browsed through documentation it seems this is not supported anymore?

Is the default solution to ask for lenses to be supported?

I have quite some vintage lenses on my Fujifilm X-T2 and doubt they will be included?

Minolta MC 58 1:1.4, Zenit Helios 44M 58mm f/2 and more - but also a new 7artisans 60mm F2.8 Macro for which I would love to see (or create) a profile.

Best regards

[johnrellis]

The Adobe Lens Profile Creator continues to be supported, though Adobe has not updated it to run on Mac OS 10.15 and later. If you have Mac OS 10.15, you have some options: Use a colleague's computer running 10.14 or earlier or running Windows.  Use Parallels ($80) to install a virtual machine running Windows on your Mac.  (You could instead try to install an earlier version of Mac OS in the virtual machine, but Apple makes that unreasonably difficult.)

While you can submit feature requests to Adobe for profiles for old lenses, Adobe generally only creates profiles for new lenses.

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[rodrigounda]

I had a client that sends me pictures made with his samsung s24 ultra...

using wide angle lens. So I need to straight them,

i che for that "camera" in the lens correction filter and it does not exist...

so I click the button to "browse Adobe lens profile creator" and it does not exist.

im using PS 25.5.0

why they left dead links of features?

is there any fix or solution for this missing tool?

if any one else has this issue, can comment about it?

Thanks!!!

[Jeff Arola]

You can get the Lens Profile Creator from here, but the companion database that Adobe used to have where users submitted their own custom lens profiles is no more and i believe that's what is referenced in the "Browse Adobe Lens Profile Creator Online " 

https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/digital-negative.html#Adobe_Lens_Profile_Creator

[didiermazier]

You can request a profile here : https://community.adobe.com/t5/camera-raw-discussions/p-lens-profile-requests-and-information/m-p/12...

[davescm]

Can you open the files from Bridge into camera raw? (Not the Photoshop camera raw filter). That phone and lens is listed in the current camera raw lens profile corrections under Optics

Dave

[DTM777]

It seems the Adobe Lens Profile Creator utility is still on version 1.0 after more than 10-years of neglect (https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/digital-negative.html#Adobe_Lens_Profile_Creator). Does anyone have any idea whether or not Adobe intends to update their Lens Profile Creator utility, as it is not compatible with the latest version of Mac OS 10.15 Catalina (and soon might not be compatible with any modern computer)? Might anybody out there have any suggestions for alternatives in the meantime?

[Bob Somrak]

Doesn't sound like it will be updated from a note in your posted link.

 

[alanterra]

The original post was about the Adobe Lens Profile Creator, not the Adobe Lens Profile Downloader. Adobe says that it has abandoned the latter, but has said nothing about the former, which is still esssential software for some circumstances (including my own circumstances). I have the same question.

[alanterra]

Hi DTM777. I have a project where I want to use Adobe Lens Profile Creator. Luckily I keep everything, and I have a Mac Mini (2012) running El Capitan, and at first glance, ALPC works fine on this machine. I suspect your only road forward is to purchase an older Macintosh and install an older OS on it. (Maybe the Windows version is still current -- Adobe must be using something to generate profiles for new lenses!)

I cannot keep track of which versions of MacOS invalidated which kinds of apps, so I can't be sure which versions of MacOS might run ALPC, but it seems that El Capitan does. I just found out that web browsing is basically impossible under El Capitan, so there is some juggling involved with getting this to all work

Good luck.

After posting the above, I found the following from John Ellis, which, of course, is the complete answer: https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/adobe-lens-profile-creator-not-supporte...