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Using Camera Colour Profiles with Lightroom and. How do I install the profiles. 4 thoughts on “ Using Camera Colour Profiles with Lightroom and Camera RAW. Camera raw presets installation tutorial. Learn how to install and use acr presets in a few easy ways.

Mac OS. Download the CameraRaw85.dmg.zip file below into a folder you can remember, such as the Desktop.

Navigate to and double-click the downloaded file to unzip it. Double-click the resulting CameraRaw85.dmg file to decompress it. The resulting file is Camera Raw.plugin.

Quit all versions of Photoshop and Bridge (CS6, CC, and CC2014). Navigate to your Macintosh HD. If you have CC 2014 or CC: navigate to and open the Library/Application Support/Adobe/Plug-Ins/CC/File Formats folder. If you have CS6: navigate to and open the Library/Application Support/Adobe/Plug-Ins/CS6/File Formats folder. IMPORTANT: The Library folder referenced here is the root Library folder on your hard disk, not the Library folder under your user folder. Copy the Camera Raw.plugin from step 2 into the File Formats folder.

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IMPORTANT: This new file overwrites the file already in this folder. It's important that only one Camera Raw.plugin file is in this folder. Reopen Photoshop or Bridge. Windows 64 bit. Download the CameraRaw85win64bit.zip below into a folder you can remember, such as the Desktop. Navigate to and double-click the downloaded file to unzip it.

The resulting file is Camera Raw.8bi. Exit from all versions of Photoshop and Bridge (CS6, CC, and CC2014). If you have CC or CC 2014: navigate to and open the C: Program Files Common Files Adobe Plug-Ins CC File Formats folder.

If you have CS6: navigate to and open the C: Program Files Common Files Adobe Plug-Ins CS6 File Formats folder. Copy the Camera Raw.8bi file from step 2 into the File Formats folder.

Reopen Photoshop or Bridge.

Panasonic GM1 shot processed using custom camera profile – the colours are more realistic and vivid Readers of this blog and my website will know that I am a fan of the Xrite Color Checker tool. This can be used to create colour profiles for your digital camera and they can make a big improvement to the colours in your images. My own experience has been that without exception they are an improvement on those Adobe ships with its software. Whilst the camera profiles are great, installing and using them can seem a bit daunting at first.

Here then is my guide to downloading and using Camera Colour Profiles with Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Camera RAW. What are Camera Colour Profiles These are information files that allow Lightroom and Camera RAW to translate a camera’s RAW file data into colours correctly. Without these profile you might find that lovely shade of Red coming out as Purple in your images. Where Can I Find Colour Profiles The easiest way (although some people might argue) is to buy the Xrite Colour Passport Checker. Unfortunately that cost money and not everyone wants to take the risk that it will improve the conversion of their RAW files. If you belong to a camera club or photographic society, it might make a sensible group purchase.

An alternative approach is to search on the Internet to see if you can find someone who is selling or giving away (who would be that daft) a profile for your camera. To be honest, this is a bit of a long shot and very few people seem to publish these profiles. The final alternative is to download the free profiles I created (did I say who would be that daft) from my. Currently available profiles are Panasonic LX5, Sony RX100, Sony RX10, Panasonic GX1, Olympus EM5 and Panasonic GM1.

As and when I change my cameras I will be adding to the available profiles. How do I install the profiles Each software application that can use colour profiles is likely to have its own locations from which to access these and probably also use different approaches to installing the profiles. Whilst you can install the files by simply copying them to the correct folder, finding the folder can sometimes be a little tricky. You will need to find the “Adobe Camera RAW” folder which is where these profiles should be saved, to make them available in Lightroom and Camera RAW. On my Windows 8 PC the folder location is C: Users rnwhalley AppData Roaming Adobe CameraRaw CameraProfiles Something similar will no doubt exist on the Mac.

Xrite also produce a rather neat solution which is the “DNG Profile Manager”. The tool is available for download at Xrite website Once the tool is installed, run it and select “File Open DNG Profile Folder”. This will open the location where the colour profiles are to be copied to.

When you have copied the colour profiles to this folder they are installed and will be available in Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Camera RAW. How can I use these profiles In Lightroom you need to open the Develop Module so that you can change the development settings for your images. In the Develop module you will find the different development options down the right side of the screen. At the bottom of these is the “Camera Calibration” tab. Notice near to the top of this section is a drop down list called “Profile”. By default this is set to “Adobe Standard” but click on it and you will reveal other profiles for your camera. The profiles are sensitive to the RAW file format so only those compatible with the RAW file will be displayed.

In the following shot you can see the “Olympus E-M5” bespoke profile I created being selected. In Adobe Camera RAW the Camera Calibration tab is also on the right side of the screen.

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It can be selected by clicking on the icon of the camera as shown below. There is then a drop down list of the installed “Camera Profiles”.

How To Install Camera Profiles In Lightroom

But I can’t see a Colour Profile If everything has gone well you should be able to use the newly installed profiles but there may be occasions when you can’t see your profile. Here are a few of the possible problems:. The RAW file you are processing came from a different camera to the profile. For example if you are processing a RAW file from a Canon 5D MKII, you wouldn’t see a profile for the Olympus EM5 in the drop down list. You only see those profiles that are compatible with the type of RAW file you are processing.

You installed your camera profiles correctly but it may be that you did this when Camera RAW or Lightroom were open. Until you restart the software the new profiles won’t be visible/available. You may not be processing a RAW file but a TIFF or JPG image file. Under these circumstances you won’t see the camera profile in the Calibration tab.

Instead you will probably see the word “Embedded” as shown below. I hope this helps all the Lightroom and Camera RAW users out there.