Comments on: The DNG Profile Editor: What’s it all about?

By: Juan Dent

Juan Dent — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:05:09 +0000

What do you think of the dcpTool? It’s supposed to remove the twists of tint of the profiles under changes of exposure (or V in HSV).
Do DNG profiles have tint twists in them?
Regards,
Juan Dent

By: Jeannie Finley

Jeannie Finley — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:14:21 +0000

Okay so I have been browsing around searching through your blog and Adobe.com for a .ARW Sony a700 RAW converter. I have CS1 (yeah I know upgrade already) but I love it and confortable with it. It's perfect for what I do. However, I can't convert any of the Sony RAW files. The only update I found is the Convert RAW 2.4 but it doesn't support my camera. Please John help. Is there something I am overlooking or simply there is nothing for me. [I believe the free DNG Converter (download links at right) will make your images compatible with CS. --J.]

By: PJ

PJ — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:14:41 +0000

The advent of the profile editor is the obvious watershed in ACR development but the canned ‘Camera Neutral’ profile (for Canon 5D) is a nice surprise – there seems to be an actual extension of dynamic range at the white end over the previous canned profiles, with more natural and balanced color and a concomitant refinement of detail. Thanks for that! The other camera profiles all (except the new Adobe Standard) seem super saturated and vary wildly in reporting reds as seen on my monitor, fire-engine reds from the Portrait, Landscape and Camera Standard profiles to magenta from Faithful and Neutral, and a bluer rose from Adobe Standard. Amazing!

By: Jim Reswick

Jim Reswick — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:34:21 +0000

Correction: Typo in previous post…I’ve photographed a few shins, but let’s make that “skin tones”.
[I didn't want to be presumptuous and edit your earlier post. ;-) --J.]

By: Jim Reswick

Jim Reswick — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:52:39 +0000

Hi:
This all is excellent news. I am a diehard user of older Kodak cameras (DCS-ProBack, DCS-760) and have watched my excellent Kodak workflow become obsolete. I have tried four major manufactures of source profiling software over the last two years and have been unable to reproduce through ACR the outstanding shin tones of the Kodak workflow. I am upgrading now and look forward to extensive experimentation with the new dng profile editor (and my ongoing search for skin tone target patch materials that respond appropriately). Thank you all for the new contributions.
Jim Reswick

By: Ciaran Rooney

Ciaran Rooney — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:15:40 +0000

As far as I am concerned this is the best new feature in Lr2 & it’s still in beta.
I created some camera profiles for copying paintings.With one click I have almost a perfect reproduction in Lr2.
I have used vastly more expensive camera profiling software for years & have never got as close as this or as easily

By: James

James — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 06:04:04 +0000

Hi Eric and John..You talk about having the community providing new custom profiles via PE. Is it useful for creating profiles for cameras, it would be really isteresting..

By: Sean Phillips

Sean Phillips — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:05:33 +0000

These profiles are really great, but why can’t I setup Lightroom to automatically use a camera matcing profile to match the choice I made in the camera???

By: Anand Sankaran

Anand Sankaran — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:04:22 +0000

I did a comparison of 6 different profiles across NX and LR for a portrait with bright red colors in it. http://textblog.anands.net/archives/169 I like what I see :D. NX is going to get used less and less.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:21:50 +0000

Eric,
Many thanks for the heads up – Sounds like some interesting features. Apologies for being too quick off the mark – I will do some more investigations.

By: C

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:16:54 +0000

does this mean that i will be able to use joseph holmes’ dcam icc profiles & chroma variants as a working color space when i convert from RAW?

By: Robert Mason

Robert Mason — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:46:51 +0000

The DNG Profile Editor will make matching color between different cameras a reality. So I will be able to have all my images have a common starting point from a color perspective no matter which camera they where taken with. You talk about having the community providing new custom profiles via PE. This will be useful for creating profiles for specific cameras, but it would be really intersting if you now added the color tables control to Camera Raw/Lightroom in a non-camera specific form. So once I brought all my images to a common starting point with custom PE camera profiles, I could then be able to modify the colors in camera raw to give me a specific look. These non-camera specific color tables, applied after the camera profiles would then be useful to people no matter which camera they were using. We already have the other controls from PE in camera raw (minus the white balance adjustment), I would like to see the addition of the color table control as well.

By: Eric Chan

Eric Chan — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:22:29 +0000

Nick, you are referring to basic editing features of the DNG Profile Editor. If you look a bit further, you’ll find some new abilities unique to PE. For example, with PE you can create a general profile based on 2 different illuminants simultaneously (typically A and D65) and have the color adjustments be computed automatically based on an image’s white balance. Or, as another example you can optimize a profile for infrared-modified cameras, where a standard profile would normally have an incorrect white balance interpretation. PE allows one to calibrate a camera’s white balance interpretation so that camera neutral values map to the appropriate temperature & tint range.

By: Mike Early

Mike Early — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:07:03 +0000

Eric, thanks for this tool. I immediately used it — along with dng’s from each of my cameras of the gmb 24 color chart to create my own camera profiles …. way faster than the old script and easy to tweak if I really wanted to…. thanks again…..

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:51:30 +0000

OK, so the standard profiles are a big improvement, but the profile editor?
It is hardly new. Even the interface is very familiar to anyone who has used the Color editor in C1 (that has been there for the last 5 years…)
Nothing new under the sun is there?