Support Camera Profiles (Color Checker Passport)
Camera specific profiles are really helpful in dealing with camera variance. In Lightroom, they deliver much truer results than the averaged versions that are the default for each camera (Adobe Standard). Or provide a tool that somehow maps a Color Checker generated (or other camera calibration software) Camera Profile to a LUT if that is possible.
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I just want to keep this thread alive. I am so ready to ditch Lightroom and join the Luminar awesomeness, but I can't make the switch without being able to apply ColorChecker calibration. I need to be able to portray my wife's artwork accurately.
Maybe you could even outdo Adobe's approach. Rather than making me restart the software to apply the profile, can't I just analyze the photo of the ColorChecker Passport, create the profile, and apply (without restarting) to all the applicable images? Thanks so much!
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Totally agree! I want to switch too, there are other minor things yet to improve, but the support of color calibration targets is a major shortcoming at the moment. I'd love to have it integrated just as it is intagrated in Blackmagicdesign's DaVinci Resolve.
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I am also trying to move from Adobe offerings to Lumnar 3 and Flex. It would be REALLY, REALLY nice to have Colorchecker play nice with Skylum products! Hopefully something soon?? Vying to be a true Adobe alternative for us photographers wd. also entail CC capabilities without having to swap between software.
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I received this message from X-Rite but I don’t know what it all means.
“We've released a new version of the software that will allow you to create ICC camera profiles with uncompressed TIFF images. The current ColorChecker Camera Calibration 2.0 can be downloaded at:
https://www.xritephoto.com/ph_product_overview.aspx?ID=2572&Action=Support&SoftwareID=2030There are many tutorials on YouTube at:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=colorchecker+passportThis might be the one that will be quite helpful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I don’t have any plans to convert all my raw files into TIFFs as that takes up way too much space.
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I've been using my custom X-Rite ColorChecker profiles in Luminar since v3.0.
Remember that you can only apply them in RAW Develop.
Click on the Profile dropdown menu, and select "Load Custom DCP Profile". You will then have to navigate to the folder where your profiles are stored.
If I remember correctly, you can only import them one at a time.
You can then choose 1 of your ColorChecker Profiles to be used as the Default Profile for your camera.
Regards,
Mike Mansfield
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Using ColorChecker passport (Fuji X T-10/ &0-200mm) as a custom camera/lens reference, I take reference image (s).
I then convert to a DNG file with the Adobe (that word again...) converter. Save. Open in Lightroom. Use white balance dropper +/- any other edits you want to make to the reference file. Export with appropriate name. to Lightroom. Lightroom saves the DCP file in the Camera Raw folder inside of the Lightroom app folder on the 'C' drive. Copy n paste DCP file to folder of choice.
Open Flex and an image I want to color correct.
In the RAW develop module I click on Load Custom DCP Profile; point at the locating folder and import it.
Any subsequent image taken in the same lighting conditions can then have the DCP profile attached.
Not as elegant/seamless as native Lightroom-like work flow But it does work.
Hopefully one day Skylum engineers can save us faffing around as we try to move (and stay) away from greedy Adobe.
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Well this is quite a workflow you got and it relies on multiple third party software.
While it is nice that there is a workaround and profiles are supported now, the wish would be that it is integrated.
By integrated I mean like in DaVinci Resolve. You select one of the few supported color target types, drag the picker over the the picture of the target, hit okay, give it a name and you can recall it any time you like.
I could imagine a filter with a white balance picker, a target selector and a drop down menu for the already saved presets.
And it should be independent from raw files. It is kind of a LUT in a way and LUTs you can apply to whatever images you like. No matter the bit depth.
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"While it is nice that there is a workaround and profiles are supported now, the wish would be that it is integrated."
Amen to that!! In the meanwhile, because I dont intend to upgrade to CC, and because Flex does not have native ICC recognition ability via ColorChecker, it's the best I could come up with for zero dollars. Hopefully the Skylum wizards will do something about this in the future....
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