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I posted this in the Wedding Forum and thought I would share my experience here as well ...
I, like many other Lightroom users loved the workflow capabilities of LR, but much preferred the color renditions of the camera manufacture. In my case, Nikon. I really like the conversions from Capture NX, but boy, if you have to do any real volume, it is torture in NX compared to LR IMHO.
With the release of LR2 this week, Adobe also released the free DNG Profile Editor which you can use to create, edit or tweak your own camera profiles. You can get into this to the Nth degree or just use a Macbeth color checker and in a split second, create your own custom camera calibration. You can even sync the color output for multiple bodies, even multiple brands. I have used the Fors Scripts in the past but was never really completely happy with the results.
Below is a Before/After screen capture in LR of an image from a recent wedding with no other develop settings applied it is SOOC. The Before, at left is using the ACR 3.3 camera calibration (the standard for the D200) and at right, the After is set using my Custom Calibration. I didn't tweak any setting, just used the auto color chart method using a studio portrait file photo I took early this year. Tried it on this outdoor shot and it seams to work ok. I could probably get more if I wanted to tweak it further.
Let's just say, I am very pleased with the results in LR now!
Here is a link to a tutorial on how to use the DNG Profile Editor. Keep in mind, to edit a camera profile, it has to be a DNG, but the resulting profile can be applied to any RAW image file in LR/ACR or any DNG 1.2 software.
Here is a link to a tutorial on the DNG Profile Editor:
Profile Editor Tutorial
Edited on Jan 05, 2009 at 07:26 PM · View previous versions
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