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Can someone confirm if I am on the right track?
I bought a colorchecker passport, mostly to consume some store credit, but was very pleasantly surprised at how much better the color was with it (and how much more consistent my two cameras were with each other).
First what I think are some catches to their use:
- A profile in Lightroom is not used and remembered, it is reloaded each time you touch a photo. So in particular if you change or lose a profile, any photo to which it had been previously applied is implicitly altered (and if you lose it, the profile reverts to an adobe one). As opposed to a develop preset which is applied and done once, and changes to the development preset only affect subsequent applications.
- A profile in lightroom is stored (at least in Windows) in a place separate from user presets, so they are both computer and user specific, and need to be preserved if you replace a computer or change accounts.
So what I THINK I want to do is the following. What I could use is some validation or correction:
1) Create one dual-illumination profile for general use for the camera, and more profiles as needed for unusual lighting
2) Name the dual-illumination one something like "My Standard", and the others clearly.
3) Do the above for each camera. As I create them, rename the file (but not the profile) to be camera specific. So for example "My Standard D4.dcp" and "My Standard D800.dcp". Be certain each name is used for each camera.
4) Place these appropriately.
5) Update my development presets (which are not camera specific) to include the appropriate profile name (not the file name, e.g. "My Standard" as opposed to "My Standard D800.dcp".
6) Make darn sure I never change or lose one of these during upgrades, etc. (or if I change them be fore I'm OK that this changes every prior photo), so for example, if I want to change a profile without affecting the past, I need a "My Standard V2".
After doing this, I think I can save my profiles in "C:\Users\ferguson\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles", and if I import photos from any camera with the same preset, it will apply the appropriate profile.
Note I do not have the presets tagged to be ISO or serial number specific.
Do I have this correct?
I bought a colorchecker passport, mostly to consume some store credit, but was very pleasantly surprised at how much better the color was with it (and how much more consistent my two cameras were with each other).
First what I think are some catches to their use:
- A profile in Lightroom is not used and remembered, it is reloaded each time you touch a photo. So in particular if you change or lose a profile, any photo to which it had been previously applied is implicitly altered (and if you lose it, the profile reverts to an adobe one). As opposed to a develop preset which is applied and done once, and changes to the development preset only affect subsequent applications.
- A profile in lightroom is stored (at least in Windows) in a place separate from user presets, so they are both computer and user specific, and need to be preserved if you replace a computer or change accounts.
So what I THINK I want to do is the following. What I could use is some validation or correction:
1) Create one dual-illumination profile for general use for the camera, and more profiles as needed for unusual lighting
2) Name the dual-illumination one something like "My Standard", and the others clearly.
3) Do the above for each camera. As I create them, rename the file (but not the profile) to be camera specific. So for example "My Standard D4.dcp" and "My Standard D800.dcp". Be certain each name is used for each camera.
4) Place these appropriately.
5) Update my development presets (which are not camera specific) to include the appropriate profile name (not the file name, e.g. "My Standard" as opposed to "My Standard D800.dcp".
6) Make darn sure I never change or lose one of these during upgrades, etc. (or if I change them be fore I'm OK that this changes every prior photo), so for example, if I want to change a profile without affecting the past, I need a "My Standard V2".
After doing this, I think I can save my profiles in "C:\Users\ferguson\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles", and if I import photos from any camera with the same preset, it will apply the appropriate profile.
Note I do not have the presets tagged to be ISO or serial number specific.
Do I have this correct?