I won’t go too far into explaining the usefulness of camera profiles here, but there is an excellent article by Andrew Gibson here on dPS if you want to learn more about camera calibration and profiles in Lightroom.įor the purposes of this article, I will focus on how you can make your very own custom camera profiles using Adobe’s little secret, the DNG Profile Editor. What function do you ask? It allows you to create your own custom camera profiles for use inside Lightroom’s Adobe Camera Raw.Ĭamera profiles are the silent weapon of post-processing but they don’t get a lot of press. Just kidding, it’s not very impressive but it serves to facilitate a very useful function. Enough of introducing it, this is the DNG Profile Editor in all its glory: Think of the DNG Profile Editor as a way to make presets that are something more just your run of the mill develop preset. Not only that, it is extremely useful if you like being a complete photography nerd and you enjoy creating your own unique flavor of processing. It’s a little bit of an Adobe secret.ĭespite being a relatively unknown piece of software the DNG Profile Editor (no easy way to abbreviate) is somewhat of a necessity when it comes to editing infrared images. Have you ever heard of Adobe’s DNG Profile Editor? No? It’s okay if you haven’t because up until about a month ago I had no idea it even existed.
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