Hi Everyone,
In case you haven't heard, Adobe has made available for public beta
testing a very cool new tool called DNG Profile Editor. You can read
more about it here:
http://photoshopnews.com/2008/07/28/adobe-releases-beta-camera-profiles-and-dng-profile-editor/
What's interesting is you can use your raw shot of the Macbeth chart
to create a camera raw profile *much* quicker and easier than using
AcrCalibrator. I haven't done any detailed comparison on the
resulting profile vs. AcrCalibrator results, but I suspect that the
DNG Profile Editor results will be superior.
Here's the basic steps to performing the calibration on a Mac. For
Windows users, the steps may vary slightly.
--Tom
1. Download Camera Raw 4.5 from http://adobe.com/cameraraw
2. Mount disk image and drag Camera Raw.plugin to /Library/Application
Support/Adobe/Plug-Ins/CS3/File Formats/
3. Download Beta Camera Profiles from http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/DNG_Profiles
and run installer
4. Download DNG Profile Editor from http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/DNG_Profiles
and unzip. Drag to /Applications
5. Launch Photoshop and open the raw file of your macbeth target.
6. In camera raw, click Save Image... Choose dng as the file format
and save it.
7. Launch DNG Profile Editor.
8. File / Open DNG File
9. Choose the dng file you saved in step 6.
10. Select the chart tab in DNG Profile Editor.
11. Move the colored circles to the center of the matching colored
corner square in your raw file
12. Click Create Color Table.
13. Choose File/Export <Camera> profile... Give it a name and save.
14. Exit DNG Profile Editor.
15. Re-launch photoshop and open a raw file. In Camera Raw, on the
calibration tab, you should now see the profile you just saved.