Adobe Lens Profile Creator
Lens Profile Creator is a utility that enables the easy creation of lens profiles for use in the Adobe Photoshop family of products, such as Adobe Photoshop CS5, Adobe Camera Raw and Adobe. Adobe Lens Profile Creator Web Site Other Useful Business Software Ticketing and Remote Support in One Place Automate and simplify your help desk and IT remote support tasks.
Accessing and creating custom camera lens profiles
If you don’t see any lens profiles listed for a particular lens, you will have two choices. You can either make one yourself using the Adobe Lens Profile Creator program, or locate a custom profile that someone else has made. The Adobe Lens Profile Creator program is available free from http://labs.adobe.com, along with full documentation that explains how you should go about photographing one of the supplied Adobe Lens Calibration charts and generate custom lens profiles for your own lenses. It really isn’t too difficult to do yourself once you have mastered the basic principles. If you are familiar with what’s new in Photoshop CS5, you will be aware that Photoshop also has the auto lens correction feature included within the updated Lens Corrections filter and that it is very easy to access shared custom lens profiles that have been created by other Photoshop customers (using the Adobe Lens Profile Creator program). Unfortunately, the Lens Corrections panel in Lightroom doesn’t provide a shared user lens profile option, so whether you are creating lens profiles for yourself or wishing to install supplied lens profiles, you will need to reference the directory path lists shown in the sidebar opposite. Once you have added a new lens profile to the Lens Correction or LensProfiles folder, you will need to quit Lightroom and restart before any newly added lens profiles appear listed in the Automatic Lens Corrections panel profile list.
You can easily create LCP (Lens Correction Profile) profiles using Adobe Lens Profile Creator.
This section explains how to install Adobe Lens Profile Creator and how to get you started using it.
1 Installation in Linux
When you run Wine it will create a basic Windows system by default in $HOME/.wine
. That is called a 'Wine prefix'. While it's fine to leave it like that, you can run each Windows program in its own Wine prefix, so that you can easily and cleanly remove all traces of one program without affecting the others. For example you might keep Adobe DNG Converter in its own Wine prefix in $HOME/wine-dng
and decide to try out some proprietary Windows HDR program. You might find out that you don't like this program, or that the trial period has expired, or that it simply doesn't work. Uninstalling it, if the uninstaller even works, is known to leave things behind. If, on the other hand, you installed this program to its own Wine prefix, say $HOME/wine-hdr
, you could simply delete that folder and that program would be gone without a trace, without affecting Adobe DNG Converter. Creating a new Wine prefix is very simple. All you have to do is to prepend WINEPREFIX=$HOME/some-folder
before the 'wine
' command. If that folder does not exist, Wine will create it for you.
We will be using $HOME/wine-dng
as the Wine prefix.
- Install Wine, preferably using your package manager.
- Set up the Wine prefix:
- Download Adobe Lens Profile Creator for Windows.
- At the time of writing, the latest version is 1.0.4 and it is a plain zip file. Extract it somewhere, and move the
Adobe Lens Profile Creator 1.0.4
folder to~/wine-dng/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/
- Run Adobe Lens Profile Creator:
- Add an alias so that you can run Adobe Lens Profile Creator from a console with ease:
- To run Adobe Lens Profile Creator, just type
lcp
in a console.
2 Installation in Windows
- Download Adobe Lens Profile Creator for Windows.
- Install Adobe Lens Profile Creator.
3 Usage
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Basically you need to print a checker-pattern chart and photograph it at various apertures, and at various zoom levels if using a zoom lens. You then open these photos in Adobe Lens Profile Creator, enter some metadata, scan the chart, and out comes the LCP.
The Adobe Lens Profile Creator User Guide PDF explains the whole process. You can find it on Adobe's Digital Negative Resources page, look in the 'Adobe Lens Profile Creator' section for 'read the user guide (PDF, 1.64 MB)'.