Adobe Camera Profiles
A frequent statement from Lightroom users is “my previews don’t look as good as the LCD on my camera! What’s wrong?” Nothing is wrong. The image on your camera’s LCD is really a JPEG representation of the RAW image captured by the sensor. So some adjustments have been performed in the camera in order to present that JPEG image.
When you bring the RAW file into Lightroom the embedded JPEG preview is shown while Lightroom builds a new preview. The new preview does not have any of the image manipulations that the JPEG preview had. So the images look different. Sometimes duller. Sometimes soft. Sometimes both.
Adobe has heard your questions and introduced Camera Profiles. These are currently in beta but rather stable. Once installed you can apply these to your images and once again see those vivid previews you remember from the LCD. Currently only Canon and Nikon camera styles are supported.
Also available is a DNG Profile Editor to allow you to tweak or create your own Camera Profiles. You really need to check these out. The new profiles give you a great starting point for your images.
Click here to go to Adobe Labs and download the profiles.
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Gene is an Adobe Community Professional and and Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop Lightroom, Photoshop, and InDesign, and an avid Lightroom fan. He belongs to the Professional Photographers of America (PPA) and the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP). Gene also the Co-Founder, Manager and a frequent blogger for the Dallas Fort Worth Adobe User Group (DFWAUG).
In addition to running Lightroom Secrets, Gene also contributes to O'Reilly's media blog, moderates on the Adobe forums, and helps out on lightroomforums.net.
