Profiling Lens for Adobe Photoshop

It is easy but troublesome because the documentation is not complete and actually wrong. I need to do a lot of trials and errors before I managed to use the generated profiles for my own use.

Download the free software Lens Profile Creator 1.04 below:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5489

Follow the instructions in the documentations directory of the installation file. There is no installer required. Just copy the execution file and paste at the desktop as a shortcut. The instructions should be easy to follow because they are provided with pictures.

The generated profile file ending with .lcp cannot be read by Photoshop Lightroom because of this entry:

<stCamera:CameraRawProfile>False</stCamera:CameraRawProfile>

Change the "False" into "True":
<stCamera:CameraRawProfile>True</stCamera:CameraRawProfile>


There are a few quirks of the profile parameters:

 <stCamera:Make>SONY</stCamera:Make>
is the name of the lens manufacturer, not the camera. I changed it to Samyang because my lens is a Samyang and Samyang does not have Adobe provided lens profiles, so we have to make our own.

Unfortunately, when I changed the profiles downloaded from the internet for the Samyang 14mm, I failed to change the manufacturer's name from Nikon to Samyang. I just don't understand it. My guess is that these downloaded profiles are registered with Adobe and has a serial number.

It is best that we create profile for each focal length and aperture setting as well as each camera body in order to get the most optimal setting. However it is not vital because the errors as a result of differences between them is small and can be manually adjusted. Vignetting correction only has 3 parameters to adjust. Chromatic aberration is more difficult to adjust but not so obvious to most viewers.

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