DPP Colors in ACR & Lightroom

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philmar wrote in post #3650989
Peiople have presets designed for tungsten shots, presets for daylight shots. That's a lot of work - c'mon Adobe, I want to take photos, not become some digital software guru.
Surely there are other kind souls who have made their Canon 30D ACR presets available for others...a place where people compare and analyze their preset results. Anyone know if there is a website of these Canon 30D ACR callibration results? I know they won't be exact callibration for my 30D but surely they'll be better starting points for digital photo production than the current initial RAW conversion.

CS3 doesn't have the same preset setup that Lightroom has, but you might get some info from this site which has stuff oriented to the 30D and ACR 4.6/LR 1.4. It's true that actual calibration settings are different than the presets that are shown here for LR. I never delved into the whole calibration issue.

That being said, you could gain a lot of ground if you used Lightroom along with CS3 (if that's what you're using) because of the addition of camera-specific calibration settings. They are not "just like" DPP picture styles because they don't apply contrast, sharpening or high degrees of saturation, more like subtle shifts of color tones to give a "look" to the photo as a starting point -- with LR/ACR it is still up to you to create your own "pop" with contrast, etc, or to use presets in LR.

Tony:

Good points for anyone new seeing this, but note that this is a VERY old thread (from before the new color profiles from Adobe.) Don't know why its been dug up for some reason.

Ah yes, heh! Good to know!