Install LCF files (ALPA Lens Corrector) under Photoshop CC?
Running the current version of Photoshop CC under Windows 10 x64.
Interested in installing/importing the "ALPA Lens Corrector" for use with the Adobe suite. I run the the whole "Creative Cloud" suite, including Photoshop, Lightroom, and whatever remains of Camera Raw.
In its current form, the "ALPA Lens Corrector" consists of a large collection of LCF files (i.e. files ending in the suffix .lcf) for a wide variety of current and historical lens (medium- and large-format) and digital capture (Phase One, Leaf, Hasselblad, Sinar, etc) combinations. This appears to be supplied as-is, without any current documentation.
I can't find any current/relevant documentation/forum posts on how to import third-party lens correction profiles into Photoshop/etc, except via the "Adobe Lens Profile Downloader"... everything I have been able to find is for an older version of Photoshop/etc, and no longer appears to be relevant. However, I tried installing the "Adobe Lens Profile Downloader", which requires Adobe Air for installation, but Adobe Air reports the download, as currently available from Adobe, as "damaged", so that mechanism appears to be moribund. Nor can I find any files ending in the .lcf suffix anywhere in my Adobe installation or AppData that might serve as a clue where to place new LCF files.
Has the Adobe suite moved on to some other mechanism for doing this, rendering the whole ALPA Lens Corrector obsolete?
As an alternative, could I still construct/import my own lens profiles, even if I wanted to? Or, should I be looking at something like DxO ViewPoint for this?
Any pointers to *current* documentation (i.e. for Photoshop CC 2017/2018), if it exists, would be appreciated.
Interested in installing/importing the "ALPA Lens Corrector" for use with the Adobe suite. I run the the whole "Creative Cloud" suite, including Photoshop, Lightroom, and whatever remains of Camera Raw.
In its current form, the "ALPA Lens Corrector" consists of a large collection of LCF files (i.e. files ending in the suffix .lcf) for a wide variety of current and historical lens (medium- and large-format) and digital capture (Phase One, Leaf, Hasselblad, Sinar, etc) combinations. This appears to be supplied as-is, without any current documentation.
I can't find any current/relevant documentation/forum posts on how to import third-party lens correction profiles into Photoshop/etc, except via the "Adobe Lens Profile Downloader"... everything I have been able to find is for an older version of Photoshop/etc, and no longer appears to be relevant. However, I tried installing the "Adobe Lens Profile Downloader", which requires Adobe Air for installation, but Adobe Air reports the download, as currently available from Adobe, as "damaged", so that mechanism appears to be moribund. Nor can I find any files ending in the .lcf suffix anywhere in my Adobe installation or AppData that might serve as a clue where to place new LCF files.
Has the Adobe suite moved on to some other mechanism for doing this, rendering the whole ALPA Lens Corrector obsolete?
As an alternative, could I still construct/import my own lens profiles, even if I wanted to? Or, should I be looking at something like DxO ViewPoint for this?
Any pointers to *current* documentation (i.e. for Photoshop CC 2017/2018), if it exists, would be appreciated.
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Update: Adobe Support (contacted them via online chat) informs me that 32-bit Photoshop is no longer supported, 32-bit versions are no longer available, Photoshop is available for 64-bit operating systems only.
Consequence: zero further support for legacy plugins.
So, it seems I must look elsewhere for a tool to address extreme wide-angle pincusion/barrel/etc distortion (DxO ViewPoint seems like the most attractive alternative tool for this). My Phase One back has not arrived yet, but Perhaps Capture One also has some tools for this, that either already incorporate profiles for my lenses or that will enable me to build my own profiles. I will take a look in a couple weeks when I can get hands-on with all of that.
Any suggestions would be welcome.0 -
Final Update (hopefully): Someone responded authoritatively in the Adobe support forums.
Adobe Support was 100% INCORRECT when they asserted that 32-bit Photoshop is no longer available. I downloaded a Photoshop CC 2017 x32 standalone installer from . 32- and 64-bit Photoshop CC 2018 standalone installers are apparently not yet available, but at some point they probably will be.
Rather unfortunate that Adobe's own support staff would supply bogus information like this, but this is probably not something an end-user is going to be able to change. Fortunately there was a better informed person available elsewhere. Leaves me thinking contacting Adobe Support directly is not going to be very productive, in the future.
While the ALPA Lens Corrector LCF files are easily found (as a zip archive) on the ALPA website, the plugin itself is not easily found. There is a "member's area" at the ALPA website, which I could not find documented anywhere and which is not immediately apparent when browsing the website, where the actual plugin components are available. If you have an ALPA website account (easy to register to obtain one), and are logged in, you can access this "member's area" and the downloads that are available there.
I was able to follow the installation instructions in the plugin manual (PDF), installed the plugin, and am able to access it from within Photoshop CC 2017 x32 via "File>Automation>ALPA Lens Corrector" (as opposed to the "Filter" menu).
My digital back and dedicated digital lenses have not arrived yet, so I am not fully hands-on, but even though the most recent Windows version of the plugin seems to date from 2009 (and only works with 32-bit Photoshop), it seems to have installed/integrated successfully with a recent version of Photoshop x32, and is accessible and functional.0 -
Alpha Plugins Launch Box may help you run 32 bit plugins inside the 64 bit environment. The caveat is that 16 bit image files will not work - only 8 bit image files.
Works for building ICC profiles that can be imported in Capture one and then later applied to 16 bit Raw files.
I know a long shot but you never know.0 -
Grant Kernan wrote:
Alpha Plugins Launch Box may help you run 32 bit plugins inside the 64 bit environment. The caveat is that 16 bit image files will not work - only 8 bit image files.
Dug into LaunchBox. Interestingly, they really don't seem to caveat this lack of 16-bit support anywhere. Searched their site, searched the web at large, no mention of this limitation popped up.
Anyway, I will probably try an evaluation version of LaunchBox at some point, see what it can offer. Thanks for the suggestion.0
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