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Creating ICC profile?

Benjamin Kim
With Lightroom CC, there is a plugin for creating ICC profiles from X-rite ColorChecker but it seems Capture One Pro does not have any ICC profile creator with ColorChecker. Does X-rite provide ICC profile creator for Capture One Pro? If not, any suggestions?
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  • Eric Valk
    Here's an article that gives a method to create a camera profile.
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  • cdc
    Lumariver is another option: http://www.lumariver.com/
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  • David Toose
    Another vote for LumaRiver.

    https://vimeo.com/268585170

    is a good video showing how to do it
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  • Benjamin Kim
    So paying software is the only way to create ICC profiles at this point?
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  • HansB
    I don't know if DCamProf is still up to date. It's a free command line tool. Lumariver PD is it's commercial successor.
    A while ago I saw an article somewhere, about how to create icc profiles with X-Rite's scanner profiling. But I don't own that license.

    I've chosen to go with the commercial Lumariver PD version. Excellent results, but I'm not using i as often as I expected.


    Regards,
    Hans
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  • Eric Valk
    [quote="NN635412303032341950UL" wrote:
    So paying software is the only way to create ICC profiles at this point?

    Just to be sure what we are discussing, what is it that you want create an ICC profile of? Camera? Monitor?

    For getting a monitor ICC profile XRITE i1Display Pro does a great job. It is not free, but relatively inexpensive compared to other products. I think it is good value for money, you do get a good calorimeter as part of the price, as well as i1Profiler SW. And there's no point in engaging in any color calibration unless you start by color calibrating your monitor.

    I haven't actually made a camera ICC profile. I've had pretty good results over the years without that.

    For scanner ICC profiles, I use Vuescan SW and some targets I bought from SilverFast. This gives good results.

    I should be able to use Vuescan for printer profiling as well. Haven't got that sorted out yet. For more money, XRITE sells SW and HW for printer profiling. Probably faster and simopler and more accurate results.

    IMO there's a tradeoff - you go the route of cheap or free SW, there's more work involved to get it good results.
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  • Eric Valk
    [quote="HansB" wrote:
    I don't know if DCamProf is still up to date. It's a free command line tool. Lumariver PD is it's commercial successor.
    A while ago I saw an article somewhere, about how to create icc profiles with X-Rite's scanner profiling. But I don't own that license.
    Probably similar to VueScan, get a calibrated target, enter the the target info into the SW, scan the target and process it as a target. Save the ICC profile.
    I've chosen to go with the commercial Lumariver PD version. Excellent results, but I'm not using i as often as I expected.
    Regards,
    Hans
    Good Link Hans!!
    from their website DCAMprof is the free command line version of LumaRiver.
    I guess for those of us who started with DOS and Unix, this will be not much problem. 😄
    DCamProf is command line software. If you prefer using a graphical user interface I have as a side project made a commercial alternative which is built on “DCamProf technologyâ€. It’s called Lumariver Profile Designer and can be downloaded from http://www.lumariver.com. That software is closed-source and costs money. The sales will indirectly contribute to the DCamProf project which will stay open-source and share its core technology with the commercial GUI version.
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