let me also add that if you can’t get your hands on a color target, you can still help yourself by creating a dual-illuminant DCP profile using dpreview’s “studio scene comparison” shots. They include a color target, and are taken using lighting that should emulate daylight and tungsten. They might not be 100% accurate, but from my (limited) tests they seem to do a decent job.
It’s unclear whether it is legal to generate DCPs from those shots and then distribute them with RawTherapee, but if you generate the DCP yourself and do not distribute it, I think everything should be perfectly ok.
Morgan, I took that pp3 profile that you posted, and compared the noise reduction settings of what you had in the file vs. the defaults noise reduction settings.
Thanks for your help and patience while I try to learn this software better. Everytime I post on here, I find the people really helpful, and @patdavid posts some top-notch tutorials that have really helped me, so I signed up for a $5/month donation to the site.
Along with that spirit, as for providing files for you to make your own color profiles, I would do this for you with both of my cameras (Powershot G7X Mark 2 and EOS 80D) but those color charts are $100 and I’d probably never use it again. If there’s someone in the USA that could send one to me, I could do that and mail the chart back to them afterwards - maybe a couple weeks later. I could pay a deposit so you don’t have to worry about me running off with your chart. I would just send the raw files to you versus making my own profile from it. I like doing photography, not horsing around on computers, but I am the guy that the family members call when they have computer problems, but I don’t enjoy it that much. Only do it when I have to.
I see you used Neutral processing profile then added brightness. Using Neutral will give a very ‘raw looking raw’ and leaves it entirely up to you to ‘develop’ something good looking, and will usually give you a starting point that doesn’t have the general attractiveness of the JPEG that has been ‘pre-developed’ in camera.
I see there are some specific issues with your camera model, but the general advice, if you want the initial raw opened in RT to be comparable to JPEG in terms of overall attractiveness, is to have RT open raw files with the Default processing profile pre-applied.This ‘pre-develops’ the raw file to – maybe not the same look as the JPEG – at least something more optimal than the ‘raw raw’.
Thanks to the generosity of @paperdigits I happen to have an IT8 color chart we can get to you if you need it (assuming it wasn’t @paperdigits who already emailed you). Feel free to PM me and we’ll get you set up.
So I’d like to help @Morgan_Hardwood with his color profile project. I have 2 cameras that he doesn’t have profiles for but I need a color target. @patdavid, did you have one that you can loan, or was I supposed to get it from @paperdigits? It was unclear to me from the discussion if there’s one or two color targets floating around. I can send it back after taking the calibration shots with my cameras, or just hang onto it until someone else needs it, and send it to them.
I’m in the USA.
My cameras are: Canon Powershot G7X Mark 2 and Canon EOS 80D. I can also profile a Pixel 2 XL smartphone if interested.
Absolutely! PM me an address to send it and I’ll try to drop it in the post early this week. (Also, super big thank you to @paperdigits who actually bought it and mailed it over to me).