As some of you may know I've had a command line open-source camera profile maker for a while, DCamProf. The Pentax 645z profile I casually made using it gained quite some interest, and I've noted for each new medium format camera that's not a Phase One or Hassy people are interested in profile alternatives (like the Fuji GFX50s), perhaps especially when using Lightroom, although some Capture One users and even Phase One users have made profiles too in situations when both neutral and attractive colors are required, for example in architecture and product photography, or if you just want a neutral starting point for your own creative post-processing.
While DCamProf has gained a community of tech-savvy users it's not too accessible to a broader audience due to that it's a command line tool. Therefore I have during the past year worked on a commercial project, a profile-making software called "Lumariver Profile Designer" which builds on the DCamProf technology but adds a GUI. It's not simply a GUI slapped on top of a command line tool, but a full integration and extended features. With this I hope the craft and art of profile making can reach a broader audience.
While it can make profiles automatically and I think most users will be satisfied with that, there is a depth of manual tuning possibilities which the most picky users with strong ideas of how colors should look like will use. The ability to design general-purpose camera profiles is what makes this software different from previous profile makers. For the sake of completeness it can be used to make scanner and reproduction profiles too (to copy artwork and similar), but the area where I think it truly breaks new ground is in general-purpose profile making.
Presentation here: http://www.lumariver.com/#LumariverPD
Introduction video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUt3jWs5vTk
User manual here: Lumariver Profile Designer
Download here: Lumariver
While DCamProf has gained a community of tech-savvy users it's not too accessible to a broader audience due to that it's a command line tool. Therefore I have during the past year worked on a commercial project, a profile-making software called "Lumariver Profile Designer" which builds on the DCamProf technology but adds a GUI. It's not simply a GUI slapped on top of a command line tool, but a full integration and extended features. With this I hope the craft and art of profile making can reach a broader audience.
While it can make profiles automatically and I think most users will be satisfied with that, there is a depth of manual tuning possibilities which the most picky users with strong ideas of how colors should look like will use. The ability to design general-purpose camera profiles is what makes this software different from previous profile makers. For the sake of completeness it can be used to make scanner and reproduction profiles too (to copy artwork and similar), but the area where I think it truly breaks new ground is in general-purpose profile making.
Presentation here: http://www.lumariver.com/#LumariverPD
Introduction video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUt3jWs5vTk
User manual here: Lumariver Profile Designer
Download here: Lumariver