You'll need to select a checkerboard target to print from the provided PDF calibration charts. We highly suggest reading the documentation and using the sample JPEG files to build test profiles before jumping into target shooting with both feet. You'll also receive good documentation and sample JPEG files for practice. The download includes a folder that contains the application and a large number of PDF-formatted profiling targets specifically designed for lens profile creation. You'll need to have a free Adobe ID and agree to the terms.

How do you get ALPC? Simply browse the Adobe Labs Web site and look for the Lens Profile Creator section ( for a direct link). That's why Adobe hopes individuals make the effort to create their own lens profiles and make them available to the community at large. Even though Adobe created a large number of lens profiles to ship with Photoshop CS5, Camera Raw 6, and Lightroom 3, clearly not every lens that might potentially be used has been profiled. In addition to creating profiles for themselves, people who spend the time and effort creating profiles can then share their profiles by uploading them to the Adobe Lens Profile server. The application evaluates the images and creates a lens profile. The images-either DNG, JPEG, or TIFF-are then loaded into ALPC. To generate a lens profile, you print a checkerboard target, set up the target with consistent lighting, and shoot reference images with the lens to be profiled. The profile that the Adobe Lens Profile Creator (ALPC) creates characterizes three types of lens defects and prescribes how to computationally correct the defects.ĪLPC uses photographic images to evaluate geometric lens distortions, lateral chromatic aberrations, and lens vignetting. With the release of Photoshop CS5, Adobe has started off on an ambitious effort to build a community of camera lens profile builders: it released a free utility that enables the creation of lens profiles for use in Photoshop CS5's Lens Correction filter as well as Camera Raw 6.1 and Lightroom 3.0. Learn More Buy Adobe Lens Profile Creator

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