Looking for technical information on ON1 Camera Profiles
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I'm looking for details on the differences between the ON1 Camera Profiles. I can see how Landscape, Portrait, etc affect the histogram, but beyond that I haven't been able to find anything that discusses what the program is doing.
In-camera profiles usually adjust for levels of contrast, saturation, denoise and sharpening, but I can't tell if that's what's going on with ON1. I would also like to understand linear raw (I come from an editor that uses a linear raw workflow) and how I would use the import option.
In particular, I want to know if the profiles apply any capture sharpening. I've finding ON1 tends to sharpen too much for my style, so I'd like to begin with a profile with no sharpening so I can add that to my taste.
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ON1’s Camera Profiles are nothing more than a LUT which gets applied at the beginning of the editing pipeline - the order in which the edits are applied to the image. Linear RAW tells the program to not use any LUT or profile. Just use the color info captured by the sensor.
Sharpening is handled separately and does not have to be used.
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Photo RAW also works with X-Rite's ColorChecker system so you can create your own custom profiles. Again, these are just LUTs and do not apply any sharpening. There is an ON1 Workflow for Creating a Custom ICC Camera Profile guide at ON1 User Guides on how to use them. Note that the Download and PDF links are reversed.
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Thanks Brian, that’s exactly the information I was looking for.
I did find the instructions for custom profiles. I should have RTM first…. :-)
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