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- If you've been using one of these,

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the X-Rite ColorChecker
Passport and you've been using

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Lightroom Classic, then you
know that to build a profile

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for this, you had a
plugin that you simply ran

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the photo of this passport through

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and that created the profile for you.

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However, if you're using
Lightroom CC now, as I am,

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there is no plugin architecture,
so you no longer have

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access to the plugin to make the profile.

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You can still do it, it's
just a manual process,

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takes a few steps so, I'm
going to show you how.

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(upbeat techno music)

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The process to do this
is actually quite easy,

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it just requires several steps.

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First you have to export the
RAW file from Lightroom CC

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and convert that to a DNG,
and then you take the DNG

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and run that through the
X-Rite software which generates

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the profile, and then you import

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the profile into Lightroom CC.

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That's all there is to it, really.

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But, let me show you exactly how.

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This is a shoot that I
did for a client's product

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and of course, we want to make
sure that the product colors

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are totally accurate, so to do that,

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we photograph the X-Rite
ColorChecker Passport.

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Now the first step is going
to be to export the picture,

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so I'll go to the File > Save To menu

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and you want to make sure this
is set to Original + Settings

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and you want to save this
not to the Desktop itself,

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but to a folder on the Desktop.

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If you save it to the Desktop
itself, the next step,

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the DNG conversion actually
wants to look at a folder

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and then you'll end up looking

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at everything on your Desktop.

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So just create a folder at this stage,

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it makes it a little bit easier.

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I'll create a new folder on the Desktop

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called DNG and save that.

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Next I'll open the DNG Converter,
click on Select Folder,

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select that folder that we
created in the previous step

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and click Convert.

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You don't actually have to
change any of the settings.

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The default settings for
everything here is totally fine.

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It's going to create that DNG

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in the same location as the RAW file was.

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The next step is to go to the ColorChecker

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Camera Calibration software
and all you have to do here

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is just drag and drop this picture in.

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The software will actually
look at the picture,

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look for that ColorChecker Passport

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and draw its grid around
it, isolating all the colors

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and doing all the work for you.

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It's really simple.

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You can see here that it
has located the color grid.

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It's drawn this square
around it and each one

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of those little green squares is lined up

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over the color squares in the Passport.

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Now if for some reason
it didn't get it right

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or it didn't get it at all,
you can create one manually.

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You would simply click on this arrow here

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and then start clicking on the
four corners of the Passport.

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And if you needed to
readjust this for any reason,

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you can simply grab the
corner and move it around.

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Click on Create Profile and at this point,

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it's gonna want to save it to
the CameraProfiles location.

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Now this is fine if you
were using it inside

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of Lightroom Classic or
even inside of Photoshop,

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but this is a location that is deep inside

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of the Application Support
folder in your Library

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which is where those other Adobe apps

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are going to be looking for it.

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Lightroom CC isn't going
to be looking for it there,

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so I'm just going to
save it to the Desktop,

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which will make it easier to
import into Lightroom CC later.

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We'll go ahead and save that.

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Profile's been created successfully

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and now back over to Lightroom.

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Open the Editor, and at
the top under Profile,

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where it says, by default, “Adobe Color”,

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click on the Profile Gallery
and then from the three dots

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menu here, choose Import Profiles.

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There's the profile I just
created on the Desktop,

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click Import and that's
it, now it's been imported.

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Next I need to apply it to this photo

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and the cool thing about the
way that profiles are applied

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in here is you'll see it as
you roll the mouse over it,

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so it makes it really easy
to see the before and after.

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It's going to show up under
a category called “Profiles”,

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and here's the one that I just created.

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And you'll see as I run the
mouse over this back and forth,

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the difference that the
color profile is making.

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Look at the purples
and blues specifically.

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Those are having the biggest change.

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Go ahead and click it
to apply it permanently

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and then you can back out
of the Profile window.

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The next step is to do
a custom white balance.

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Now odds are, if you
went as far as shooting

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a ColorChecker Passport, you
also did a custom white balance

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in-camera before you shot this so you know

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that you have perfect white balance.

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But if you didn't or if you
just want to double check it,

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you can create a white
balance in the software

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using these colors on here.

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Now here's the really
cool thing about this.

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Let's just say that my white
balance was completely off,

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like I shot this at 2000
degrees Kelvin for some reason.

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If I then took that completely
wrong white balanced photo,

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ran it through the same
process we just did,

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it's not going to adjust
the white balance.

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The color profile ignores
the white balance completely.

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So it doesn't actually matter
what the white balance was

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when you shot it, when
you create the profile.

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You're still going to
get an accurate profile

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and then at this stage in the game,

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you can go ahead and create
a perfect white balance.

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To do that, I would go to
my white balance selector,

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grab the eyedropper and then click on

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one of the neutral white balance squares.

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But before I do that,
notice the white balance

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that came out of camera,
5500 and +27 Tint.

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I go and I click on
that white balance tool

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and it has just barely
changed it, 5450 to +25.

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In fact, if I click on
a few different places

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within that square, you're
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changing ever so slightly
no matter where I click.

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There's always going to be a
tiny, tiny bit of variation,

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but it's fine.

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Now I'm ready to copy the color profile

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and the white balance that
I applied to this photo

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to all the other photos in the shoot.

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To do that you'd go to the
three dots menu over here

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and you could choose Copy Edit Settings,

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which is going to copy
all of the edit settings

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and at this point, all
we've done is change

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the white balance and the
profile, so that's fine…

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but if you want to make sure you're

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only copying what you need, go to

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Choose Edit Settings to Copy
or hit Shift + Command + C.

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And then from here, you'll see
there's the profile selected

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with a bunch of other stuff
potentially selected as well.

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So I'll go ahead and choose
“None”, re-enable the profile

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and then under Color, enable
White Balance and hit Copy.

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And now those settings are
copied to the clipboard

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and I can paste them to all
the other photos at once.

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To do that you have to
get out of this view,

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tap the G key to go into the Grid view

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and I'll just hit Command +
A, select all of these images

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and Command + V to
paste, and you see there,

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it says “Paste Edit
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and that is now being
applied to all the pictures.

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If you want to see the
difference of what one of these

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would look like, let's go
ahead and open up one of these

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of Simeon, our little monkey here.

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There's the photo with the
correct profile applied to it

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and if I want to see what the
original would look like…

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there's the difference. And you can see

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it's actually pretty dramatic.

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The blue in the shirt
has changed quite a bit.

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The “skin tone” on the
doll has changed a bit.

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This looks much more accurate and this is

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what I want to send to my client.

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Now one more thing I want to tell you.

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Since this is going to
sync across Adobe Cloud

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to all of your devices, you will have

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this custom color profile on your iPhone,

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your iPad or any other
computer you're using it on.

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Let's take a look.

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I'll go ahead and launch Lightroom

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and there's the shoot that we're in.

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There's the studio shoot selection.

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There's the picture of
the ColorChecker Passport.

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You'll see down on the
bottom, there's my Profiles.

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And from here, I have access to all

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the profiles that were installed.

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There's “Profiles”, and there's
the one I just brought in;

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”S1 EarthMonkey”. And
that's all there is to it!

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