Color Checker?

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

Sorry, I'm not being clear. The idea is that you could take your phone and the CC outside right now and shoot it under a variety of conditions. Then you would use those shots of the CC to make new Camera Profiles in PS right now. One Camera Profile would be "PhoneSunny", for example. You save those in PS now.

Then later, if you take some phone pics outside WITHOUT your CC, you would load the pics in Photoshop and apply the pre-made "PhoneSunny" Camera Profile to those pics, even though you didn't have the CC with you at the time of your shooting. The saved Camera Profile would still make some corrections to your shots.

I understood that part. The phone photos that really need it are the ones you take indoors with poor lighting where you did not use the flash. They are the ones that really need the color checker. Generally the ones I shoot with my iPhone outside look pretty good.

 

[Blade Canyon]

I have been playing with Color Checker some more. I did do a shot with my Samsung Galaxy S4 phone, and put it in ACR and saved it as a DNG. Then I created a Camera Profile in Color Checker's software. The software said the profile was accepted. After restarting PS and Bridge, I tried to apply the new profile. For the phone JPEG, ACR does not give me ANY options under the profile. It has "Embedded" as the only choice. Not even "Adobe Standard" appears.

Other strangeness, ACR will only show you camera profiles for the specific camera that made the shot. I agree that's probably what I want, anyway, but the profile for my D800 does not show up as a choice if I'm editing a photo from my D600 or my Sony RX100.

Also, ACR gives me an error message when I'm trying to set the white balance for a Sony ARW (raw) file. I don't know why. It just sort of freezes for a long time.