Hi All,
I would like to start this topic off with a video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW7AFP8wnR8

Ok so you see the problem? Honestly watching the video will help. Ok Your camera can capture a huge dynamic range but adobe expects you to use a small proportion of that. So they apply an S curve to your raw file. This stops you recovering highlight detail and shadow detail.
3D lut creator can in later versions create a camera profile without that S curve, which helps you get the best detail from your raw file.
but that's going to cost $250.

Adobe DNG converter does have a custom setting that will let you convert to a linear conversion without the S curve. This might help.
It is free (which is a help).

http://dcptool.sourceforge.net/Introduction.html

This is a free tool which should decompile an adobe dcp file to xml let you edit it and then recompile. You should then be able to apply this profile in lightroom / photoshop and get the detail adobe took away.

OK here are some experiments.
first an xrite profile for my k1 decompiled I find
<ProfileHueSatMapEncoding>0</ProfileHueSatMapEncoding>

ok its a big table but it's only color correcting a photo of my macbeth chart to make the swatches the correct color. The hue twists mentioned on the video and dcptools home page.

That's about what you would expect.

If you decompile some of adobes dcp files you find other tables including the contrast curve , delete that and recompile and you have a linear profile that you can work with.

On Windows:

Save DCPs to:
C:\Users\_Username_\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles

Load base DCPs from:
C:\ProgramData\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles

Save Lightroom presets to:
LR7.2 and below C:\Users\_User name_\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom\Develop Presets
LR7.3 and above C:\Users\_Username_\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CameraRaw\Settings


On Mac:

Save DCPs to:
/Users/_User name_/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/CameraProfiles

Load base DCPs from:
/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/CameraProfiles

Save Lightroom presets to:
LR7.2 and below /Users/_User name_/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Develop Presets
LR7.3 and above /Users/_User name_/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/Settings

Have fun. You do need to save the profiles to the right location or they don't turn up in lightroom, they do seem tied to camera model, which is probably a good thing.

Background:
A previous thread discussed the presentation of tutorials and how best to present them on UHH. The way they are usually presented is that someone writes a tutorial in a new thread. The thread is then open for others to comment on. This was in response to a tutorial which was presented in the Post-Processing Digital Images section. The tutorial described a method of doing some particular postprocessing action. A number of comments were made describing alternative ways to do portions of the procedure outlined by the tutorial. (I was guilty of at least one such comment). There were further comments complaining that presenting alternative methods provided some confusion and detracted from the value of the tutorial. A separate thread discussed ways to avoid the confusion.

As part of that discussion I suggested separating the tutorial from the discussion. One way to do that would be for the author to start a thread with the tutorial, the moderator would then lock the thread and the author would start another thread for the discussion. I felt this was cumbersome, and placed a burden on the moderator to lock the initial thread in a timely fashion. My suggestion was to use a personal page for the tutorial. The author would then start a thread that gave an introduction to what (s)he planned to present, then provided a link to the tutorial page.

The personal page, or user page, has some advantages over using a normal thread for presenting a tutorial. First of all, it is not a thread, so readers cannot add comments to it, thereby avoiding the possibility of confusion by presentation of alternative methods. Second, a personal page can be edited by the author at any time, not restricted to the first hour, as with a normal thread. That means that if the author considers a suggestion in the discussion worthy of adding to the tutorial, it can be done. Even years later.

Another comment was that a PDF could be used to present a tutorial. The advantage to a PDF is that it can be prepared on a word processor. That allows all sorts of formatting that is not readily available in a UHH thread, including font sizes and font faces as well as placing images within text. The disadvantage that I see in using a PDF is that it is presented as an attachment in a thread. That means that after an hour, that attachment can't be changed (without the assistance of the moderator, anyway, which adds an additional burden on the moderator). After thinking about it a bit, I realized that the PDF could be placed on another website. That would allow the author to change it within the limits of changing the file on the other website. To do that, the author has to have the ability to place a file on some publicly available website and also the ability to change it later.

It is my opinion that the UHH personal page would be the best solution. Since there were a number of comments that people did not know how to use personal pages I wrote a short tutorial on how to create a personal page. That raised further questions about the use of images within the personal page, since the normal UHH image attaching procedure is not available on a personal page. So I had to write a tutorial on attaching images to a personal page. When all was said and done I wound up with a pile of tutorials, which I present here.

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How to create a user page Presents the basics of creating a user page. Covers entering text only.

Formatting text using UHH tags Presents the basics of how to use UHH BBCode tags to format text and add other elements to a post.

Formatting text beyond UHH tags How to do fancy fonts.

How to add images within text in a UHH post Adding images in the flow of text rather than placing them at the bottom of the post. This applies to posts within threads as well as personal pages. It requires that the author have an image available on a publicly accessible secure website other than UHH. I use my own website, but for those without their own website I present a way to use images stored on flickr.com and link them to UHH. flickr has a free account available.

How to get a url from a 500px image This is a way to find a url for an image on 500px, an image sharing site similar to flickr, but which uses a different way of linking. 500px also has a free account available.