Install guide · Analog Vision Studio V2.1
Install the Essential Edition in a few minutes, on any app.
Six film stocks, scanned on my own Fuji Frontier SP-500 at six exposures each. Pick your app below, follow the steps, and you're editing.
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01 · Contents
One ZIP holds the profiles, camera profiles, presets and plugin.
The folders inside are numbered in the order you install them: 1 → 2 → 3 → 4.
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Kodacolor 100Kodak · C-41
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Gold 200Kodak · C-41
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UltraMax 400Kodak · C-41
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Fuji Pro 400HFujifilm · C-41
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Vision 3 250DKodak · ECN-2 motion picture
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HP5+Ilford · black and white
Strips: light skin · orange · red · foliage · blue sky · neutral, classic chart at 0 EV, measured on the Frontier SP-500.
Your download
Analog Vision Studio V2.1.zip
- 1 Film ProfilesProfessional.zip and Standard.zip · 72 profiles
- 2 Camera ProfilesAVS Base Neutral · 320 cameras (.dcp)
- 3 Workflow PresetsANALOG VISION STUDIO – Toolkit · 37 presets
- 4 AVS Lab TechPlugin for Lightroom Classic, with its manual
- Install Guide.pdfThis guide as a PDF
02 · Professional or Standard
Every film stock comes on two bases with the same look.
What differs is the camera profile underneath, the first step where Lightroom turns your file into color. Install both: they sit in separate groups, so you can switch any time.
Professional
Built on AVS Base Neutral
- ResultSame film stock, same look, on every camera.
- HowA neutral camera profile I measured for each camera model.
- NeedsA raw file from a camera on the camera list.
Standard
Built on Adobe Standard
- ResultWorks on any camera Lightroom supports.
- HowUses Adobe's own default camera profile.
- Use whenYour camera isn't on the list, or you edit JPEGs.
03 · Installation
One import installs everything in Lightroom Classic.
These are profiles, not presets: they appear in the Profile Browser. Choose your app.
Lightroom Classic
Unzip the download
You'll see the numbered folders 1 to 4.
Open the Develop module
In Lightroom Classic, on macOS or Windows.
From the menu bar at the top.
Select the ZIPs in folders 1, 2 and 3
All at once is fine. No need to unzip them.
Restart Lightroom
Camera profiles only load at startup.
Camera Raw comes along. Everything you install in Lightroom Classic works in Adobe Camera Raw in Photoshop too.
Lightroom & mobile
Lightroom Classic doesn't sync profiles. The cloud-based Lightroom app on your computer does, and takes everything to your phone and iPad.
Open Lightroom on your computer
The cloud-based app, not Lightroom Classic. Same Adobe account as your phone.
Select the ZIPs in folders 1, 2 and 3.
Wait for the cloud icon to turn solid
Then open Lightroom on your phone: everything is under Profile > Browse.
Professional on mobile needs this route. Camera profiles only reach your phone when imported in the cloud-based Lightroom app. Imported in Lightroom Classic only? Use Standard on mobile. AVS Lab Tech is desktop-only.
Photoshop (Adobe Camera Raw)
Already installed in Lightroom Classic? Then you're done: both share the same folders.
Open a raw file in Camera Raw
From Photoshop or Bridge.
The three-dot menu in the Presets panel.
Select the ZIPs in folders 1, 2 and 3
Then restart Photoshop.
By hand
Unzip everything first. Lightroom Classic and Camera Raw read from the same two folders, so one copy covers both. Both folders are hidden by default.
macOS
Open the hidden folder
In Finder press Cmd+Shift+G and paste a path below.
Folders 1 and 3 go into Settings
~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/SettingsFolder 2 goes into CameraProfiles
~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/CameraProfilesRestart Lightroom Classic or Photoshop
Profiles are only read at startup.
Windows
Open the hidden folder
Press Win+R and paste a path below.
Folders 1 and 3 go into Settings
%AppData%\Adobe\CameraRaw\SettingsFolder 2 goes into CameraProfiles
%AppData%\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfilesRestart Lightroom Classic or Photoshop
Profiles are only read at startup.
Using “Store presets with this catalog” in Lightroom Classic? Then presets go into the Settings folder next to your catalog, profiles stay in CameraRaw. The cloud-based Lightroom has no manual route.
04 · Camera profiles
Professional loads the right camera profile on its own.
The Professional versions need the AVS Base Neutral profile of your camera. It installs with folder 2, and you never select it yourself.
It loads on its own
Apply a Professional profile and Lightroom picks your camera's file.
Install all of them
It doesn't hurt. Pick up another camera later and Professional works right away.
One file per camera
Named like Sony ILCE-7M4 - AVS Base Neutral.dcp. Search your camera by any name, e.g. A7 IV.
Professional needs raw files
Camera profiles only exist for raw files. For JPEGs, use Standard.
Camera not listed? Then Lightroom has no AVS Base Neutral profile for it, and the Professional versions won't work as intended. Use Standard, and write to me with your camera model.
05 · AVS Lab Tech
AVS Lab Tech installs once in the Plug-in Manager.
The operator desk of a Fuji Frontier, as a floating panel next to your photos. It runs in Lightroom Classic 12 or newer. Install the profiles first.
Move the plugin somewhere permanent
AVS Lab Tech.lrplugin from folder 4 into Documents, not Downloads.
Select the folder, click Add Plug-in, then Done.
Works in every module.
Pick film, EV and base
Professional is chosen automatically when available.
Open it with Ctrl+L on a Mac
Open System Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > App Shortcuts, add Lightroom Classic and type the menu title with three spaces in front: Open Lab Tech…. Lightroom indents plug-in menu entries, and the shortcut only works with those spaces. Pick Ctrl+L and restart Lightroom.
On first start, the plugin adds Film Stock Shortcuts to your Presets panel and asks for one restart. Keep them: the plugin uses them to load every film stock reliably.
06 · Using the profiles
Each film stock has its own group with six exposures.
Open the Profile Browser in the Develop module (the four-square icon next to Profile) and pick a group.
◭ Gold 200 · Frontier · Professional
Gold 200 −2 EV Frontier Professional
Gold 200 −1 EV Frontier Professional
Gold 200 0 EV Frontier Professional
Gold 200 +1 EV Frontier Professional
Gold 200 +2 EV Frontier Professional
Gold 200 +3 EV Frontier Professional
◭ Gold 200 · Frontier · Standard
◭ HP5+ · Frontier · Professional
Exposure
Each exposure is its own scan of the film. The difference is color and contrast, the way the film responds to under- and overexposure, not brightness. Pick by the look you want.
Amount
The slider below the profile name, 0 to 200. The profiles are built for 100. Your own sliders stay at zero, so every edit still works as usual.
Favorites
Click the star on a profile to keep your go-to film stocks at the top.
07 · Workflow presets
The toolkit adds 37 presets in four series.
You find them in the Presets panel under ANALOG VISION STUDIO – Toolkit. They emulate what changes between scans and prints, from density to grain. Every series ends with a RESET.
A · Tone adjustments
Contrast and density
Contrast + / −, Shadows + / −, Highlights + / −, Faded Blacks and Faded Whites (each also stronger), resets for curves, faded blacks and faded whites.
B · Color adjustments
Tints and saturation
Shadow tints in cyan, green, blue, red and magenta, highlight tints in red, yellow and cyan, Matrix Saturation from −20 to +30, resets for both.
C · Film texture
Grain
ISO 100, 200 and 400 grain through three luminance masks: coarser in the shadows, finer in the highlights, like real film. Plus a grain reset.
D · Masking tools
Subject and sky
Subject Enhancer and Reducer, Sky Enhancer and Reducer, Portrait Enhancer. They build on Lightroom's automatic subject, sky and people masks.
08 · Updating from V2
V2 owners get all six film stocks of V2.1 for free.
That includes Vision 3 250D. Install V2.1 as described above: nothing to uninstall.
What changes
A new build from the ground up
- ScannerFuji Frontier SP-500
- ExposuresSix instead of three
- BasesProfessional next to Standard
- VersionsBalanced and Unbalanced are gone, one version per exposure
Your V2 profiles
They stay
- Old profilesStay where they are and keep working
- Edited photosDon't change
- New profilesAppear in their own groups next to the old ones
Portra 400, ColorPlus 200 and Velvia 100
Not in this first release, and nothing changes about them. They stay in your library and keep working exactly as they do today. For V2.1 I rebuilt my entire pipeline from the ground up, and I'm rolling the new system out film stock by film stock instead of rushing everything at once. The six film stocks of the Essential Edition come first. Portra 400, ColorPlus 200 and Velvia 100 will be rebuilt as part of the upcoming editions, and as an existing customer you'll get those at a loyalty price.
09 · Quick fixes
Most problems are solved by one restart of Lightroom.
I don't see the profiles.
Professional looks off.
They're not on my phone.
Can I use them on JPEGs?
My download link stopped working.
The look is too strong.
10 · Support
Still stuck? Write to me.
Include your Lightroom version, your camera and what you clicked.
License. Analog Vision Studio, including the film profiles, the camera profiles, the workflow presets and the AVS Lab Tech plugin, is licensed, not sold, for use by a single user. You may use it for personal and commercial photography on devices you own or control. It may not be redistributed, resold, shared, sublicensed or made available to third parties in any form. All files, including source code and embedded data, remain the intellectual property of Lumenary Vision, Sebastian Koch. Modification, reverse engineering, decompilation or extraction of the files or their data is not permitted.
A · SUPPORTED CAMERAS
AVS Base Neutral covers 320 camera models for the Professional versions.
Search by any name, for example A7 IV, X-T5 or Z6III. If your camera is not on the list yet, the Standard versions work with every camera Lightroom supports.
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