The Camera Calibration tab sheet is also available
without CameraXXL. However, CameraXXL adds seven new sliders at the bottom.
Individual cameras may produce slightly different colors than an average camera of the same model. So you can create your own camera profile by photographing a color checker chart and using Adobe DNG Profile Editor to save a camera profile, which can then be selected from the Camera Profile combo box above. The easier but less precise solution would be to manually adjust these seven sliders if you have a good eye for color. Alternatively you can also use these sliders creatively for color effects.
The Preset combo box at the top offers many creative presets to choose from. The Default option resets all sliders to zero and deactivates the effect that is produced by these controls.
The Tint slider lets you colorize the image with a green or magenta color, which has a stronger effect on the shadows than the hightlights.
The remaining three slider pairs consist of Hue and Saturation sliders. Each of them affects either red, green or blue colored areas. However, areas of other colors are also altered by each slider, but less strong than its primary color. Each Hue slider only lets you adjust the hue within a limited range, e.g. from magenta to orange, yellow to aqua or cyan to purple. The Saturation sliders let you decrease or increase the saturation of certain color areas. As with the Hue slider they also affect other colors, but to a lesser extent.
For hue and saturation adjustments that influence a more limited color range, it is usually better to use the Hue and Saturation sliders on the HSL / Grayscale tab sheet.
In older versions of Camera Raw there are Process and Name combo boxes displayed at the top of the Callibration sheet. They are not part of CameraXXL but of Camera Raw itself, but they are nevertheless explained here. We recommend that set or keep the Process combo box to the most recent year value, e.g. 2012, or highest version number, e.g. Version 4, to make sure that the newest Camera Raw image processing algorithms are used. For older process versions you will also get different control on the Basic tab sheet and you may not be able to achieve the same effects as with the most current process version.
In Camera Raw 10.3 and higher, there is no Name combo box available on the Camera Calibration tab sheet, because it was placed on the Basic tab sheet und rename to "Profile" there. In older versions of Camera Raw there is a Name combo box, which contains various camera profiles depending on the camera that was used to shoot the current image. These presets are often also selectable on the camera itself when you shoot JPEG files instead of raw files. For older cameras you may also see ACR profiles here, which were used by older versions of Adobe Camera Raw. We recommend to use the Adobe Standard profile, which usually produces the best result, unless you want to achieve the same look as the JPEGs that come straight out of the camera.