Downloads for Infrared Photography
Many of these downloads are free. Your support and feedback is always appreciated!
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Color Doesn’t Exist: A Practical Guide to Infrared Photography
The definitive guide to infrared photography. Available in both print and eBook editions.
Infrared Profile Pack
Use these free DNG camera profiles (dcp) in Lightroom and Photoshop to shift color temperature, allowing you to get the desired white balance in your color infrared images.
Lightroom Infrared Color Swap Profiles
Improve your Lightroom workflow for infrared images without the need for Photoshop. Swap colors and white balance directly in Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, and Lightroom Mobile!
Photoshop Actions for Color Infrared Photography
Adobe Photoshop Actions are designed to speed the color swapping of your infrared photos. They work best on color infrared images taken with a converted camera and a 550 nm to 720 nm filter. They also work with unconverted cameras and a 720 nm filter. Includes six color swapping actions and 18 extra actions.
ON1 Photo RAW Infrared Presets
124 Infrared Presets to speed the editing of your infrared images in ON1 Photo RAW. These presets will quickly swap your colors with five different color swap methods and a dozen different style effects. Also six different monochrome treatments with ten different style effects. Includes four AI Adaptive presets for adding local contrast.
LUTs for Color Infrared Video and Photography
Color Lookup Tables (LUTs) are used to color swap infrared video in any video editor and infrared images in some raw image editors.
darktable Infrared Presets
Use these free presets to swap the colors of your infrared images in darktable.
Infrared Sample Raw Images
Use these sample raw images to practice processing infrared images.
Getting Started with Your Converted Infrared or Full-Spectrum Camera
Free eBook for new infrared photographers who have converted a camera to infrared or full-spectrum. This book covers the styles of infrared photography, using external filters, selecting lenses, settings for shooting with your converted camera, and how to process your infrared images.
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Third-Party Free Downloads
Adobe Tools
Use DNG Profile Editor to create DNG camera profiles from raw files. These links are occationally broken (on Adobe’s end). See the Infrared Profile Pack above to get profiles for your camera. Use Adobe Digital Negative Converter to Create DNG files from raw images.
DNG Profile Editor for macOS DNG Profile Editor for Windows Digital Negative Converter
Open source raw image editors
ExifTool
Use ExifTool to read, write, and edit image meta information. A command line tool for MacOS, Windows, and Unix. Useful for adding meta data to images shot with vintage lenses. ExifToolGUI is a Windows graphical user interface for ExifTool.
ExifTool ExifToolGUI for Windows