Downloads for Infrared Photography
Books
Color Doesn’t Exist: A Practical Guide to Infrared Photography
The definitive guide to infrared photography. Available in both print and eBook editions.
Getting Started with Your Converted Infrared or Full-Spectrum Camera
Free eBook for new infrared photographers who have converted a camera. This covers the styles of IR photography, external filters, lenses, settings for shooting, and how to process your IR images.
Lightroom and Photoshop
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. Includes six color swapping actions and 18 extra actions.
Chrome Profile Pack
Coming soon - 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 IR Chrome infrared images.
ON1 Photo RAW
ON1 Photo RAW Infrared Presets
166 Infrared Presets to speed the editing of your infrared images in ON1 Photo RAW. These presets will quickly swap your colors with eight different color swap methods and a dozen different style effects. Also six different monochrome treatments with ten different style effects. Includes 10 AI Adaptive presets for adding local contrast.
LUTs
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
darktable Infrared Presets
Use these free presets to swap the colors of your infrared images in darktable.
Misc
Infrared Sample Raw Images
Use these sample raw images to practice processing infrared images.
Visible light spectrum test image Video
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