Ray Sachs
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- Not too far from Philly
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- you should be able to figure it out...
Try this, with finder window browse to MAC HD/Applications/, right click or ctrl+click on "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4", select "Show Package Contents"
From here, you should be able to browse to "/Contents/Resources/CameraProfiles/Adobe Standard/" and see a list of .dcp files including the coolpix A that is installed by default with LR 4.4.
Unless there is some specific program or security settings, it's weird that it didn't create a "CameraProfiles" folder under your [users] folder, but I think this will work,
Shutdown Lightroom, go ahead and create a "CameraProfiles" folder under MAC HD/Users/[Username]/Library/Application Support/CameraRaw/CameraProfiles/" and copy the ACR 8.1 Ricoh GR folder under there. Start Lightroom again and it should see it.
I managed to get access to a Mac system and just installed LR 4.4 and can verify the above works.
Update: Apparently, I don't think I can install ACR 8.1 beta without having photoshop/photoshop elements installed. It gives me an error saying the patch is not applicable. If I try to install ACR 7.4, it only installs the DNG Converter.
Also, I tried to install the Ricoh GR profile under "MAC HD/Applications/Contents/Resources/CameraProfiles/Adobe Standard/" location and LR did not detect the profile, meaning only "embedded" was available.
Yes, thanks, that's where the support files were hiding. But placing the file there didn't do any good. So it must be that ACR 8.1 doesn't work without Photoshop. Which I don't own or plan to buy. Makes me wonder if the LR 5 beta will see it without PHotoshop installed?
The funny thing is this whole process has made me better at manipulating the red, green, and blue sliders to get each image to look pretty close to right. Which I guess is a good thing, but not something I want to mess with on every shot. And it seems to be on every shot - it takes different combinations to make different ones look like they did in reality.
-Ray