Originally posted by slip the error I get is it can't make a profile because one or more channels are clipping.
Lik i said, i think more is going on because you also mention this.
I desaturate the photo of the color chart in photoshop, but can't re save it as a dng as I get an "unable to read file" error
it looks to me photoshop is unable to save the file for some reason, i think you need to focus on that and not the colorchecker because for color checker it also needs to save a file and if it can't do that then colcocheker can't read it.
Quote: so you are saying that if I change the color temp it would do the trick?
Never had that problem with me (lightroom + colorchecker) but it's easy to correct the white balance with the card, simply take a reading of one of the grey squares.
Quote: will it show which colors are clipping? The shots I took where under normal shooting conditions, like shade
You can split the histogram into red green and blue seperately but the problem is that it uses the JPEG preview and not the real RAW.
I often clip my photos according the camera but with lightroom everything is still within the limit.