P: Adaptive Profiles

I'm excited, taken back, by Adaptive Profiles (AP).

First, I am an amateur photographer primarily working with landscapes.

While I see the benefits of AP, I'm concerned about the reliquishing of control of editting the photograph to AI. Yes, you can still manually edit your photo but, it appears from reading the blog, the tables work on grandularity not exposed by standard controls and masks. As far as I can see, AP does not result in any controls being set even when AP is making global changes. It sounds like what is needed in making the same granulated changes manually is to change the way we do masking and make it an option for each control rather than being separate with some controls associate with each mask. 

I have tried AP and like it but am now at a turning point. I watermark my images with 'Photograph' or 'Digital Art from Photograph'. I'm feeling that if I use AP, I should be using the later since I have not made the concious designed on tone and colour controls.

Still playing with it.

It would be a nice option to be able to click on a before and after button like there is in Masking and other edit options in Camera Raw.

I was working my HDRs much better with the older ACR version. The HDR merge gives me far worse results with this upgrade, and turns out that I can't save the DNGs to JPGs in PS anymore!! What happened there??

So how do you automaticly apply the profile as "default" if i want to batch images thru a action or a jsx script? Since it no longer can be set in camera raw filter you cant go in "again" and make a preset or record it in a action?

dakr and moodz portrait get overblown and white, person bezond repair.... i dont get it, it is the worst feature i have ever seen

I used the adaptive profile for a few hour tonight on a series of not very well lit ballet photos. I was very pleasantly surprised!. High contrast, weird color temperatures in the photos. This profile opened up a new world where I didn't have to be nearly as extereme to get a  basic look that I was happy with. Hurry up and release it for Lightrrom! So many profiles are tailored for outddor shots...none for theater. This is working for me. Thank you.

I only see the new Camera Raw features if I open Photoshop Beta from Bridge. I do not see the features if I open Photoshop Beta from Lightroom Classic. Does anyone else have this issue?

Tested it with some images by now (only monochrome profile) and it is a good starting point to a b/w transformation.

It is biased on a more HDR look, but not overpowering the effects.

Problem is the general effect of conformity when everybody will use it - smells a bit like "just another filter ready to use" - but it is a good one as far as I can tell.

Will definetely incorporate it into my upcoming monochrome workflow - but only as a comparison point to the b/w profiles of my cameras - those fulfill specific film simulation needs. When printing there may be better results as I can predict the way it looks on specific papers and can mimic those well known looks better.

Online it will work just fine as it adds a little "wow" to some images without extensive fiddling on editing panes.

If it was up to me to integrate it - I would love to see it in the b/w mixer pane with some added dials for balance of some clever base parameters like "shadows balance" or "highlight texture".

I have been using it for 5 minutes.
With an unfortunately overexposed background or sky and have to say “WOW”!!!
My naked eye didn't recognize anything and mountains (part of the Dolomites) and clouds appeared out of nowhere. Haven't tested much more yet but I love it already!!!