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P: Adaptive Profiles

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September 5, 2024
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This post applies to Camera Raw.
Feedback for Lightroom Classic and Lightroom Desktop should be posted here.

Update February 2025:

Adobe has introduced two Adaptive Profiles – Adaptive Color & Adaptive B&W.

Getting started with the Adaptive Profiles:

Access a profile inside the profile favorites menu.
In addition, there is a new section for Adaptive Profiles in the Profiles browser.
Enable the profile and adjust the ‘Amount’ slider as desired.
Use the rest of the Camera Raw tools just like you would otherwise.

Check out the Help Page for more detailed usage information. For more technical information on the underlying technology, please refer to this blog post.

Please try the profiles and share feedback in this community forum thread. It would help to include details like how you access Camera Raw (via Adobe Bridge or Photoshop), your computer system details, and as much information as possible about what you like or do not like about the resulting image quality. Our team will continually monitor this thread to track issues and improve the future experience.

Best practices for using the Adaptive Profiles:

Try the new profile in the following scenarios:

For food scenes.
In situations where simply moving Tone and Color sliders may not be sufficient, such as for: high-contrast scenes, landscape or cityscape scenes with skies.
For High-Dynamic-Range (HDR) photography, simply select Adaptive Color or Adaptive B&W as a profile and click on the ‘HDR’ button.

Note: Adaptive Profiles generate HDR and Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) data jointly, creating photos that look consistent with one another. In other words, after applying either of these profiles, if you toggle the HDR button on or off, you will see either the adaptive HDR or SDR look, depending on the position of the toggle.

To maximize the value of using Adaptive Profiles, please follow these steps:

Always start from the Adobe Default or Camera Default rendering (with no other edits) and enable the Adaptive Profile first.
Reset any other settings before applying the profile.
Make additional global and local edits after assigning the profile, just as you would begin to edit photos with Adobe Color or any other profile.

Boris Ajdin: Product Manager, Emerging Products Group

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Ann Varley

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I'm curious about why, if I launch a CR2 file from Lightroom Classic into Photoshop for edit, Photoshop does not automatically open Camera Raw as it has always done. If I use the menu to select the Camera Raw filter, the Adadaptive Profile is not available. Now, If I launch the same CR2 file from Bridge into Photoshop for edit, Photoshop will automatically open Camera Raw and the Adaptive Profile preset is there. I am on Windows 11, Camera Raw version 17.1, LightRoom Classic version 14.1.1. Photoshop 26.1,

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drtonyb

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@Ann Varley

Using Edit in Photoshop from Lightroom Classic opens as a fully rendered (applies the LrC Develop settings) image in Ps, so once opened in Ps, it is no longer a RAW file; there is no RAW data avilable to Ps. Since LrC has already processed the RAW file, ACR is not required. Using the Camera Raw Filter in Ps passes the image to Camera Raw, but it's not a RAW file, so the Adobe Adaptive profile is not available and nor are any of the other profiles that apply only to RAW files.

When you open a RAW file from Bridge, it must first be processed by Camera Raw into an image before it can be handed over to be edited in Ps. As such, Camera Raw will have the Adobe Adaptive profile available since you are directly processing a RAW file. Once in Ps, again it is no longer a RAW file. Using the Camera Raw Filter will once again, not have the Adobe Adaptive profile available.

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Ann Varley

Participant

Awesome explanation! I've only started using Lightroom a couple of months
ago, still trying to figure out all the finer nuances of the beast. I
appreciate your explanation!

travelwitch

Participating Frequently

This seems to be working reasonably well in regard to what it does to images given its a beta version. But - was tying it useing fairly large batches of images 50-100 at a time open on my top spec macbook pro 16" with M4 Max processor and 64GB ram. Was working fine till I tried to convert and save the images, then the whole program hung - did it a few times so had to give up using the adaptive preset. Had to force quit the program which meant loosing all of the corrections. Not using it the mac will happily handel 200 or even more images aopen at a time.

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dmoi86

Participant

I'm mostly doing landscape and extreme weather photography and my feeling is that it works best when you have a snowy or icy landscape to work on.

It enhances the contrasts and the dynamic range in a good kind of way and brings more suptile glow in the pictures.

Sometimes in case of shooting thunderstorms, the Adaptive (beta) profile is far away from reality and brightens up the pictures in a very unordinary and not matching way.

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trou34949755ejt1

Participant

bonjour, certain resultats sont bluffants. A quand dans lightroom pour eviter de faire des aller-retours ?

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ngc4594

Known Participant

I am very impressed with this adaptive profile, also I have seen the reactions, so I don't need to repeat it. however, I discovered something else possible: the developer can look at that as well. Edits in Camera Raw are not reflecting in Lightroom Classic; that's a pitty. I found that ACR will save the modification in the ACR file. Lightroom Classic is doing that in an XML file. For now, I hope that this new feature and the feature of noise reduction without writing new files will become available in Lightroom Classic

Jim #jiminashland

Participant

I normally use a linear profile for my camera but this seems to make it easier to get the effect I want with my landscape images.

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digital paradise

Inspiring

I tried linear but never warmed up to it. I now use Adobe Neutral which seems to play better with Auto. I have Auto set up to apply at import with a few of my personal tweeks in Presence just to get me started.

evikne71

Known Participant

My Mac is too old for the latest version of LR (hopefully I'll get a new one soon), but the Adobe Adaptive profile still shows up in my profile browser. I see no noticeable difference when I select it. Am I just seeing the regular Adobe Standard profile?

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digital paradise

Inspiring

You have to activate it first. Go into ACR preferences and it's the last menu item. I'm not by my computer now and I can't remember the details but it's initiative.

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stylez32154726leyq

Participant

Beautiful, keep up the good work, Im a man of few words and I love it'

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andreask79465876

Participating Frequently

Dieses Tool ist richtig toll, gerade bei Hauttönen aus dem RAW Bild meines iPhone 16 Pro Max entsehen gute Ergebnisse ohne viel rumprobieren zu müssen. Mit meinen Canon RAW Bildern muss ich es noch testen, aber bitte weiter so.

Andreas

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Abhay.K

Participant

The colours get somewhat oversaturated when the 'Adobe Adaptive' is used

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