Adaptive Color profile artifacts

Question

In some photos, applying the Adaptive Color Profile produces weird, blotchy artifacts in brighter areas, particularly in a sky where there is strong contrast between the bright and dark areas, like a sunrise or sunset.

In the attached video, the photo in Develop begins with Adobe Color as the Profile, adjusting the Highlights slider brightens and darkens the sky as expected. Changing the Profile to Adaptive Color produces noticeable, blotchy artifacts in the sky. Adjusting the Highlights slider dramatically changes these blotchy artifacts. Adjusting the Profile Amount slider also changes these artifacts. Enabling HDR mode makes these blotches disappear; adjusting the Highlights moves a prominent bright band up and down in the sky, but the blotches do not appear.

I reported this in another photo a year ago, but the problem remains. It means that for some photos, Adaptive Color is quite useless.

Has anyone else seen this problem when using the Adaptive Color Profile?

jrsforums · Answer

Just to be sure….are you applying Adaptive Color with the basic sliders set at zero. I ask because your description seems to say you applied the highlight slider, then Adaptive Color. I have found that using Adaptive Color after having made other basic adjustments gives wonky results

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