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Inspiring
Sep 6, 2025 6:48 AM UTC
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Current ideal edit order - profiles, AI, etc?

I'm wondering what the current recommended order of edits is for a RAW image in LrC. I'm interested in the resulting image, not performance.

 

A post on this thread about order of edits mirrors this page about performance optimization, which puts even an AI adaptive profile at #10. Another Adobe page (and my basic understanding) states that an adaptive profile should be applied first.

 

Instinctively, I wonder myself why a lens profile isn't applied near the beginning—but that's just me trying to think it all through.

 

So, just wondering what the current actual guidance is! Hoping I'm just missing a link.

Ian Lyons
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Sep 6, 2025 8:00 AM UTC

The new edit order is largely concerned with avoiding unexpected results when applying the various AI tools. I've provided a link below to an Adobe Help document that explains the edit order in more detail.

 

https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/using/ai-edit-status.html

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Ian Lyons
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Sep 6, 2025 8:00 AM UTC

The new edit order is largely concerned with avoiding unexpected results when applying the various AI tools. I've provided a link below to an Adobe Help document that explains the edit order in more detail.

 

https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/using/ai-edit-status.html

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Inspiring
Sep 6, 2025 8:04 PM UTC

Got it. It's helpful to know it's focused on the AI side.

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