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P: Adaptive Profiles

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February 7, 2025
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This post applies to Lightroom Classic and Lightroom Desktop.
Feedback for Camera Raw 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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BBuzan549

Inspiring

At first, I didn't like the adaptive color profile. It was oversaturated and didn't look good. However, I later found that if I cropped and adjusted the white balance first, I had better luck with it as a starting point.

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thomas5CED

Inspiring

I don't think the crop or white balance influences the adaptive color profile. I did a quick test and it doesn't matter whether you crop first and then apply the adaptive profile or the other way around. Are you referring to the "Auto" button by any chance?

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Cory Hammond

Participant

It works reasonably well as a starting point in most cases (thus saving time) but utterly fails in some situations. I don't have a good feel for when it will and won't work yet. It does consistently under-expose and over-saturate and there is a tendency for over-doing the HDR look (great to have the slider to reduce the effect).

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Kev_Tbay

Participant

Has there been an upgrade to the Adaptive profile settings in Lightroom? It was much "better" before the previous update. Now it does very little to an image. It definitely has changed becuase when I go back to a previos image it shows that it has used "Adaptive Color v1". Has anyone elese noticed this change? Can't find any discussion of it online.

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BorisTheBlade

Adobe Employee

Hello - thank you for reaching out to the team. Would you be able to share with us an example file you are seeing this behavior on, along with all the settings, so we can verify on our end?

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JerryBEsq

Participating Frequently

Great addition. Does a very good job.

Now, you need to change the color of the adjustment sliders for all masks so that there is no confusion with the global sliders.

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thomas5CED

Inspiring

+1 to the previous comment. I also noticed that the adaptive color profile just shifts green and partially blue tones too much. I mostly do landscape shots with a lot of vegetation. The luminosity adjustments done by adaptive color are usually pretty good, but the images end up with a green and slightly blue tint to them.

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Jim 185

Inspiring

I use the adaptive poreset maybe 25% of the time. The main issue I find is that they intensify greens too much. They can also lighten the background when I was purposefully keeping it dark.

But there are times it hits the mark !!

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Cory Hammond

Participant

Have noticed the same with greens in particular, requiring desaturation or reducing vibrance

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kevinm62798992

Participating Frequently

So I really love the adaptive colour feature. I use it combined with many of the presets that I have created for for automotive photography. Here is my issue. Once I apply the adaptive colour and my presest my editing is done. But when I close then reopen Lightroom I have to reapply the adaptive colour feature. I have to do this to everyphoto I have do any editing to. Any thoughts on why this is happening?

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kevinm62798992

Participating Frequently

So I just reclicked on a photo that I just reapplied the adaptive colour to and I have to reapply it again. This would be the third time applying it. second within the program being open

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Dave@clicMonde

Participant

I find the initial rendering to be rather 'bleached out' - is it just me?

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drtonyb

Legend

@Sean Goodhart

You can also use it in Develop (the keyboard short cut) and is under the menu item Settings > Update AI Settings, but is only available if Auto Sync is enabled.

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drtonyb

Legend

@Sean Goodhart

LrC does not have any way to filter photos that need updating.

In Library, select all the photos that might need AI Updating.

From the menu, choose Photo > Develop Settings > Update AI Settings

Although this processes photos that might not need updating, LrC quickly skips over these, only updating the photos that need it.