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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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Jim 185

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I keep forgetting to use the Adaptive Presets!!

They are quite often very good, sometimes too bright and sometimes too dark. Occasionally I will try one and go back to the default.
The too dark/too bright ones can usually be handled in adjusting the amount of the adpative preset to use, but more often in masking.

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mopperle

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I like the new adaptive profile as well, but sometimes I have the feling that colours, especially green and red, are a bit overdone. Picture are taken with Canon EOS 6DMII and EOS R.

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BBuzan549

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Hi Betreff: P, I shoot with a Nikon and have the same problem, mostly with red. Generally the adaptive color is good but I desaturate the red many times.

Brad Buzan

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doxxxicle

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I'm also seeing this problem with reds. See the attached pictures. The first is with Adobe Color:

The second is with Adaptive Color:

3Sixty Photography

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I've been using adaptive profiles now for a month or two. At first, I thought it was getting me closer to what I was looking for, quicker. But after looking at a Fuji file using the Astia Fuji camera color. (with a preset that I always add), I think I am seeing what has been bugging me. Of course it's all personal taste, but the contrast transitions I think are too abrupt or too harsh based on my past editing style. Using adaptive profiles might be a bit too clinical for me. I haven't tried working my Nikon files, but I suspect I'm going to run into the same subjective issue. I realize you can fade adaptive profiles, but it looks like a strong contrast is built in and who knows what else. FWIW.

DomiPro

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When using Adaptive Color on raw files from Hasselblad X2D results always in too much saturation. Also when using 'Normal' Auto, always too much sat and vibrance.

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Josef340043128z1g

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Doing football pictures, hard in sunlight. Adaptive Color does a pretty good job, but often makes faces way darker so I have to do masks more often than before

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Smul

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The translation of Adaptive Color in Dutch is not good. Better is to use this: ’Adaptief kleur/zw’ .

Also the location in the Dutch version is not fine. Place it in the top and use a light line for the separation. This conform the English version.

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ralph_9370

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The coloir and gradation is spot on or with a bit of tweeking - love it!

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richard_1582

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