P: Adaptive Profiles

The Adaptive profile is an extremely mixed bag in my experience, so far.

For certain high contrast scenes (interiors for example), the results are amazing, and take a lot of difficult slider-pushing to the extremes away, giving one a much better and easier to handle starting point.

On the flip side is the color rendition, which appears to be based on "Adobe Color", and it is simply EXTREMELY bad for my Nikon files (just like Adobe Color is). Skies turns turquoise instead of blue. Orange and yellow are not truthful at all. 

On top of that, for the Southern California desert scenes I photograph, the results are often almost comically bad, with mid-tones being pushed into the highlights and an odd "bleach bypass" look that I simply cannot explain. These aren't even high contrast scenes, just standard "exposed to the right" raw captures. The Adaptive profiles render a starting point that is less useful than the standard profiles.

Whatever the training set for the ML was, it wasn't the Southern California desert, and it wasn't Nikon cameras... 😜

This is an excellent upgrade. Using the Adaptive Profile enhances the photo without moving any of the sliders, making it much easier to improve the photograph.

These are good profiles, particularly combined with HDR. In nearly every instance however I have to brighten the shadows quite a bit manually.

Adaptive colour profile gives a good starting point. When I am done editing a batch a images I like to pick a few and add a creative look by using the color profiles. This is not possible since I have already chosen a colour profile (the adaptive profile). The solution would be to enable a second colour profile or rename the adaptive colour profile to "Auto exposure" and place that button next to the existing "Auto" button on top of the exposure sliders.

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Je trouve ça assez génial! Je découvre et il faut que je fasse de nombreux essais sur différents fichiers RAW mais les premières impressions sont très positives! 

Trying Adaptive Color for landscapes. Default (Amount = 100) rendering is consistently too bright, colors (especially greens) over-saturated. Reducing Amount to ~ 65 makes rendering more useful, with over-saturation of colors (again especially green) still a problem. Tool is useful enough that I'll keep experimenting with it.

Initial impression is nice, but it would benefit greatly from a couple improvements:

• Love that it feels like it gives me a much flatter starting image. Sometimes I feel like standard profiles start me off with too much contrast, or weird colors. This seems to be able to land you at a proper neutral.
• Having just one slider called "Amount" feels weird. Like LR is just giving it one shot and you can't tweak anything except how much you dump onto the image. Only suggestion I have right now is a version of the "Blending" and "Balance" sliders from the Color Grading tool. But what you'd do is create 2 looks. Look 1: Whatever the Adaptive Profile currently does. Look 2: Something closer to the "flat" look of log footage that's just flat, but not necessarily trying to recover details or do some sort of over-intelligent Apple computational photography thing.
• Skin seems to get over-textured by the Adaptive profile. It's kind of a mix of the look you get if you overcook the Shadows slider, and when you overcook the Texture & Clarity sliders.
• Big thing: Syncing. Once I got a look I liked, syncing that look to the rest of my very similar images took forever because it was AI-analyzing each of them individually. I get why, but unnecessary & slows down my workflow compared to what I was doing. What I think makes sense: Add the option to bake a profile / preset / LUT / whatever from the Adaptive profile you like. That way it can un-intelligently dump that onto the rest of your images just like old times. Faster & easier.

Overal cool new tool. Would love to see how it improves over time.

These look nice, but it's a real bummer that I can't use them along with LUTs. If I have to choose between an image with more HDR, and an image with the correct 'mood' based on an LUT, I'm going to pick the LUT. Could there be a way in the future to use the adobe PGTM but use another profile's RGBT?, Or, even better, allow for stacking of color profiles on top of each other..