It’s possible to transfer an Adobe Color gradient so that you can use it in Lightroom Classic, but the process isn’t straighforward or discoverable. There are a lot of moving parts to it that require some advanced knowledge, so you have to be familiar with each part: Creative Cloud Libraries, the details of Photoshop gradient maps and LUT export, and a secret way of making Camera Raw profiles. But at least they don’t make you write any code…
Here’s the “short” version:
1. On the Adobe Color website, use Extract Gradient on your image (not Extract Theme) and save it to a Creative Cloud library.
2. In Photoshop, the gradient you saved from Adobe Color should sync to the Libraries panel.
3. In Photoshop, in the Libraries panel, right-click the gradient you saved and choose Create Gradient Preset. This should add it as a preset in the Gradients panel. (Note: When I try this, Photoshop 2026 throws up a Program Error, so it can’t finish. It looks like many other users have also reported this error over the years in this community, so apparently this still hasn’t been fixed for everyone. Hopefully it will work for you…)
4. Create a Gradient Map adjustment layer based on that gradient preset. (Not a gradient, a gradient map specifically, as in the command Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Gradient Map.)
5. Make sure that adjustment layer is selected in the Layers panel, and convert that to a color LUT compatible with Adobe Camera Raw, such as .CUBE format, using the command File > Export > Color Lookup Tables.
6. In Adobe Camera Raw, use the hidden shortcut (Option/Alt-click on the New Profile button) to open the additional options that let you create a Develop profile that uses the LUT you imported from Photoshop which came from Adobe Color.
7. In Lightroom Classic, the profile you created in step 5 should now be visible in the Profiles list in the Develop module. Apply it to an image.
And so, one website and three applications later, you can finally apply the Adobe Color-extracted colors to an image in Lightroom Classic. Whew!
If steps 4 through 7 sound like complete technical nonsense, there are several web pages and videos that can walk you through that process of converting Photoshop image colors to a profile you can apply in Camera Raw/Lightroom Classic, like these:
https://scottdavenportphoto.com/blog/how-to-convert-a-lut-to-a-lightroom-camera-profile
(That one talks about the later steps from a Lightroom Classic point of view)
https://mattk.com/make-lightroom-photoshop-profiles-luts/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uad-OjBi2ks
https://www.behindtheshutter.com/photoshop-to-lightroom-how-to-turn-custom-luts-into-color-profiles/
https://filtergrade.com/how-to-use-luts-with-adobe-camera-raw/
You just have the extra step of starting from Adobe Color, but as soon as you can see that saved color gradient show up in Creative Cloud Libraries in Photoshop and add it as a preset in the Gradients panel, now you can follow along in those tutorials.
The reason you have to use Camera Raw in step 6 is because Lightroom Classic doesn’t have the feature of creating a Develop profile from a LUT. It has to be done in Camera Raw. But at least they share the same Develop profiles, so after you create a profile in Camera Raw it will show up in Lightroom Classic too.
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