P: Adaptive Profiles

I would like for the slider number to not reset to 100 when switching between Color and B&W profiles. If I set it at 50 and switch to B&W to see contrast, it shouldn't reset to 100 again.  

now after some time i have to change my early positive impression,  it is absolute useless, it tries to adjusts too many factors which most of the time produce unusable resultes.  the biggest issue is that it does not helps retain the dynmaic range of a capture even when there is plenty of information in the shadow and hightligths area a common adobe problem btw.  it often makes things worse like when you intentinally underexpose.  

After some time my biggest beef with this new feature is that, while it is very useful, provides no feedback on what was changed as we see when AUTO is used. I appreciate the differences between image wide changes of AUTO vs the smaller adjustments of AP. However, under the consideration of learning through feedback, it would benefit photographers to see what was changed by AP. Maybe something like a before/after view where one panel shows the AP enhancment and the other shows masks of the areas that were changed. Personally, this would help with my photography skills.

If an Adaptive Profile is applied to one of a number of images open in ACR, and the other images open are synched to that image, are a PTGM and an RGBT generated for each image or are those that were generated for the source image applied?

If the latter, perhaps a warning message should be generated, as the results might not reflect what would be achieved by unique Tables.

Just wanted to chime in and say that I enjoy the look of the Adaptive Color profile, especially when developing in HDR.

Adaptive color does a decent job of recovering blown out highligts, or at least gives a more naturall looking rolloff towards the clipped areas. However, since the 'amount' slider adjusts the entire image, the darker areas are severelly crushed long before the highlights are recovered.

In general the adaptive profiles work well, however they fail miserably when applied to images that have been Photo Merged HDR.  You get large strips of different treatment.

I'm excited, taken back, by Adaptive Profiles (AP).

First, I am an amateur photographer primarily working with landscapes.

While I see the benefits of AP, I'm concerned about the reliquishing of control of editting the photograph to AI. Yes, you can still manually edit your photo but, it appears from reading the blog, the tables work on grandularity not exposed by standard controls and masks. As far as I can see, AP does not result in any controls being set even when AP is making global changes. It sounds like what is needed in making the same granulated changes manually is to change the way we do masking and make it an option for each control rather than being separate with some controls associate with each mask. 

I have tried AP and like it but am now at a turning point. I watermark my images with 'Photograph' or 'Digital Art from Photograph'. I'm feeling that if I use AP, I should be using the later since I have not made the concious designed on tone and colour controls.

Still playing with it.