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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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AdrianEvansPhotography

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won't even work since update, reinstalled etc useless and you want to start charging x2 the price when my 10 year plus sub ends!!

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wulf_6565

Participant

A basic but annyoing handling issue on LRC (at least on a Mac): If you apply the Adaptive Profile to an image using the mouse/Pad, you cannot move to the next picture using the cursor keys, you have to click first into the image row on the bottom of the screen. this is differently with the "Auto" button, there you can place the mouse cursor on that button and the cursor keys stay functional.

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jean-michel Picard

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Image de gauche : profil linéaire du Nikon Z8

Image de droite : profil adaptative N&B Adobe

Export dans Nik Silver Effex

Conversion avec le filtre 024 sans modifications.

Retour dans LRC 14.2

Le profil Adobe est trop lumineux et des détails dans les zones claires sont brûlées.

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Caroline39004181n28b

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For landscape shots with heavy snow, Adaptive Color often makes the photo too dark.

The classic "Auto" settings usually handle this scenario well.

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jrsforums

Inspiring

Ok....I cannot figure it out. Pics taken in burst mode, same exposure settings....different look with Adaptive Color.

RAWs and exported jpegs are here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/dgvuorcnmnemzd93osu6e/AGe2ykAVvLsNNQZMY2U7SbM?rlkey=ht68agjo1248gltjm1pggdf66&st=reraj190&dl=0

this is how they look. Appreciate someone telling me what I am doing wrong 😀

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Thijs_Photo

Participant

You're not doing anything wrong. Assuming you did not make any adjustments before applying the profile, this is just the "adapative" part at work. It "adapts" to each image and will clearly get it "wrong" (subjectively) some times. In this case two very similar images still produce very different outcomes. Adobe will no doubt tune this over time, to give more images pleasing outcomes. But it will never "get it right" 100% of the time.

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jrsforums

Inspiring

I was actually hoping that Adobe would look at the files and results. The significant difference in final 'brightness' seems strange based on sub second difference in time taken. Particularly since the base RAWs did not show any brightness difference (no strobes from pro photogs).

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djskinner50

Known Participant

Useful addition to LR. I would like to apply the Adaptive Profile to multiple images after import into LRC. This does not seem to be available. Or have I missed something?

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jrsforums

Inspiring

Select them, auto sync, apply profile. It will not be instant, as the AI takes some time....a box will pop up with est. time.

You may want to consider this for updating previews..I am trying it out...

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-ideas/p-allow-adaptive-profiles-color-mono-to-be-applied-on-import-in-lrc/idc-p/15175242#M23808

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djskinner50

Known Participant

Thanks. Works a treat.

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LC331590529y6b

Participant

I really like the concept, but I think the name is misleading. It maybe should be called "Adaptive Exposure", or just make the "Auto" button the Adaptive adjustments. It seems to change the contrast, clarity, and lights and shadows, moreso than the colors.

Also, with the Adaptive B&W, it would be awesome if it would not also effect the B&W Mixer settings for when I go back to one of the color profiles.

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jrsforums

Inspiring

Naming is always an issue...and open to individual interpretation....

my view....it is an 'Adaptive' profile...one for 'Color'and one for 'B&W'. It is not indicating just color being adjusted. It is also adjusting much more than exposure, so that name would be even more misleading. Again, this is a profile change which does global and local adjustments, the other profiles, plus 'Auto', do only global adjustments.

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Joe Foe Toe

Legend

Many of us will be applying Adaptive on post-edit images "just to see." It would be helpful to know in this case, if Adaptive works off the original RAW, or if its foundation changes to that of the processed image.

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jrsforums

Inspiring

The first times I tried Adaptive Color...on Camera Raw, before available on LRc...I thought it was awful.....until I realized that I was trying it with the images 'post-edited' using other normal profiles. The problem was, the Adaptive Color profile did work on the base RAW, but the old slider adjustments from the normal profiles were 'piled' on top of them. Once I realized this...and reset all the sliders to zero....I got great results that only needed little adjusting.

worth reading:

https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/10/14/the-adobe-adaptive-profile

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Joe Foe Toe

Legend

As I suspected - thanks much! With images I've already processed, it's easy enough to give Adaptive a try (and perhaps snapshot) before I reset settings. This will yield a "warped" result, but it's easy enough to try first, "just to see." And you have the benefit of seeing it with masking. Yes, of course in many cases your masking might need revamping, but sometimes it can be helpful just to see your image from another angle.

3Sixty Photography

Participant

Adaptive seems to be a great starting point for all my cameras. Also, using HDR setting on a single raw file and then previewing for SDR display. It looks like the settings for SDR preview are subtle compared to basic sliders? Is there a way to tone down the HDR profile amount like other profiles? An amount slider my be helpful.

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Carlos Q56

Participant

Hi: to my black and white photos I usually add some sepia using the Color Gradient tool of Lightroom Classic (global, hue 50, saturation 5), but in some cases if I use the new Adaptive B&W it becomes weird, instead of turning into sepia it turns blue. So for B/W I am using the old trusty monochrome profile. Regards.

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bast0425

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I’m very happy with these Adaptive Profiles. Since using them, I no longer have issues with the color rendering of my Sony camera, which I previously found disappointing. Before, achieving the desired image quality required extensive photo development work, unlike the more pleasing color science of Canon mirrorless cameras. These new profiles have truly made my editing workflow much easier, and the results are fantastic. Thank you, Adobe, for addressing this challenge and making color grading so much simpler!

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