P: Adaptive Profiles

I'm applying the adaptive colour profile and out of the box it does a great job of dodging and burning however I'm finding that I usually end up pulling the 'amount' slider down to about 50% to prevent the colours being excessively saturated. Unfortunately that then reduces the amount of dodging, burning and general exposure changes it makes so I have to modify those separately.  So, 

As an end user who applies the adaptive colour profile, I'd like to be able to separately control the 'amount' of colour modifications applied and the 'amount' of general exposure changes applied.  For example, this might be done by providing two 'amount' sliders, one for 'colour' and one for 'everything else', where the 'everything else' slider controls the amount of dodge/burn/exposure/highlights/blacks/highlights etc changes applied. 

Adaptive color doesn't work well for people. Editing a group of women from a wedding. The adaptive color adds an odd grain and unflattering texture to their skin.

I am using adaptive color on landscape HDR photos, and I am generally pleased, especially with the luminosity effects.  I think that it would be better if there were seperate intensity sliders for color and for luminosity, so that I could adjust down the color impact, which is sometimes problematic.  

It's a handly tool and a nice starting point for outdoor scenes, but not so great for portraits and indoors in low light.  One thing I noticed is how it affects the White setting, as in what happens when you press "Shift" and then click on the slider.  In another profile, that usually adds (or removes) a small amount of White.  But when you start with Adaptive Profiles, it has a tendency to push the White so far to the right it basically blows out the photo.  So, I'm still playing with workflow.
(I've seen a few YouTuber's delare this as the "end of presets", but that's premature hyperbole) 

While you are useing Adaptive Colors, doesnt work with Smart previews editing off source datas.

I'm generally a fan. Often I dial it back to 40 or 70, sometimes to 10 or 20. For landscape HDR images I've created with Lightroom's Merge to HDR tool, I often prefer Adobe Color + auto tone.

Percebi também que, em alguns casos, a IA reduzir ruído, deforma o rosto das pessoas, no meu caso, estava fzendo uma partida de jogo de futebol. Apliquei as defifinições básicas automáticas, depois fui em reduzir ruído.

O Adaptive Profiles é sensacional, gostaria epnas de fazer algumas observações: 1- ela ativa muito os realces da imagem; 2- ela deixa poucos pontos pretos na imagem, prejudicando o contraste,3- a necessidade de atualização dela de forma manual quando editamos mais a foto é muito decepcionante, na minha opinião isso deve ser feito automáticamente, havendo um botão para selecionar isso ou não, já que para lagums pessoas esse processo pode demorar mais caso ele estja sempre ativado automaticamente.

Cityscapes & Adaptive Color

I've noticed with city skylines that the Adaptive Color Profile tends to darken the tops of buildings unnaturally as though the darkening of the sky which its doing is also being applied to the buildings that are "in the sky".  I've tried masking the buildings and attempting to brighten the tops with a gradient but it never feels/looks right.   I love what the Adaptive Color does to my DJI Drone Landscapes (I've struggled with DJI's greens a lot in LR Classic) but the skyline buildings issue has forced me to return to other methods when there's a skyline present.

I love this! I’ve been using the adaptive profiles for a few months now, mostly on photos from my iPhone 16 Pro, and they really do make the starting point feel more tuned to the image—especially with tricky lighting. The effect is subtle but helps bring out detail without pushing things too far. When I’m editing images from my X-T3, I know exactly which profile I want and how to get the look I’m after, but for iPhone shots the adaptive profiles save me time and give me a solid starting point without extra tweaking.