P: Adaptive Profiles

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

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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[BBuzan549]

I like the adaptive color profile. The only problem is the reds; it seems to overexpose them. This is not a big problem as I can lower the saturation in other sliders. Thank you.

[The Wedding Photog]

Same here. On Fuji RAW's more than on Canon though. And easy to correct. (I have a preset made that's called 'DeTrump' 🙂

[The Wedding Photog]

Absolute game changer. Speeding up my workflow tremendously. It sometimes has the tendency to go overboard with exposure, but as a new 'starting point' it's absolutely great.

[Jim Hodder]

Team, this is really good. I have tried it on several photos of different scenes, and it does a really fine job. Thanks, and keep up the good work.

Jim

[HP Wild]

I like this function absolutely.!!!!

I miss a shortcut to start the function Adaptive Color. Is this possible?

With kind regards

hp

[HP Wild]

Hello together,

is it possible to use adaptive colour for tiff files?

With kind regards

hp

[drtonyb]

@HP Wild  asked

Hello together,

is it possible to use adaptive colour for tiff files?

With kind regards

hp

By @HP Wild

No, profiles only work on RAW files.

[richard_1582]

The adaptive color profile gives a fast starting point for my edits,  definatly glad you included the adjustment slider. Great work in my opinoin .

[ralph_9370]

The coloir and gradation is spot on or with a bit of tweeking - love it!

[Smul]

The translation of Adaptive Color in Dutch is not good. Better is to use this:  ’Adaptief kleur/zw’ .

Also the location in the Dutch version is not fine. Place it in the top  and use a light line for the separation. This conform the English version.

[Josef340043128z1g]

Doing football pictures, hard in sunlight. Adaptive Color does a pretty good job, but often makes faces way darker so I have to do masks more often than before

[DomiPro]

When using Adaptive Color on raw files from Hasselblad X2D results always in too much saturation. Also when using 'Normal' Auto, always too much sat and vibrance.

[3Sixty Photography]

I've been using adaptive profiles now for a month or two. At first, I thought it was getting me closer to what I was looking for, quicker. But after looking at a Fuji file using the Astia Fuji camera color. (with a preset that I always add), I think I am seeing what has been bugging me. Of course it's all personal taste, but the contrast transitions I think are too abrupt or too harsh based on my past editing style. Using adaptive profiles might be a bit too clinical for me. I haven't tried working my Nikon files, but I suspect I'm going to run into the same subjective issue. I realize you can fade adaptive profiles, but it looks like a strong contrast is built in and who knows what else. FWIW.

[mopperle]

I like the new adaptive profile as well, but sometimes I have the feling that colours, especially green and red, are a bit overdone. Picture are taken with Canon EOS 6DMII and EOS R.

[BBuzan549]

Hi Betreff: P, I shoot with a Nikon and have the same problem, mostly with red. Generally the adaptive color is good but I desaturate the red many times.

Brad Buzan

[doxxxicle]

I'm also seeing this problem with reds. See the attached pictures. The first is with Adobe Color:

 

The second is with Adaptive Color:

[doxxxicle]

Forgot to mention this was taken with a Sony A6700.

[Jim 185]

I keep forgetting to use the Adaptive Presets!!

They are quite often very good, sometimes too bright and sometimes too dark. Occasionally I will try one and go back to the default. 
The too dark/too bright ones can usually be handled in adjusting the amount of the adpative preset to use, but more often in masking.

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[BBuzan549]

I used the adaptive color for two weeks, and it stopped working. Now all I get is a blue screen with some black squares. I tried the adaptive black and white and got the same thing. All my other profiles work.

[BBuzan549]

Adaptive color in Lightroom Classic stopped working.

[Villages de France]

Merci pour l'info.

[Sean Goodhart]

Has anyone found a way to use the Library module filter to find images in lightroom classic with adaptive profiles that need updating?

When doing a copy-paste of settings across a set of images in a collection (I think I did that on the Lr mobile - I work flexibly across both systems) I find that back on LrC those images need the profile updating.  I'm losing track of which images I've revisited in a collection and which ones still need attention.   

I can see the red dot on the edit status when viewing files in the Develop module (see attached image) - but it's tedious to have to do that on every image file in the collection.  Being able to filter by profile status would probably help me.

Anyone got a solution?

[drtonyb]

@Sean Goodhart 

LrC does not have any way to filter photos that need updating.

In Library, select all the photos that might need AI Updating.

From the menu, choose Photo > Develop Settings > Update AI Settings

Although this processes photos that might not need updating, LrC quickly skips over these, only updating the photos that need it.

[Villages de France]

Merci pour l'info. Bonne journée

[Sean Goodhart]

Super answer - this is a great workaround for my problem and helps speed up workflow.

Great to know there's a keyboard shortcut CTRL-ALT-U which gets to that develop setting too, so all I now do is select all the images in the collection I'm working on and hit that key combination to be sure I've got them all up to date.

Thanks.