![]() ![]() Sun setting behind Manly Beacon, Death Valley, with the Adobe Landscape profile. The differences are subtle, I know, but every little bit helps: And there’s a bit more local contrast everywhere. In the second image, with the Adobe Landscape profile, there’s a little more definition in the clouds around the sun, while the shadows are slightly lighter. All the other settings are identical, except in the first one (with the Adobe Color profile) I pushed Vibrance up to +20, and Saturation up to +15, while in the second one (with the Adobe Landscape Profile) both Vibrance and Saturation are set to zero to better match the saturation levels in the first image. The first image below has the Adobe Color Profile, the second the Adobe Landscape profile. I find myself using this profile a lot for high-contrast images, and then doing something I rarely ever did before – actually pulling down the Saturation slider. Unfortunately the Adobe Landscape profile often completely over-saturates the colors, but that’s easy to fix. It also adds more local contrast, which is helpful for high-contrast scenes, where compressing the tones – darkening the highlights and lightening the shadows – can make the image look flat. This profile dampens highlights and opens up shadows a bit more than other profiles. The Adobe Landscape profile is particularly interesting, because it seems to have been designed for high-contrast images. Sometimes one of these is just right for a particular image. But I’m happy to have the Adobe Color, Adobe Landscape, and Adobe Portrait options. In addition to the Adobe Standard profile, which has been the default raw profile for most cameras for many years, we now have Adobe Color (the new default raw profile), Adobe Monochrome, Adobe Landscape, Adobe Neutral, Adobe Portrait, and Adobe Vivid.įor landscape photographs, I’m not a big fan of the new Adobe Neutral profile (too flat) or the Adobe Vivid profile (too harsh). That’s not something I’m particularly interested in, as I prefer a more natural look for my images, but I’m sure many people will find these creative profiles appealing.īut the extra choices also include several new profiles in the Adobe Raw section of the Profile Browser. Most of these new options are the so-called “creative” profiles, designed to add a canned, “artistic” look to an image. I think choosing a profile is a fundamental step, something you should probably do early in your workflow, so I’m happy to see that the new Profile Browser occupies a much more prominent spot in the Develop Module – at the top of the Basic Panel, where people are more likely to find it and use it.īetter yet, we now have many more profile choices. And ever since Lightroom 2 you’ve been able to choose different profiles (essentially different flavors of color and contrast), but those options were hidden down in the Camera Calibration panel, where most people never found them. Every raw file needs a profile to convert the raw data into the colors and tones you see on your screen. The initial release of this update (Version 7.3) had many bugs, but those problems seem to have been resolved now, so I thought it was time to delve into this new feature in detail. In April Adobe added a new feature to Lightroom Classic CC: the Profile Browser. If you’re viewing this post as an email, click here to see the video. ![]() The complete video is included in my Landscapes in Lightroom ebook and video package. This free video includes the first 9 minutes of the complete 33-minute video, and shows how to use and navigate the Profile Browser, how to add and remove profiles from your Favorites list, how use the Amount slider with Creative Profiles, and more.
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