Profiles have the potential to be quite useful if you understand how they work. If you’re using Lightroom CC, Classic CC, or Camera Raw and you haven’t taken the time to get familiar with the new Profiles, this article is for you (and there is a video at the end of the article).

With this update Adobe made profiles much easier to access, and they also added to the functionality and usefulness of profiles. Profiles had existed in Lightroom previously, although they had been known as “Camera Profiles” in earlier versions. In April of 2018 Adobe released a major update to Lightroom and Camera Raw, and one of the most noteworthy changes/additions involved Profiles.

This lesson is a sample of what you’ll find in the creativeRAW Lifetime Membership Program. If you’re ready to dive into the world of profiles, then this “substance over style” video will open up many doors for you in your color processing…and give you long-term results in your photography. That’s technically correct, but it’s barely scratching the surface to what profiles can do for your photography… Now many think profiles are simply a new alternative to presets, where you can download and install these color “recipes” for your images. In comes profiles….which let you go “beneath the surface” and determine how the colors in your raw file area interpreted and displayed on your computer. What if you could decide which pixels are considered to be a specific hue…giving you more power to include (or exclude) specific areas from your color adjustments? Or perhaps your HSL adjustments are too broad…and you’re shifting other hues close to red that you want to remain untouched.Įither way, your color processing is off the mark…and it becomes frustrating. When you want to adjust your colors in Lightroom or ACR, most will typically go straight for the HSL panel….which will get you satisfactory results “most” of the time.Įventually, you’ll come across an outlier image that just doesn’t seem to play nice with the HSL panel.įor example, you want to shift the reds more towards orange, but the sliders aren’t picking up on the exact pixels you wish to change.

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