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Apr 3, 2018 12:11:56   #
dsmeltz Loc: Philadelphia
 
Anyone have a chance to play with the new profiles in Lightroom?

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Apr 3, 2018 12:44:30   #
bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA
 
Quick glance. It seems like an advanced from of presets. I'm not yet sure what I will do with them as I've not been a user of presets.

I like that the Dehaze slider moved to the Basic panel!

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Apr 3, 2018 16:17:17   #
Linary Loc: UK
 
dsmeltz wrote:
Anyone have a chance to play with the new profiles in Lightroom?


With a combined profiles and (home made) presets, I don't think I will be using On1 or NIK software as much. I think Adobe are trying to get ahead of the competition - maybe they are.

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Apr 4, 2018 06:15:07   #
steveg48
 
bsprague wrote:
Quick glance. It seems like an advanced from of presets. I'm not yet sure what I will do with them as I've not been a user of presets.

I like that the Dehaze slider moved to the Basic panel!


The profiles can be included in a preset.

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Apr 4, 2018 17:27:33   #
PhotosBySteve
 
Yes, they work basically the same as other's presets. For me, I find using presets, with the exception of my own, adds way to much time to processing a raw image. I usually spend less the 3 minutes per image when processing by using the sliders. I mostly use the slider feature within the histogram for most tweaks and edits. Every time I attempt to use someone else's presets, it takes upward of 10 minutes per image. Which is not acceptable with my workflow.
If you like presets, I'm sure these and others will suit you fine.

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Apr 4, 2018 20:07:04   #
lsimpkins Loc: SE Pennsylvania
 
PhotosBySteve wrote:
Yes, they work basically the same as other's presets. For me, I find using presets, with the exception of my own, adds way to much time to processing a raw image. I usually spend less the 3 minutes per image when processing by using the sliders. I mostly use the slider feature within the histogram for most tweaks and edits. Every time I attempt to use someone else's presets, it takes upward of 10 minutes per image. Which is not acceptable with my workflow.
If you like presets, I'm sure these and others will suit you fine.
Yes, they work basically the same as other's prese... (show quote)

As Bill Sprague pointed out in another thread, Profiles have significant differences to Presets. A Preset moves the sliders in the Basic Develop module, while a Profile does not. This means that applying a Profile to a high key image will have a similar effect to applying it to a low key image. And, unlike a Preset, the amount of the Profile you apply to an image can be easily changed via a single slider, much like the opacity slider of a layer in Photoshop. I think the potential for Profiles is much greater than that of Presets. In fact they can serve as a type of Look Up Table (LUT) for swapping colors in an image.

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Apr 5, 2018 08:13:21   #
dsmeltz Loc: Philadelphia
 
lsimpkins wrote:
As Bill Sprague pointed out in another thread, Profiles have significant differences to Presets. A Preset moves the sliders in the Basic Develop module, while a Profile does not. This means that applying a Profile to a high key image will have a similar effect to applying it to a low key image. And, unlike a Preset, the amount of the Profile you apply to an image can be easily changed via a single slider, much like the opacity slider of a layer in Photoshop. I think the potential for Profiles is much greater than that of Presets. In fact they can serve as a type of Look Up Table (LUT) for swapping colors in an image.
As Bill Sprague pointed out in another thread, Pro... (show quote)


Reference to LUTs has been in several of the videos I have seen in the last few days including Adobe's.

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Apr 5, 2018 09:36:01   #
DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA
 
Bill Sprague also posted a link to Matt Kloskowsky's youtube video extolling the virtues of the profiles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji4eXfy78tM

More information on the LR update can be found at
https://www.lightroomqueen.com/whats-new-in-lightroom-classic-73/

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Apr 5, 2018 15:44:02   #
Ednsb Loc: Santa Barbara
 
Skylum Luminar 2018 added LUTS in their 2018 release. My understanding it comes from video editing to apply the same look across a video. So far I’ve seen no real advantage to my workflow.

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Apr 5, 2018 15:46:23   #
canon Lee
 
dsmeltz wrote:
Anyone have a chance to play with the new profiles in Lightroom?


HI DS... I do custom editing for each shot, and dont use presets.. I might look at them, but the type of photography I do I need to keep things custom...

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