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Profiles

'Profiles' are closely related to LUTS (lookup tables). They adjust the brightness and colour values in an image, sometimes to correct a device's colour rendition (like monitor profiles) but often to apply a creative effect or film simulation.

Color spaces, profiles and color management explained

May 23, 2020 by Life after Photoshop

The whole topic of color management can get pretty dry and technical, but stick with it because there’s information here that’s useful and puts lots of other things in context.

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, General Tagged With: Adobe RGB, Camera calibration, CMYK, Color management, Color model, Color space, Gamut, Lab mode, Monitor calibration, Printer profile, Profiles, RGB, sRGB, Working space

Lightroom CC Profiles explained

April 14, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Lightroom CC offers a range of Presets and you can create or save your own. But Presets use a combination of editing tools and effects, while there is another, more basic adjustment you can make to the look of your photos with Profiles. Profiles have been around in Lightroom for some time, but it’s only […]

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, Tutorials Tagged With: Lightroom CC, LUTs, Profiles

How to change Lightroom’s default processing

February 18, 2019 by Rod Lawton

The default processing for camera RAW files in Lightroom is a reasonable start but quite often you find yourself making the same adjustments time and time again for specific cameras. I get that particularly with my Fujifilm X30. It’s a few years old now and has a pretty small sensor that’s prone to noise, but […]

Filed Under: Lightroom, Tutorials Tagged With: Lightroom, Noise reduction, Profiles

ON1 Photo RAW 2018.5 profiles and how to use them

June 20, 2018 by Rod Lawton

ON1 Photo RAW 2018.5 profiles

The ON1 Photo RAW 2018.5 update brings a number of new features, including support for Profiles in the Develop module – but ON1 Photo RAW 2019 is now out so be sure to read the review if you’re considering upgrading.

Filed Under: ON1 Photo RAW, Tutorials Tagged With: ON1 Photo RAW, Profiles

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