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    Raise your profile with Camera Raw

    Apr 22, 2018 5 minutes
    Source:   Harding's Rookery. A Beech tree forest next to the Ashridge College house, Ashridge Forest Sony Alpha 7R II, 24-70mm, 1/5sec at f/9, ISO 100  

    Camera Profiles have long been hidden away in the Camera Calibration panel. However, the latest releases of Camera Raw and Lightroom sees the Profiles menu repositioned up front at the top of the Basic panel. This now makes profiles more obvious and encourages you to explore the available profile options first before you start adjusting the tone and colour settings. In the past, Camera Raw profiles were for adjusting raw photos only. But the new creative profiles can now be applied to any image. To access the Profile Browser, click Browse from the Basic panel Profile menu, or click on the Browser icon highlighted in red.

    Adobe raw profiles

    The top section of the Profile Browser contains all the profiles you would want to apply prior to making any adjustments. Starting with the Adobe raw profiles, these aim to apply a standardised profile look regardless of the raw camera file type. Therefore, if you were to

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