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Working with profiles and presets

Working with profiles and presets - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop 2025 Essential Training

Working with profiles and presets

Let's take a moment to discover the power of profiles as well as presets in Camera Raw. I'm gonna open up the waterfall portrait and farm image by clicking on the open in Camera Raw dialog. And let's start with the image of the waterfall. Now, when we think of profiles, we can think of them as the base interpretation of the image. So how the image is initially displayed on the screen. Every raw image must have a profile and can only have one profile applied to it at a time. You can change the profile at any time, but selecting another profile removes the one that was previously applied. When we're working with raw files, Adobe's default profile is Adobe Color for color images and Adobe Monochrome for black and white images. When you're working with JPEG files, a profile would have been applied when the file was created and saved. So the profile that you'll see here will just say color or monochrome, but it won't have the Adobe before it and it won't be a raw profile. We can select our…

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