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Working with profiles and presets

Working with profiles and presets - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop 2022 Essential Training

Working with profiles and presets

- [Instructor] Let's take a few minutes to discover the power of presets, as well as profiles in Camera Raw. I'm going to select this portrait as well as these sheep, use command R on Mac, control R on Windows to go to Camera Raw and then select the sheep dot DNG file. We'll start with profiles. So a profile is a set of instructions that determine how the information in a file is processed. So we can think of a profile as setting the base interpretation of the image. Basically, it's the starting point for all of your other adjustments and every raw image must have a profile applied and it can only have one profile applied at the time. So if we select a different profile, that's going to remove the one that was previously applied and profiles are non-destructive so we can change them at any time and we won't ever lose any quality. Now, when we're working with raw files, Adobe's default profile is Adobe Color for color images,…

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