- [Narrator] I always start my editing
by selecting a profile,
because profiles will change the appearance of a photo,
without moving any of the edit controls.
Profiles are often confused with presets,
but they are very different.
A preset is simply like a recipe of edits,
that have been saved,
and can be applied to an image with one click.
Where a profile is a set of instructions,
that determine how the information in a photo is processed.
We find the profiles at the top of the basic panel.
We'll see here that this image has the profile Adobe color.
By default, every raw image,
is given the Adobe color profile when it's imported.
And this is a generic profile that looks good.
Maybe okay when applied to any type of raw image,
from any camera manufacturer.
However, since it's generic,
it isn't necessarily the best profile for an image.
So choosing a different profile,
might give us a better starting point for editing.
If we click on Adobe color,
we'll see all of the Adobe profiles here.
But if we click on the squares icon here to the right,
it'll open the profile browser,
and this is nice because you can hover over a profile,
and see what it's going to look like on the image.
We're looking at all the Adobe raw profiles here,
but if I scroll down,
we'll find the camera matching profiles.
This image was captured with my Fujifilm camera.
So we see the Fujifilm profiles here.
Raw files require a profile,
to render the raw data into an image that you see on screen.
Profiles aren't required for non raw files.
But if we scroll down below,
we'll find some creative profiles,
that you could use on JPEGs or TIF files.
If we open up the artistic and I hover over these,
we can see the kind of looks that these could apply.
I rarely use these,
unless I'm intentionally doing a creative edit.
For this image, I like the Adobe landscape profile.
So I'm going to scroll back,
to the top of the profile browser,
and click on Adobe landscape to apply that.
Then I'll click on close, to close the profile browser,
and note here at the top of the basic panel,
that it says Adobe landscape.
And the look of the image changed a little,
We see better into the dark shadow areas.
But all of the edit settings remain set at zero.
Here's what you need to remember about profiles.
You don't have to change the profile,
but you may get a better starting point if you do.
And changing the profile,
does not move any of the edit controls,
and therefore making it the best place,
to start your editing.