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Explore Adobe's Adaptive Presets
Digital Camera World
|August 2022
Get to grips with this new functionality in Lightroom and Photoshop's Camera Raw
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The latest updates to Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop include an exciting new approach to using presets. By building artificial intelligence into presets, Adobe has taken things a step further. Available in Adobe Camera Raw, Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic (v11.4), the new Adaptive Presets are powered by machine learning. They work in a similar way to normal presets, but rather than altering the entire image, they zero in on either the subject or sky, before applying tailored tonal effects to the area.
Additionally, a new control lets us fine-tune a preset’s strength, and new premium preset sets offer a host of effects tailored towards different subject matter.
With these improvements, Adobe continues the trend in implementing AI into its applications. Aided by machine learning, complex edits are gradually getting easier and quicker, which is great news for photographers.
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This story is from the August 2022 edition of Digital Camera World.
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