in this video I'm going to show you how to use the new adobe creative profiles
in both Lightroom and Photoshop and I'm also going to give you completely free a
sample pack of 5 profiles along with RAW files to practice
I'm Tim from Tim's photos.com I'm a landscape photographer and I'm here to
help you take your photography from good to great so let's just talk about these
new Adobe profiles for a second this in my view is the best thing that Adobe has
done in the past decade for Lightroom and Photoshop and has completely changed
the way that I process my images it has been a huge time saver for me and it
helps me create more Wow type of image in half the time so just a quick word
about presets versus profiles now presets have been in existence for years
and years and years presets are the old ones I'm not a huge fan of presets but
profiles were only introduced to Lightroom and Photoshop in April 2018 so
they're brand new and they are designed to help you create more beautiful photos
in much less time so that you have more time to be out shooting your landscapes
and less time in front of the computer editing so I'm going to share my screen
and show you how to use these profiles first I'll just show you where you can
get your free sample pack of profiles if you go to Tim's photos.com slash
profiles and click on the blue button here and this way you can download a
free sample pack of the new Adobe profiles as well as five raw photos that
I'm going to show you in this quick tutorial so this is a raw photo of
Maureen Lake and the starting point is to go into the develop module in
Lightroom and make sure that you can see these four squares here and the word
profile if you cannot see them in your copy of Lightroom then you need to
update Lightroom so I've got the Tim's photos comm profile sample set installed
here so I click on the four little squares and this is the untouched raw
and what I love about profiles I mean it's just such a night and day
difference between profiles which are new and the
old presets let's look at the old presets the old presets you have to
one-by-one go through until you see something that you like and it's very
difficult because you can't see them all at the same time and it's difficult for
your eye to recognize which image you like the best when maybe a good one was
seven images ago whereas with profiles you can see them all at the same time
and I just from looking at this I can see that I like this one over here
better I like this one the best so I can also mouse over the other ones and I see
wow that's a really cold edit and this one here well the sky is really washed
out this one not bad actually and this one here mmm not loving it but
this this one I love because it has the warmth in the sky I see the warmth of
the Sun it's brightened up the foreground so I just click it to select
then come to the top and this is the best thing about profiles right here I
love this option is that it's already set at 100% but if I found that it was
too much I can back it off down to whatever I want to or if I want more of
the effect I can go above 100% so I'm just going to leave it at 100% here and
then click close and this is now my starting point for my editing all of my
sliders are at the zero point and I can start some fresh editing from this point
so it's a fantastic starting point let's take a look at the second image this one
here is called spirit island we're looking at the raw we're looking at this
nasty death spot in the cloud which is what happens when you go traveling but I
click into the profiles and I'm looking at the sample set again and this is the
one that I love now obviously this is the one that it was this is the profile
that was created for this photo specifically but once again I can select
on it I can choose 100% more or less then
click close and then start my editing on it let's look at one more example here's
a shot of Paris from the tallest building in Paris
during an awesome sunset this was the day before Bastille Day which is the
French national holiday on July 14th when all the fireworks happen on the
Eiffel Tower it was just such a magical time to be there so let's take a look at
which profile is going to light this thing up and make it completely come to
life and without even without clicking on anything I can see that I like the
top to the best this one here has mm too much of a tint to it it just doesn't
look natural enough but this one here has that natural look so I select it I
decide if I want 100% or not and I click close and there again is the starting
point of my edit so let's take a look at another one from France Mont
saint-michel get into the profiles by clicking on the four squares and take a
look at the ones that I've got done this one it's I'm not loving the sky this one
way to orange way to orange this one here not bad but the foreground is too
dark this one I'm liking it maybe the four
grounds maybe a little bit too light but this one here it's just right so click
on it and select close and now I can start additional editing one more and
then I'm going to show you the Photoshop experience so this one here is the
Palouse region of the wash of Washington State absolutely gorgeous farming
community with rolling hills and let's click into our profiles I'm just looking
at the broad view I think this one here is a great start this one here I'm just
gonna go between the two this one versus this one I'm liking this one I click on
it I click close and now I can do any other additional edits to it if I really
need to now let's jump over to photoshop I'm in the raw editor so the Adobe
procreative profiles only work when you're in the raw editor
you want to make sure you're on the basic tab right here and then you want
to make sure you can see the word profile make sure you see the four
squares if you don't see them then you need to upgrade your version of
Photoshop so I'm going to click on the four squares and here are the the seven
profiles that come with Photoshop and none of them do it for me
none of them are opening up the shadows enough none of them are are creating the
colors that I want so I'm going to close the Adobe raw the one that comes with
with it and I'm gonna go down to the Tim's photos sample pack and you'll
notice all these other different packs this is if you purchase the full
collection for $27 but if you've just opted to get the free sample packets
it's going to be the Tim's photo sample pack and I'm liking this one that is a
nice edit that is a really nice edit actually I like that a lot and since I
know that this is an HDR photo I want to go into the HDR's and just take a look
at what I have here looking down not loving it not loving it but boy I sure
like that one that this one here is too yellow in the sky but going back to the
sample pack this one Maureen Lake I love it I think this is a fantastic starting
point do I need a little less of the edit maybe maybe I'm gonna go just 95
percent on it I could go up higher even if I wanted to but no 95 percent on that
one and then I'm going to close it and then I'm back to my RAW editor and I can
make adjustments from there and this is looking like the starts of just an
absolutely gorgeous photo I hope you enjoyed this video and if you found
value in it then I would ask that you please consider liking this video as
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it would mean a lot to me and if you haven't already received your free
sample set of adobe creative profiles then please visit tim's photos.com
slash profiles and you can download a sample set there and included with that
sample set is the five raw files that I used in this tutorial I hope you enjoy
thanks so much