Adjust color rendering in Camera Raw

Profiles allow you to control the colors and tonality in your photos, providing a foundation for your edits. Applying a profile doesn’t change the values of other editing sliders, so you can edit your pictures freely and then use a profile to enhance the already edited image. 

Types of Profiles in Adobe Camera Raw

Camera Raw offers a variety of Profiles for you to select from. Learn more about the types of Profiles:

Adobe Adaptive Profile

The Adaptive profiles help with image-adaptive adjustments for SDR and HDR images. Perfect for raw photos, Adaptive can help adjust the tone and color, enhancing contrast.  

The Adaptive profiles work best on raw HDR images. The default version of the profile does not support Monochrome raw files, while the Monochrome version does. Once you have applied the profile to a photo, select HDR to enhance the image with adjustments specifically for HDR. You can also view the SDR version of the same image. 

Adobe Raw Profiles 

• Adobe Color: This is the default profile, providing a good balance of color and contrast.
• Adobe Monochrome: This is ideal for black and white photography.
• Adobe Landscape: This enhances blues and greens, perfect for landscape shots.
• Adobe Portrait: This improves skin tones for portrait photography.
• Adobe Neutral: This offers a more subdued color palette, which is helpful for further editing.
• Adobe Vivid: This provides more vibrant colors and contrast. 

Camera Matching Profiles

The Camera Matching Profiles display profiles based on the camera make or model of your raw photo. These profiles match the color and tone of the in-camera JPEGs, such as Camera Standard, Camera Vivid, Camera Landscape, and more.

Creative Profiles

Creative profiles in Camera Raw add stylistic effects to a photo. You can apply these profiles to any image type (including JPEGs and TIFFs), not just raw files. This profile type includes Modern, Vintage, Artistic, and B&W profiles.

Add profiles to Favorites

To add a profile to Favorites, do one of the following:

• When browsing the profiles in the Grid view, hover over the profile thumbnail and click the star icon that appears at the upper-right corner of the thumbnail. 
• When browsing the profiles in the List view, click the star icon that appears before the profile's name.

Install profiles

Manually install profiles

The existing DCP profiles on your computer are automatically converted to XMP format. If you want to add a DCP profile after the first launch, copy the profile manually to the following locations:

Win: C:\ProgramData\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles
Mac: /Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/CameraProfiles

To manually add an XMP profile, copy the profile to the following location:

Win: C:\ProgramData\Adobe\CameraRaw\Settings
Mac: /Library/Application Support/Adobe/CameraRaw/Settings

Import profiles and presets

You can import DCP and XMP profiles and presets as zip files using the Import Profiles and Presets dialog box. To access this dialog box, follow these steps: