Photo How To

Are you tied of spending hours tweaking sliders or relying upon presets that rarely seem appropriate for the specific task at hand? If so, this straightforward Lightroom tutorial is guaranteed to save you serious time whether you're editing Golden-Hour mountains, misty forests, or unimpressive skies that are lacking in drama.

The topic of this eye-opening video with notable landscape photographer Mark Denney is Lightroom's Adaptive Color Profiles that he refers to as smart, built-in tools that eliminate guesswork by analyzing an image and instantly applying a natural-looking base edit tailored to your scene.

Denney describes how this innovative capability works, when and how to use it, and important considerations to keep in mind. He also provides a link in the description beneath the video for downloading his free PDF guide that does a thorough job of breaking down each profile to help you understand the differences and determine which option to employ when.

As you'll see, these Adaptive Color Profiles will not only streamline your everyday workflow, but they often deliver superior images than those that can be achieved with the enhancements you'll been making with Photoshop's conventional legacy tools. Denney wraps up his demonstration with this: "If you want faster edits, better results, and less frustration in Lightroom, this is where you should start."

Denney's robust YouTube channel boasts over 400 how-to videos that have over 29 million views by 300K avid subscribers who appreciate his thoughtful approach to photographic education.

We also recommend watching a tutorial we posted earlier with another image-editing specialist who demonstrates a simple step-by-step workflow for combining standard post-processing adjustments with Photoshop's powerful new AI Harmonize tool to create realistic composite photographs that will quickly grab attention.