Lightroom 2025

Video Tutorials

Adaptive Profiles in Lightroom Classic: The Smarter Starting Point You've Been Missing

I spend a lot of time chasing the right starting point. Not the final edit - the moment before the moment, where the raw file either cooperates or fights back. For years, profiles were the answer I defaulted to: slap on Adobe Color, get a reasonable baseline, then start pushing sliders. It works. It’s fine. But “fine” is a weird place to park your workflow when better options exist. In this Matt Kloskowski tutorial covering the February 2025 Lightroom update, the feature that stopped me mid-scroll was Adaptive Profiles.

September 2, 2026

Video Tutorials

Lightroom 2025's Generative Remove Tool Just Made My Retouching Workflow Embarrassingly Fast

Every fall I do the same thing. Adobe drops its annual updates, I spend a Saturday going through the changelogs, and I try to figure out which features will actually change how I work versus which ones will quietly collect dust in a menu I never open. This year’s releases, Lightroom Classic version 14 and Lightroom Desktop version 8, landed with a few genuinely useful upgrades. The one I want to walk through here is the one I’ve already used more in two weeks than I used the old version in two years: the overhauled Generative Remove tool.

July 31, 2026