MAJOR update: Adobe Camera Raw 17

What's new in Adobe Camera Raw 17 (2025 Update)

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:55 Generative Expand
04:29 Generative DeNoise in RAW
07:10 Detect Objects in ACR
09:50 Adaptive Profile (Beta)
13:26 Deeper Look: Adaptive Profile
15:25 Success & Failure: Adaptive Profile
16:57 More thoughts: Adaptive Profile

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[lesfisher]

This is my 24th year using PS and still learning, this tutorial has been very helpful, thankyou for your continues enthusiasm for this program, watching from the UK.

[jayehaleryn]

Save the women and children from being HDR'd...made me laugh out loud which woke up my dog...lolol! Great information, Blake! Thank you! :D

[jhfatia]

I don't understand why, despite the engine being the same, these new things in Camera Raw are not present in the recently released Lightroom?

[davidclement]

Thanks Blake, appreciate your frank response.

[alefeusch]

Fwiw, .there is a small icon on the little version thumbnails in generative expand that upscales the generated portion and, while not perfect, renders an image quality that matches the detail and noise profile much more closely than the example shown in the video.

[tavomb]

3:24 just click the enable expand checkbox no?

[briangilbert]

great tutorial learned a lot thank you.

[MCCraftAdventure]

Clearly "Adaptive Profile" was your favorite feature to have 4 segments of your video dedicated to it.

[MCCraftAdventure]

I wanted to say in my testing it looks nice on portraits, it seems to be separating color tones, and I didn't experience overexposing, I had an extremely warm image of a young lady in a blue cinderella dress, and it really made a nice starting point.

[pattymattes]

Even for content aware fill I wish it would look at the close neighboring pixels for the detail instead of the more blurry areas. You would think that would be a simple thing to have it do but I guess not. Thanks for doing these videos.

[mordavian]

I mostly use Adobe linear profile for my photos but i will try this new adaptive one.

[photonsonpixels]

I understand your frustration with the noise not being matched by Generative AI, Blake. Is it possible/worth trying to add noise via a localized mask? And, BTW, I love the rooster picture! Thanks.

[davidclement]

Hi Blake, thanks for another great video on the new features in Camera RAW. I currently use Lightroom Classic to do my RAW processing and manage my photo Library. But the new features in ACR are not available in Lightroom. If I use Bridge to open a RAW file in ACR, then I can use the new features on my RAW files, for example the Adaptive Profile adjustment. I can save the adjustments, close the edit and go back to it again to adjust them if required. However, the profile on the same RAW file in Lightroom shows Adobe Color as the profile. The same RAW file saves two totally different sets of adjustments depending on which tool you use to open the RAW file. It must I guess store the RAW adjustments in two different places. Trying to manage RAW files in Lightroom therefore becomes a real problem. Is there any way around this. Thanks

[mohamedsheriff]

Is the Denoised file available to use in LRC

[gynhar]

Your ACR is different than mine. No Adaptive Profile in mine. Not in PS or PS Beta.

[JohnJohnson-bosv]

@f64 can u tell me what cursor magnifying glass app you are using?

[Jon-pilp]

I have seen some tests on Dpreview forum. It looks like Adobe has catched up with DxO, when it comes to noise reduction. Earlier I had to do NR in DxO > DNG > import it to Adobe.

[jpmissdeNice]

Great new features and video. As a Lr user I wanted to try the new Denoise feature. Unfortunately it's not still in Lr. So I've tried to see what happen if I open the image in ACR, use the Denoise feature, close the file and reopen it in Lr. And sadly it doesn't work... Obviously Lr can't read the .acr side car file yet.

[oldfilmguy]

Really good information. Have you tried doing the AI remove object before doing the AI Denoise? I am wondering if that would solve the inconsistency between the overall denoise and the AI generated fill that has the original noise level in it. I haven't upgraded the software yet, so I can't test it myself. Cheers!

[drpentecost]

Thanks for this video Blake.
As the latest version of denoise is only available in ACR, Can a raw file in lightroom be sent as a smart object and be edited in the latest version of Adobe Camera Raw and go back to Lightroom without an additional file being created ?
Thanks