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Stop Starting From Flat: How Camera Profile Presets Fix Your Raw Import Workflow in Lightroom
Every photographer who shoots raw has had the same deflating moment. You nail a landscape shot. The back of your camera shows a punchy, saturated image with great contrast. You import it into Lightroom, and suddenly it looks like a flat, lifeless file that makes you question your career choices. Nothing changed in the field. What changed is that Lightroom stripped out the picture style your camera was applying to the JPEG preview and replaced it with its own default Adobe Standard profile.