Smart Lightroom presets bring together innovative color & style settings with AI-backed smart masks, simplifying localized edits in your landscape images within Adobe Lightroom. These smart masks intuitively recognize elements such as the sky, primary subject, backdrop, and foreground, facilitating individualized editing without any manual input.

For example, if you’re aiming for a moody and intense sky, just select “dramatic sky.” Looking to emphasize your main subject? Choose “highlight subject,” and the mask will promptly pinpoint the subject, achieving the sought-after effect in no time.

These presets stand out due to their unparalleled personalization for every photo. Going beyond traditional presets, they incorporate both color/style settings and smart masks. Driven by AI, these masks instinctively identify and focus on distinct parts of your photos, like the sky, primary subject, backdrop, and foreground. They adeptly extract the optimum quality from your RAW files, eliminating the need for lengthy manual edits. While old-school presets often need major tweaks to align, these smart presets smoothly adjust, delivering unmatched outcomes suited for your unique photos.

The smart masks utilize Lightroom’s AI-driven subject detection, which is notably efficient and accurate, especially when subjects are distinctly visible. But if elements like the sky aren’t evident in a picture, the mask’s detection might falter, causing the sky masks to potentially misfire. This concept is also true for the main subject. For precise AI detection, a photo needs a clear and discernible subject. Whether it’s a person, a building, a vehicle, a tree, or any other central aspect of your image, as long as it stands out, Lightroom’s AI will spot it.

The color and style presets are designed to work with every version of Adobe Lightroom, encompassing Adobe Lightroom Classic, Adobe Lightroom CC, and Adobe Lightroom Mobile. They operate uniformly, yielding consistent photo effects across these platforms.

In contrast, the smart masks integrate flawlessly with Adobe Lightroom Classic and Adobe Lightroom CC on desktops. Yet, they aren’t suited for Lightroom Mobile due to the absence of a vital feature needed for the masks’ optimal performance.

In essence: While the color and style presets are versatile across all Lightroom variants, the intelligent masks are reserved for desktop versions.

The A.I presets are tailored for landscape and outdoor imagery, providing a spectrum of both subtle and vibrant color styles. While the softer styles blend nicely with portraits, the more intense ones can affect skin colors, rendering them less ideal for portrait shots.