Adobe Camera Raw woke up with no standard Camera Profiles.

 Yesterday, ACR and Photoshop were behaving weird. This morning the Camera Profiles were empty with only colour and monochrome as choices. I asked Google Gemini, not a worthwhile reply. Then tried Microsoft Co-Pilot, slightly better, but didn't solve the issue.

Looked at 

• C:\ProgramData\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles\
• C:\Users\<yourusername>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles

Both empty folders.

and that worked

Photoshop was 25.9.1, reverted to an earlier version, no improvement.

I shut down Photoshop, went to 

    C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Lightroom CC\Resources\CameraProfiles

then I copied the whole folder to

C:\ProgramData\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles\

and re-launched Photoshop and Adobe Camera Raw and that worked.

Don't confuse yourself by testing on an edited psd, test by opening a fresh raw file.

See also:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/camera-raw-discussions/adobe-camera-raw-missing-camera-profiles/td-p/10087240

New Article on Photographing Fireworks

It's been some time since I wrote here. I find it more comfortable on Notion. Here's a new article consolidating information from past articles and other external sources

But first you have to do what?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the ever more powerful features for "fixing in post" have been persistent and omnipresent topics in photography these days. I was watching two recently beta released features in their photo editing suite. Give these videos a watch, they are to the point and not lengthy.

The videos show how easy it will be in manipulate depth blur and specific colour after the act of capturing the image with your computer. On reflection, a skilled artist directly working with physical media might produce a similar work of art,

So where do you go with your own photos? Abhor editing and stick to SOOC (Straight Out Of Camera) output? Embrace editing and change anything and everything?

Your decision to edit and which elements you edit are the real essence of you. Your artistic center Your artistic identity. Whatever photo gear or software you use, that's not the essence, Your artistic choices are the essence.