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Jeffrey Friedl's website seems to have been down for a few days. I have a fair few of his plug-ins. The one I rely on most is part of the Bag O' Goodies 'Personalized Auto Tone' so I'd be sad to hear if this is more than a short blackout. Anyone know?
 
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His main site is still up. The 'Error establishing a database connection' message that appears when you try to access his Lightroom content or blog seems to be a technical issue.

My workflow relies heavily on some of these plugins, particularly jfFlickr. I hope that, if Jeffrey ever decides to retire completely from maintaining these plugins, he has a plan to ensure that his work lives on.
 
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KarstenG said:
I hope that, if Jeffrey ever decides to retire completely from maintaining these plugins, he has a plan to ensure that his work lives on.
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I agree. He and a few others have developed some plugins that are invaluable. There should be a mechanism to insure these continue life beyond the author.
 
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Others at other sites have notice this too. It looks like he may have retired. If it is any help I stopped using personalized Auto tone when Adobe came out with the Sensei version. Now I used the Adaptive Color profile.
 
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Zenon said:
Others at other sites have notice this too. It looks like he may have retired.
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I hope not. Not leaving those of us with his plug-ins unable to use them next time LrC is updated.
Zenon said:
If it is any help I stopped using personalized Auto tone when Adobe came out with the Sensei version. Now I used the Adaptive Color profile.
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I'll have to look into that but my reasons for using personalized auto was to keep Vibrance and Saturation at default and stop - in my mind - over correction of Highlights and Shadows.
 
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Adaptive Colour Profiles are a potential game changer.. and for me … going forward… will be my default starting point.

It is worth looking at a few videos to give yourself a background to this feature.

Maybe .. I have been lucky with the images of used so far.. and it may be totally unsuitable for other genre types… but the fact it examines multiple areas within an image (and the Ai Landscape feature gives me confidence it has smarts) and that you are left with all sliders at zero.. gives a great base for edits.

Over time I may reexamine older edits (and take the opportunity to update the raw process version used as well).
 
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Gnits said:
Adaptive Colour Profiles are a potential game changer.. and for me …
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Not sure if they're for me. I've tried a couple of frames and see similar processing as when using ye olde 'auto' button. What I'm now missing is an idea of how much Highlight or Shadow correction LrC thinks the image needs. When the Shadows are over corrected I can at least see by how much and adjust from there. I have no clues with Adaptive Color.

And more... I shoot Fujifilm and somedays I want Provia and others Classic Chrome.
 
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John R Ellis said:
The comment boxes on his plugin pages say, "IMPORTANT: I'm mostly retired, so I don't check comments often anymore, sorry."
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appears that the plugin's .zip files haven't been archived.
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The big issue is come the next major LrC upgrade (later this year?) all these plug-ins will die. You need (needed) to make a new 'donation' to get a new licence code for each major LrC update so unless he takes some kind of action nobody will be using any come LrC 16.
 
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Let's hope the issue with his web site is a mere technical issue that he'll correct in a few days (moving at "retirement speed"). I vaguely recall that both Friedl's web site and Phil Harvey's Exiftool web site experienced outages of many days in the past decades.
 
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David Gordon said:
I hope not. Not leaving those of us with his plug-ins unable to use them next time LrC is updated.

I'll have to look into that but my reasons for using personalized auto was to keep Vibrance and Saturation at default and stop - in my mind - over correction of Highlights and Shadows.
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Auto does not bump saturation up very much but it did for vibrance as I recall. Adaptive Color profile leaves Auto I the dust when it comes to highlight and shadow controls but that is just mu option. The best part about that profile is no sliders move so you have complete control of everything after it's applied.
 
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Gnits said:
Adaptive Colour Profiles are a potential game changer.. and for me … going forward… will be my default starting point.

It is worth looking at a few videos to give yourself a background to this feature.

Maybe .. I have been lucky with the images of used so far.. and it may be totally unsuitable for other genre types… but the fact it examines multiple areas within an image (and the Ai Landscape feature gives me confidence it has smarts) and that you are left with all sliders at zero.. gives a great base for edits.

Over time I may reexamine older edits (and take the opportunity to update the raw process version used as well).
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I love it and apply it to every file at import so I can see what it sill look like at the start. I then Reset to apply Denoise AI and other adjustments in the order suggested by Adobe.
 
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I should be more specific. After viewing all my files with the Adaptive Color profile I press the bottom reset for each file I will work on which puts everything back to square one. Doing AI edits in the suggested order prevents the upper icon turning orange which would require an update. Adobe suggests that order to prevent unexpected results. Not everyone follows it.

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KarstenG said:
His main site is still up. The 'Error establishing a database connection' message that appears when you try to access his Lightroom content or blog seems to be a technical issue.

My workflow relies heavily on some of these plugins, particularly jfFlickr. I hope that, if Jeffrey ever decides to retire completely from maintaining these plugins, he has a plan to ensure that his work lives on.
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Should be up now…
 
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clee01l said:
I agree. He and a few others have developed some plugins that are invaluable. There should be a mechanism to insure these continue life beyond the author.
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Also agree. Unlike the situation with the late Rob Cole.
 
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PhilBurton said:
Also agree. Unlike the situation with the late Rob Cole.
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Rob Cole was (more than, I suspect) a bit eccentric. (This doesn’t take anything away from the significant contributions he made in the early days to Lightroom usability via his plugins.)
 
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camner said:
Rob Cole was (more than, I suspect) a bit eccentric. (This doesn’t take anything away from the significant contributions he made in the early days to Lightroom usability via his plugins.)
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Agreed,, given the titles that I have discovered through searches However,there is no authoritative source for the latest versions of his plug-ins, nor (to my knowledge) a source code repository. Downloading from an non-authoritative source creates a risk of malware.
 
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Dave Burns has also saved away a number of the Rob Cole plugins:
https://github.com/DaveBurns?tab=repositories

Dave was actively participating in the Adobe forums when he started his collection, and I think he's a trustworthy guy.
 
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Zenon said:
The best part about that profile is no sliders move so you have complete control of everything after it's applied.
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That's the worst part for me, I can't see what's happening. But the worst worst part is I use Fujifilm and Adaptive Color isn't compatible, or rather isn't Fujifilm colour.
 
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