How to Use Custom Stream Deck Profiles with the CORSAIR GALLEON 100 SD

The Elgato Stream Deck ecosystem lets users build highly personalized workflows through custom profiles, enhanced visuals, and automatic context switching. When combined with devices like the CORSAIR GALLEON 100 SD, you can have all these benefits right there on your keyboard.

In this article, we’ll explore how custom profiles work, how to enhance them with custom icons and icon packs, and how to use Smart Profiles to automatically switch layouts based on the active application.

A Stream Deck profile is a saved layout of actions, pages, folders, icons, and settings designed for a specific app, workflow, or task. Rather than manually building your layout each time, profiles let you group your most important actions together in a single, reusable configuration.

Profiles can include:

• Drag-and-drop actions for apps and system controls
• Custom pages and folders to organize workflows
• Personalized button icons and visual identifiers
• Action states and conditional behaviors

Creating your own profile gives you full control over what each Stream Deck key does and how it looks.

The foundation of any custom profile is the intuitive drag-and-drop action workflow in the Stream Deck software. After launching the app:

1. Browse the action library for useful commands, hotkeys, plugins, and system controls.
2. Drag an action onto a key in your on-screen layout.
3. Configure the action details, such as target app commands, hotkeys, or behavior logic.

This simple workflow lets you build fully functional button layouts in minutes.

Visual clarity makes a huge difference when working with Stream Deck profiles, and custom icons help users quickly recognize button functions at a glance.

You can customize icons by:

• Using icon packs downloaded from the Elgato Marketplace
• Adding your own images, GIFs, or designs
• Creating icons through Elgato’s Key Creator or third-party art tools

Icon packs provide ready-made visual assets that match specific themes or applications, from minimalist system controls to game-themed and branded collections. After installation, these icons appear in your Stream Deck Icon Library, letting you apply them to any button.

Profiles don’t have to fit on one screen. You can organize actions into pages and folders to keep related commands grouped logically. For example:

• Streaming layout on page 1
• Editing shortcuts on page 2
• System controls in a folder

Smart Profiles take custom profiles to another level by automatically activating the right layout based on the application you’re using. Once set up, Smart Profiles detect the current foreground app and switch the Stream Deck layout accordingly for you.

For example:

• Opening Discord could trigger your Discord profile
• Focusing on OBS Studio would switch to your streaming controls
• Launching Photoshop activates your creative workflow layout

Smart Profiles streamline your experience and reduce clutter by presenting only the controls relevant to what you’re doing at that moment. They must be configured within the Stream Deck app and work best when the Stream Deck software is minimized so automatic switching is enabled. You can also share your custom profiles by exporting them.