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Lightroom reviews, tips and tutorials

Lightroom is Adobe's all-in-one photo organizing, RAW processing and editing tool. It can be used on its own or alongside Photoshop, which is designed for more complex editing and illustration work.

You can only get Lightroom as part of Adobe's various subscription plans. The Adobe Photography Plan page explains these in more detail.

There are now two versions of Lightroom, which makes things more complicated. Lightroom Classic CC is the more powerful 'traditional' version which use images stored locally on your computer. Lightroom CC is a newer, slimmed-down version that uses cloud-based storage where all your images are available everywhere. This Lightroom CC vs Lightroom Classic CC comparison explains the key differences.

What is the best image editing software?

February 26, 2021 by Rod Lawton

Choosing the best image editing software is complicated, not just because there are so many alternatives, but because they all do different things. It all depends on what you look for most in your photo editing software. Here are ten programs with ten different approaches.

Filed Under: Capture One, Exposure X, Featured, Lightroom, Luminar, Nik Collection, ON1 Photo RAW, PhotoLab, Photoshop, Reviews Tagged With: Affinity Photo, Capture One, Cataloguing software, DxO PhotoLab, Exposure X, Lightroom, Luminar, Nik Collection, ON1 Photo RAW, Photoshop, RAW processing

Subscriptions vs single fee software: the pros and cons

February 25, 2021 by Rod Lawton

Photo by freestocks on Unsplash

It’s a topic that divides opinion to this day, and those who object to subscription software do so on principle while those who embrace it do it out of practicality. That’s two different sets of reasons. But anyhow, let’s just spell out the differences between these two means of payment for software, see how the […]

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, General, Lightroom, News, ON1 Photo RAW, Photoshop Tagged With: Subscription software

How to use the Lightroom Dehaze tool

November 11, 2020 by Rod Lawton

The Lightroom Dehaze tool is very powerful – often too powerful. It increases local contrast but also makes images darker and more saturated. It’s often better used with local adjustments and not on the whole image.

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, Tutorials Tagged With: Dehaze, Graduated filters, Lightroom

How much color do you need: Kynance Cove in Cornwall

November 10, 2020 by Rod Lawton

How much color do you need? Color is a complex thing, and sometimes less is more. Sometimes flat-out, full-on saturation works, but sometimes it seems you just need hints of color to get an equally strong effect.

Filed Under: Featured, Ideas, Lightroom Tagged With: Color adjustment, Dehaze, Graduated filters, Lightroom, Loawa 9mm f/2.8, Sony A7R II

Porthleven power lines in Lightroom: one LUT, three graduated filters

September 30, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Porthleven power lines in Lightroom: one LUT, three graduated filters. How a series of tools and effects can be used in combination towards an overall ‘look’.

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, Tutorials Tagged With: Black and white, Graduated filters, Lightroom, LUTs, Vignette

How to use Lightroom online: work on your photos in your web browser

August 19, 2020 by Rod Lawton

If you’ve got Lightroom CC or Lightroom Classic you’ve got an Adobe Creative Cloud account, and this means you can synchronise photos between the Lightroom catalog on your computer, your Lightroom online web space and your mobile device. You can do this with either version of Lightroom, but Lightroom CC is built to do this […]

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, Tutorials Tagged With: Cloud storage, Creative Cloud (Adobe), Lightroom, Lightroom Mobile, Mobile photography

Lightroom CC review (2020)

August 16, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Verdict: 4 stars It’s undeniably useful to be able to see, organise and edit your images anywhere, on any device, and the editing tools are now almost the same as those in Lightroom Classic. But you do have to pay for the necessary cloud storage for your photo catalog, and while the Sensei AI image search feature is great, the rest of the organising tools are pretty simplistic – and there are no smart albums. Lightroom CC is unique and effective in some ways, expensive and limiting in others.

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, Reviews Tagged With: Adjustment brush, AI (artificial intelligence), Album, Creative Cloud (Adobe), Lightroom, Lightroom Mobile, RAW processing, Sensei (Adobe)

Lightroom Classic review

August 11, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Lightroom Classic CC

Verdict: 4 stars Lightroom has become a standard tool for a large number of photographers and it does streamline the organisation and editing of large numbers of photos. But while it’s powerful and effective, its raw processing is not the best and its organisational system can feel quite awkward.

Filed Under: Lightroom, Reviews Tagged With: Adjustment brush, Lightroom, RAW processing

Is Lightroom free? The mobile app is free, but the desktop version is not

August 9, 2020 by Rod Lawton

That’s a good question for those who use the mobile app. The Lightroom for mobile app is free to use but has restrictions which can only be unlocked with a Photography Plan subscription. Here are the details.

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom Tagged With: Lightroom, Lightroom Mobile

DxO PhotoLab vs Lightroom vs Capture One – which is best for RAW files?

August 2, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Which is best for processing RAW files, DxO PhotoLab, Lightroom or Capture One? Here’s a set of eight image comparisons that aims to find out.

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, Lightroom, PhotoLab, Reviews Tagged With: Capture One, DxO Optics Pro, Lightroom

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