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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.

Swapping from Lightroom Classic to Lightroom: 6 things you need to know!

February 24, 2023 by Rod Lawton

The web version of Adobe Lightroom (now just called ‘Lightroom’ by Adobe), is a very compelling tool for photographers who want to view, edit and share their images across a range of different devices, and to have all their images available everywhere. But before you take the plunge and swap to Adobe’s cloud-based version of Lightroom, there are six things you need to be aware of to avoid nasty surprises.

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, ListiclesTagged With: Cloud storage, Creative Cloud (Adobe), Lightroom (Adobe), Lightroom Classic (Adobe), Photography Plan (Adobe)

Referenced vs managed files in cataloguing software: what’s the difference?

February 14, 2023 by Rod Lawton

Well, there’s quite a lot, as it happens, and it affects the way you store, access and organize your photos

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, General, Lightroom, WorkflowTagged With: Capture One, Lightroom (Adobe), Lightroom Classic (Adobe), Managed images, Referenced images

How to go from color to moody mono in Lightroom

February 9, 2023 by Rod Lawton

This under-the-pier shot is a classic composition in black and white – you’ve probably seen a lot like it already – but the color original looks very ordinary indeed. So here’s a step-by-step guide to how I transformed it into a powerful graphic image in Lightroom.

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, TutorialsTagged With: Adjustment brush, AI mask, Black and white, Clarity, Cropping, Dehaze, Lightroom (Adobe), Masks, Profiles, Radial mask, Straighten

Lightroom color adjustments made easy

February 2, 2023 by Rod Lawton

Sometimes the colors in your image aren’t quite right and it’s not all of them but perhaps one in particular. White balance, saturation and vibrance adjustments affect the whole image, so how do you target specific colors? In Lightroom it’s easy.

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, TutorialsTagged With: Color adjustment, HSL adjustments, Hue, Lightness, Lightroom (Adobe), Lightroom Classic (Adobe), Saturation, Selective color

When to use a high key look and how to create it with curves

November 19, 2022 by Rod Lawton

A high key image is one which consists almost entirely of bright tones. This works really well for subjects with white or near-white tones and gives a very bright, airy look. Not every image needs a full range of tones from solid black to brilliant white, and not every image needs the ‘perfect’ histogram. Histograms are there to tell you what’s happening, not what to do.

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, TutorialsTagged With: Curves, High key

Don’t just accept Lightroom’s default Adobe Color profile

August 10, 2022 by Rod Lawton

It’s easily done. You view a RAW image in Lightroom, it applies the default Adobe Color profile and you don’t even bother to question it. You can see what you don’t like, you do some editing – sometimes it takes a while – and you fix it. But often you’re fixing an issue introduced by the default Lightroom profile, and not something that actually needs fixing!

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, Tutorials

Adobe Lightroom: what is it, where do you get it, what does it cost?

May 7, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Adobe Lightroom is not one program but three. You could easily call it an ecosystem. At heart, it’s a tool for both organizing your photos and editing them. So how do you get it, what does it cost, and which version do you need?

Filed Under: Featured, General, Lightroom, SidebarTagged With: Adobe, Cloud storage, Lightroom (Adobe), Lightroom Classic (Adobe), Lightroom mobile, Photography Plan (Adobe), Subscription software

Lightroom locks you in, in ways that other programs don’t

May 3, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Lightroom exists in two versions. Lightroom (the web version) is the big villain of this piece, but Lightroom Classic isn’t entirely guilt-free. Both use a one-time import process that copes badly with subsequent external changes. This effectively locks you into using them as your sole digital hub from then on.

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, Opinion

How I use merged HDR stacks as ’super-negatives’

April 26, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Lightroom and Capture One offer HDR tools with a difference. They don’t create wild and exaggerated HDR effects. Instead, they create what I would call DNG ‘super-negatives’ with extended dynamic range that you can then exploit however you like.

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, Lightroom, TutorialsTagged With: Bits and bit depth, Bracketing, DNG, Dynamic range, HDR

Recreating Kodak HIE black and white infra-red film digitally

April 23, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Kodak HIE infra-red film was one of my favorite films, delivering dense black skies, dreamy soft highlights and heavy grain. Can I get the same effect digitally?

Filed Under: Capture One, Exposure X, Featured, Lightroom, Nik CollectionTagged With: Black and white, Infra red, Red filter

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