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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.

Lightroom alternatives: which is best?

June 23, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Lightroom alternatives

Lightroom is probably the automatic go-to program for enthusiasts and experts looking for an all-in-one photo organising and editing program, but it’s not necessarily the best and it’s not popular with everyone, so many will be looking for Lightroom alternatives.

Filed Under: Capture One, Exposure X, Lightroom, Luminar, ON1 Photo RAW Tagged With: Alien Skin Exposure X, Lightroom, Luminar, ON1 Photo RAW

Adobe June 2020 updates bring improvements to Lightroom and Photoshop

June 21, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Adobe brings out updates to its Creative Cloud software a couple of times a year, and very often there’s not a lot to report that’s particularly significant to photographers, but this time it’s a little different, with some significant changes to the Lightroom ecosystem.

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, News Tagged With: Creative Cloud (Adobe), Lightroom, Photography Plan (Adobe), Photoshop, Selection

Lightroom Versions and how they work… and you do need to know!

June 19, 2020 by Rod Lawton

The new Versions feature in Lightroom CC is interesting, but it is NOT the same as Virtual Copies, and the way it works could mean lost edits and lots of frustration if you don’t understand what it’s doing.

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, Tutorials Tagged With: Lightroom, Versions (Lightroom), Virtual Copy (Lightroom)

Photoshop vs Lightroom: which program should you use and when?

June 6, 2020 by Life after Photoshop

Photoshop vs Lightroom, which is best? It’s not that simple, as anyone who uses them will know, because although there is some crossover (well, a lot of crossover), they have very different roles and very different strengths and weaknesses. One is not better than the other because it depends on what you want to do. […]

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

Lightroom tone curves explained: Tone Curve vs Point Curve vs Target Curve adjustments

May 17, 2020 by Life after Photoshop

Lightroom curves

Curves adjustments are one of the key tools in photo editing, and Lightroom offers three ways of making curves adjustments. What’s more, the curves tools look different in Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic CC. Complicated? Not once it’s explained…

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, Tutorials Tagged With: Channel, Curves, Darks, Highlights, Lightroom, Lights, Luma curve, Parametric curves, Point curve, S-shaped curve, Shadows, Targeted adjustment, Tone curve

Lightroom CC White balance tools explained

April 16, 2020 by Rod Lawton

White balance is one of the central image adjustments in any photo editing workflow. Here’s how the white balance tools in Lightroom CC work. 1 Edit button Click this to open the Edit tools sidebar. This is where most of Lightroom CC’s editing tools are found. 2 Color panel The Lightroom Edit panels expand and […]

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, Tutorials Tagged With: As shot (white balance), Lightroom CC, Saturation, Temperature (white balance), Tint (white balance), Vibrance, White balance, White balance presets

Lightroom CC Profiles explained

April 14, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Lightroom CC offers a range of Presets and you can create or save your own. But Presets use a combination of editing tools and effects, while there is another, more basic adjustment you can make to the look of your photos with Profiles. Profiles have been around in Lightroom for some time, but it’s only […]

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, Tutorials Tagged With: Lightroom CC, LUTs, Profiles

Lightroom CC Geometry panel explained

April 12, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Lightroom comes in two versions. Lightroom Classic CC, the ‘desktop’ version, is probably the most popular, especially amongst long-term Lightroom users, but Lightroom CC has a lot to commend it. On the downside, it means paying extra for Adobe Creative Cloud storage – the 20GB with the regular Photography Plan is not enough, and the […]

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, Tutorials Tagged With: Constrain Crop, Geometry (Lightroom), Guided Upright (Lightroom), Lightroom CC, Perspective correction, Transform, Upright tool (Lightroom)

Did Lightroom Classic just get faster?

September 7, 2019 by Rod Lawton

Adobe’s August 2019 updates brought a number of new features and improvements to Lightroom Classic, including Accelerated image-editing with GPU support, the ability to organize collections with color labels, support for new cameras and lenses, and other enhancements such as PNG export and batch merge for HDR and panoramas. Hidden away in this information was […]

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

Capture One vs Lightroom: which is best?

June 19, 2019 by Rod Lawton

Capture One vs Lightroom: how do choose between these two programs? Here are they key differences, broken down section by section.

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, Lightroom Tagged With: Capture One, Lightroom

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