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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.

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

Lightroom CC vs Lightroom Classic

June 16, 2019 by Life after Photoshop

The name is the same, but despite the apparent similarities, these are two very different programs. So what are the key differences between Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic CC, and how do you choose which one to use?

Filed Under: Lightroom, Reviews Tagged With: AI (artificial intelligence), Lightroom, Sensei (Adobe)

Lightroom HDR: how the HDR Merge tool works

April 24, 2019 by Rod Lawton

Lightroom HDR merge

The Lightroom HDR merge option has been around for a while, so how does it work and how does it compare to a dedicated HDR tool?

Filed Under: Lightroom, Tutorials Tagged With: HDR, Lightroom

How to change Lightroom’s default processing

February 18, 2019 by Rod Lawton

The default processing for camera RAW files in Lightroom is a reasonable start but quite often you find yourself making the same adjustments time and time again for specific cameras. I get that particularly with my Fujifilm X30. It’s a few years old now and has a pretty small sensor that’s prone to noise, but […]

Filed Under: Lightroom, Tutorials Tagged With: Lightroom, Noise reduction, Profiles

BAN adjustments in Lightroom (BAN – Basic And Necessary!)

March 25, 2018 by Rod Lawton

BAN adjustments in Lightroom

There are a handful of basic tweaks you just know you’re going to want to apply to each image.

Filed Under: Lightroom, Tutorials Tagged With: Camera calibration, Lens corrections, Lightroom, Perspective correction, Spot removal, Transform

Adobe brings radical revamp for Lightroom CC

October 18, 2017 by Rod Lawton

Adobe has announced its next generation of professional imaging tools for photographers, and now offers two very different versions of Lightroom. From today, Lightroom will be available either as a regular desktop-based image storage solution or as an all-new cloud-based service where all your files will be available and editable anywhere. There are other changes […]

Filed Under: Lightroom, News Tagged With: Lightroom, Sensei (Adobe)

How to relight a scene in Lightroom

August 30, 2017 by Rod Lawton

Relight an image with the Lightroom Radial Filter

In photography, things don’t always come together as you’d want them to. Sometimes you get wonderful lighting but there’s no effective subject in front of the camera for bringing it out, and sometimes you’ve got a good subject but the lighting isn’t right. This is one of those situations. I thought the couple walking a […]

Filed Under: Lightroom, Tutorials Tagged With: Dehaze, Lightroom, Post crop or pre crop vignette, Radial filter, Vignette

Adobe Lightroom for mobile update July 2017

July 20, 2017 by Rod Lawton

Lightroom for mobile 2.8

Lightroom for mobile has steadily evolved from a portable way to check out pictures in your Lightroom catalog into a powerful and useful sidekick for the desktop app, and the new Android and iOS versions make it more powerful still. Version 3.0 for Android brings a redesigned, faster and more efficient app that’s a better […]

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

Adobe Camera Raw 9.12 and Lightroom update

July 19, 2017 by Rod Lawton

Adobe Camera Raw 9.12 and Lightroom CC 2015.12 update

Adobe has released a simultaneous Camera Raw 9.12 update Lightroom CC 2015.12 update, as well as Lightroom 6.12. It brings support for new camera RAW files, new lens profiles and new camera colour profiles. Adobe Camera Raw and both Lightroom Classic and Lightroom CC use the same RAW processing engine, which is why they’re updated […]

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

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