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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.

Give your images Clarity in Lightroom

July 18, 2013 by Rod Lawton

Lightroom Clarity slider

The technical explanation of Lightroom’s Clarity slider is  that it increases localised contrast to make objects, shapes and outlines stand out more clearly. The pictorial effect is that your images gain extra ‘punch’, but without pushing the overall contrast levels too high. It’s especially effective when the lighting is quite flat and lifeless, and I’m […]

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

Lightroom 5’s new Upright tool

July 12, 2013 by Rod Lawton

Lightroom 5 Upright tool

Lightroom looks and feels a lot like Lightroom 4, but there are some key new features. One of these is the new Upright tool, which can automatically correct perspective problems in shots of buildings and other rectangular objects. Note: In the latest versions of Lightroom, the Upright tools are now found in the Geometry panel. […]

Filed Under: Lightroom, Tutorials Tagged With: Lightroom, Perspective correction

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