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Adobe Lightroom: what is it, where do you get it, what does it cost in 2025?

March 2, 2025 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: General, SidebarTagged With: Adobe, Lightroom (CC), Lightroom Classic, Lightroom mobile, Photography Plan (Adobe)

The best photo editing software for organizing, editing, RAW and effects

March 4, 2022 by Rod Lawton

Choosing the best image editing software can be complicated. It all depends on what you look for most in your photo editing software. Here are 12 programs with their own distinct strengths.

Filed Under: Reviews, SidebarTagged With: Affinity Photo, Aperture (Apple), Capture One, Cataloguing software, DxO, Exposure X, Lightroom (CC), Lightroom Classic, Luminar, Nik Collection, ON1 Photo RAW, Organizing, PhotoLab, Photoshop

Layers explained: what they do and how to use them

February 27, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Layers explained

Layers are a central part of many photo editing processes, but they come in a number of different types, notably image layers, adjustment layers, type layers and vector layers.

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BAN adjustments… Basic And Necessary image corrections to do first

September 11, 2020 by Rod Lawton

BAN (Basic And Necessary) adjustments are for fixing obvious flaws in your photos. They will help you decide if images have the potential to be ‘keepers’ and prepare them properly for creative effects later.

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