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Lightroom (Adobe)

The 'web first' version of Lightroom. It's a streamlined version of the original Lightroom Classic software and stores your images online in 'the cloud' so that they are available to all your devices everywhere. The extra storage needed does bring extra subscription costs.

Adobe Lightroom updates since 2022

December 4, 2023 by Life after Photoshop

Adobe Lightroom Classic

If you’re wondering whether to take the plunge with Lightroom, you’ve put it aside for a while or you’re just not convinced you’re getting your money’s worth, this catch-up with everything that’s new since 2022 might just convince you.

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, NewsTagged With: Lightroom (Adobe), Lightroom Classic (Adobe)

Do you lose all your edits if you cancel your Lightroom subscription?

December 2, 2023 by Life after Photoshop

Cancel Lightroom

It’s not just all that editing work you’ve invested in Lightroom, but all the albums, keywording and image organization you’ve built up over the years too. Does that mean you’re stuck with paying a subscription for ever?

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, Opinion, UncategorizedTagged With: Lightroom (Adobe), Lightroom Classic (Adobe), Subscription software

Lightroom adds local storage, but is this quite the game-changer it seems?

October 22, 2023 by Rod Lawton

The October 2023 Lightroom update brought an important change to the way Lightroom (that’s the ‘web’ version, not Lightroom Classic) handles your files. Now you can browse and even edit photos on your local drives without having to import them into Lightroom and its cloud storage.

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, NewsTagged With: Browser (photos), Cataloguing software, Lightroom (Adobe)

The new Lightroom Lens Blur tool explained

October 18, 2023 by Rod Lawton

Adobe’s October 2023 update adds a new Lightroom Lens Blur panel. It’s flagged as Early Access, so it’s still in development, but you can use it right now and it’s actually rather impressive!

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, TutorialsTagged With: Blur, Lens blur, Lightroom (Adobe), Lightroom Classic (Adobe)

Now you can use Curve adjustments with Lightroom masks

June 19, 2023 by Rod Lawton

Lightroom mask Curves adjustment

This is a new feature introduced to Lightroom and Lightroom Classic in April 2023. It arrived in the same update as the new Lightroom AI Denoise feature, so it would be easy to overlook it, given all the fuss over the AI denoising.

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, TutorialsTagged With: Curves, Lightroom (Adobe), Lightroom Classic (Adobe), Local adjustments, Masks

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

June 16, 2023 by Rod Lawton

The Versions feature in Lightroom 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, TutorialsTagged With: History, Lightroom (Adobe), Snapshot (history), Versions (Lightroom), Virtual Copy (Lightroom)

Have you tried AI preset suggestions from Lightroom Discover? You should!

June 14, 2023 by Rod Lawton

Lightroom presets Discover

LIghtroom has many limitations and restrictions. I’m talking about the web-based Lightroom here, not Lightroom Classic. But at the same time, Lightroom has some clever features that use Adobe’s Sensei AI technologies. One of these its AI-powered preset suggestions.

Filed Under: Featured, Ideas, Lightroom, TutorialsTagged With: Lightroom (Adobe), Presets

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

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