Adobe Lightroom has a nice feature if you use the Adjustment Brush: the ‘Auto Mask’ option. Auto mask tries to keep within the boundaries of a certain color while you are painting. It constantly looks underneath the cross hairs of the brush to sample that color. This works fine with subjects with an even color, […]
Adobe Lightroom can make corrections for the lens you used, but sometimes the application doesn’t recognize your lens, even if a profile is available. That can happen if you use a third party lens, for example. In that case you can manually select the lens you used, but you don’t want to have to do […]
Adobe Lightroom is a powerful application, but its modular structure is sometimes annoying (especially for ex-Aperture users like me). It you’re working in the Library module, for example adding keywords to images, and you notice that the image needs a small edit, you have to go to the Develop module, apply the edit and then […]
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom has had an ‘Auto’ button in the ‘Basic’ part of the Develop module for a long time. Unfortunately however, this button seldom gives satisfactory results. Usually, the image gets grossly overexposed if you use that button, doing more harm than good and making it even useless as a starting point. A few […]
Adobe has released an Aperture to Lightroom plugin. You can download it here if you have Adobe Lightroom 5.6 (the present version). From Lightroom 5.7 onwards, the plugin will be standard. This plugin makes it easier to move an Apple Aperture library to Lightroom, but I advise you to do some home work in […]
As most photographers know, Adobe has two payment options for using Lightroom. You can take a perpetual license as always, and you can get Lightroom as part of the Creative Cloud subscription model (attractive in combination with Photoshop CC). However, many photographers fear that they won’t be able to access Lightroom (and so their images) […]
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