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![]() The number one feature is the editing functions, which allow for manipulation in a number of key areas, including exposure, white balance, HSL colours (hue, saturation, luminance), colour grading, tone curve, presence/detail as well as lens corrections and calibrations. It's a step by step walkthrough of Adobe Lightroom (which you can buy/subscribe for yourself here) and includes ways in which to improve your workflow, speed up your editing, or understand how we edit using our custom Lightroom presets.Īdobe Lightroom (LR) is an image organisation and editing software produced by Adobe, makers of Photoshop, Premiere Pro etc.īasically, it's an all in one editing software that allows you to import, organise, edit and share digital images (RAW, JPEG, TIFF etc.) - it's what all the pros use to create the incredible images you see across Instagram and beyond. ![]() So that's why we created this guide - to help you guys achieve the best possible results when editing your travel photos in Lightroom. It just takes some pre-planning, a little practice/experience in Lightroom, and utilising presets to speed up your workflow and achieve consistently beautiful edits every time. Yay for us! We realised editing doesn't need to be that hard or time-consuming. Through hours and hours spent learning our craft, and a few youtube tutorials in between, we're now extremely confident editing in Lightroom. We spent hours staring at our computer screen, trying to manipulate and replicate colours, tones and feelings to bring an image to life, without achieving the desired outcome. With limited experience, the process of photo editing in Adobe Lightroom was extensive and laborious. Fascinating faces, far-off places, tasty foods and even tastier sunsets - all documented through our lens.Īnd while we love documenting our adventures, for a long time we really despised editing our photos. Is this something anyone else has noticed? I could be completely mistaken but Ive used LR for a few years and only just seen this happen after going onto LR v7.If there's one thing we're passionate about, it's documenting our life on the road through photography. And its making it appear as if my files are now being blurred (which is not, just sharpening is much more selective). This has become very evident as work I do 2-3 times a month in the same rooms with the same light and the same presets is now looking very different, I typically have higher mask values for this work as its dark and I don't want sharpening applying to all the noise and any background objects, just my subjects. This is so off putting as typically for my event work I have to shoot wide open in dark areas so my background which I know is OOF is being sharpened a LOT by the new defaults and so when I'm comparing the 2, it now looks like the whole image is getting too soft. So you can't really compare the sharpening from the raw images to the edit now. It seems to now toggle between your current edit and the new default settings, for sharpening this is now for example, going from MY sharpening mask and amounts (amount 50, mask 80) to (amount 40, mask 0 new default). ![]() I think when using the before/after key, LR is no longer going from your current edited image to the image with NO adjustments. I cannot say for certain but personally its never jumped out as an issue in past versions of LR but. I believe after finding some of my presets which I made a year or so back have been looking very 'blurred' when applied. I have been going nuts tonight trying to figure out behind the scenes changes to sharpening too (if any). Yes, Lr is still king when it comes to DAM, Soft Proof and Print, but the raw conversion HAS TO come first. ![]() RT, Iridient and C1 are far superior at raw conversion than Lr/ACR. Hell, we can RL decon sharpening, a 32bit float conversion engine, and a 4 point fully adjustable USM distribution threshold - with separate fully adjustable halo suppression - in a FREE raw converter!Īdobe remind me of IBM - 'we're too big in the market to fail'. Why are we still limited to a single iteration deconvolution sharpening method, or unsharp masking with no distribution threshold?Īnd why are we still not given a 32bit float conversion engine? How old is the demosaicing algorithm, and why are we still limited to a choice of one algorithm? Everything else, including the new profiles, is/are meaningless if the foundations are shaky. It's a raw file demosaicer and processor, and as such the two cornerstones are demosaicing and input sharpening. What I really don't understand though, is why Adobe have added 'bells and whistles' but not made fundamental improvements to the basic foundation of Lightroom/ACR.
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