The basic changes made on the images opened from a raw file in Lightroom can be saved and they are called “Presets” (it’s a copy of a function applied to an image – i.e.: contrast) and they can be applied to a group of images as well, (batch image editing). Lens Correction adjustments (distortion, Chromatic, Aberration, Vignetting, etc.).Some of the most important are the following: Lightroom offers an array of basic editing functions. Lightroom Image Editing Functions and Tools So Lightroom is not a dedicated image editing tool, in my opinion is just a raw converter with some basic editing capabilities and an image management tool incorporating an image library. In the end, after I tried and tested Lightroom as much as I could, my conclusion was that I will only use Photoshop as it is the only complex / complete image editing tool while Lightroom is more of an image management tool which also offers some limited image editing, very basic functions, and some other features which I don’t need in my workflow. I do not print images, I do not export galleries and I don’t do sideshows so these features are of no help to me. Lightroom also allow the user to make slide-shows, to print images and export image galleries for the web, these are also other features that I am not interested in, so a no go for me. I just use Photoshop to edit my images, not for anything else. Photoshop offers only a few details in terms of exif data but to me it’s more than enough. I never look at my settings or any other data in my images so I decided this function is not for me. Lightroom also offers the image metadata viewer which allows the user to see full / complete exif data (all the technical info – settings and much more) of an image, again this is something that I am not interested in. So I decided that I will keep organising and filling my photographs manually. It was too complicated for me, and I decided it is inefficient and not for me. I still had to open the image in Photoshop in order to fine-tune most of my images, to optimise and finish them. When I first tried Lightroom I realised that it is only a pre-editing software which allowed me only to convert my RAW files and make very basic changes. I personally like to do that – I like to manage my images myself. Photoshop does not offer an image database or a viewer because it is only an editing software hence you need to organise your images by yourself. Lightroom also offers an image viewer which allows the user to go through their images and make selections. Lightroom was initially created for managing a large batch of images and includes an image library (it’s importing the images into an incorporated database) allowing the user to keep the media files organised in one place. Lightroom offers some specific functions (which have nothing to do with editing) which Photoshop currently doesn’t and the other way around, and also some basic editing fucntions. So, technically Lightroom is a raw converter, which can also be linked to Photoshop trough another piece of software: Adobe Bridge so that when you finish the raw basic conversion you can transfer the image into Adobe Photoshop for advanced editing. I personally do not consider Lightroom as editing software, but a pre-editing tool and also an image management tool. Lightroom’s full correct name is Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Photoshop also offers some (quite important to my workflow) selective editing tools which allow the user to make changes to only one part of the image. Photoshop is a very powerful editing tool which allows image editors and photographers to improve and enhance their original images to fine-tune them and perform some advanced changes such as straightening perspectives, dealing with blemishes, cleaning spots from the images, and many, many other advanced features. Photoshop is a very advanced and complex image editing software which can convert your raw files into usable formats and also offers a variety of functions / tools / brushes (whatever you want to call them) which help photographers and many other image editors to convert, edit, and optimise their images into a largely recognised usable format (such as jpg, tif, png, etc.). This also applies to Aperture (from Apple on Mac) software which is very similar with Lightroom. So, I only use Adobe Photoshop and not Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and in this article I will talk about the main differences and similarities between these two Adobe products, why I only use Adobe Photoshop, and what the two programs can and can’t do. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom main screen -interface
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