Adobe Lightroom for Photo Editing

Adobe Lightroom photo editing software for photography

Adobe Lightroom is extremely popular with photographers. Recent information suggests that many who used to use Photoshop are moving to the lightroom. From this, it can be deduced that there are definitely some benefits that are more useful than Photoshop.

Let's look at the matter simply. Photographers take lots of pictures. So they have to work with hundreds of pictures. Photoshop does not allow the use of more images. One has to work with pictures one by one. This facility is available in the lightroom.

Photographers need to fix the light of the picture. Somewhere to reduce, somewhere to increase. They certainly don't need to work with many layers, or need to be painted. So from there, Lightroom is simpler software than Photoshop.

Photoshop itself is a very powerful software. On top of that, there are numerous plugins. There are plugins for all types of work from image noise elimination to special effects. Most of these plugins can also be used in Lightroom. Then what is the need for Photoshop?

And best of all, Photoshop costs a lot more than lightroom. So the lightroom is the choice of photographers.

Lightroom software is a little different from conventional software. In Photoshop you open an image, change it, then save. If necessary, save the previous one and save it under a different name. Lightroom is designed to work with a large number of images, and it is assumed that you will work with the original images intact. So before you open any image, you have to fix some things. Such as where your original images will be, where the changed images will be. There will never be a possibility of damage to your original image. You can open the image from the camera's memory card or after copying it to the hard disk. Or you can add metadata there when you open it.

Lightroom interface

When you open the lightroom, you will see such an interface. The interface is relatively simple, yet there are several important parts to note.

The name of the software must be written on the left. On the right side of the Library, Develop, Slideshow, Print, web text module picker. As the name suggests, their functions are file management, image editing, slide show viewing, printing, and use on the Internet.

The picture you will be working on can be seen in the middle. One image can be enlarged, or many image previews can be viewed. How to see can be selected from the bottom of the picture. Image zoom can be controlled using the slider on the right side.

There are two panels on either side of the main screen. These vary depending on the module selected. For example, if you select Library, you will find folder, catalogue, etc. options on the left and histogram, quick develop, metadata etc. options on the right And if you select Develop, you will find preset, snapshot etc. options on the left, and various change options on the right. It can be opened by clicking on the name of any option or by clicking on the triangular icon next to it.

At the very bottom is the filmstrip. A preview of the imported images can be seen here. Clicking on any of them will get it as an active image in the middle window. Thumbnails can be enlarged or resized using Filmstrip window dividers.

Imported

When you turn on the lightroom for the first time, you will not get any image. You need to import them to use the images. Here are some things to keep in mind.

Lightroom can import almost all types of bitmap images, all types of RAW, CMYK and video formats to the new version (3.0).

-Select the module to import. Then click the Import button at the bottom of the left panel (or enter the command from the menu). Drive / attached memory card etc. can be seen as a source in the left panel.

-Select drive. Select the folder that contains the images. A preview of the inner images can be seen. You can use the images in the subfolder by clicking the option or you can use a specific folder by turning it off

- A tick mark will appear on each image when viewed in the preview window. Uncheck an image to remove it from important work. If necessary, you can enlarge the image using a loop view instead of a grid view.

- There are 4 options on the preview window for how to import. The Copy to DNG option will first copy each file to another folder and convert them to DNG. Selecting Copy will copy them all to a new folder, selecting Move will move all images to another location (such as from memory card to hard disk) and selecting Add will directly import the folder without making any changes.

-Check the right panel once. There are 4 options in the Render Preview section. Basically, change this option to fix the value of the preview. Using good quality will require more time.

-Don’t Import Suspected Duplicates if selected will eliminate the possibility of importing the same image twice.

- When everything is fixed, click the Import button at the bottom right. The selected images will be imported.

Basic editing

- Go to the module to edit any image after import.

-Select it from the filmstrip below.

-Open the Basic tab from the right panel. Here you can find sliders to change everything like Temperature, Color, Exposure, Recovery, Fill Light, Blacks, Brightness, Contrast, Clarity etc. Anything can be previewed as it changes.

- Tone Curve, HSL, Effect, etc. can be changed by opening the tab. You must know what to do here.

Export

Use the File - Export command from the menu to get the final image after making the necessary changes to the image. The format, size, etc. of the output image can be specified along with the name of the folder in the Export menu.