![]() You can also add sophisticated color tinting to the whole photo, or you can hand-paint certain areas with whatever color you want. You can do all of that in Photoshop, but it can take longer because of the additional steps required to do it nondestructively (say, on separate layers).Ĭreative color effects: You can use Lightroom to make beautiful black-and-white images and partial color effects. You even get Opacity control so you can dial back the strength of the change. In addition, Lightroom’s Spot Removal brush can be set to either Healing (blend surrounding pixels) or Cloning (copy pixels with no blending) mode, enabling you to click or drag to remove blemishes, wrinkles, power lines, stray hairs, lipstick smudges, sensor spots-anything that’s fairly small. You can even add negative sharpening to an area in order to blur it! These local tools make it easy to fix overexposed skies, add digital makeup, smooth skin, lighten teeth and wrinkles, enhance eyes, darken shiny areas, add extra sharpening to specific areas, and more. ![]() Changes made with the Adjustment Brush, Graduated Filter, and Radial Filter occur only in areas you mark by dragging a cursor or brush atop the image. LOCAL ADJUSTMENTS: Lightroom’s local adjustment tools-those that affect part of the image rather than the whole thing-use sliders, too. (That said, you can access the same sliders and local adjustment tools in Camera Raw or the Camera Raw Filter, though that requires additional steps.) Although Photoshop includes many powerful ways to adjust your photos-Levels, Curves, and so on-these controls are scattered throughout the interface and are harder to use. Photoshop is far less intuitive, due in part to its more than 30 years of development. Most of the controls are slider-based, highly discoverable, and logically arranged (shown above). GLOBAL PHOTO ADJUSTMENTS: Common global photo adjustments-cropping, straightening, fixing perspective and lens distortion, sharpening, adjusting tone and color, reducing noise, and adding edge vignettes-are incredibly easy to perform in Lightroom. ( Note: Photoshop’s RAW processor, Adobe Camera Raw, uses the same underlying engine as Lightroom but that’s a separate application.) That’s why you want to do as much processing to a RAW file in Lightroom as you can, and only pass the file over to Photoshop when you need to do something Lightroom can’t. Lightroom automatically maintains the large range of colors (color space) and high bit depth that a RAW file includes. RAW PROCESSING: You can edit many file formats in Lightroom’s Develop module (TIFF, PSD, JPEG, PNG), but it excels at processing and translating RAW files, the unprocessed sensor data that some cameras-and even some smartphones-can record. Although you could use Adobe Bridge to pick up some of the organizational slack it’s a file browser not a database. It also sports several filters you can use to view a subset of your images, plus you can easily organize images into collections. Photo & VIDEO MANAGEMENT: Lightroom’s Library module (shown below) is the perfect place to assess, compare, rate, and cull your images, as well as to apply descriptive keywords and other markers such as colored labels and flags. Here’s a short list of when to choose to use it over Photoshop: It’s also a powerful editor: You can use it to apply edits to an entire photo or to certain parts of it, you can sync or copy edits between one or more photos, and you can easily output those photos in myriad ways. Lightroom’s database nature enables it to shine at many essential, yet yawn-worthy, management chores. In this column, you’ll learn which program to use when. Each one was designed for specific tasks, but they were built to work together to speed your workflow. ![]() Although these two powerhouses share some common ground, they’re vastly different programs. If you have both Lightroom and Photoshop, you hold heaps of photo management and manipulation power in your hands.
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