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Adobe Lightroom Classic is an extremely popular all-in-one raw photo editor for many reasons, not the least of which is its diverse range of image editing tools. Lightroom uses intuitive sliders for many basic editing tasks and even includes AI-powered masking tools. However, even though many of Lightroom's features are...
At Adobe MAX 2022, Adobe has announced a range of new features for its photo editing ecosystem, including Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. Alongside the features users can take advantage of starting today, Adobe also unveiled some of its plans for Generative Artificial Intelligence and how it plans to implement more...
Back when Nigel Danson shot with film, he spent a lot of time in the darkroom dodging and burning to brighten and darken parts of his prints selectively. Long before the days of Photoshop, there was a lot that photographers could do to edit their analog images by hand. With digital cameras and modern editing apps like...
In many of his videos, nature and landscape photographer Adam Gibbs shows his raw image files alongside his final processed photos. He shares the original files to provide transparency and illustrate the amount of processing he does to his images. In many cases, Gibbs's editing is fairly light. It's not because he...
For the many photographers who edit their raw images in Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw, how to approach color editing can be confusing. You can use many tools, including Hue/Saturation/Lightness sliders (Color Mixer), global saturation and vibrance sliders, Color Grading tools, and Calibration tools. As outlined by...
Landscape photographer Nigel Danson gets asked about color a lot. He says it's the most common topic that viewers bring up. Although there are many tools you can use in Adobe Lightroom to adjust the color of your photos, it doesn't need to be complicated. Even the color grading tools, which can seem a bit daunting at...
Landscape photographer Thomas Heaton isn't a fan of change. For this reason, and a few others, Heaton hadn't updated Adobe Lightroom in a long time. He had a workflow that worked for him. However, Heaton finally updated Lightroom, and, as it turns out, he's happy he did because he has found some new tools to help his...
Adobe has released a significant update to its Lightroom software across all platforms. The free update, available to users starting today, is one of the biggest updates to Lightroom in recent memory, thanks largely to the addition of video editing to Lightroom on desktop, iOS and Android, greatly enhancing the...
We've spoken many times about the utility of the "Select Sky" masking tool in Adobe Lightroom. The AI-powered feature lets you select the sky in your shot with a single click and make precise, localized adjustments that affect only the sky – or everything but the sky, if you want to invert the mask. However, you can take...
Much like your photography skills improve with time and practice, so do your editing skills. Over time, you acquire new editing skills, software improves, and you develop new and different styles. What happens when a professional photographer like Pye Jirsa of SLR Lounge re-edits a photo he captured more than a decade...
Imagine you plan a photography trip to a spectacular location. You've scouted the area ahead of time, and you know the perfect shot you want to get. However, once you're there, the skies are bland. A bad sky can ruin an otherwise great landscape photo. What about outdoor portraits? You're even more at the mercy of luck...
Professional photographer Simon Baxter has continually improved and refined his photo editing workflow. His process may be 'simple,' as he puts it, but consistency has afforded him a trademark style.
Importantly, Baxter's editing style is informed by his approach in the field. When he's capturing images, he knows what...
Modern digital cameras are fantastic at capturing the tones, color and detail of any subject or scene. However, if you shoot RAW – which you absolutely should – there's so much more flexibility and nuance to your image files than you can see on the back of your camera. But when you first open a RAW file, it can usually...
When capturing natural light portraits, there are numerous ways you can add a bit of light to your subject to help them stand out. An 'in the camera' approach is to use a reflector to bounce light onto your subject. Another way is to use software to create 'flash' with photo editing techniques. With Adobe Lightroom's AI...
Photographer James Popsys has some great photo editing tips for beginners in his latest video. The first topic is cropping. It's certainly a basic photo editing skill, but don't let that fool you. It requires a careful, thoughtful approach. Cropping an image can completely transform an image. While we hope to nail our...
For most digital photographers, capturing a nice landscape image is only a part of the overall photographic process. After going out in the field and getting your image, it's then time to open your RAW files up in your favorite photo editor and bring your creative vision to life. Photographer Nigel Danson's latest video...
If you accidentally blow out an image – and who doesn't do that occasionally? – there are different ways you can try to save the image. You don't need to instantly delete it. Photographer Pye Jirsa of SLR Lounge shows how to fix an overexposed image in Lightroom in three simple steps. The video is part of SLR Lounge's...
In the latest major release of Adobe Lightroom, Adobe added new AI masking features. You can click Select Sky or Select Subject to have the software quickly and often accurately create pixel-perfect masks of different parts of your image, such as a person or people, the sky and more. Once the mask has been created, you...
As Adobe MAX 2021 kicks off, Adobe has announced many new updates across its family of products. We're focusing on the photography-oriented apps, but if you use other apps like Dreamweaver, there's a lot to read about over at Adobe's dedicated MAX 2021 website.
Adobe is introducing...
The Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) team has announced a 'completely redesigned and reimagined way to mask selective adjustments in Adobe Camera RAW, Lightroom and Lightroom Classic that we now collectively refer to as masking.' The new masking tools will be available in ACR, Lightroom (on desktop and mobile) and Lightroom...