For many of us, that meant a workflow that relied on Lightroom to handle broad changes to whole images and batches, then exporting to Photoshop for selective editing and fine-tuning.īut then Lightroom started building out its masking capabilities.

Like when I opened up Lightroom a couple weeks ago to discover its overnight update included a veritable revolution in masking capabilities.įor years, Lightroom was content to allow big brother Photoshop to handle the heavy lifting when it came to selections and masking. This book also discusses how to customize your Lightroom Classic workspace for the ultimate workflow and customization experience plus many more tutorials to ace your photo editing skills.As an Adobe Creative Cloud subscriber, I’m periodically treated to pleasant surprises. Lightroom classic offers capabilities to photographers to make adjustments to their pictures and create amazing photos.

You can set folders to be hidden, or you can organize your files in various ways. Use it to drag a new palette onto your library, and you can easily remove it again. You can also add a new palette to your Lightroom Classic workspace by using the 'add new palettes' icon in the toolbar. Luckily, you can access the color correction options in the '3rd Party' section of Lightroom Classic. The downside is that you can only use it for correcting white balance, which makes color correcting your images more difficult. Lightroom Classic has a built-in tone curve, and it's not all that bad. Lightroom Classic is one of Adobe's premier software suites for photographers. This book has the best tutorials and hacks that will help a brand new user to get started with Lightroom Classic. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic is a great medium to give good control to a photographer.

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