Friday, February 4, 2011

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Review


Revision based on Lightroom 3.0The ubiquity of Adobe Photoshop software is staggering. Photoshop is 20 years old this year and in 2010, Adobe's flagship product is still probably the standard against which all other image manipulation software is judged. Originally developed primarily for graphic design professionals, in the last decade that Photoshop has expanded dramatically to meet the needs of a broad and diverse group of clients, including a new generation of enthusiasts and professional digital photographers. Adobe Photoshop is so firmly rooted in the collective consciousness, that became a verb-the expression "of Photoshop is an image now is commonly accepted to mean digital manipulation of any kind, using any software.The problem, from the perspective of many passionate photographers, is that Photoshop has become so huge, so complex and so a piece of software that most of its functionality is obscure, or at least away from their immediate comprehensive requirements. It is also extremely expensive and currently retails for $ 999-more than a lot of consumer level DSLRs. is there a scaled down version of Photoshop CS5 and Adobe Photoshop elements 8 is a great piece of software at a good price. However, as CS5, 8 elements (and its predecessors) are still primarily a space in which to perform complex adjustments to the pixel level for individual images. Although considerably less bloated than the full version of Photoshop, elements, yet offers more features than a lot of photographers-and ironically never really need many professionals. And this is where Photoshop Lightroom comes in. essentially, Lightroom lets photographers to do three things very quickly: organize batches of images, adjust them and output. This view shows the ' Development '. On the left are Lightroom preset, various settings along the bottom is the filmstrip file browser and on the right is the adjustment window, which contains several tools, from the fairly standard white balance and exposure to lens correction sliders, cropping, cloning and neutral gradient filter options.

Although Lightroom is at its best when you edit images in RAW format, can also be used to sort and manipulate JPEG and TIFF files, but using a more limited range of adjustment options.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom has seen the light of day, in January 2006, as a beta publicly available. Its recipients, then as now, was professional photographers and enthusiasts who want to organize and edit pictures-mainly-RAW files quickly and simply. Why not offer levels or Photoshop CS5 various graphic design oriented features, and originally offered very little in terms of level of pixel adjustments both.In its original incarnation, Photoshop Lightroom was little more than an organiser of a sophisticated file that is linked to an image manipulation and RAW conversion engine. Four years later, and Lightroom 3 remains primarily a tool of workflow, but what sets it apart from other, purely organizational software (and its predecessors) is its ability to impressive image manipulation. The greatest feature is reflected in its relatively high cost, $ 99 to upgrade from a previous version, or $ 299 full price. New RAW conversion engine (same as ACR 6 for Photoshop) * Non-destructive editing64 compatibility fixes * bit * lens * watermark image Flickr integration * improved Curves tool * Tethered shooting (currently limited to selected Canon and Nikon DSLR) * support for video files (Organization and tagging only-does not change) * filter * perspective correction adjustments of film grain simulation * import, export and global organization, with more output options (DNG, TIFF, JPEG) easy synchronization of adjustments across multiple imagesOffline management library (i.e. If the images are stored on an external drive offline) Photoshop integration

* New/improved in Photoshop Lightroom 3 (compared to Lightroom 1 and/or 2)


If you're new to digital photography, you can read the digital photography Glossary before diving into this article (it may help to understand some of the terms used).

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