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(Page 1 of 3)  Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is more than merely a Raw converter. It's a library for your photos, a digital darkroom for raw images, a place for compiling a gallery... It's a working place within a comfortable environment providing anybody, from a professional to an amateur, with all the necessary tools.
There's a lot written about Lightroom and we give here but a short review of the most essencial featers.
Supported cameras and destination formats
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom just as ACR supports all major camera brands although not all the models are in the list. You can check your camera on our Supported Cameras pages.
As for destination formats, besides the usual jpg and tiff, Lightroom can save converted images to png and psd files.
The editing of the images is undestructive, of course – the source file stays as it is and the changes are applied to the file copy.
Tools
I won’t dwell on the standard set of tools such as white balance, exposure correction, recovery, fill light, brightness, contrast. They are there, beautifully arranged and colorfully highlighted when you start using them.
On top of all the tools sits the familiar and indispensable histogram.
Color-saturation is grouped into Presence panel with clarity and vibrance parameters. While saturation influences all the colors of the image alike, clarity and vibrance work locally – the former adds local contrast and the latter – gives more intensity to low saturated parts only.
Tone Curve tool is a combination of Curves and Levels with an option of adding points to the curve and of shifting four controls - lights, darks, shadows, and highlights, that influence corresponding curve regions. The levels tool is traditional – with 3 pointers at the bottom of the greed.
Hue/Saturation/Luminance trio form the next panel. They have separate sliders for both rgb and cmyk color sets tuning. There’s an option of correcting HSL in grayscale.
Noise reduction/Sharpen tandem has usual parameters plus masking – the unsharp mask filter.
Lens correction and vignetting are well known adobe converters’ features. Same are lens correction and color calibration.
As lightroom is a standalone, it is created to perform the image editing from the beginning to the end. The lightroom various presets and simple tools as straighten, crop, spot and red eye removal fit this pattern. Lightroom user will never need Photoshop unless s/he wants to perform some very specific changes to the image and not the capture to printing procedure.
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