- #Adobe lightroom review 2015 pdf#
- #Adobe lightroom review 2015 upgrade#
- #Adobe lightroom review 2015 plus#
- #Adobe lightroom review 2015 professional#
Search through the Adobe Exchange and you'll find endless useful (and not-so-useful) additions, from Instagram–style instant-retro-faux-aged filters to provider-specific export plugins. One of the things I love about Lightroom is the community of photographers and developers around it who have created an ecosystem of filters, plugins and other useful add-ons. This feels like a bit of an afterthought, and I think it's something that Apple's iPhoto does rather better.
#Adobe lightroom review 2015 pdf#
Less compelling, for me at any rate, is the inclusion of a Book module, particularly as there's only one commercial provider baked into the software – Blurb – although you can add plugins that export to other providers, or export your creation as a PDF for sending to another provider. If you want to strip that data out before you upload or export your pictures, there is thoughtfully an option to do so. Type in the location, highlight the images you want to tag with location data and drag them on to the location on the map. The new Maps module is powered by Google Maps (so you'll need to be online) and it's straightforward to use. Of the by-no-means-vital additions, I quite like the new ability to add location data to images. Image: Kate BevanĪnything more and you'll need a proper video editing program, but this does at least mean you can do the basics.Īlso useful, especially to a professional, is the new ability to soft-proof an image – this means that if you've calibrated your monitor to a printer, you can see what the image will look like on screen before you start splurging on ink. Colours in PV2012 are more saturated contrast is higher detail is lost in the shadows.
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Lightroom 4's new processing algorithm: on the left is an unedited picture imported via Lightroom 3's algorithm, PV2010 on the left is how it will look if upgraded to PV2012.
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They're still pretty rudimentary, but you can now top and tail a video in Lightroom and you can apply adjustments to your clips in the same way as still images. The other big deal is the improvement to the video tools. With it you can tweak small areas of your image to change the exposure, contrast or - perhaps most usefully – the white balance, which will save you having blue faces against a yellow background if you're shooting with a slow shutter sync. The adjustment brush has been made more powerful. You'll have to play with them to get used to their effects, but taking pot luck with clicking Auto on the Tone button seems to produce better results first time than before. Previous versions gave you Exposure, Recovery, Fill Light and Blacks the new algorithm gives you Highlights, Shadows, Whites and Blacks. However, the benefit of this new algorithm is that you get new sliders to play with when working with pictures in LR4. The new algorithm seems to brighten and up the contrast when applied to images processed under the old algorithm, PV2010. My suggestion, after playing with it, is to leave your old images alone if you were happy with them before.
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It's up to you whether or not you do that.
#Adobe lightroom review 2015 upgrade#
What this means in practice is that first, when you open images you processed in earlier versions of Lightroom, you'll be asked if you want to upgrade them to the new process. The most important change is the switch to a new processing algorithm, PV2012.
#Adobe lightroom review 2015 plus#
Lightroom has been evolving through its releases and this new version has a couple of significant changes plus a couple of nice-to-have but by no means vital additions.
#Adobe lightroom review 2015 professional#
I'm not a professional photographer, but I take a lot of pictures and with the best will in the world – and the best camera in the world – no image is going to be perfect at the moment of capture.