Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a graphics tool focused on post-production. It is aimed at professionals and high-end users such as digital photography and graphic design. It supports a variety of RAW images and is mainly used for browsing, editing, organizing, printing, etc. of digital photos. The new Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is an essential tool in the professional photographer's toolbox. It provides a simple application to manage, adjust and display large quantities of digital photos, allowing you to spend less time in front of the computer and more time with for filming.

​Comparison between Lightroom and similar software

​ ​​Lightroom and Photoshop have many similarities, but their positioning is different. PS is a pixel-based graphics processing software that is all-inclusive, but it is redundant for photo editing. It is difficult to run on computers with ordinary configurations and is prone to crashes. So for pure photography enthusiasts, Lr is obviously more suitable.

Compared with Ps, the advantages of Lr are mainly reflected in:

​​ 1.Photo management function

When you have been taking photos for several years and have tens of thousands of photos, photo management is definitely a big problem.

​ ​ 2. Directly process raw files

There is no need to jump back and forth between the acr and ps interfaces like ps.

3. You can add filters and plug-ins

For example, the series of filters produced by vsco has now reached 6. The plug-in recommends the fader, which can adjust the filter intensity at will.

4. Much lighter than Ps

The computer has little memory and other configurations are average. It often freezes when I open PS. This problem is almost gone with Lr.

5. Compared with PS, the learning cost is lower and it is faster to get started.

Because Lr is specifically designed for photo editing, it does not have as many functions as Ps. Because PS is too powerful in processing pixel images, it is easy for photography users to go into the misunderstanding of over-retouching the photos and deviating from the original photos.

​​​Lightroom function introduction

Light and dark restoration

Represents all the details captured by the camera in dark and light areas.

Create photo album

Turn your images into beautiful photo albums with the help of a large number of easy-to-use templates in Lightroom. Upload photo albums for printing in just a few clicks.

Location-based organization

Find and group images by location, making it easy to assign image locations and draw the photo process. Automatically displays location data from GPS-enabled cameras and camera phones.

Expanded video support

Extended video allows you to play and trim clips, extract still images from them, or adjust them with rapid development tools.

How to use lightroom

                            Import and Adjustment

Enter the gallery module, click the import button, select and import the 6 photos required for the tutorial. Enter the modify photo module, select the first photo in the film display pane below, use the white balance eyedropper to click on the background wall to correct the white balance, and then set the contrast to +20, shadows +10, and sharpness +25.

​ ​ Sync settings

Open the tone curve panel, change the channel drop-down menu from RGB to blue, and slightly press the curve to adjust the tone of the picture. Return to the film display pane below, hold down the Ctrl key to select the second and third files, click the Synchronize button, check the three options of white balance, basic tone and tone curve in the pop-up dialog box, and then click Synchronize button.

Automatic synchronization

In the film display pane, hold down the Ctrl key to select the 4th to 6th files, and turn on the automatic synchronization option on the left side of the sync button. The adjustments we make below will be applied to the selected 3 photos at the same time. In the Basic panel, adjust Color Temperature to -11, Hue -21, Exposure +0.12, Contrast +13, Highlights +19, Whites +76, Blacks -37, Vividness +22.

Remove photoreceptor stains

Click the automatic synchronization switch on the left side of the sync button again to turn off the automatic synchronization function. Use the shortcut key Ctrl+D to cancel the selection of the three works, then open any one of the works, select the stain removal brush tool, and set the mode to Repair, No Set the transparency to 100% and remove the two photoreceptor stains in the upper left corner of the frame.

​ ​ Synchronous stain removal

Use the shortcut key Ctrl+A to select all 6 photos and click the sync button. First click Unselect All to unselect, then check the Spot Removal option and sync. Use the shortcut Ctrl+D to deselect, and then check the synchronization effect of stain removal one by one. The sampling point in the third photo overlaps slightly with the hair, so we adjusted it to a more appropriate position.

Export file

Use the shortcut key Ctrl+A to select all 6 photos and execute the "File>Export" command. In the pop-up export settings dialog box, we can set the file format, size and other parameters, and batch rename the files. Here, we set the image format to JPEG, keep other options unchanged, and click the Export button.

TIPS:

In the gallery module and modified photo module, we can use the two shortcut keys Ctrl+A and Ctrl+D to improve our work efficiency. The former can select all photos at once, and the latter can undo all selections. Hold down the Ctrl key and click to select multiple photos, hold down the Shift key and click two photos in succession to select all the photos in between.

   Lightroom FAQ

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​​ 1. Close LR and press the [win] key.

​​ 2. In the search program and file bar, enter [%appdata%] and press the Enter key. At this time you will see the file directory window open. Find the Lightroom folder in the Adobe folder and rename the folder [oldlightroom]. Don’t close the window, you will need it later.

3. Enter [%temp%] in the search bar again and press the Enter key. This time I opened the folder of temporary files and deleted all the files in it. Although some files cannot be deleted and can be ignored.

​ 4. Go back to the previous [oldlightroom] folder and rename it [lightroom]. The system may prompt you that some file settings have been merged and overwritten. Select Confirm.

5. Open the Preferences folder from this folder. Find the file Lightroom5Preferences.agprefs. If you use another version, the 5 will be 4 or another number.

​ 6. Rename it to OldLightroom4Preferences.agprefs.

7. When you open LR again, you may be asked about language settings, and may be prompted that the directory file you used last time cannot be found. At this time, you need to manually find the file directory you opened last time or need to open. In particular, you can try the file that was extremely slow to open in the past. Turn it on again and you will find that the speed is obviously accelerated.

      Due to copyright and manufacturer requirements, Huajun Software Park provides the official download package of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software.