One source of confusion for beginners using Lightroom is the folder structure, which references your computer’s hard drive, but doesn’t track changes made outside of Lightroom – this can cause ‘missing images’, crashing, or other Lightroom related problems. You can forget about storing your images in folders and subfolders and forgetting where they are. Lightroom’s database and catalog system allow photographers to keep all their images organized. Photoshop is made for exceptionally powerful image manipulation and edits, although you may need a powerful computer to handle large PSD files – see the best laptops for Photoshop.īut how do these differences play out on a practical level? By using Lightroom, you’ll be able to make edits to just about any image file in no time. Lightroom is a photo editor made for a photographer’s workflow and efficient editing of your photos.

Selecting a region changes the language and/or content on biggest difference between the two programs is what they are designed for.

Hold Control + Alt and drag / Command + Option + drag (Mac) on a brush adjustment pin to clone (duplicate) the adjustment.

Right-click / Control-click (Mac) on a brush adjustment pin to bring up a context menu with options to duplicate or delete the adjustment.

Smart Preview The size of a Smart Preview image has been updated to be 2560 pixels along the long edge.

Auto find source method now prefers source areas within the crop rectangle.Īuto Exposure The auto exposure feature has been improved to be more consistent across images and across different image sizes.

Auto find source method now works better for images with textured areas like rocks, bark, and foliage.

The smoothness adjustment helps to reduce low-frequency color mottling artifacts. A ready-reckoner of the new enhancements and refinements:Ĭolor Noise Reduction A Smoothness adjustment slider has been added to the Detail Panel under Color Noise Reduction.

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