Adobe Lightroom Classic is an accessible piece of software that makes it simple to navigate through your photos and edit them. You can save your impressive transformations but also revert to your original shot if needed. Over the next few pages, we will highlight many of Lightroom’s most impressive features and skills, showing you how to transform ordinary shots into the extraordinary.
To start with, we’ll go through some basic settings you should know about on the Lightroom interface, before looking at basic and advanced editing and, finally, saving and exporting your images. Lightroom’s editing software is non-destructive, so you can always go back and make changes later.
So whether you’re a landscape lover or are passionate about portraits, there are many aspects of Lightroom that you can use to your advantage.
1 Understanding the Lightroom interface
Work with speed and precision within the main developing window
The Develop module is where you’ll spend most of your time enhancing your images and making them the best they can be. With options available for almost any style of photography, you’ll always be able to tweak your images subtly or delve deep into the colour, contrast, spot healing, filtered gradients and many other powerful tools so that your images look exactly how you want them to. The Develop module is split into sections. There are panels on the left and right, and the Content Window can be found in the middle, where the photo you are currently working on is displayed.
1 Navigator window
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