

My Library gives you filters to select certain albums, recent photos, etc. The organization tools live on the left-hand side of the screen and on the bar above your photo, taking up the most real estate of any other toolset.Īdd Photos lets you add a photo to your workspace. Imagine a video game tutorial that happens outside of the game. It begs you to have a dual monitor setup to follow along. In Photoshop you can create images on blank canvases.įirst impression is that Lightroom desperately needs a hands-on tutorial. Throughout the review there will be parallels to Photoshop and this is the first sign that Lightroom plays a much different role. Lightroom accepts that challenge.Ĭurious users can give it a shot using a 7 day free trial. Now with the advent of cloud storage and huge solid state memory drives we find ourselves at an interesting crossroads of efficiency: as something becomes more efficient we tend to use more of it. You could only fill up that SD card with a couple hundred hi-res shots before another trip to the electronics store for a second. When digital cameras and smartphones first came on the scene, you had to be cognizant of the photos you took because of storage limitations. Still, Lightroom plays well at its specific role in the Adobe suite of products and should appeal to any photography buff wanting to wrangle their ever-growing collection. Tutorials could use an improvement by being integrated into the program itself as they currently they exist in video format only. Lightroom photos can sync up and share directly to your Adobe Portfolio where you can build a photography website in minutes. It does so with ease and Lightroom always retains the original photo. A relative newcomer to the Adobe suite of products, Lightroom focuses on the breadth part of the photo manipulation equation where the venerable Photoshop has eyes on depth.
