Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 450D, Camera, canon, Canon 450D, Canon EOS, Canon EOS 450D, Canon Rebel XSi, DSLR, EOS, experiment, fix, flickr, green, learning, Lightroom, orange, quick, Rebel XSi, SLR, start, sunset, Toronto, touch-up, tripod, understand, XSi | 2 Comments » Using the before an after views in Adobe Lightroom, we touch a little bit on each of the basic tools, first with the vibrance and saturation, and then in the more complex tools with the green luminescence & saturation. The other tools are just as self explanatory.
do just that, at the expense of some possible salt-and-pepper noise. For example, increasing vibrance and saturation will tend to create livelier colours, and increasing the clarity will. Depending on your photo-editing level, that might be a mouthful or just the starting toolset, however these tools can quickly “upgrade” an image. So for starters, after you open up Lightroom and import a picture, you will see a basic toolset, including Colour temperature and Tint, White Balance control Exposure, brightness and Contrast and clarity vibrance and saturation. This might be cumbersome if all you want is a quick edit to your jpeg, but it comes in handy for more involved work. Lightroom will not, I believe, actually edit your image files (jpegs or raw, etc), but rather will store the modifications you’ve done by itself and allow you to export the resulting image. Lightroom can act as an organizer of your photos, but I’ve mostly used in its ‘develop’ mode, where one has quick access to the usual editing tools, some or most of which you might find in other (mostly raw-editing) programs, but not, I believe, with as much ease and “smoothness”. You will need this version if you want to use it with the Canon Rebel XSi / Canon EOS 450D raw files. So I’ve recently installed Lightroom 1.4.1 (as well as Camera Raw 4.4.1 in Photoshop). This will be, then, a small guide to the quick things you can do to improve you photos with Lighroom, with more detailed tutorials to come as I learn 🙂 Keep in mind that while I have some decent experience with photoshop and other similar programs, I’d quickly put myself in the amateur category.
I’ll talk a little about the lightweight Adobe Lightroom. While photoshop is the tool of choice (ok, that’s debatable, but it *seems* to have a majority win) for touching up your photos, there may well be times (most of?) when you don’t want to unleash this monster of a program on your pics, but would rather touch them up fast and send them to your friends/flickr/stock/whatever.
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