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Lightroom is a versatile program that has evolved over the years and comes with amazing tools that makes it a one stop platform for most beginner and experienced photographers. Most professional photographers rely on Lightroom because of the efficiency in batch processing files, making it a great hit among many wedding and event photographers including others.

Besides, various features that help photographers organise their photos, sharing them as catalogs, using the creative cloud feature, etc., has made Lightroom a go to program for many photographers. If you are looking to improve your Lightroom skills or wish to learn more about the features that you do not use, here are a number of tutorials that will help you to understand Lightroom better.

Photography is about spending time capturing images with your camera and spending little amount of time post-processing the images. There are times when photographers may hate editing or maybe need a quick boost to their images without spending much time. Lightroom comes with tools that can make editing a breeze. Read to find more!

It doesn’t matter what program you use for editing, but it is important to have a specific workflow that can help you work faster and more efficiently to produce great results. Light room comes with rating systems, labels, tags, import settings, etc., that can make your work easier. This article shows how you can streamline your Lightroom workflow and save time.

Photographers have a huge collection of photos from each session most of the time and sometimes photos are also scattered across several hard drives. It would be great to organise the photos and find the ones we’re looking for easily, without having too much trouble. Here are some ways to organise your images using lightroom.

Lightroom comes with a lot of powerful tools, most of them packed in the “Develop” module and most of the time if the image is captured well in camera, there are only a few subtle edits one needs to do, to make an image presentable. Some tools like the clarity, texture, dehaze and sharpening, if not used well, can make the image look overprocessed or awkward. This article talks about five subtle tools you should learn to use in Lightroom.

If you are someone who has interests in architectural photography, chances are that when post-processing, you will need to correct the verticals and remove lens distortions. This may also apply sometimes to other genre in photography. This article talks about the transform and lens correction tools in Lightroom and why you need to use them.

Lightroom provides a lot of tools to make a photographer’s workflow easier and faster. There are a lot of little things that photographers need to know in order to use this program efficiently. Who doesn’t love hacks in order to get editing jobs done easily? This article provides 10 hacks for Lightroom classic.

The recent updates over the past year use AI technology to reduce the amount of time required to work on certain tasks within Lightroom. Some of these tools were not available in older versions of Lightroom and they can come in handy if required. Here are some quick but useful Lightroom tools that you should know.

Lightroom as simple as it may seem, has some really powerful masking tools that make selective editing quite easier for photographers. Depending on what you need to mask, there are various masking options – using just a brush or select objects, subjects, sky, background, etc. Here is a quick guide on how to use the masking tool in Lightroom for the best results.

Besides the basic colour corrections and other important tools that Lightroom provides, there is a separate section to colour grade photos if you are someone who wishes to bring in a cinematic or another specific look to your images. Lightroom has three colour wheels, one each to control the colours in the shadows, mid-tones and highlights. Check out this article to find out how to use these wheels.

If you want to work faster in Lightroom, you need to get into your Lightroom settings and makes some changes to improve its performance. Many beginners may not be aware of these settings. Most of the issues arise when working in the develop module or even the simple process of scrolling across to the other images may be slower. Here are some ways to get better performance in Lightroom Classic.

Some users may not be aware of the fact that Lightroom can also be used to edit videos. Although it does not have any advanced tools for video editing, if you are someone who occasionally captures a couple of videos and wishes to make some basic edits, then Lightroom can be useful if you do not want to invest in other expensive video editing programs. Here are the pros and cons along with how to edit a video using Lightroom.

Lastly, if you are someone who likes to make edits on the go on your mobile device, Lightroom has a mobile app that can also sync your edits via creative cloud so you can continue from where you left, when working on this app from your computer. Here is a quick guide to using the Lightroom mobile app.

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