Lightroom is a photography editing software devolved by Adobe. Lightroom has not only excellent editing software but also has lessons and tutorials on photography for cameras and iPhone photos (“LightRoom,” 2020). These lessons range from techniques on how to take better photos, to how to use Lightroom editing software (“LightRoom,” 2020). Before I was told about Lightroom, I had just used the simplistic iPhoto editing that comes with all Apple computers. iPhoto photo editing is great but doesn’t have as many bells and whistles as Lightroom. I found Lightroom quite easy to use. The part I really liked about Lightroom was that as soon as you changed one of the aspects, like the hue or warmth, the image would reflect the change instantly. The only downside so far with the limited dabbling I have done is that Lightroom you have to pay for whereas iPhoto is free. I have added to this blog post a video of a professional photographer demonstrating how to use the different editing tools in Lightroom, as well as a photo of my own that I edited using Lightroom.

The photo to the left was edited in iPhoto, and the photo on the right was edited in Lightroom. As you can see in the second photo, there is more of a contrast between the dog (Tumbo) and the background. His hair and nose or also more defined, making more detail come out in the photo.

 

Reference:

LightRoom. (2020). Retrieved from https://lightroom.adobe.com