Lightroom rules!
As much as I love using Photoshop and GIMP, Lightroom has
always been more enjoyable to use. I have really become a fan of the adjustment
brush tool, finding myself using it really a lot in my photos for fixing color
irregularities. Of course, there is the
price you have to pay using Lightroom – less features, but really, how much do
you sacrifice?
So, my dad just tuned his Lancer a bit, black rims, black
roof and black side mirrors. The black and white combination looks really good.
I thought I´d do a little experiment to see how powerful Lightroom really is.
And to answer the question – do you really need to install the full feature
Photoshop to do some simple editing and enhancing photos?
Here is a photo of the car before the tuning, without
editing:
And here is a photo of the car after the tuning, also
un-edited:
Now, for the transformation, I used the first photo of the
car, before the tuning, and tried editing it to look exactly like the second
photo of the car, after the tuning using JUST Adobe Lightroom. Beside some
ordinary editing (contrast, brightness, highlights, shadows), I only used the
adjustment brush and then added some black color, reduced the exposure and
shadows on the painted areas.
I´m pretty satisfied with the result. Of course, it´s
nowhere near perfect, but considering the circumstances, pretty good. I like
how the the side mirrors look like painted in matt black.
Here is the final result, the first photo of the car before
the tuning, edited to look like the second photo, after the tuning:
CONCLUSION:
Lightroom is definitely very powerful. I enjoy using it and
enhancing photos with it, to make them stand out. BUT, I advise everyone to try
out various photo manipuation programs. I, for instance, combine GIMP,
Photoshop nad Lightroom. There is something I like about each one and can´t
imagine picking just one. I normally edit the basics (cutting, making subject a
silhouette, painting, turning into B&W) in Photoshop, then enhance the
colors and use the adjustment brush in Lightroom, and then finally do some
final touches in GIMP, as well as adding my watermark if needed. Every program
has its own prons and cons, take the best from each.
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