Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 E

This is a continuation in my series of blog posts on using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 E and we are nearing the end of the series. When you connect a digital camera to your computer and upload photos Lightroom has a way of handling those pictures. The default standard for handling photos and the most recent one when this software came out is Adobe Standard but there are other preset ways to handle the pictures which vary according to the type of camera connected. Generally Adobe standard is the best and as you select a different there is a preview pane where you can see the results prior to accepting them. If you are adjusting the various levels in a picture you can shift click and rather than adjust a slider you can move a mouse up the height of the picture and adjust it that way. You can also tilt this dragging the mouse for interesting effects. There is an adjustment brush which is the equivalent of the brush, dodge and burn tool. With dodge and burn you can alter how much you want something lightened or darkened in a photo and apply it like a paintbrush and you can also adjust the virtual brush size. There is also a red eye removal tool which turns red when the mouse hovers over it. You click on it then select the eye you wish to remove the red eye from. You can enlarge or shrink the pupil and also can choose what shade you want it to be. There is also a clone tool where you specify where you want pixels copied from and to and is ideal if there is dust contaminating a picture. Right next to it is a duplicate tool which copies the pixels automatically with you just selecting where you want them copied to. It uses complex algorithms to judge a suitable part to copy from. I've only got 1 more post to do in this series so I will complete that today.