RAW files are an image file format available on some high-end compact cameras and digital SLRs. Instead of processing the data to produce a JPEG image, the camera saves the data as it’s recorded by the sensor in its ‘raw’ [...]
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Fill light tools in software lighten the darker areas of images without affecting the midtones or highlights. They use different techniques for doing this, either shifting the darker tones upwards in the brightness scale or using selective masking techniques to lighten [...]
All image cataloguing programs use albums (or ‘collections’, in Lightroom). You might use them to collect together pictures for specific projects, for example. ‘Smart’ albums (collections), however, are different.
With a normal album, you add pictures manually, but smart albums are [...]
Lightroom is Adobe’s professional photo cataloguing program. Your photos are stored as thumbnails and previews in a centralised database, or ‘library’ which makes it much easier to organise your photos, add keywords, captions and other metadata and carry out searches [...]
Adjustments which can be reversed later. Most image-editing permanently modifies the value of the pixels in the image. With non-destructive editing, the pixels are unaltered, but the software changes their appearance. This is the principle used for the Adjustment Layers [...]
Photo optimisation tool in Lightroom. It’s similar to Auto Levels or Auto Contrast in other programs, except that it’s also designed to be applied directly to RAW files, which have extended dynamic range compared to JPEG images. In other words, [...]