Today a new update came out for Lightroom and it may not be loaded with features but it does have 2 that are pretty awesome.
Really only 2 of those are of much interest
- Enhanced Zoom and Color Grading.
- I guess if you shoot studio and happen to have a canon the tethered is awesome
- Naming upgrade is quaint makes sense but is a throw in upgrade... one of those things they should have done from the start
- To be fair zoom should have been designed that way from the start... which is awkward because I'm told that's how Photoshop has been for decades
- GPU for brushes and gradients is another throw in thing ... almost as if they were like crap our GPU acceleration isn't really good... oh wow we forgot these two features we better add it in and make it look like we didn't make a mistake but pretend we are really doing amazing things.
COLOR GRADING
Ok let's be honest the real winner and the one thing that makes this entire upgrade awesome is color grading. A lot of different software already had stuff like this and now Lightroom is coming to the party... giving me and lots of others even more reason to never use any other software. (Which i don't)
- For sure some people are gonna go crazy with this tool and make monstrosities.
- Some will be uniquely artistic.
- Then some will use it to carefully and minutely tweak pictures to get just the right look through a carefully crafted blend of colors.
MY FIRST TESTS
I exported a photoshoot tonight and was about to upload it and then saw this upgrade... watched some youtube videos while downloading the update.
Appreciated the color grade tweak i did to a couple images. Synced it to the entire gallery and am now exporting the entire gallery again and will instead upload the new set of exports.
I think they fit with the 50s look they're going for.
BEFORE / AFTER
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