Sunday, April 5, 2009

Tone Curve in Photoshop/Lightroom

Managed to buy a legal copy of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom recently after a free trial download from the internet. It was a very neat piece of software to organize a big collection of pictures and able to do some touch up on the pictures. It is pricey (USD$250) though and if you don't take tons of pictures, I honestly think it is an overkill

Why lightroom for me?
- Non-destructive, the original image is always untouched even with all sorts of adjustments applied
- workflow, import - touchup - upload to flickr + watermark + bordering - different export presets
- backup catalog, and easy to move directory and update the catalog accordingly
- integration with CS/Photoshop Element

One thing I find most lacking is ability to export a video slideshow to a DVD. It export to a pdf slideshow OMG!! I don't understand

Anyway some interesting youtube tutorial
- tone curve adjustment
- adjustment brush

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