Photoshop, meanwhile, is a more powerful and broader program aimed at graphic designers and illustrators as much as photographers. you can save settings as presets for super fast editing, and can batch process images. It lets you rate and categorise your images, making the output from large shoots more manageable, and it lets you make all the basic non-destructive adjustments to exposure, the tone curve and colour grading, including masking options and basic object removal. Lightroom is designed specifically for photo editing and organising images. They have different purposes and for many photographers and editors it's not a question fo either or – they use both but at different stages of their editing process.

Selecting a region changes the language and/or content on you'll see below, Lightroom vs Photoshop is less a question of which is best but more a question of what you want to do. Click an item in the History panel to return the image to that state. The History panel lists every adjustment you’ve made. To remove all adjustments, click the Reset button at the bottom right.

To undo an adjustment, choose Edit > Undo or press Control+Z (Windows) or Command+Z (MacOS).

Experiment with the Temp slider to change the overall color to a warmer or cooler shade.

To make an image more colorful, drag the Vibrance slider to the right.

If a photo looks dull, drag the Contrast slider slightly to the right to increase the difference between light and dark areas.

To soften an image, drag the slider to the left.

To bring out detail and texture, drag the Clarity slider to the right.

For example, drag the Exposure slider to brighten or darken the entire image use the Highlights slider to adjust light areas and use the Shadows slider to adjust dark areas.

Use the Basic panel sliders to fine-tune an adjustment.

To adjust the brightness of a photo, try clicking Auto in the Basic panel.

Click Develop at the top of the screen to switch to the Develop module.

Select a photo to edit in the Library module.

What you learned: Edit photos in the Develop module

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