This saves you the hassle of having to straighten the horizon later (which involves cropping the image and spoiling your composition).

The camera also has a handy spirit level that shows you if your horizon is tilted or level. (Image credit: George Cairns/Digital Camera World) The Graduated filter enables you to claw back hidden detail in a Raw file’s an over-exposed sky. Setting the brush to Clone produces less smudgy and more effective results when removing overlapping objects. You can retouch a shot using the Healing brush to replace unwanted content with adjacent pixels and drag control points to fine-tune the healed area. It will also counteract converging horizontal lines. Lightroom CC also has Classic’s guided Uprights that enable you to draw on converging verticals to straighten them. Other high-end Lightroom Classic tools are also present and correct in Lightroom CC, such as lens profiles that reduce distortion. Lightroom CC also sports the new color grading tools that have also been added to Lightroom Classic, enabling you to produce a wide range of creative looks by independently adjusting the hue, saturation and brightness (luminance) in a shot’s shadows, mid-tones and highlights. You can then fine tune the filtered look using traditional tone and color tweaking tools in the Adjustment panel.Ĭounteract perspectival distortion’s converging verticals by drawing straight lines on the screen (Image credit: George Cairns/Digital Camera World) Themed collections of effect filters such as Travel or Portrait provide a springboard to creatively grading your shots. You can then use filters to find particular shots more quickly. This organic and intuitive way of working enables you to organize files faster than you could on a desktop machine. Swipe vertically on the right of the screen to flag an image as a rejection or a pick.

Swipe up and down on the left of the screen to apply a star rating. When working on smart phone or tablet it’s faster to review your shots. Lightroom CC lets you organize your shots using tools such as star ratings, flags and keywords. Camera roll shots that have already been imported have a LR label on them so you wont bring in any duplicates to take up valuable cloud storage space Alternatively you can view a larger version of a camera roll shot, edit its properties and then tap a tic to import it into Lightroom’s Library. On a mobile device such as an Android or Apple phone you can import shots directly from the camera roll by selecting multiple thumbnails.

There are various ways to import assets in Lightroom CC. Sort the wheat from the chaff more quickly by swiping to rate and flag your files on the mobile version of Lightroom CC.

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