There are exciting new panorama and HDR tools, and it's now possible to 'brush out' areas adjusted with the Graduated and Radial filter tools вЂ“ a really useful enhancement. So what's new?ДЄdobe has introduced new tools for organizing your photos into Lightroom 6, but the main additions are to the editing tools. You can even clone out sensor spots, blemishes and even whole objects with the Spot Removal tool, which is much more powerful than the name suggests. You can paint adjustments on to areas of a picture using the Adjustment Brush, darken bright skies with the Graduated Filter tool and create subtle vignette effects with the Radial Filter. In particular, it can apply 'localised' corrections. It has in-built lens correction profiles to counteract distortion and chromatic aberration in lenses, and it has geometric correction tools for fixing perspective issues, like converging verticals in tall buildings. It can adjust exposure, contrast, 'clarity', white balance, saturation and more. Lightroom's editing tools are now so powerful, though, that you may not need a separate image editor for most of the things you do.

Lightroom CC can synchronise collections with your mobile devices and Collections can also be viewed in online galleries. To create permanent copies of your adjustments you export your edited images as new JPEG or TIFF files. Lightroom's adjustments simply change the appearance of the picture within the program itself вЂ“ the original photos remain completely unaltered. Lightroom's editing tools don't reach the same depths as Photoshop's, but that's because it's working within the limitations of a non-destructive process. It can then show you your pictures in a Folder view showing the folders on your computer, but you can also create Collections (and Smart Collections) which are 'virtual' containers independent of the original folders and can form the basis of a fast, flexible and adaptable filing system for your photos вЂ“ a photo can be in only one Folder but as many different Collections as you like. You start by importing photos into the Lightroom library. It's much more powerful and is designed for large image libraries consisting of countless individual folders, which it can filter, search and organize in seconds, regardless of where the photos are actually stored. It's fine for simple filing systems, but no good if you need to search for images by keyword, camera uses, location and a host of other possible parameters. Bridge is designed to show you the contents of folders on your hard disk in real time and with no centralised database to speed up searches. Lightroom is not the same as Bridge, Adobe's folder browsing tool. This is the Map module, where images with location date are displayed on a map.

The Lightroom interface is organized into 'modules'.

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