Lightroom 5 test shots

[Royal Hijinx]

Since I have a new camera waiting on me to get home (Sony NEX-6), I went ahead and downloaded Adobe Lightroom 5 so I could start working with it.

I grabbed a handful of JPEGs that were shot with my Sony TX-10 point and shoot and went about doing some adjustments/correction.

I really just have to say, wow. Lightroom seems easy to use (I still have a LOT to learn), and effective. It is NOT photoshop (no layers, etc...) but can add a watermark. Also, it is a little expensive ($150) but at least it is stand alone and not on the "Creative Cloud"...

So, here are the corrected pics (WB, curves, etc...)

[Seth702]

They look great. How noticeable is the difference when the photos are side by side? I assume its a great deal better.

[Royal Hijinx]

Thanks, I will post up the before and after of the last pic of the Fire YB outside, it needed the most correction of over exposure.

[Royal Hijinx]

Here is a before/after side by side screen shot from Lightroom. His color is a little washed out in the before and spot on in the after.

[reptileexperts]

Lightroom 5 is cheap at 150 for what it offers. The new healing brush tool works wonders as does the new cloning tool. Now it is not cs6 by any means but the standalone photoshop is 600 usd but thanks to buying cs6 you do get a discount for the CC for 20 a month :-P. but pointless - as a professional wildlife photographer Ive been using Lightroom for years and years at this point and it saves me so much time rather than going into adobe PS unless I absolutely have to work in layers or use USM when I'm working at high ISO late in the day shooting birds. Nice shots, just remember that Lightroom 5 is well worth the ticket price to play as is photoshop in the end :-P


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[Seth702]

Looking at those comparison shots 150 is more then worth it. If I did more with photography then shooting on vacation's I would definitely pick it up. Thank you for posting those compare shots. Really shows the difference.

[kitedemon]

There is no more legal stand alone photoshop. They stopped selling copies months ago (around Christmas) and directed retailers to do the same. You now, to have a new legal, copy need to rent it. lightroom is looks to be following suit. 400-500$ a year.

[Royal Hijinx]

There is no more legal stand alone photoshop. They stopped selling copies months ago (around Christmas) and directed retailers to do the same. You now, to have a new legal, copy need to rent it. lightroom is looks to be following suit. 400-500$ a year.

Yeah I noticed that with the whole CC thing. I have Lightroom 5 and Photoshop Elements 11 (which is on sale on Amazon right now for <$70). Both are stand alone.

[Royal Hijinx]

A few more:

[kitedemon]

Lightroom CC is released and I don't know about elements the full version however is CC only now (the last stand alone version has been sold) the new version will not be stand alone. The guessing is lightroom will follow that pattern and the next lightroom update will be CC only. Like they announced with the rest of the suite. They snuck that in with the suite with little fuss now after the fact is uproar but it is done. If you like it tell them about the stand alone. Or switch to something else there are lots of lightroom alternatives some better.