Why I use Adobe Lightroom.

Prior to Lightroom’s 11.x major upgrade in late 2021, my biggest reason for using Adobe Lightroom as my post-processing app was Jordy Meow’s set of Lightroom/WordPress plugins. They make it stupidly easy to create gallery collections in Lightroom and sync them automatically with WordPress. Not that I didn’t think Lightroom was a great cataloging and … Read more

New top Lightroom features: luminosity & color masking

Several of the new features in the latest (2021) Lightroom Desktop 5 upgrade are important enough to deserve the title game changer. I’ll be discussing two of them in this post. Luminance masking and its close cousin, color masking, have heretofore been a somewhat advanced editing tool employed in Photoshop. People accomplished this ‘by hand,’ … Read more