Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Classroom in a Book

6: Developing and Editing

lesson overview

Artificial light sources, unusual shooting conditions, and incorrect camera exposure settings can all cause faults in an image. In the Develop module Lightroom delivers a suite of powerful developing tools to quickly rectify these problems in your photos.

This lesson introduces you to editing options from easy-to-use presets and retouching tools to an array of specialized settings. Along the way you’ll pick up a little computer graphics background knowledge as you become familiar with some basic techniques:

• Applying Develop presets

• Cropping, rotating, and flipping images

• Using the History and Snapshots panels

• Removing blemishes

• Correcting color problems and adjusting the tonal range

• Sharpening ...