I myself am only started nearly a year ago in the world of DSLR cameras. (Canon EOS 550D) After I had read me in all techniques (ISO, aperture, etc.) I began gradually so that more manual to photograph. The images were always better, but it always lacked at a Tick sharpness, color etc ..
Because higher-quality lenses cost a lot of money, I thought it useful to my pictures for the time being with "only" with the appropriate software aufzufrischen.Ein acquaintance advised me Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, he talked about a variety of ways, and he was right.
Installation: The software can be installed without any problems, the activation of the student license took in my case, also between 2 and 3 hours. The transition to the sending of the Keys can easily be bridged on the testing option.
Now the program itself:
I had worked so far neither with Photoshop Lightroom, however, have to add that I even call myself a relatively computer and Softwareaffin and new programs erlerne quickly. The basic structure of Lightroom 5 is very simple. In addition to the riders library, slideshows and others behind the rider develop the core of the software, so the pure photo editing. There are waiting a lot of settings it to be selected by the user. In no time at discrepancies in the pictures can be removed and you will be master of color, saturation, sharpness and details. Individual image areas can be fairly easy to edit and individually throughout the workflow at any time each step may be called again. The processing of quite large RAW files (all other formats of course also possible via the raw data can only get even more out of the images) go through very quickly, provided that the system requirements are met! I myself was at first even a little overwhelmed, according to the first trial work, I looked then a few tutorials on YouTube (Very recommended as learning by doing) that my image editing purposes declared (eg the handling of night image recordings) and realized that I previously at had worked fairly well along the workflow. Both for me and for the software a great confirmation that the processing works more or less intuitively. After a few hours I was really in a fever, and at the end of the day pretty excited about my shots in the before-and-after comparison. Especially the night shots and working with selective saturation have really convinced me.
All in all, a consistently strong program, which certainly hides countless ways that I have so far not been met, but even beginners procured relatively quickly by super pictures of achievement and confirmation that make you hungry for more!
