Unlike Photoshop, it is less about the retouch images and more about the "development". The question often asked is not "Lightroom" or "Photoshop", but at best that Photoshop version (CS6 or "only" 11 Elements) you should buy this if you want to edit the images going on.
The program preferably operates with Rohbildaten (RAW). This can be corrected and modified in many ways (eg, exposure, white balance, correction / amendment of individual colors, de-noising of photos, removing stains, removing chromatic aberrations, removal of distortions caused by lenses, image conversions in SW, sepia, etc.). Ultimately, you can do anything with the images, which make the digital cameras, if you optimize in converting to JPEG images - and much more, and often better than the in-camera software.
But it can also be reworked JPEG files (for example, if the in-camera white balance, denoising etc. have not worked satisfactorily or dust on the mirror (SLT), sensor or lens has led to aberrations.
The photos themselves are (whether RAW or JPEG) is not changed. Any change that Lightroom applied is 100% reversible. The finished pictures can be printed, used in slide shows or posted to the web module.
New to Lightroom 5 include
- An intelligent preview, image optimization using smaller versions of the image files allows (offline editing when original is unavailable and acceleratation)
- The Upright function for eliminating perspective distortion (eg if you have photographed a skyscraper from below and it seems to fall on the photo to the back)
- An enhanced Spot Healing Brush (to dust or whole objects / people to be removed from images)
- Enhanced support for Video and Photo Shows Books.
Anyone who wants to test whether the program or the update worth his salt at Adobe can download a fully functional 30-day trial. If you then buy the program, you can easily do this by entering the license key to the full version without having to reinstall the program (and especially without database and previous changes will be lost).
People who buy the program receives (unlike CS6) both Windows and Mac version. The boxed version includes only one program DVD in a small cardboard box, no instructions, etc.
The Student and Teacher version is about 40% cheaper for pupils, students and teachers. Caution: The supplied key with this version is not a license key, but a coupon code (so do not try to activate the program so, that will not do). To get the license key for the activation, you have to enter and attach proof of the authorization (eg scan of a valid student ID) to a special Adobe-side his address, the program version and this code. How to do this, even on a supplied instructions. The activation was quite easily with me. Approximately 2 hours after my personal data, I had the email with the license key in the mail tray. If it takes prolonged, the program can easily be used for the transitional period as a trial and then upon receipt of the key simply unlock.
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