Altered photos with "Lightroom"

Appaloosa1224 · Jan 22, 2009

I downloaded Adobe Lightroom's trial and I just love this software. Everyone should download it for the trial period and play around with it and buy it if you like it! You can do so much cool stuff to your photos. Here are a few photos I played around with. For the coral shots, I adjusted the colors to make them look closer to real life colors since we all know cameras often don't capture the true color.

Paintguru · Jan 23, 2009

Can we see the unaltered ones to see what it can do? I've been debating Lightroom for a while so I'd love to see examples of what it can do.

Poseidon · Jan 23, 2009

I use Lightroom myself! It is my FAVORITE for processing large numbers of images, like a Wedding. About 99% of the images I post are processed from RAW through Lightroom, using just the default settings in most cases. This program seems to nail WB right away, and it can do just about anything you can think of to an image, without all the extras that PS offers, but without the HUGE price.

Paintguru · Jan 23, 2009

Poseidon said:
I use Lightroom myself! It is my FAVORITE for processing large numbers of images, like a Wedding. About 99% of the images I post are processed from RAW through Lightroom, using just the default settings in most cases. This program seems to nail WB right away, and it can do just about anything you can think of to an image, without all the extras that PS offers, but without the HUGE price.

Is it worth getting if one has PS Elements already?

MikeB · Jan 23, 2009

UH OH, another program to alter coral picture... :squigglemouth:

Poseidon · Jan 23, 2009

If you have to process large numbers of images, yes. If not, then probably not. I like it, it has lots of options for exporting images to photo hosts, and it has all the basic tools for correcting WB and exposure problems.

Saltysteele · Jan 23, 2009

i love the way it imports photo's

i've got the book by scott kelby on, but haven't had time to play with it in a while. i still haven't figured out how to save in it, however, it is a very easy program to use!

Poseidon · Jan 23, 2009

You "export" to a folder to save.

iani · Jan 23, 2009

For me using lightroom is much faster and easier to process RAW files than photoshop. If you shoot a lot of RAW images it worth getting.

iani · Jan 23, 2009

Browns said:
UH OH, another program to alter coral picture... :squigglemouth:

Spoken from someone that probably has never tried photoshop or lightroom.

MikeB · Jan 23, 2009

ianiwane said:
Spoken from someone that probably has never tried photoshop or lightroom.

I use Photoshop for lots of things, Just not altering my Coral phots.

Appaloosa1224 · Jan 23, 2009

Here are the unaltered photos. I found a website that sells the program to students with proof of enrollment for $98. I'll definately be investing in the program at that price. As I said, I only altered the coral ones to make them look like they do with the naked eye. The others I altered in different ways, not to make them look "realistic."

iani · Jan 23, 2009

Browns said:
I use Photoshop for lots of things, Just not altering my Coral phots.

If you are doing anything in photoshop you are altering your shot. LOL. Anything from resizing, cropping, adjusting white balance, etc. is altering a shot.

MikeB · Jan 23, 2009

Cropping does not alter the look of the coral.......

MikeB · Jan 23, 2009

Side by Side

iani · Jan 23, 2009

Browns said:
Cropping does not alter the look of the coral.......

You are altering your photo if you are cropping it. Does the "photo" look different than it did before. YES. All the title said on this thread is "Altered photos with 'Lightroom' ".

Appaloosa1224 · Jan 23, 2009

Browns said:
Cropping does not alter the look of the coral.......

Seriously, what's your issue? I'm not selling the corals from these shots. In fact I never sell any corals online at all. For my own enjoyment I altered my photos to show the actual colors of the corals. I guess that's not allowed in your world. I have done nothing wrong. I started this thread to show altered photos, not to deceive. Grow up.

Poseidon · Jan 23, 2009

Browns- Did you ever shoot film? Did you ever take it to get it developed? If you did, your pictures were ALTERED before you ever saw them. I KNOW that, as I used to work in a darkroom myself. Using a tool to adjust an image to appear the way it does in "real life" is NOT a bad thing, on the contrary, I find it to be the right thing to do.

Not only that, but altering an image for the sake of ART is 100% OK as well, maybe you want to live in a black and white world, but I certainly do not! (Oh, black and white film was also altered and manipulated in the darkroom as well.)

MikeB · Jan 23, 2009

I am fine with altering your photos, but not altering photos when you try to sell a coral. Then we someone gets the coral it looks nothing like the picture. I believe there is a thread on here about people photoshopping and most people in that LONG thread agree with what I am saying.

Poseidon · Jan 23, 2009

Sure that is fine, no one will endorse manipulating a photo to sell a coral, however the intent of the OP was not, is not to sell the corals, but to share a new experience with a photo editor. I am sure you know that though....