Adobe Lightroom

But if you want to do extensive raw editing, you're going to need something like DxO's PhotoLab 10 or Lightroom, Photoshop, etc.

Viewpoint 6 can be used both as a standalone program as well as used as a plugin within Adobe Lightroom Classic as well as Adobe Photoshop.

and is available right now for $129.99 US for new users or $84.99 for those who have Viewpoint 5.

And there's also a 30-day free trial available to kick the tires on, which I think is always a great idea.

I wanted crashing waves, waves that crashed into each other and spun and did crazy things because they were all... being named after characters from myth or legend.

So I've got still in Lightroom lots of photos from those stormy days with really rather nice waves that I've never published because they're just really rather nice waves.

They don't look like something unusual.

They don't seem to have a personality.

It's called Medusa because it looks like it's got hair blowing off it like snakes for hair, you know, Medusa.

I didn't know I'd captured that.

until I reviewed the pictures in Lightroom.

And that was, you know, as soon as I saw it, I just thought, yes, great.

So it's changed over time.

Uh, [laughs] I used to use Lightroom.

I used Lightroom for this, uh, for this photo because, uh, that was the only program that supported Hasselblad files at the time.

Uh, I usually bring my photos into, um, into the H- the hard disk, hard disk drive.

Uh, and I will use a program called Photo Mechanic to sort-

Uh, put those in a nice folder.

The selects in a folder, and just work on those.

Um, and from there, it's kind of just tinkering around in Lightroom until, until, um, until I'm happy with the, the look.

So it's changed over time.

Uh, I used to use Lightroom.

I used Lightroom for this photo because that was the only program that supported Hasselblad files at the time.

I usually bring my photos into the hard disk drive.

And I will use a program called Photo Mechanic to sort the winners from the non-winners, put those in a nice folder, the selects in the folder, and just work on those.

And from there, it's kind of just tinkering around in Lightroom until I'm happy with the look.

And if absolutely necessary, dive into Photoshop, um, to, to do some dust removal.

I mean, you can do so much in, in the, um, the, the current batch of photo editors that I, I often don't even need to jump into Photoshop.

So everything I put out, I post-processed.

But don't Wait until you understand Photoshop, for example, Lightroom, because it's pretty awful.

If you don't know that software, when you first open it up, you've got a whole load of sliders and little graphs and all these other things that probably mean pretty much nothing to you, and it's all very overwhelming and intimidating.

So don't go there.

And he takes these amazing photos.

throughout his career and I'm sure like I've only talked to him a few times but I'm sure that people have told him like when you gonna upgrade to digital now Photoshop's out now Lightroom's out now this is now we got AI now Instagram's here now you know and it's like all these things that come but he just did the same thing same style continues through all of it and he's never been more relevant than he's ever been right now and he's the guy that you know shot Justin Bieber's wedding and All these different crazy, amazing weddings.

But like, if I look at it, I'm like, man, he didn't actually have to worry about any of the trends or any of the small things that we think about all the time.

The comparison and everything else is just like, what's the thing that you love? Make it and then do it constantly, you know, repeat it.

Haunted.

Fast forward to me sitting at home editing their gallery in Lightroom.

I'm going through the pictures like normal.

And when I get to this photo, I noticed two little kids sitting in the bushes staring directly at me.

So it does sound like they like AI just took the baby's head off.

Right.

Because what happens sometimes when you're editing in Lightroom and you have a mask to like remove something.

And then if you go and copy and paste and have the masks selected, and if you paste it on the next photo, it'll put the mask exactly where it was on the last photo.

So software that nobody's using.

If you've maybe signed up for like Adobe Lightroom in the past to like edit photos and you're now just paying like $7 a month.

We did that for a long time on accident.

you could accidentally be paying for two email subscriptions.

Topic three, one engineer just showed what happens to a software category when someone gives away what the leader charges for.

Two weeks ago, a software engineer in Atlanta named Brandon Thomas released free open source versions of seven Adobe apps, Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Illustrator, After Effects, Acrobat, and InDesign.

He built them in Rust using Anthropix Clod.

Reviewers say that if you know Photoshop, the clone looks like Photoshop at a slightly different screen resolution.