A Detailed View of the Develop Module's Functions
From its very inception, Lightroom has been the digital equivalent of photography darkrooms, allowing everyone to develop photographs without the use of chemicals at instant speed and with great sophistication – from global adjustments to tiny tweaks, from detailed brush adjustments to batch processing large bodies of work. Lightroom offers photographers all the tools to make images look better (and more) without ever going near Photoshop or other post-production software. Lightroom is an end-to-end solution that's used to polish photographs and it unleashes the potential of photographers.
Figure 6.1 – Photograph in the Develop module
In the previous chapter, we briefly looked at each available tool in the Develop module – in this chapter, we will learn how they work and how they can help us. Postproduction is an integral part of photography and we will often think ahead to it...