by Demothy Tien

 Lightroom can be really confusing if you’re new or unfamiliar with the software. Its complicated user interface paired with clunky optimization can truly make Lightroom a nightmare to navigate. But it doesn’t have to be that way. There are a lot of incredibly helpful tricks that can make Lightroom a significantly more pleasant experience. The problem is these tricks aren’t clearly labeled in the software. You have to either read through lengthy manuals or figure them out for yourself. That’s why we’ve put together a small list of hidden Lightroom tricks you might not know about!

 You can change your crop overlays!

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Composition can make or break your imagery. Bad composition simply looks amateur and unpleasant to the eye. You want to compose your images in a way that looks pleasing and leads the viewer’s eyes throughout the image. But your composition just right...

Adobe Lightroom has been the source of frustration for many professional photographers over the years.  It’s the not program in general that bothers photographers, but more Adobe’s unwillingness to fully optimize the software to take advantage of the powerful hardware available these days for those that wish to invest in it.  Over the last two years, Adobe has listened to photographer’s calls to update their software and has begun to take steps to remedy the issues by introducing new performance-related features.

Even though they have begun development on some key improvements, sometimes it seems like Adobe is not putting much effort into them, especially considering the fact that they definitely have the resources to do so with their stock at near-record highs and an upward trajectory over the last 5 years.

For instance, a couple of years ago they introduced GPU accelerating image processing to Lightroom.  This dramatically sped up the processing...

Let's face it, photographers hate Lightroom. The software is slow, not optimize for today's modern hardware, and generally has a bad user experience if you listen to the comments on the Internet. Adobe could seriously change this by just optimizing the software to work with modern hardware and offloading more tasks to a computer GPU, however for years, they've refused to do so. 

Unfortunately, when Apple killed off new versions of aperture, photographers were left with very little options for the raw processing.

Now, I know that photographers who work in the fashion industry or even portrait photographers have been familiar with Capture One for a long time. The truth is, Capture One lacked many of the important features that event photographers need to process large amounts of images at a given time.

With the new release of Capture One20, many of those problems are now solved. Capture One has many new features available for photographers were processing events such as the...