Top 10 Features of Adobe Lightroom in 2024

Photography is easier for everyone to do now that everything is digital. No matter if you’re a professional photographer or just like taking pictures for fun, you need the right tools to make your photos look their best. Many photographers like Adobe Lightroom because it has many useful tools that make editing and organizing pictures easy. We’ll look at the top 10 features of Adobe Lightroom that make it stand out in this picture.

Top 10 Features of adobe Lightroom [Tpis]

1. Filter for the library

As you look through your catalog of pictures in Lightroom Classic, one of the best features is the ability to find the one you need quickly. There is a Library Filter at the top of the window in the Library group. You can search for pictures in any collection, Smart Collection, group, or even the whole catalog from this page. You can sort by text, attributes, metadata, and other things. It’s possible that you already know what portrait you want to find and have given it a five-star ranking. Just use the keyword filter to look for a picture and check the box next to “Return results with a rating of five stars.” They will all show up, You can scroll to get to the one you need.

You might be looking for a picture taken with a 14-24mm f/2.8 lens. You can look for that lens in the file’s information, and all the results that have that lens will show up. To narrow your search even more, make sure you pick the right collection or folder from the list on the left.

2. Point Color

I’ve never liked Lightroom’s HSL panel because it lets me change color only by its hue and only by a pretty large range of hues. As an example, it’s hard or impossible to alter yellow greens with HSL without also changing true yellows or true greens.

The Color Range tool in the Masking panel helped a lot with that, but the new Point Color tool lets you make even more exact choices by using hue, saturation, and luminance to describe the color. After that, you can change or improve the hue, intensity, or brightness of the color you’ve chosen. You can do this on a global or local level since the Masking panel also lets you make local changes to Point Color.

The global Point Color tool is in the new Color Mixer panel, which is where the HSL panel used to be. The Color Mixer panel has two tabs: Mixer and Point Color. Mixer has all the tools you know from the HSL panel, and Point Color has a whole new set of tools that let you make those fine color choices. Instead of going into all the details here, I’ll just link to this movie by Julieanne Kost. It does a great job of showing you how to use this new tool.

Since a few months ago, I’ve been using Point Color and really like it. It’s likely something I use more often than HSL or Color Range. Color Range, on the other hand, is sometimes a better choice in the Masking box. Even more precisely than with Color Range, Point Color lets you make a color-based selection. However, you can only change the hue, brightness, or luminance of that selection.

Color Range enables you to choose a color and then change its Exposure, Highlights, Shadows, Contrast, Point Curve, Clarity, Texture, Dehaze, and other things. You can also use Temp, Tint, Saturation, and the Color Picker to change the color itself. Which one to use relies on what you want to do with the color-based pick. Point Color is a good choice if you want to change the color of that spot. Use Color Range to change what you’re doing.

Point Color is a great way to change the way colors look. Instead of turning up a photo’s general saturation or vibrance, which can make it look garish and unnatural, adjust the hue and saturation of a few key colors subtly to make the picture look more alive without making it look too processed.

3. Batch Synchronization Window

Lightroom Classic is great software for editing pictures because it makes it easy to work on many photos at once. Let us say you have 500 shots from a shoot that you want to give a certain look to. You don’t have to do each one by hand; you can use the Sync button. Use the Develop module to make all of your changes to one image. Then, use Ctrl + click or Shift + click to pick one or two more images, and finally, click the Sync button.

There will be a new window that lets you sync just one, a few, or all of the changes you’ve made to the settings across the list. This is what you can do to make sure that every picture has the same white balance and lens changes. But if you want to make regional changes or use a certain crop ratio, you can do that, too. 

4. Brush For Adjustment

There is a more detailed edit that comes after the big, sweeping changes. Users can make these specific changes with the Adjustment Brush (K) by resizing, changing the brush’s feather and flow, and changing how dense it is. You can even choose Auto Mask, which will keep the brush on the starting point you chose on the first click and apply the edit to similar areas as you move the brush through complex scenery, like the sky above some rocky cliffs in the picture above. You can change a lot of choices, such as the levels, colors, and details. An extra vibrance slider would be nice to see added here, though. 

5. Collections Of Smart

The best way to organize your photos in Lightroom Classic is to make Smart Collections if you haven’t used this feature before. A Smart Collection is like a normal collection in that it puts together all of your photos from certain shoots, but it does it for you. Think about how you want Lightroom Classic to group all of your landscape photos. Smart Collections will do that for you automatically after you load the images.

To make this work, rules are added to the Smart Collections that tell them what to include. If you want all landscapes that are vertically oriented and have a rating of 3 or higher to be grouped but not wide-angle photos, you can set those rules for your Smart Collection, and Lightroom Classic will do it for you, including putting any old images that also meet those requirements in the right place.

6. A Powerful Tool For RAW Files

Lightroom is a great program for editing RAW files. In most DSLR cameras, the RAW file gives you the best quality. Here’s why you should shoot in RAW, and Lightroom lets you make the most of that.

If you shoot in RAW, it’s easy to fix the white balance and brightness in Lightroom. It can be hard to change the white balance and exposure when shooting in a JPEG file without losing quality.Because RAW files are so good, you can also make changes like turning them into black and white, adding your color coloring effects, and fine-tuning the brightness and contrast with almost no loss of quality.

7. Photos Are Easy To Cut Out

The Crop tool in Lightroom makes it very easy to crop pictures in any way you want. The straighten tool also makes it easy to straighten your pictures. You can click and drag your mouse along any line, either vertically or horizontally, and the image will be rotated and cropped instantly.

You’ll use the straighten tool A LOT, even though it seems like a simple thing. 

8. Sharing and sending files

You can share your pictures on social media sites or save them to your camera roll with the Adobe Lightroom mobile app. Plus, you can save your images in many different types of files, like JPEG, TIFF, and more.

As one of the graphic design tools, the Adobe Lightroom mobile app has many tools and features that you can use to change and improve your pictures. The app has themes, adjustment sliders, a curves tool, a healing brush, graduated and radial filters, a local adjustment brush, the ability to sync between devices and camera profiles, and the ability to share and export. These features and tools make it easy to get results that look like they were done by an expert, even when you’re not at home. 

9. Profiles for cameras

There are camera profiles for a number of different camera types in the app. You can use these profiles to fix lens distortion and other problems that are unique to your camera immediately.

10. The Radial Filter

You can make changes to a circle or an ellipse in your pictures using the radial filter tool. You can use this to draw attention to a certain part of your picture, like a subject or something in the background.