Merubi

For some reasons, I have not been posting for a while and Adobe Lightroom is one of them.
Lightroom is a cool software that I have been spending plenty of time, during the last month or so, intensively learning to use it (after I got my new camera a Panasonic LX3 – a camera which I reckon takes the best photos for a currently available point and shoot camera). It has been a long time since I actually finish reading an entire book, but because of this program, I diligently finished the entire thick book – although it actually took me 6 weeks to finish the book – just so that I can understand all the functions of this program.

This program allows you to manage all your photos, tweak them, create a slideshow, print them in whatever layout you want as well as to create a web gallery of your images for you to upload online and show off to the world both your photography and web skills. The only thing this program can’t do is have sex with you, I’m sorry.

Since it is said that a picture says a thousand words, so I am going to say 2 thousand words by posting 2 pictures here, one straight from camera, another touched by Lightroom using one of the millions of develop presets available for download from the internet.

There are millions of possibilities to tweak each photo, it is entirely up to you how you want your photo to look, presets make things easier for you by pre-setting (thats why its called presets) the various settings such that when you apply them to your picture, you get the effect that each preset is intended for (for eg. black and white, old film effects, HDR-ish effects, etc). You can even create a signature look for all your photos by apply to all your images by creating your own preset. In my example, I used a preset that supposedly creates a “lomo” effect.
You can find the program here.