The iPad is a device that has tremendous potential, with which accompanied by the right accessories you can do practically anything, and one of them is photo editing. Thanks to the large screen they have, the device format, the Apple Pencil and the available applications, editing photos on iPad is a real pleasure and part of the blame, applications such as Lightroom have it, which we will talk about in this post.
What is Lightroom?
Lightroom is Adobe‘s professional application for all those who want to edit their photos on their iPhone and iPad. In this post I am going to tell you about the advantages of this app on the iPad, but of course, these benefits and functions are exactly the same in the iPhone application.
As I was telling you, Adobe Lightroom is a photo editing application that can be used by both newbies in this world and the most professional since it has a really simple interface, very powerful and varied tools and a very nice appearance. In addition, within the application itself you can find inspiration to edit your own photographs and even training to learn little by little to take your images to another level.
Without a doubt, now that the social network Instagram has become so important in the world of photography, this application is ideal for me to gradually professionalize and raise the level of your profile thanks to all the possibilities that Adobe offers Lightroom.
Basic functions to get started
First of all I am going to give you a review of the basic functions of this application, so that all of you who are starting in this world know the points where you have to start when editing your first photo in Lightroom.
Edit – The first thing you have to check
In this first section you have the most basic aspects when starting to edit photos. In the first place, you can modify all the parameters related to light, which are:
- Exposition.
- Contrast.
- Illuminations.
- Shades.
- Whites
- Blacks
Once you have modified the light sections of your photograph, you have to continue editing the colors, where, again, you have different settings available that you can modify as you wish:
- Temperature.
- Hue.
- Intensity.
- Saturation.
In addition, in this section you also have the option of Color mixing and Color gradients, perhaps two functions for a somewhat more advanced user in photographic editing.
We now turn to the available effects, parameters that can also bring that differential and professional touch to your photographs. In this section you have the following parameters to modify:
- Texture.
- Clarity.
- Clear haze.
- Bullet point.
- Midpoint.
- Roundness.
- Dispel.
- Illuminations.
Time to touch the details, parameters that will give a special touch to each photograph you want to edit. In this case you have the following parameters available:
- Focus.
- Noise reduction
- Color noise reduction.
In the optical section you can modify the following parameters.
- Maybe AC.
- Lens corrections.
Finally, we come to the Geometry section, where you can modify the geometry of the photograph, worth the redundancy, by editing the following parameters:
- Restrict cut.
- Distortion.
- Vertical.
- Horizontal.
- Rotate.
- Appearance.
- Scale.
- X displacement.
- Y offset.
Presets
On many occasions you will not want to complicate your life excessively and you will choose to try a quick editing of the photo, in that case you have to pay special attention to the Preset Settings section, where you will find different editions already preset, which we could classify as filters that you can apply to your photograph depending on the type of editing you want at that time. One of the most outstanding points, from my point of view of this application, and more specifically in this section of Presets are the User Presets, where you can customize and create settings to your liking, but I will talk about it later.
Trim
A basic aspect when editing a photograph is the clipping power that we have over it since, depending on where we want to show it or what we want to transmit with it, the format or aspect of it will be different. For example, the ideal format for Instagram is 4 × 5 and with Lightroom you can adapt all your photographs to this format to capture people’s attention when they are scrolling through their feed and come across your photograph.
Advanced functions
It’s time to talk to you about functions perhaps a little more focused on a professional audience, but that have tremendous potential and, above all, can be very useful in many moments.
Concealer Brush
An application in the Adobe Lightroom category has to have a tool like this, a Healing Brush with which you can subtly eliminate those defects that you find within your photograph, be it a grain on the face that nobody has invited or a stain on the ground that draws too much attention and diverts your audience to a side of the photograph that does not contribute anything, well, you can remove all this with this Correction Brush.
Selective Edition
Once again, an indispensable function in a professional photo editor is selective editing. The ability to edit the parameters that we want but only of a part of the photograph gives the user tremendous potential to develop all their creativity and create true works of art.
Go back whenever you want
There may come a time when you have been editing a photograph for a while and you realize that the tones or the feeling it conveys is not exactly what you were looking for for this photograph, well, don’t worry, Adobe Lightroom also has a function with which you can go back, whether you want to go back to the original photograph or if you want to go back to any of the previous editions that you have made until you reach the point where you are at that moment.
Own or external presets
One of the points that I highlight the most about this application, as I have mentioned before, is the possibility of creating and adopting presets, those that are already available in the same app, something that is not different from other applications, but also those that , first, you can create your in a completely personalized way, and second, those settings that you can download or adopt from other creators who make them available to the public. In this way, you can make a series of photographs have the same edition and therefore adopt a regular batch editing line, something very interesting to, in my case, give a more professional touch to my Instagram feed.
Pro version of Adobe Lightroom
Initially, the Adobe Lightroom application is free, you can download it from the App Store, however, there are some functions that are only available in the Pro version of it, which you will have to pay a subscription if you want to use. From my point of view, one of the highlights that this subscription offers you is the fact that the photos will be synchronized in the iPhone, iPad and Mac applications, which makes it easier to start an edition on the iPad and be able to continue it on iPhone or Mac without any problem.
In addition, it is vitally important to mention that the Adobe Lightroom subscription for iPad also works for iPhone, however, if you want to enjoy the Pro advantages on the Mac, you will have to pay separately for it.