Retouching Photos With Lightroom’s Brush Tool

Lightroom’s brush is an awesome tool that can be used to add stunning visual effects to your composition. Use the brush tool to blur out skyscapes, enrich or change color tones of individual objects, overcome backlighting and much more. The video below explores several techniques for changing the exposure, softening the skin and altering the color characteristics of a single person.

Software So Good You Can Feel It Through Your Eyes

I’m deeply appreciative when I use software that continually simplifies complex tasks. Lightroom is one such application and deserves huge props for much of its user experience. This software gets me. I feel like I’m communing with it on a much deeper, but more natural level. When I use it the visual feedback provides so much context that I can literally feel my way around, as if I’m holding something physical in my hand. Here’s a short example:

That’s pretty powerful stuff. Now if only I could get the same experience when using a development IDE–I’m talking to you Eclipse; you big, nasty brute with a face only a mother nerd could love.