Image editing in Lightroom

Smarter image processing

The Lightroom image processing engine is notable for a number of reasons. First, the Adobe engineers have made Lightroom simple to use—there are no color management settings, color space issues, or profile warnings to worry about. But just because the image processing is simpler doesn’t mean it is inferior, as these changes have been made without compromising the quality of the image processing. A digital image is made up of nothing more than a series of numbers and during the image editing process those numbers are changed to new numbers. The Lightroom image processing engine ultimately reduces all of its pixel calculations into a single calculation by the most direct route possible to produce ...

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