Chapter Four

Going Beyond the Basic Edits

This Is Where the Good Stuff Is

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I’ve been saying for years that the Basic panel in Lightroom on your desktop (whose controls are the first set of adjustment tiles you see here in Lightroom Mobile’s Edit mode) is totally misnamed. Adobe should have called it the “Essentials” panel because these aren’t basic controls. I think controlling your overall exposure, and contrast, and color mode are perhaps the most important edits of all the editing you can do. Well, with one exception: I think the ability to crop out an old ...

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