Adobe Photoshop CC key Archives

How to use Lightroom online: work on your photos in your web browser

by Rod Lawton

If you’ve got Lightroom CC or Lightroom Classic you’ve got an Adobe Creative Cloud account, and this means you can synchronise photos between the Lightroom catalog on your computer, your Lightroom online web space and your mobile device. You can do this with either version of Lightroom, but Lightroom CC is built to do this […]

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, TutorialsTagged With: Cloud storage, Creative Cloud (Adobe), Lightroom, Lightroom Mobile, Mobile photography

Lightroom CC review (2020)

by Rod Lawton

Verdict: 4 stars It’s undeniably useful to be able to see, organise and edit your images anywhere, on any device, and the editing tools are now almost the same as those in Lightroom Classic. But you do have to pay for the necessary cloud storage for your photo catalog, and while the Sensei AI image search feature is great, the rest of the organising tools are pretty simplistic – and there are no smart albums. Lightroom CC is unique and effective in some ways, expensive and limiting in others.

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, ReviewsTagged With: Adjustment brush, AI (artificial intelligence), Album, Creative Cloud (Adobe), Lightroom, Lightroom Mobile, RAW processing, Sensei (Adobe)

Lightroom Classic review

by Rod Lawton

Verdict: 4 stars Lightroom has become a standard tool for a large number of photographers and it does streamline the organisation and editing of large numbers of photos. But while it’s powerful and effective, its raw processing is not the best and its organisational system can feel quite awkward.

Filed Under: Lightroom, ReviewsTagged With: Adjustment brush, Lightroom, RAW processing

Is Lightroom free? The mobile app is free, but the desktop version is not

by Rod Lawton

That’s a good question for those who use the mobile app. The Lightroom for mobile app is free to use but has restrictions which can only be unlocked with a Photography Plan subscription. Here are the details.

Filed Under: Featured, LightroomTagged With: Lightroom, Lightroom Mobile

DxO PhotoLab vs Lightroom vs Capture One – which is best for RAW files?

by Rod Lawton

Which is best for processing RAW files, DxO PhotoLab, Lightroom or Capture One? Here’s a set of eight image comparisons that aims to find out.

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, Lightroom, PhotoLab, ReviewsTagged With: Capture One, DxO Optics Pro, Lightroom

Lightroom CC, Lightroom mobile, Lightroom web… and how it all works

by Rod Lawton

Lightroom CC is part of a whole cloud-based ecosystem that makes not just your photos but your Lightroom library and its organisation available everywhere. Here’s how it works.

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, TutorialsTagged With: Lightroom CC, Lightroom Mobile, Lightroom web, Photography Plan (Adobe)

Photo editing software downloads: links to trial versions listed here

by Rod Lawton

Almost all the software applications reviewed and described on Life after Photoshop are available as a free trial, and here are the links. I always recommend using the trial version before making your mind up.

Filed Under: Aurora HDR, Capture One, Exposure X, Featured, Lightroom, Luminar, Nik Collection, ON1 Photo RAW, PhotoLab

Lightroom alternatives: which is best?

by Rod Lawton

Lightroom is probably the automatic go-to program for enthusiasts and experts looking for an all-in-one photo organising and editing program, but it’s not necessarily the best and it’s not popular with everyone, so many will be looking for Lightroom alternatives.

Filed Under: Capture One, Exposure X, Lightroom, Luminar, ON1 Photo RAWTagged With: Alien Skin Exposure X, Lightroom, Luminar, ON1 Photo RAW

Adobe June 2020 updates bring improvements to Lightroom and Photoshop

by Rod Lawton

Adobe brings out updates to its Creative Cloud software a couple of times a year, and very often there’s not a lot to report that’s particularly significant to photographers, but this time it’s a little different, with some significant changes to the Lightroom ecosystem.

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, NewsTagged With: Creative Cloud (Adobe), Lightroom, Photography Plan (Adobe), Photoshop, Selection

Lightroom Versions and how they work… and you do need to know!

by Rod Lawton

The new Versions feature in Lightroom CC is interesting, but it is NOT the same as Virtual Copies, and the way it works could mean lost edits and lots of frustration if you don’t understand what it’s doing.

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, TutorialsTagged With: Lightroom, Versions (Lightroom), Virtual Copy (Lightroom)

• Not publicly released - This demo was the first known copy of Photoshop with any public exposure.^[1]

• First version distributed commercially (by the scanner company Barneyscan), though distributed as "Barneyscan XP".^[1]

• Paths
• CMYK Color
• EPS Rasterization
• Last release for System 6.0.4

• 16 bit per channel support
• "Deluxe" edition available on CD-ROM
• First version for Microsoft Windows.
• Last release for System 6.0.7

• Adjustment Layers
• Actions (macros)
• Navigator palette
• Grids and Guides
• Free Transform tool
• Multicolor gradients and Gradient Editor
• Gallery Effects filters
• Digimarc image watermarking
• PNG file format
• PDF file format
• Last version to support Radius and SuperMac NuBus hardware acceleration
• Last version to support 68K Macs
• Last release for Windows 3.1x, Windows NT 3.51, System 7.1 and 80486 processors

• Editable type (previously, type was rasterized as soon as it was added)
• Multiple Undo (History Palette)
• Color Management
• Magnetic Lasso and Pen
• Freeform Pen
• Spot Color channels
• increased 16 bit/channel support
• Channel Mixer adjustment
• Layer Effects
• Automation plugins
• Color Samplers
• Measure tool
• Last release for System 7.5

• Made text fully vector
• Healing Brush
• New painting engine
• Spell check
• Find/Replace

• Camera RAW 2.x
• Highly modified "Slice Tool"
• Shadow/Highlight command
• Match Color command
• Lens Blur filter
• Smart Guides
• Real-Time Histogram
• Detection and refusal to print scanned images of various banknotes^[5]
• Macrovision copy protection based on Safe castDRM technology
• Scripting support for JavaScript and other languages
• Hierarchical layer groups
• 16 bit per channel layers, painting, and adjustments
• Support for files over 2 Gigabytes
• Documents up to 300,000 pixels in either dimension
• Type on a path
• Last release for Windows 2000SP3 and XP RTM

• Camera RAW 3.x
• Smart Objects
• Image Warp
• Spot healing brush
• Red-Eye tool
• Lens Correction filter
• Smart Sharpen
• Vanishing Point
• Better memory management on 64-bit PowerPC G5 Macintosh machines running Mac OS X 10.4
• High dynamic range imaging (HDRI) support (32 bit per channel floating point)
• More smudging options, such as "Scattering"
• Modified layer selection, such as ability to select more than one layer.
• Last release to be distributed in compact disc format^[6]
• Last release for Windows 2000SP4, XPSP1, Mac OS X Jaguar, Panther and IntelPentium III

• Native support for the Intel-based Macintosh platform and improved support for Windows Vista
• Revised user interface

Hey, dekeFaithful. Thanks for your patience. I’m here at last with this week’s free Deke’s Techniques episode in which Deke shares his dekeKeys customized shortcuts for Photoshop CC 2017 and shows you how to install them in the latest incarnation of Photoshop.

And to reward your dedication during our two-day delay, I’m not only sharing the video here, but the files as well: the shortcut file itself and the PDF that show you all the shortcuts in one streamlined, organized, yet nonetheless 17-page document:

Members can download zipped .kys files for Mac and PC and both PDF references files at the bottom of this post.

I now there are some people for whom shortcuts are not currently interesting (i.e. "I’m trying to just learn the dern thing without needing a bunch of extra info, Deke!) But for those of you who love a good keystroke-based bit of efficiency these are tried-and-true dekeTested commands that frankly, in our mind, should have had shortcuts in the first place or needed better shortcuts than Adobe thought up.

And if you can’t find a shortcut that you need, and you’re a member of Lynda.com, Deke’s got an exclusive movie this week in which he shows you how to create your own shortcut and reestablish the default shortcuts Adobe wants you to have.

Deke’s Techniques, streamlining your workflow 17 pages at a time!

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