Exploring Photo
Editing Tools
Lightroom offers a range of tools for cropping and rotating your
images, removing spots and blemishes, correcting Red Eye, adding
graduated, radial filters and more. Whilst it lacks the range of
Photoshop’s editing tools, there’s still plenty on offer.
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First, let’s take a look at the editing tools panel. You’ll find
it in the right-hand sidebar just under the histogram panel.
It’s a row of six symbols. In order left to right they are; crop,
spot removal, Red Eye correction, graduated filter, radial filter
and adjustment brush. Clicking on any of them opens a panel of
options below the bar.3
Next we have the Spot Removal tool. This is a very useful
tool and can be used to remove any small blemishes or
spots, usually caused by dust that has managed to get onto
your camera sensor. It works in a very similar way to the Healing
Brush tool in Photoshop. We’ll show you how to use this tool on
page 64.2 The first tool is Crop & Straighten. As the name suggests,
this is used to crop the image to remove unwanted
areas around the edge and to rotate the cropped section to
straighten horizontal or vertical lines. It works in the same way
as the Crop tool in Adobe Photoshop. We’ll look at using this
tool in more detail in the next guide.4 Then, we have the Red Eye Correction tool. Red Eye
is caused when light from your camera’s flashgun
reflects off the blood vessels at the back of the eye and is
a very common problem in low-light portrait photography,
particularly in small compact cameras. We take a closer look at
this tool on page 65.This tutorial
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