From the course: Photography Foundations: Black and White

Image editor choices - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photography Foundations: Black and White

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Image editor choices

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- [Narrator] From time to time in this course, you're going to see me performing some image edits. Before we get started, I'd like to talk very briefly about choosing an image editor. We're going to be using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, which you see here. It's possible we might also be using Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw, which is a module that's built into Photoshop. The thing to know about Lightroom and Camera Raw is that they're the same thing when it comes to the actual editing controls. The controls in each are identical. The difference is that Camera Raw has Photoshop wrapped around it, so you get all of Photoshop's tools, while Lightroom has a big image management system wrapped around it. Now, when I say we'll be using Lightroom, I actually mean we'll be using Lightroom Classic. There's another version of Lightroom called Lightroom CC. That's CC for Creative Cloud, that's Adobe's Cloud Service. Lightroom CC stores all of your images in the Creative Cloud and automatically syncs them to all your attached devices. With Lightroom Classic, you choose where you want the images stored on your local system, and then if you want, specify some parts of your library to be pushed to the Adobe Cloud and synced to your other devices. Now, where this gets complicated for us is that the two versions don't have identical interfaces or feature sets. Lightroom CC's feature set is a little smaller, and it doesn't have its features divided into different modules the way that Lightroom Classic does. Fortunately, when it comes to image editing, Lightroom CC is built on the same underlying engine as Lightroom Classic and Photoshop Camera Raw. So, for any edits and adjustments I make in this course using Lightroom Classic, you should find equivalent features in Lightroom CC.

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