Correct exposure, highlights and shadows, and sometimes white balance 2. This has led to my general use of Lightroom as a RAW converter to be generally: 1.

I’ve also never been happy with the very muted colours Lightroom produces by default and the fact that those colours don’t quite seem right to me, never more so than with my E-M1. I have never been happy with its sharpening and noise reduction tools, seeing them as a pair of tools that often work together to make noise problems worse rather than better, though it has been pointed out to me on more than one occasion that this is quite probably because I don’t know how to use them properly. In fact I don’t use it for very much at all when it comes to processing images. I know, however, that I don’t use it in the way I probably should. In the end, then, Lightroom became a default but not through any major conscious choice. I have other RAW converters: I used DXO Optics Pro from version 4 to 6 but ended up being too lazy to manage the workflow issues I picked up Irident Developer many years ago in a special offer but never used it until recently when I acquired a couple of Foveon sensored Sigmas I dabbled with Lightzone for a bit when it was a commercial program as I liked its refreshingly different toolset, though in the end I preferred to do the sort of things it does in Photoshop and I have Aperture but almost never use it because the crossover in its functionality is so similar to Lightroom. I’ve been a user of Adobe Lightroom since Version 1.

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