Full disclosure: Staples provided me with Adobe Lightroom to review. All thoughts and opinions expressed are my own. To check out their full line of computer software, visit Staples.com.
I have a confession to make: I have no idea what I’m doing when it comes to photography. I’ve got the basics down – shutter speed, aperture, etc., but let’s be honest. When I look at my camera, 80% of those buttons and knobs I see? I don’t have a clue what they do. With what little knowledge I do have, I try to take my pictures as you see them on the blog, with as little editing as possible. But – sometimes, the sun/weather doesn’t like to cooperate like it should, so it’s a little impossible to always get the perfect picture. Like with our most recent post. Behold the tasty goodness of some Homestyle Mac and Cheese:
Adobe Lightroom 4 Review
Yuck. Talk about bland, dark, and gross. Lucky for me, I have a secret weapon. Cue Lightroom 4. I’ve had it for just over two weeks now and I’ve had the time of my life playing with it and getting to know how everything works! I’ll be up front and honest right now and say that this isn’t going to be a Lightroom tutorial in any way because I still don’t know all the ins and outs very well, but I will say this: Lightroom is what you’re looking for if you’re wanting to step up your photo editing game! It turned the above lame-looking photo into this:
Isn’t that better? With just a few simple clicks, you’re able to lighten, brighten and add vibrance to your pictures instantly! Lightroom isn’t just for us bloggers either. I was snapping pictures of my cute pup earlier and I was able to turn this:
into this:
Yep, that just happened. I’ve had a lot of positive results in the short amount of time I’ve used Lightroom and it makes me giddy just thinking about all the amazing pictures of our babelet that I can take here soon. What I’m trying to say here is Lightroom is fabulous, user friendly, and it makes an amateur photographer {like me} feel like a rockstar! Buy it. Use it. Love it.
-Sarah
Meg Clifford says
You will love it. Pretty easy to use once you get the hang of it, and you’ll find lots of good things you can do in there!
Camille says
Amazing!! We are getting lightroom and I am keeping my fingers crossed that I can figure it out!! 🙂 And I just have to tell you that your style of writing is so cute. Your personality totally shines through your posts and I think that it’s so fun! 🙂
Hope you are doing well- good luck with your baby!!! 🙂
xo,
Camille