Are there layers in lightroom

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However, during the pre-order period for Perfect Layers 1. Perfect Layers is the fast and easy way to create layered files with Photoshop Lightroom or Apple Aperture. With Perfect Layers you can create and edit multi-layered Photoshop files directly from Photoshop Lightroom and Apple Aperture, or use it to combine images from almost any workflow application. I'm Amanda, a homeschooling mom of four, from South Carolina.

I am passionate about photography, photo editing, and helping others learn to love their camera and editing programs. Log in Cart 0 Checkout. Why Use Photoshop Adjustment Layers? By using Layers, you can change your mind about a particular part of your edit by going to an individual layer and lowering opacity or deleting it, without having to hit the "undo" button a hundred times and starting from scratch.

By using Layers, you can go back into an edited image file weeks, months or even years later and undo any changes that you made if saved as a. What are Photoshop Layers? These Layers come with a mask. Blank Layer - Blank Layers are empty - no pixels or change. But you can put color on Blank Layers and also add a mask. Type Layer - A Type Layer will allow you to add text onto an image, with options to specify font, size, etc.

Fill Layer - Fill Layers let you add and blend layers of color, gradients and patterns. Such an application would be all a photographer needs since I find much of Photoshop is rarely used when just editing photographic images.

Having said that, the link between PS and LR is such that switching an image between the two is painless. I particularly like how after editing in PS and returning to LR, I can later re-edit that image in PS and still have all my layers and masks from the last edit. Anything is possible. Now back to reality Well yes but with limited resources it would have been better to have layer support Adobe Elements manages this and that's hardly an expensive program.

Then we have the Books module??? I just don't understand the thinking behind the developers. LR4 is being aimed at the advanced amateur which to be honest probably has more time and money to play with software than working photographers do. Andrew, you seem very negaive, you don't work for Adobe do you? Adobe employees have a badge indicating it. I don't see much of a case for Lightroom having layers. It's not Photoshop for one thing, and how much of layers would you want to have?

I imagine you'll want masking, blending modes too, blend-if should be there Text layers? Layer styles? By the time you've implemented layers on more than a very amateur level you've got a tool that still isn't going to satisfy those used to proper Photoshop style layers. And yet it will still be over the heads of the many Photoshop users out there who remain so frightened of layers they never use them.

Rather than ape Photoshop and become a compositing tool, it's better that Lightroom continues with its style of adjustments - pins, grad filters. As a photographer, I find Lightroom lacking when it comes to making localised adjustments and cloning. I thus have to edit in PS to make use of its layers, selection and masking tools. There is no alternative within Lightroom is there? So why so anti layers? Why would a photographer want shapes, styles, text and so on as you suggest?! I suppose if a year ago folks could vote for either, PV or Layers, they would vote for Layers?

Just about anything could probably be built into LR but at what price? It is all about resources and building a tool that is designed for a specific task and audience. You want layers, get Elements or Photoshop. You want a word processor, get MS Word or similar. A very narrow definition of a photographer? Never produced an ad for a trade magazine or another graphic? But I mentioned those as one extreme of a range of layer features, and wherever you choose to place your arbitrary "why would a photographer want x" cut is going to leave your Lightroom layers without key features of layers and a dumbed-down implementation.

Lightroom's just not the right tool for compositing. If you want better localised adjustments and better cloning, just ask for them?