The Updated Tool That Fixes One of Lightroom's Biggest Flaws

Adobe Lightroom is seen as the gold standard of post-processing suites for photography but it isn't without its flaws. However, one updated feature might have just improved the software dramatically.

I'll openly admit that while I have used Adobe Lightroom for well over a decade at this point, I am not much of a fan. I have had finicky and frustrating issues with the catalogs, particularly when exporting and importing them. However, for me, it extends past that too — it's editing. I invariably move my work over to Photoshop for damn-near any sort of editing an image requires, not least the sorts of edit Mark Denney discusses in this video.

The tools for removing objects in Lightroom have always felt heavy-handed and clumsy, yielding muddy or even outright unacceptable results. The Remove tool — to my memory at least — was underwhelming too, but now, with its new "Detect Objects" feature, appears to be cooking with gas. In this video, Denney shows how it handles the removal of a cloud that is partially obscured by a tree and a mountain, which is no easy task.

So, if you avoid editing in Lightroom like I do, it might be time to reconsider and do a little more to the raw file!