Chapter 10 How to Do the Most Popular Special Effects

And Making Stuff Look Cool

If you had to compare Lightroom and Photoshop, you could say that Lightroom’s strengths are that is manages your entire photo library, and it excels at making things brighter or darker, setting or changing your white balance, adding color grading, and stuff like that. It’s a very “tweaking your exposure-esque” application (if that’s even a thing), and that’s what it does best. However (and stop me if you’ve heard me say this before), Photoshop is where the magic is. This is where you create the uncreatable. This is where you do things that Lightroom can only ...

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