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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (often referred to as LR) is one of several professional level photo editing and management tools. While previous versions were available for purchase, the latest versions are available by subscription to Adobe's Create Cloud suite of tools. The open source software package darktable is often suggested as a free alternative to Lightroom.

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Is Lighroom available only as a subscription?

https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-lightroom.html Scroll to the bottom, on the right, there's a link for the stand-alone version. Keep in mind that the $10/month is the combination of PS/LR, …
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Can I use Lightroom to crop a photo evenly around a center point?

Select the first picture and make your adjustments. Then click on Settings>Copy Settings. Make sure that Crop>Aspect Ratio is selected (you may also want Straighten Angle or any of the other stuff ava …
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Does Photo Mechanic import faster than Lightroom?

I've recently found myself being encumbered by LRs slow rendering so I want to use Photo Mechanic. But I wonder if Photo Mechanic ingests faster than LR imports? It seems to me that just copying file …
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How can you use a Collection inside a Lightroom Smart Collection?

You can't have a smart collection that references another smart collection and I suspect that this is to prevent a kind of infinite loop in the rules and causing performance/stability issues. So sma …
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Lightroom catalog location

You can leave the catalog on a different drive than your photos. If the photos are on a drive that is disconnected then you will only have access to the previews and if you enabled smart previews then …
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Bleed & Trim Area for LR

It looks like you're getting the wrong dimensions for what you want. Business cards are commonly found in a 3.5"x2" size. 3.5"x2" is the target size to cut. To ensure that text isn't trimmed off if …
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RAW Conversion is better on Canon Utilities or LightRoom?

I would hope Lightroom because I paid for it, though I could see the vendor's program might be best because it's made for that particular file type, but I imaging the best one will be the one you like …
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Is there any SDK to build tethering plugins to import files into Lightroom?

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/lightroom/using/WS1FAB59DE-8867-4052-BA02-5CF6C163CD29.html …
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Can Lightroom facilitate the consolidation of 2 external drives to a third?

First, there's a free 30 day trial for Adobe CC so you should be able to download Lightroom and try it. …
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How do I export a picture from Lightroom without the original?

I have LR5 and just tried this and it didn't complain to me, but you could try this script provided by Adobe (for use with LR4, but maybe it still works).
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Just upgraded to a newer version of Photoshop, how do I get Lightroom to recognize it?

I had PS5.1 when I installed LR4 and now I have CS6, but LR4 still opens everything in CS5.1. How do I make it open everything in CS6?
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Just upgraded to a newer version of Photoshop, how do I get Lightroom to recognize it?

Apparently one solution is to have your computer lockup and have to hard reset causing LR4 to see CS6 upon startup. I'll leave this open for a more solid answer, preferably one that includes how to re …
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Is it a bad idea to activate lens-corrections in camera, when also use lens-correction in Li...

This only matters for JPEG (and the embedded JPEG previews). I would say it comes down to which you like better. If you're shooting JPEG it'd be nice to have it done in camera. You would probably ge …
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What Is The Scale Of The Y Axis of The Histogram in Lightroom / ACR?

You will always have one value touch the top of the graph because the scale is set to match the max Y value. It's not important what that Y value is, only it's relative proportion to the other Y value …
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