Hey guys! This is Janine from Pangolin Photo Safaris. Thank you so much for joining my 11 part Lightroom course...
specifically designed for wildlife photographers. Today I want to start off with explaining to you
why to choose lightroom as a wildlife photographer? What are the benefits?
In which app, or software, do you need to purchase?
Lightroom, from Adobe, is a very popular editing software...especially amongst wildlife photographers...and one of the reason is that it's
so intuitive. It's very easy to get started with, and all the changes you make are immediate!
You cannot lose any of your editing steps, because everything is saved...so, you have all the time
in the world to play around, without worrying. But the main reason I really prefer Lightroom over
other editing software, is that it has amazing organizational skills. You can
really get your photographs sorted. In order...and you'll have a chance to always find them again.
There are many other editing software options out there that are amazing, and great to use,
but for that reason Lightroom holds number one for me (at this stage). Which Lightroom software should
you download, or purchase? There are different options. In the past, Lightroom was one package that you
could purchase for a once-off price. The latest one was Lightroom 6 that you can still purchase today.
However, Lightroom 6 doesn't allow you to download any newer updates.
Adobe has changed its format, and nowadays you're going to have to rent the software. You are renting
it through Adobe Creative Cloud, and you have the option to buy a photography package that includes
quite a number of apps, including Photoshop, Lightroom, Camera Raw, Bridge, Premiere Rush, etc...
In Adobe cc creative cloud, you can then download the individual apps that are relevant
for your workflow. In these apps, you have the option for two different Lightroom versions...
1. You have a Lightroom Classic, which is a desktop-focused photo editing app.
2. ...and you have Lightroom. A regular Lightroom, which is a cloud-based photo service.
Lightroom is the app most people initially download, and it's amazing if you have a phone,
or iPad, and you quickly want to edit some images to show to your friends, and send home. It's a very
intuitive, quick little easy program. But, it's a very trimmed down version of our initial Lightroom Classic,
and it doesn't hold all the organizational advantages that Lightroom Classic has.
So, I want to encourage you to download Lightroom Classic. Another reason being that
wildlife photographers often travel in very remote areas, with very poor internet access...
and the cloud-based version - as its name suggests - needs very good internet access to constantly
update itself. So, Lightroom Classic is great for your desktop, for your laptop...to work off a computer.
Lightroom, the cloud-based version, is great for smaller mobile devices. You can use both of them
in conjunction with each other, however this Lightroom course focuses on Lightroom Classic...
and once you understand it, finding your way around Lightroom CC will be very easy.
If you have downloaded our seven-day free trial from our homepage, please go ahead and download
Lightroom Classic as an app, to your desktop, so we can get started with my next module...