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Lightroom is an elegant photo organization and editing tool. It does most things absolutely brilliantly. There are two cases, however, when you may need to access Photoshop to achieve your desired result. 

The spot removal tool in Lightroom is the go-to method to deal with annoying or undesirable spots in your photos. Spot removal is frequently used in portrait or modeling photography to improve the appearance of the skin. 

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This article will help you get started with the Transform panel in the Lightroom Develop module. Buildings are ideal for geometric corrections as they almost always have hard edges and well-defined vertical and horizontal lines. Lightroom can detect lines and edges to the extent that some steps can be automated. I will also demonstrate a second method.

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One advantage of using Lightroom as your post-processing tool is that it contains a huge database of camera and lens specific information. No matter how advanced and precise the gear we use is, it is a fact of life that our lens will introduce us to some level of irregularities. These imperfections typically appear in photos in two ways.

Baby portrait photography can be immensely rewarding. But it can also be challenging. Not only do you have parents hovering around waiting for thatperfect picture, but you have this tiny human who would frankly rather be eating or sleeping. 

The develop module is where photographers spend most of their Lightroom post-processing time. It is conveniently divided into functional panels controlled by tabs on the right hand side of the screen. At the very top, we encounter the basic panel.