With your basic raw conversion completed it’s time to move on and take more control of the image to get it looking exactly how you want it. To do this we’ll be using the powerful tools on offer in Lightoom’s Develop module. The main six tools – Crop, Spot Removal, Red Eye, Graduated Filter, Radial Filter and Adjustment Brush – can all be found under the histogram, while others, like the White Balance and Targeted Adjustment tools, can be found within certain panels on the right-hand side.
You have fewer tools than Photoshop CC here, but that’s because the tools in Lightroom are designed to help you get the most from your raw files; more involved digital image manipulation techniques are best saved for Photoshop, and we’ll get to that…