By Phil Hall
If you regularly use Adobe Lightroom as a part of your workflow, the Loupedeck photo-editing console could help you to speed up your post-processing.
Loupedeck has been designed to make image selection and editing quicker and more intuitive than doing those things with your humble mouse and keyboard. The idea is that instead of using keyboard shortcuts or adjusting slider controls with your cursor, you use the Loupedeck’s dedicated suite of buttons, knobs, dials and wheel.
To that end there are controls to select and rate images (including 1-5 star rating buttons), while once in Lightroom’s Develop module there are dedicated knobs to adjust White Balance, Tint, Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Whites, Blacks, Clarity, Vibrance and Saturation (there’s no Dehaze dial, as that feature was added to Lightroom after Loupedeck came out).
Rather than you having to mouse around the screen to get to the desired slider, simply turning one of the dedicated knobs increases or decreases a control’s value, while a quick press of the knob will perform a reset of the control, taking it back to zero.
There are also individual adjustments for the separate color channels, which can be toggled between Hue, Saturation and Luminosity. Want to crop or change …read more
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