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Using a MIDI Lightroom controller

Using a MIDI Lightroom controller

From the course: The Practicing Photographer

Using a MIDI Lightroom controller

- This week on the Practicing Photographer, we're going to look at a very different way of controlling Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. If you're a Lightroom user, you should probably already be very familiar and comfortable with all of our editing controls over here. We got a series of sliders and buttons and dials and curve controls and things, and they work great. And I really like these controls, as I've said before. I think this set of sliders right here, the basic tone sliders in Lightroom, is the best combination of editing controls that anyone has yet to come up with for working with raw files, or any other type of image for that matter. But when you're driving it with a mouse all day, well, your hands can start to hurt like crazy, at least mine does, but also, you may get a little sluggish as you continue editing and so what I've got here is a MIDI controller that has been set up to work with Lightroom. MIDI is Musical Instrument Digital Interface. This is normally a controller…

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