Stop Touching Everything: Mark Denney's RAW Editing Framework That Finally Made Sense to Me

Stop Touching Everything: Mark Denney's RAW Editing Framework That Finally Made Sense to Me

There’s a specific kind of paralysis that hits when you open a RAW file with too much ambition. You see the image, you know what you want it to look like, and then you open Lightroom and suddenly you’re adjusting the dehaze slider on a photo that hasn’t even had its white balance corrected yet. I’ve been there more times than I want to count, and honestly, it’s not a knowledge problem.

Lightroom CC Just Got Faster — Here's How to Actually Turn That Speed On

Lightroom CC Just Got Faster — Here's How to Actually Turn That Speed On

There’s a particular kind of frustration that comes from painting a local adjustment brush across a high-resolution RAW file and watching Lightroom chug along like it’s thinking really hard about your life choices. I’ve been there more times than I’d like to admit. It’s the kind of lag that makes you question your hardware, your file format, your entire career path. So when Adobe dropped Lightroom CC with a serious architecture overhaul under the hood, I paid attention immediately.