Lightroom CC

I consider myself a moderately technical person with several computers and ipads, iphones, etc.  But Lightroom, is hard to use, hard to learn, and it is great.  Lightroom is part of Adobe's Creative Cloud subscription ($9.99 per month) and it is the photo software choice that I use.  It's far more sophisticated and far more complicated, and far better than iPhoto or Aperture (which Apple no longer supports anyway).  But it's pretty amazing, and pretty imperfect also.  Taking pictures is one thing.  Processing them through software suites like Lightroom elevates them to levels that are sometimes surprising but generally a lot better than what you can get SOOC (straight out of camera).  This is true at least in my experience.

I don't know if they have a manual for Lightroom since I've never read it and I'm not a big manual reading guy anyway (you can forget about me asking for directions when I'm lost too).  So I learned by watching youtube videos and Lightroom video tutorials.  I watched these videos, and, as is apparent, I still have much to learn, so I still watch when updated.  Here are a couple of links to the ones I found most helpful:

1.  Julianne Kost:         

2.  Serge Ramelli:       

3.  Anthony Morganti:    

 

Julianne Kost was great for starting out and the other two are great for more advanced tutorials.  So I encourage you to learn how to use Lightroom.  I promise you'll be shocked at how much it can improve your pics.