Rad Lab Review!

So, I totally bit the bate and tried out the new Rad Lab. Can I just say- L O V E! Honestly. This is probably one of THE best photo editing tools since I first discovered Photoshop Raw Editor! There are several reasons for me (and you) to love Rad Lab. Even if you’ve never edited a photo in your life, I can make you LOVE this product by the end of this blog post! Clients and Photographers alike will love The Rad Lab!

In this review, I’ve made a list of things I love about Rad Lab. Essentially, it’s an overall review . Here’s my list of loves!

1) It’s so user friendly! After you’ve installed Rad Lab, simply open Photoshop and- voila! Lab it up my friend!
2) It’s super quick to edit photos now! I use some actions in my photos (by some, I mean I use the same 3 if I’m feeling lazy. Most of my photos are hand edited). Manually editing photos can take forever! And, I’m going to be honest- I’m not a huge fan of Lightroom. I know I know…but I just don’t like it. I’m a Photoshop addict! I design in there, I edit photos in there, I basically live in Photoshop. But I digress. Rad Lab is like my new 3rd arm. Here are some examples of my manual editing (on the left) and my Rad Lab edit (on the right!). I can already see a HUGE difference in EVERYTHING! I love it!

    

     
Yup, the one below is us. We’re cute

3) It gives me the option of seeing HOW my image will look before I edit it. This is a HUGE deal for me. There are times when I think “Ok this is obviously a black and white image” and you just know. But, there are other times when you see an image and you think “is this black and white or color?” and then you just have no idea. Well, with Rad Lab- the guessing game is over! I know exactly which is best before I even edit the image!
4) It’s helping me see my images in a new way. When I used to edit my images it was standard- color, or black and white. Rad Lab is opening my eyes to vintage and sepia. I’ve always been a fan of vintage and when I see vintage coloring in a photo, I love it. But when I look at my photos, it’s rare that I see “vintage” as my style. I’ve always been hesitant of the world of “sepia” colored photos. But Rad Lab has helped me realize that Sepia CAN be okay.

5) Black and White presets! I am a HUGE fan of black and white (one of my dreams is to photograph a wedding in ALL black and white!). Color is taken away and all that’s left is raw, pure emotion. It’s amazing. Rad Lab has some amazing black and white presets built right in!

Look at these images below: In the first one (manually edited by myself) you see groom, kissing bride surrounded by brightly colored snow boards and ski’s. Look at the one below it: groom, kissing bride, falling snow skiers in the background- love in the winter. A whole new take on a ski slope wedding that I never would have thought of.

                                         

6) It stores your “recipes!”. Rad Lab is designed around the whole idea that you are a photo editor “recipe” maker and I LOVE it! You create a recipe, save it to a photo and, voila- it’s there for you to use again later! This just adds to the quickness of Rad Lab. These photos below? SAME RECIPE! I edited one and then edited the other- took me maybe 10 minutes total. 8 to make the recipe, 1 to apply it to the other photo and then 1 to save both images. WOW! What a complete time saver! Before Rad Lab, I would be editing and editing photos with the same settings over and over and over again. It would take me hours sometimes!

Basically, that’s what I LOVE about Rad Lab. I’ll definitely be purchasing Rad Lab but probably not for a few more months. Honestly- I could go on about all the things I love about them but my blog post would be super super SUPER long and it would take me all night long! Suffice it to say- I will miss it very much when my free trial ends! Photographers- you will LOVE the quality Rad Lab adds to your photos, the time it adds to your life and the great feeling it adds to you when you edit your images. Clients- you will love Rad Lab because your images will get to you FASTER and will look way way way better! I’m so excited about having this to offer in months to come! They said not to kiss their butts in this review but honestly, there is nothing I would change about Rad Lab. It is TOTALLY RAD and I’m so in love . 

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Posted by mistyskyephotography on October 20, 2011

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