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LOUPEDECK

Are you dedicated enough to your edits to buy this specialised deck?

loupedeck.com If you are a professional photographer that spends a fair bit of time at the computer processing your imagery, then the Loupedeck should be at the top of your shopping list. Loupedeck is a photo-editing console for Adobe Lightroom, and it really helps to take the stress and hard work out of editing.

The Loupedeck offers the photographer more scope to take their edits further. The intuitive keys and dials are well laid out and feel very natural to use, meaning that all of your focus can go into the image on the screen in front of you instead of hunting for sliders and menus. It’s ergonomically designed, so is pleasant to use even on long editing sessions.

One the bottom left you’ll find five buttons that can be used to rate your images with a simple click, which really helped to speed up our edits and sort our imagery with ease.

There are dials for all of the main sliders in Lightroom, including Contrast, Clarity, Exposure, Blacks, Whites, Shadows and Highlights. We were really impressed with these, however it did take us a while to remember exactly where each dial is. But after some practice we were able to tweak the dials without having to look at the deck, and so could focus completely on the image. The other functions that we were really impressed by were the scrolling wheels for adjusting individual colour channels, as well as the custom controls and the easy preset buttons.