Lightroom was developed for RAW editing. It actually only has a fraction of the Tools Photoshop has but each tool has been broken down into 3 or 4 tools. It's Idea for pulling shadow detail out. Or trying to get more detail in your highlight areas. I agree it is brilliant. But you see it's true colours (excuse the pun) when manipulating RAW files. Because RAW is a 16 bit format. You have 8 bits of data that any printer in the world is going to through out. The tools are designed to ensure that you are choosing the 8 bits you want to keep.
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