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Product Description

Adobe Lightroom software is the professional photographer's essential toolbox. It provides one easy application for managing, adjusting, and presenting large volumes of digital photographs so you can spend less time in front of the computer and more time behind the lens. Enjoy robust support for more than 150 camera raw formats, and experiment with confidence. Fine-tune your photographs with precise, easy-to-use tools for globally correcting white balance, exposure, tone curves, lens distortion, and color casts. Adjustments you make to images in Lightroom won't alter the original data, whether you're working on a JPEG, TIFF, DNG, or camera raw file. Enjoy an elegant, uncluttered interface: Ease the learning curve and be productive quickly. Task-oriented modules whisk you through typical workflow tasks by putting just the tools you need at your fingertips. Fast zooming - Check sharpness, noise, or small details with nearly instant zoomin Edit large numbers of images faster, by creating presets you can apply to many photographs at once -- or edit one image and then synchronize your adjustments to other photos Retrace your adjustments to any image & return to any state of the photo that you choose, with explicit history tracking Erase dust spots from an image with a single click Easy-to-use crop and straighten tools Red-eye removal Fine tuned black-and-white conversions Quickly and visually format high-quality prints -- recall your favorite layouts with saved presets and enjoy speedy output, even with large files Preview the results of your HTML or Adobe Flash based Web galleries -- for a better online presentation with little effort and no programming

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1176 in Software
• Brand: Adobe
• Model: 19250126
• Released on: 2007-05-01
• Platforms: Mac OS X Intel, Windows XP, Mac OS X
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .50 pounds

Features

• One easy application for managing, adjusting, and presenting large volumes of digital photographs
• Automated features help speed the downloading, importing, and renaming of files
• Fine-tune your photographs with precise, easy-to-use tools
• Efficient image viewing, evaluation, and comparison
• Elegant, uncluttered interface

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New Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software is the professional photographer's essential toolbox, providing one easy application for managing, adjusting, and presenting large volumes of digital photographs so you can spend less time in front of the computer and more time behind the lens.

Watch the Feature Tour

Quickly download images from your camera to your computer. Automatically rename files, organize folders, and even add metadata to photos as you import them.

Work in the Library module to organize photos into collections, to browse, evaluate, and compare images, and to add keywords so that you can easily find your images.

Jump to the Develop module to make global adjustments to photographs, including correcting white balance, exposure, tone curves, and color casts.

Assemble and output high-quality printed contact sheets and generate sophisticated online web galleries and slide shows for client presentation.

To develop Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Adobe worked directly with professional photographers. View this short video to hear what photographers have to say about their new application. Watch the video (SWF, 2:50 mins)

Why Lightroom?

Perform nondestructive editing
Enjoy robust support for more than 150 camera raw formats, and experiment with confidence. Adjustments you make to images in Lightroom won't alter the original data, whether you're working on a JPEG, TIFF, DNG, or camera raw file.
View it in action >

Enjoy an elegant, uncluttered interface
Ease the learning curve and be productive quickly. Task-oriented modules whisk you through typical workflow tasks by putting just the tools you need at your fingertips.
View it in action >

Professional editing tools
Fine-tune your photographs with precise, easy-to-use tools for globally correcting white balance, exposure, tone curves, lens distortion, and color casts.
View it in action >

How Lightroom Supports Your Workflow

1. Import

• Robust tools to handle large shoots
  Speedily process high-volume shoots by automatically importing images whenever media cards or cameras are connected to your computer. Then automatically rename files, organize folders, and make nondestructive adjustments as images are imported.
• Import/export presets
  Streamline the importing and exporting of your files by saving your frequently used settings in stored presets, which you can recall and apply when needed.
• Automatic conversion to DNG
  If desired, automatically convert your images from proprietary file formats to the publicly available Digital Negative (DNG) format as they are imported, or easily export photographs from your Library in DNG format.

2. Manage

• Multiple viewing options
  Quickly find and select your best shots with flexible display options like the Grid view for groups of thumbnails, the Loupe view for zeroing in on fine detail in a single image, or the Compare view for displaying two or more images side by side.
• Flexible organization of images
  Bring order to voluminous image libraries by grouping your photographs in stored collections. Create collections for different tasks or subjects, and group similar images within a collection to organize them further.
• Manual thumbnail reordering
  Put your images in the order that you need them for any particular task by selecting any number of photographs in your Library--continuous or not--and then simply dragging them to a new location on the Grid.
• Easy file renaming
  Make your photographs easier to find and keep in sensible order using the Lightroom renaming feature. Simply set naming rules, and Lightroom automatically renames your images as they're imported.
• Single or group metadata stamping
  Organize and annotate your images by adding metadata to a single photo or to groups of selected images. Save metadata sets as presets, which you can apply with one click.
• Image versions without duplication
  Create as many alternate versions of an image as you desire without overloading your hard drive. Then, switch between versions with a single click.
• IPTC/EXIF/XMP metadata support
  Read, add, or edit a comprehensive set of metadata entries, including IPTC, EXIF, and XMP data.
• Metadata stamping on output
  Stamp crucial metadata--such as copyright notification, captions, and keywords--on print jobs or exported images so you can search on it later.
• Keyword synchronization
  Make keywords consistent even if you're using Lightroom on two different computers by importing and exporting keyword sets to external, transferable files.
• Offline image management
  Work with your image library in Lightroom even when some or all of the actual photo files are stored on offline media.
• Easy Library backup to CD/DVD
  Help ensure the safety and preservation of your photographs by backing them up to CD or DVD using simple built-in tools.
• Simple keywording
  Easily organize your photographs and make them searchable with keywords that make sense to you. Assign keywords to a single image or groups of selected images--just type and apply.

3. Develop

• Easy-to-use white balance, exposure, and contrast controls
  Quickly perfect white balance, exposure, and tone curves in your images, including camera raw files, with familiar slider controls, or enter numeric values for the most precise adjustments.
• Simple yet powerful tone curve editor
  Precisely control the tonality and contrast of your images by individually targeting highlights, midtones, and shadows using sliders and visual controls.
• Integration with Adobe Photoshop
  Instantly send any number of images to Adobe Photoshop (sold separately) for advanced editing, and see the changes you've made reflected in the Lightroom Library when you're done.
• Advanced hue, saturation, and luminance editing
  Enhance color saturation and remove color casts in your images with individual control over six color ranges each for hue, saturation, and luminance.
• Nondestructive editing
  Enjoy robust support for more than 140 camera raw formats, and experiment with confidence. Adjustments you make to images in Lightroom won't alter the original data, whether you're working on a JPEG, TIFF, DNG, or camera raw file.
• Fast zooming
  Check sharpness, noise, or small details with nearly instant zooming--a simple keyboard command or mouse click toggles between 100% magnification and a full-image view. Smoothly navigate highly magnified areas using the Hand tool in the photo preview pane.
• Convenient before/after comparison mode
  View a side-by-side display of your original picture and a duplicate that shows the effects of your edits as you make them, or display the before and after states in a split view of the image. Toggle either view between portrait and landscape modes, and even see images in "lights out" view.
• Finely tuned black-and-white conversions
  Convert color images to black-and-white with precision. Familiar sliders allow you to control the contrast and detail based on the colors in the original photograph.
• Synchronized adjustments across multiple images
  Edit large numbers of images faster by creating presets that you can apply to many photographs at once, or edit one image and then synchronize your adjustments to other photos you select.
• Explicit history tracking
  Retrace your adjustments to any image--the History panel tracks them automatically as you edit--and instantly return to any state of the photo that you choose.
• Dust buster
  Erase dust spots from an image with a single click.
• Easy-to-use crop and straighten tools
  Crop and straighten your photographs in a snap.
• Red-eye removal
  Quickly eliminate red eye when it occurs in your flash photos.

4. Present

• Fast, high-quality printing
  Quickly and visually format high-quality prints, whether working with one photo or 100, on one page or many. Recall your favorite layouts with saved presets and enjoy speedy output, even of large files.
• Live preview of HTML or Flash based web galleries
  Create HTML or Adobe Flash¨ based web galleries for online presentation with little effort and no programming, and preview the results in Lightroom before you publish them to your site.
• Single-click web publishing
  Save your web server information in Lightroom as an FTP preset, and then publish your Flash or HTML galleries with a single click. There's no more need for a separate FTP client application in your imaging workflow.
• Sophisticated slide shows
  Use the simple controls in Lightroom to create and play elegant slide shows, and include background music from your digital music library, including iTunes.
• Signature stamps
  Stamp your slide shows, web galleries, and printed output with your studio or business logo for an added professional touch.

How Lightroom Works With Photoshop

New Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is the perfect complement to Adobe Photoshop. Use Lightroom to import, manage, adjust, and present large volumes of digital photographs, and use Photoshop to more thoroughly refine individual images.

Together, Photoshop Lightroom and Photoshop work the way the digital photographer works, letting you efficiently and seamlessly process all of your digital images. The picture is complete.

Workflow between Lightroom and Photoshop

Import and manage photo shoots
Download images from your camera to your computer. In Lightroom, automatically rename files, organize folders, and add metadata to photos as you import them. Organize photos into collections to browse, evaluate, and compare images.

Develop entire photo shoots and perfect a single photo
In Lightroom, make global adjustments to groups of photos, including altering white balance, exposure, tone curves, and color casts. Open individual photos in Photoshop for precise image refinement. Changes made in Photoshop are reflected in Lightroom, and vice versa.

Present your photos in any format
In Lightroom, assemble and output high-quality printed contact sheets and generate sophisticated online web galleries and slide shows for client presentation.

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Customer Reviews

Rather Steep Learning Curve....
From reading some of the other reviews this product is one that you either love or hate. Yes the 300 USD. is rather steep as is the learning curve, it has helped me to arrange over 25,000 photos stored rather easily. Tagging and date arrangements, the powerful find function will let you sort by specific exif data like type of lens used or aperture or speed photo was shot as well as all the common find functions. Even incorporates geotagging, although because documentation is skimpy if you download the product from adobe, most knowledge breakthroughs come from the internet, where many people have made more gallery settings, web site settings, develop settings that you can add into Lightroom. Once the keyboard shortcuts are learned, cropping, straightening and so many other features become quite easy.

As an owner of photoshop cs3, find myself seldom opening photoshop, tweaking pictures within the develop module with great results with post processing. Buyers should be aware that Lightroom 2.0 beta is out and adds even more features and fine tunes many of the existing features from Lightroom 1.4. Lightroom 2.0 should be out in August of September of this year.

For me, the non-destructive editing is a space saver and picture file conserver of space, not ending up with multiple copies of the same picture each with their own adjustments.

Bottom line if you are willing to read the help columns and blogs and discussion groups on the internet as well as look at the help files on Adobe for learning and try and learn just a couple of things each day, there isn't much that this program will not do for you in categorizing, postprocessing, publishing via ftp for a web site. The only thing that stopped me from 5 stars is the 300 USD price tag, but i guess that is to cover all of the lost revenue to all the bootleg copies floating around.

If you are into photography, have a lot of photos that need organizing and tuning up, this program works very well. Converting raw files to most other image formats and allowing batch exporting, file renaming in a few clicks the task s done..

Nearly $300 for THIS!? Shame on Adobe!
This program is definitely NOT worth the nearly $300 price tag! It is full of bugs, and lacks functionality and flexibility. I'm really shocked that Adobe priced it this high. Because, the bottom line is that it does very little that any free or low cost photo organizer can't do, and it does nothing well, with the possible exception of providing the ability to save different revisions of a photo, without having to make a copy. (Is that function, alone, worth $300? -- It isn't, to me.

Besides the basic lack of usefullness, the program has some major flaws. For example:

There is no "undo" button. There is an Undo function in the Edit Menu, but the undo history is global, instead of having a separate undo history for each individual photo.

There are only two ways to save a slideshow: You can export to PDF; or you can have the program ftp it to your web site. There is no option to save it to your local drive, as html, so you can rename files and tweak it with your own html editor before sending it to your website. Also, even if you do send it to your web server, the software does not provide a blog capable option that is easy to implement.

Also, I went to a lot of trouble to create a preset in Develop mode, and applied it to a lot of photos in a collection. After I had all the photos the way I wanted them, I decided to try out the slide show creation tool, which, by the way, was not particularly impressive, with its very small number of templates, none of which was appealing to my eye. (There are plenty of "FREE" programs and online applications that will do a much better job at slideshow creation.

Anyway, after trying the 4 or 5 slide show types, I went back to Develop mode, and the preset I had created in Develop mode earlier was GONE! It simply disappeared! Then, to make matters worse, as soon as I returned to the collection where I had applied that preset earlier, it reverted all of the photos to a previous preset, right before my eyes! -- An obvious bug had wiped out 3 hours of work in 2 seconds! With no ability to "undo", since I didn't do it!

There was another bug, where the scrolling photo strip at the bottom would start scrolling really fast when you drap the slider with your mouse, but as soon as you let go of the mouse, it would jump back to where you started, kind of like a rubber band was attached. So, you ended up having to move the filmstrip to the left, one photo at a time, until the scroll bar worked again.

I wish I had listened to the previous reviewer who said this software was not worth the money. They were SOOO right! This software is not in the same class with other programs in this price range, and you do expect a LOT more out of software, when you pay this much for it!

If this software had been $40 or $50, I'd have said it was 'maybe' worth it. Don't these software companies realize that to most people $300 is a LOT of money!? I swear Adobe has got dollar signs tattoo'ed to the insides of their eyelids! Don't they realize that they've priced their software so high that the average consumer can't afford it? You'd think those geniouses would be better at math. They would make a much bigger profit, by pricing their software afordably, because they'd sell a lot more of it. I wish they would quit taking advantage of people the way Microsoft does! I mean, you gotta have an Operating System, so Microsoft kind of has the average consumer bent over a barrel, and they can and do charge exorbatent prices and get away with it, (I guess Gates can never have enough money!)

Well, take my word for it! You can definitely do without this over priced, buggy, not-ready-for-Prime-Time piece of software! Shame on Adobe for pricing it so high!

I wish I could return the product and get my money back! I feel like I was conned, because I expected more from the Adobe name, especially at this price!

If you need a reasonably priced photo editor, for Windows, check out Xara!

Fantastic for prolific amateur photographers
The several-day learning curve is worth it, even if you aren't a professional. Lightroom cut the time I spend sorting photos in a third.

It's well worth spending some time learning the keyboard shortcuts - check out the video tutorials on Adobe's site (even before you buy). They'll give you a sense of how you can speed up your workflow, and spend your time actually *taking* pictures, rather than fiddling with them after the fact.