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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


Editorial Reviews:

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. Special introductory pricing available through 04/30/2007.

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Take advantage of special pricing--available through April 30, 2007.



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.
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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.
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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.
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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

Lightroom and Photoshop: See how they work together. Watch video

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 Rating: Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5
Summary: Superb
Comment: Lightroom does many things well. Cataloging and adjusting images is easy. Uploading images to a web site is easy. Uploading to photo sharing web sites is easy with some free Lightroom plugins. Printing is easy. If you are using iPhoto or Picasa and are looking for something better, Lightroom is worth trying.

Customer Rating: Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5
Summary: nice program
Comment: great program to white balance all your photos that you shoot in raw format (nef). Color correction is easy and so is exposure and white balance. I dont like the way it imports or saves items, can be a little tricky in that area, otherwise this is a good program to get the professional finish to your pictures for the best picture and color quality.

Customer Rating: Average rating of 3/5Average rating of 3/5Average rating of 3/5Average rating of 3/5Average rating of 3/5
Summary: great product when it works.
Comment: I found it to be inconsisent on the PC, on my laptop it rus without problems, on my descktop (same os - xp) it crashes on export and hangs alot. Photoshop has no problems on the system on Lightroom. If you are into digital photograhy, this product is a must buy. Will see how it works on a new high end desktop, otherwise I will wait till I get a Mac to reall use it.

Customer Rating: Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5
Summary: A great solution for the amateur photographer
Comment: This is all the amateur photographer needs. Links to CS & Elements for more detail modification if needed. Update to 1.4.
This product just keeps getting better.

Customer Rating: Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5
Summary: What I've been looking for...
Comment: As a serious amateur photographer, starting to sell some work and getting more into the craft of the digital darkroom, I was thrilled to discover this quite intuitive digital darkroom software. I downloaded the 30 day free trial from [...] and made a point of NOT consulting tutorials and such so that I could test it's ability to make me feel comfortable about the whole image management and development process. I found it to be as easy as any software I've ever learned, and I encourage you to take the 30 day trial and play with images that are near and dear to your heart - I've been able to fine tune images that I never thought would be much to observe into much more respectable images that I am proud of. I found a comfort level very quickly, and I hope you can too. PS: I am not the type of photographer who loves the whole "darkroom" gig - absolutely nothing wrong with that, but I'd rather be shooting and then developing quickly. Hope this helps...

Technical Details

Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Adobe
Feature: One easy application for managing, adjusting, and presenting large volumes of digital photographs
Label: ADOBE SYSTEMS INC
Manufacturer: ADOBE SYSTEMS INC
Model: 19250127
Publisher: ADOBE SYSTEMS INC
Studio: ADOBE SYSTEMS INC


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