Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

Category

Image Management Software

Brief Description

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.

Extend your Lightroom workflow with Photoshop CS3

Price

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Features

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.

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.

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.

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.

How is Lightroom Different from photoshop CS 3

For many photographers, the difference is as simple as Lightroom for the many, and Photoshop for the one. Lightroom excels at processing large volumes of photographs, creating the perfect negative, and outputting collections to web, print and slideshows. Photoshop remains the ultimate pixel-level, individual-image-editing and compositing application. Together, Lightroom and Photoshop comprise the comprehensive software duet for the post-processing and editing of digital imagery.

For example, you may have 2,000 photographs and need to quickly preview, sort and rate them, embed your copyright on each, correct white balance, change tonal and color values, and make monochrome copies (or add a wide array of other special effects). Then, you need to output to slideshow, print or web, and all under the pressure of time constraints. For this common type of photographic workflow, Lightroom is the ideal solution.

Now perhaps some of your photographs are destined for an advertising layout. After choosing the premier images, you need to add a special effect to a model’s eyes, or change the pattern of a dress, or pull the model completely away from her background to create an intricate, multilayered composite. For this, Photoshop is the ideal solution.

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.

System Requirements

Windows

Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2
Intel® Pentium® 4 processor
768MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
1GB of available hard-disk space
1,024x768 screen resolution
CD-ROM drive

Macintosh

Mac OS X v.10.4
PowerPC® G4 or G5 1GHz processor or Intel® Core™ Duo processor
768MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
1GB of available hard-disk space
1,024x768 screen resolution
CD-ROM drive

More Information

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