Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Mac/Windows
Mac OS X v10.5 or v10.6 / Windows XP with SP3, Windows Vista
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 software helps you bring out the best in your photography, if you're perfecting one image, looking for ten, processing hundreds, or organizing thousands.
Create incredible images that really move your audience. Experiment fearlessly with state-of-the-art non-destructive editing tools, including Adobe’s world-class noise reduction. Easily manage all your images and showcase your work in elegant print layouts, slide shows with music and on popular photo-sharing sites. All this from one fast, intuitive application.
Simplify photography from capture to print
Create brilliant images -- Get just the right look you want from every shot with market-leading processing tools in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom that let you alter contrast, tune colour, convert to black-and-white, add grain, adjust sharpness, and much more besides.
- Creativity and flexibility: Set your imagination free in a non-destructive editing environment that will encourage you to experiment. Extend your creative control with a flexible brush that enables you to adjust selected areas of your photo for just the look you want.
- Tone and colour: Gain powerful, subtle control over the tonal qualities that make or break black-and-white images. Enhance colour saturation and remove colour casts with individual control over eight colour channels each for hue, saturation, and luminance.
- Detail and correction: Achieve amazing, natural-looking results from your high ISO images with all-new state-of-the-art noise reduction technology. Quickly and easily perfect your images by automatically reducing lens defects like geometric distortion, chromatic aberration, and vignetting with single-click profiles.
- Streamline your digital photography -- Boost your creativity, save time, and enjoy photography more with a fast, intuitive assistant that gives you the tools you need to efficiently manage, edit, and showcase your images.
- Saving time and working efficiently: Get your digital photography essentials in one package that includes what you need to manage, perfect, and showcase all your images.
- Organizing and managing: Take advantage of a powerful set of image management features to organize your photographs, flexibly rate and label them, and find them easily using a wide range of metadata tags and information.
- Finding, searching, and sorting images: Make your images easier to find and sort by creating a more logical and useful naming system than the default filenames provided by your camera. Then rename your photos individually, in batches, or automatically as they're imported from your camera, memory cards, or computer folders. Freely sort your photos in whatever order you prefer by selecting any number of images in the Library - contiguous or not - and then dragging them to a new location in the grid. It's that simple.
- Importing and exporting: Save time with fast image importing. The newly designed import interface is easy to set up and navigate, with clear visual indications of where your photos will be located and how they'll be organized after you've imported them Easily save frequently used settings such as metadata, keywords, naming rules, and more. Apply your presets anytime, including on import, and create custom export presets.
- Make an impact -- Express your creativity and vision, and make an impact with your photography using highly flexible customized print layouts, elegant slide shows, web galleries, or online photo-sharing sites.
- Printing: Showcase your work in more creative formats using highly customizable print layouts, which you can save as reusable templates. With the new custom print layout creation tool, you just drag one image or several shots onto a page and resize or reposition them as you like.
- Sharing: Post your images to select online photo-sharing services directly from within the Lightroom Library (may require third-party plug-ins). Showcasing your work and keeping your web portfolio or galleries fresh has never been simpler. Easily present your photos in an HTML or Adobe Flash Player compatible web gallery, which you can preview before publishing. Save time by uploading your gallery directly from Lightroom 3 and by using gallery templates - a selection of elegant templates is already built into Lightroom, and you can create and save your own.
New in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3
- Superior noise reduction: Achieve amazing, natural-looking results from your high ISO images with all-new state-of-the-art noise reduction technology. You won't need more than what's built into Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 to get the cleanest images at any ISO.
- Accelerated performance: Get your digital photography tasks done fast and have more time to shoot and promote your work. Already quick performance has been dramatically accelerated in Lightroom 3, saving you time from first look to final image.
- Support for DSLR video files: Take advantage of new support for video files from most digital SLR cameras, which allows you to easily manage and organize both still photographs and video files side by side.
- Image watermarking: Easily embed your identity or your brand and logo in your images with more options for customizing their look. The new watermarking tool lets you apply text or graphic watermarks to a photo with adjustable size, position, and opacity.
- Easy image importing: Save time with fast image importing. The newly designed import interface is easy to set up and navigate, with clear visual indications of where your photos will be located and how they'll be organized after you've imported them.
- Perspective correction: Get more natural-looking results by applying powerful, non-destructive perspective correction to your images. Reduce or eliminate the distortion that can occur, for example, when you take a photograph with the camera pointed upward, causing buildings to appear to be leaning backward in your image.
- More flexible print packages: Showcase your work in more creative formats using highly customizable print layouts, which you can save as reusable templates. With the new custom print layout creation tool, you just drag one image or several shots onto a page and resize or reposition them as you like.
- Lens correction: Quickly and easily perfect your images by automatically reducing lens defects like geometric distortion, chromatic aberration, and vignetting with single-click profiles. Even images from the best lenses will be improved.
- More flexible online publishing: Post your images to select online photo-sharing services directly from within the Lightroom Library (may require third-party plug-ins). Showcasing your work and keeping your web portfolio or galleries fresh has never been simpler.
- Easy-to-share slide show videos with music: Show your images to clients, friends, or family with more style and flair using elegant slide shows with music. Slide shows are a breeze to create, and you can share them easily by exporting them as videos, even in high definition.
- Tethered shooting: Instantly import and view images as you shoot them with tethered capture, available for select cameras. Use it to make an immediate, highly detailed check of your shot, the lighting, or the shooting setup. Or get instant feedback from clients or subjects.
- Film grain simulation: Use new sliders to easily control the amount, size, and roughness of grain that you can add to your images to simulate the look of film.