Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 / Features

Gain powerful control over the tonal qualities that make or break black-and-white images. Precisely mix information from eight color channels when you convert to grayscale.

Enhance color saturation and remove color casts with control over eight color channels each for hue, saturation, and luminance.

Bring out all the detail that your camera captures in dark shadows and bright highlights. Now you have more power than ever before to create great images in challenging light.

Achieve amazing, natural-looking results from your high ISO images with state-of-the-art noise reduction technology. Apply noise reduction to the entire image or target specific areas.

Get more consistent color across your image in scenes with mixed lighting sources. A flexible brush lets you refine and adjust white balance in targeted areas of your shot.

Expand your creative control by targeting particular areas of your images using new local editing brushes for noise reduction and moiré removal.

Easily correct chromatic aberration including purple and green fringes with a single click. Apply corrections across the entire image or target specific areas.

Quickly and easily perfect your images by automatically reducing lens defects like geometric distortion, chromatic aberration, and vignetting with single-click profiles.

Get truer images by correcting perspective distortion that occurs when you shoot with your camera tilted, causing a building, for example, to look as if it's leaning.

Make sharp, natural-looking images with intelligent sharpening, which enhances detail without introducing harmful artifacts. Tailor sharpening for print, web, and more.

Use sliders to easily control the amount, size, and roughness of grain that you can add to your images to simulate the look of film.

Easily remove distracting spots and specks in your images with a single click.

Instantly fix red eye in flash photos.

Get your digital photography essentials in one package that includes what you need to organize, perfect, and share all your images.

Be more productive and efficient. The intuitive environment and controls of Lightroom are easy to master and let you quickly and smoothly accomplish your photography tasks.

Save time by instantly applying favorite looks to images. Just save Develop settings as a preset and apply it to your other photographs at any time with one click.

Select one or multiple photos and automatically open them in Photoshop to perform detailed, pixel-level editing. See your results immediately back in Lightroom.

Access Lightroom 4 — along with Photoshop CS6 Extended, Adobe Premiere® Pro CS6, Adobe Muse™, and more — as part of Adobe Creative Cloud™. Get everything you need to perfect your photos and videos from shoot to finish.²

Save time when processing many images. Apply the same Develop settings — exposure or contrast, for example — to all the photographs in a group at once using presets or syncing.

Speed up day-to-day imaging tasks and process images faster with cross-platform 64-bit support for the latest Mac OS and Windows® operating systems.

Instantly import and view images in detail as you shoot them with tethered capture, available for select cameras. Check the shot, the lighting, and more as you work.

Let Lightroom track the changes you make to an image, with as many remembered set points as you choose. Then switch between versions of the photo with a single click.

Easily embed your name or business identity in your images and customize their look. Apply text or graphic watermarks to a photo with adjustable size, position, and opacity.

Gain even more speed and efficiency by using a second monitor to enlarge your workspace.

Automatically import, rename, group, and even process any number of images from cameras or camera memory cards as they're connected to your computer.

See and evaluate your images quickly and clearly using the Grid, Compare, and Loupe views to browse large groups of images, see them side by side, and zoom in on details.

Check for critical sharpness and see small details by zooming in and out of any area of a photo with simple keyboard commands or a click of the mouse.

Use a powerful set of image management features to organize your photographs, flexibly rate and label them, and find them easily using metadata tags and information.                                                                                 

Work with the photos in your Lightroom Library even when the actual image files are stored on drives or media that are not currently connected to your computer.

Increase the compatibility and archival security of your proprietary raw format images by converting them to the universal DNG format, on import or in the Lightroom library.

Find and group images by location, easily assign locations to images, or plot a photo journey. Automatically display location data from GPS-enabled cameras and camera phones.

Track your photos with the keywords that make sense to you — just type and apply.

Freely sort your photos 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.

Add information to photos individually or to groups of selected images. Store metadata sets as presets and apply them to one photo or to hundreds with a single click.

Use a wide range of searching, sorting, and powerful metadata filtering criteria to quickly find just the photo you want, whether your library is big or small.

Make your photos easier to identify, track, find, and analyze. View and edit a full range of metadata entries, including standard IPTC, EXIF, and XMP data.

Replace default camera file names with more logical names that make your images easier to find and sort. Rename photos individually, in batches, or automatically on import.

Bring the power and elegance of Lightroom to all your images, new and old. Easily import photos from other applications.

Create a system for categorizing your images with keywords and then easily transfer keyword sets between computers, so you can use the same keywords in every image library.

Efficiently combine image management tasks by applying custom metadata or metadata presets to images as you import them.

Add metadata stamps with your copyright, instructions for contacting you, or other information to every photo you print or send out.

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.

Create beautiful photo books from your images with a variety of easy-to-use templates included in Lightroom. Upload your book for printing with just a few clicks. Receive 20% off from Blurb on your first book created using Lightroom 4 software.*

Easily post images to social media and photo sharing sites like Facebook and Flickr®. With selected sites, online comments about your images are visible within Lightroom.

Publish photos directly to your Adobe Revel photo library. The Adobe® Revel™ app lets you access your entire photo library from all your iPads, iPhones, and Macs.

Easily share video clips in HD format on Facebook and Flickr. Or save HD clips formatted for phones, tablets, TV, and more.1

Save time and ink and ensure your prints meet your expectations. Soft-proofing lets you preview how an image will look when printed with color-managed printers.

Email images directly from Lightroom using the email account of your choice.

Showcase your work in customizable print layouts, which you can save as templates. Just drag one or several images onto a page and resize or reposition them as you like.

Show your images to clients, friends, or family with more style and flair using elegant slide shows with music. Share them easily by exporting them as HD videos.

Export your HTML or Adobe Flash® Player compatible web galleries directly to the web in a single click — there's no need for a separate FTP application.

Easily present your photos in an HTML or Adobe Flash Player compatible web gallery, which you can preview before publishing. Use built-in templates or create your own.