Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Simplify photography from shoot to finish
Photographer testimonials
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.
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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.
Lightroom 1.4.1 update:
Macintosh | Windows
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Overview
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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Photographer profiles
Get inspired by documentaries of well-known photographers in the Lightroom Design Center.
Lightroom/Photoshop Icelandic Adventure
Using the Lightroom beta, photographers uploaded, sorted, adjusted, and output their raw images while still working in the field.
Project Photoshop Lightroom tour
Adobe brought the Lightroom beta to 25 schools across the U.S. See the work that resulted from the tour.
Lightroom and your workflow
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is the essential toolbox for today's digital photographer. It's fast. It's easy to use. And it efficiently handles large volumes of images.
Quickly download images from your camera to your computer. Automatically rename files, organize folders, and even add metadata to photos as you import them.
Jump to the Develop module to make global adjustments to photographs, including correcting white balance, exposure, tone curves, and color casts.
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.
Assemble and output high-quality printed contact sheets and generate sophisticated online web galleries and slide shows for client presentation.
How Lightroom and Bridge are different
Learn about how Lightroom differs from Bridge and how Photoshop and Lightroom work together to support the photographer's workflow.
Using Lightroom
Get up and running with Lightroom
Learn how to get started with Lightroom and integrate it into your workflow. To see how others are using Lightroom and read or watch tutorials from the experts, check out the Lightroom Design Center.
Featured article: Correct an overexposed image
Lightroom makes it easy to uncover highlight information in an overexposed image. Simply use the Recovery slider to boost highlight detail.
Photoshop Lightroom Design Center
Check out the Lightroom Design Center for tutorials and inspiration from the experts.
Community resources
Lightroom learning centers
Podcasts and Webcasts
- Adobe Lightroom Killer Tips
Lightroom tutorials, tips, shortcuts and news. - George Jardine
- Photoshop Lightroom Ship Party recording
Books and magazines
Photoshop Lightroom Adventure: Mastering Adobe's Next-Generation Tool for Digital Photographers
by Mikkel Aaland
- More
- Darkroom: The How-to Magazine for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Users
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips by Matt Kloskowski
- Lightroom Workflow: The Digital Photographer's Guide by Tim Grey
- Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for Digital Photographers Only by Rob Sheppard
- Digital Photographer's Guide to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (A Lark Photography Book)
- Adobe Lightroom Photographers' Guide by John G. Blair
Tutorials
NEW! Lightroom tips and tricks
Visit evangelist Julieanne Kost’s website for valuable tips and tricks on Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom.
NEW! D65's DIGITAL WORKFLOW with Adobe Lightroom 1.1
D-65's workflow is accomplished by using the new Adobe Lightroom 1.1 This 153 page PDF tutorial details everything you ever wanted or needed to know about the five modules in Lightroom. For more info, please visit the workshop.
Adobe Lightroom Basic Training DVD
Learn Lightroom workflow from the ground up by Matt Kloskowski
Design Center Tutorials
Use catalogs to manage your images in Photoshop Lightroom
Improve your images with the new sharpening settings in Photoshop Lightroom
Workshops-On-Demand
Tutorials for the Photographic Educator by Julieanne Kost.
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RAWWorkflow.com
Photoshop Lightroom 1.0
video tutorials by Michael Tapes.
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Upcoming Seminars and Workshops
- Lighting & Digital Photography Training Camp with Jack Reznicki
- NAPP Lightroom Tour
- PDN On The Road: A seminar series in association with Santa Fe Workshops
- Learn the strobe lighting you see in the best magazines from master photographer Claudio Basso. The two-day Reality Training Workshop, featuring Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for workflow management and editing, is offered at a discount to Adobe customers.
- D-65 Workshops
Next steps
Lightroom
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Photoshop CS3 and Lightroom
Lightroom is designed to work with Photoshop, the industry standard in photo-editing software. Changes made in one application are reflected in the other.
