Complete feature list

Organize effortlessly

Find your photos quickly with powerful yet flexible sorting, selecting, and organizing tools. Automatically import, rename, and sort your entire shoot.

Efficient importing

Easily process high-volume shoots: Quickly import large volumes of photos from cameras or camera cards and automatically rename files, organize them into folders, and make nondestructive adjustments.
Automatically apply metadata stamps: Easily apply your preferred metadata settings to photos as you import them.
Standardize on DNG: Automatically convert photos from proprietary file formats to the universal Digital Negative (DNG) format on import. Or convert photos already in your library to DNG format at any time.
Streamline import/export: Easily save your frequently used settings such as metadata, keywords, naming rules, and more. Apply your presets anytime, including on import, and create custom export presets.

Simple categorizing

Automatically rename files: Quickly set up naming rules, and apply them to individual photos or groups. Even apply naming rules automatically on import.
Use custom keywords: Organize your photos the way that makes sense to you. Just type keywords and apply them to individual or multiple photos.
Easily group photos: Store related photos as a collection by simply giving the group a name. Recall your collections with a single click and modify them at any time.
Enjoy comprehensive metadata support: Access and edit a comprehensive set of metadata fields, including standard IPTC, EXIF, and XMP data.

Powerful photo management

Quickly find any photo Enhanced: Sort and filter large volumes of photos using powerful metadata filters to quickly find just the photo you want.
Choose the appropriate view: Quickly browse groups of photos in Grid view. Switch to Compare or Survey view to easily and intuitively narrow down a series of photos to just the one you need. Or use Loupe view to zoom in on the finest detail of any single photo.
Rearrange a group of images: Organize photos in Grid view by simply selecting and dragging a group of images to a new location.
Take a closer look: Zoom in on your photo with one click of a mouse or a simple keyboard command. Preview highly magnified areas with the convenient Navigator.
Create virtual copies: Create as many virtual copies of your original or master image as you want without taking up more than a few kilobytes of hard-drive space.
Manage offline photos: Work with your photo library even if the original photos are stored offline. Easily manage images stored across multiple drives.

Correct, enhance, edit

Enhance specific areas of a photo, or precisely adjust overall color, exposure, and tonal range. All adjustments are nondestructive, allowing your originals to be preserved.

Nondestructive editing

Enhance specific areas of a photo New: Enjoy more flexible, accurate enhancements by targeting a specific area of a photo for dodging, burning, and other local adjustments.
Expand your workspace New: Add a second monitor and enjoy more room to work. Support for multiple monitors enables you to configure your workspace to manage image workflow and presentation more efficiently.
Take advantage of native 64-bit architecture New: Utilize the advanced memory-handling capabilities on the latest Mac OS and Windows® systems.
Work smoothly with Adobe Photoshop Enhanced: Enjoy tight integration with Adobe® Photoshop® software for streamlined use of Smart Objects, panorama stitching, high dynamic range (HDR) functionality, multiple layer workflow, and more. See your edits automatically updated in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom®.
Easily compare before and after versions: View an original photo side-by-side with the edited version as you make adjustments, or split the photo into before and after states.
Precisely convert color to black and white: Beyond simple desaturation, convert color photos to grayscale by precisely controlling the color channel mix with six sliders.
Fine-tune hue, saturation, and luminance: Enhance color saturation and remove color casts with individual control over six color channels each for hue, saturation, and luminance.
Adjust tone with ease: Watch real-time previews as you adjust highlights, midtones, and shadows with sliders or by entering numeric values.
Eliminate specks: Erase dust spots with a single click.
Remove red eye: Instantly fix red eye in flash photos.
Edit large numbers of photos at once: Make the same changes across many photos by applying a Develop setting to them all, or make changes to one photo and then synchronize the adjustments to other photos you select.
Retrace your editing steps: Track the changes you make to a photo in the History panel, which automatically enters easy-to-understand text as you edit. Add set points in the panel at any time so you can instantly return to those versions of the photo.

Showcase your talent

Present your work in dynamic slide shows and interactive web galleries, or use flexible templates to create prints. Easily upload your photos to popular online photo-sharing sites using plug-ins.

Professional presentation

Share more easily New: Take advantage of the wide range of plug-ins created by third-party developers to help you quickly and easily transfer images to your favorite sharing sites and photo labs.
Print more efficiently Enhanced: Quickly arrange a photo for printing multiple sizes on one or many pages with flexible and customizable templates to make the most of paper and ink every time you print.
Sharpen smartly Enhanced: Improve the appearance of your photos with enhanced algorithms that can automatically sharpen photos when you export files or output print and web creations.
Create web galleries: 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 2.
Publish to your website in one click: Export your HTML or Flash Player compatible web galleries directly to the web in a single click. Just save your web server information as an FTP preset and there's no need for a separate application.
Stamp your photos: Add metadata stamps with your logo or other information to every photo you output.
Compose sophisticated slide shows: Easily play elegant slide shows of your photos on your monitor, including background music from your iTunes library or other digital music collection.