Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
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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.
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.
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Overview
Why Photoshop Lightroom?
Perform nondestructive editing
Enjoy robust support for more than 140 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.
Adobe 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
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.
Learn how to use Lightroom: Video tutorials
Photoshop Lightroom tutorials are now available to sharpen your skill set and simplify your daily workflow. Get expert tips on everything from grayscale conversion to tonal curve adjustments.
Getting started
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.
Next steps
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Next steps
Extend your workflow with Photoshop CS2
Lightroom is designed to work with Photoshop, the industry standard in photo-editing software. Changes made in one application are reflected in the other.
