Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 3Simplify photography from shoot to finish

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Datasheet

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 software helps you bring out the best in your photography, whether you’re perfecting one image, searching for ten, processing hundreds, or organizing thousands. Create incredible images that move your audience. Experiment fearlessly with state-of-the-art nondestructive editing tools. Easily manage all your images. And showcase your work in elegant print layouts, slide shows, web galleries, and on popular photo-sharing sites.

Create brilliant images—Make your images as great as you imagined they could be using the leading-edge image processing tools in Lightroom. Designed by the makers of Adobe Photoshop in partnership with top photographers, Lightroom includes a comprehensive range of nondestructive editing features—everything from advanced exposure and color controls to superior noise reduction and sharpening. Experiment fearlessly with as many different adjustments and looks as you like. Your original images are never altered, and it’s easy to reverse your steps or save multiple versions of any photograph. Handy Develop presets—many are included, or you can create and save your own—let you apply a series of favorite adjustments to one or multiple images with a single click.

Streamline your digital photography—Boost your creativity and save time with an efficient assistant that’s fast, intuitive, and a pleasure to use. Lightroom is an all-in-one solution that provides advanced tools for your entire photography workflow, giving you what you need to easily edit, manage, and showcase your images. Already fast performance has been accelerated even further in Lightroom 3, making every task quicker and letting you work efficiently with libraries of up to hundreds of thousands of images.

Make an impact—You shot your images because they had meaning, whether to you, to your client, or to your subject. Use Lightroom to communicate that meaning with style and impact. Present your work with an eye-catching, individualized look using highly customized print layouts. Create dynamic slide shows with music or other audio and share them easily by exporting them as videos, even in high definition. Easily create and update your own web galleries or post your work to selected online photo-sharing sites directly from within the Lightroom Library (may require third-party plug-ins).

Using Lightroom with Adobe Photoshop

Lightroom is your end-to-end digital photography solution, delivering what you need to efficiently edit, manage, and showcase your images. For projects that demand detailed, pixel-level editing or compositing, use Lightroom together with Adobe Photoshop CS5 for even more precision and control.

The state-of-the-art image processing tools in Lightroom 3 boost your creativity and let you get the absolute best from every shot.

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Top reasons to buy Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3Nondestructive editing environment—Set your creativity free in a nondestructive editing environment that encourages experimentation. Your original images are always safely unaltered, and it’s easy to reverse your steps or save multiple versions of any photo.

Superior image processing—Get the absolute best from your images with state-of-the-art image processing controls that work with raw files from more than 275 camera models as well as JPEG, TIFF, and other file formats. Make precise overall adjustments or correct targeted areas for just the look you want. Dodge and burn, convert to black-and-white, add grain, reduce noise, adjust sharpness, create vignettes, and more.

Intuitive environment—Be more productive and efficient, and enjoy the freedom and creativity that comes from working with excellent tools designed specifically for photographers. The intuitive environment and controls of Lightroom are easy to master and let you quickly and smoothly accomplish your essential photography tasks.

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.

Image management—Take advantage of a powerful suite 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.

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 in to Lightroom 3 to get the cleanest images at any ISO.

One-click adjustments for multiple images—Save time when processing photographs that were shot under consistent conditions by applying the same Develop settings to all the images in a group at once using presets or the sync feature.

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.

Fast performance across platforms—Speed up day-to-day imaging tasks and process your images faster by taking advantage of cross-platform 64-bit support. Use the advanced memory handling capabilities of the latest Mac OS and Windows® operating systems.

Develop presets—Save time by instantly applying favorite looks to images. When you’ve perfected a look that you particularly like for an image—a high-contrast black-and-white effect or a super-saturated color look, for example—you simply save the settings as a preset and apply it to your other photographs at any time. Many presets are included with Lightroom, and thousands more are available from the thriving worldwide community of Lightroom photographers and experts.

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.

Tight Photoshop integration—Select one or multiple photos and then automatically open them in Adobe Photoshop for detailed, pixel-level editing or to merge multiple photos into a panorama, a high dynamic range photo, or a multilayered file. After making your edits in Photoshop, see the results immediately back in Lightroom.

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System requirementsWindows• Intel® Pentium® 4 processor or equivalent

• Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 3; Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise (32 bit and 64 bit); or Windows 7 (32 bit and 64 bit)

• 2GB of RAM

• 1GB of available hard-disk space

• 1024x768 display

• CD-ROM drive

Mac OS• Intel processor

• Mac OS X v10.5 or 10.6

• 2GB of RAM

• 1GB of available hard-disk space

• 1024x768 display

• CD-ROM drive

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