Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 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 builds on the vision of the very first Lightroom beta. From day 1, Lightroom was designed for photographers and by photographers to help them focus on what they love-the art and craft of photography. Lightroom provides photographers with an elegant and efficient way to work with their growing digital image collections, bring out the best in their images, and make an impact from raw capture to creative output, all while maintaining the highest possible quality each step of the way.
Some of the new features included for you to play with in the Lightroom 3 beta are:
1. Brand new performance architecture, building for the future of growing image libraries
2. State-of-the-art noise reduction to help you perfect your high ISO shots
3. Watermarking tool that helps you customize and protect your images with ease
4. Portable sharable slideshows with audio-designed to give you more flexibility and impact on how you choose to share your images, you can now save and export your slideshows as videos and include audio
5. Flexible customizable print package creation so your print package layouts are all your own
6. Film grain simulation tool for enhancing your images to look as gritty as you want
7. New import handling designed to make importing streamlined and easy
8. More flexible online publishing options so you can post your images online to certain online photo sharing sites directly from inside Lightroom 3 beta (may require third-party plug-ins)*
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software is essential for today's digital photography workflow. Now you can quickly import, process, manage, and showcase your images - from one shot to an entire shoot. With Lightroom 2, you spend less time in front of the computer and more time behind the lens.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom offers powerful new and enhanced features across the entire program to help you streamline your digital photography workflow. Sort and find the photos you want faster, target specific photo areas for more precise adjustments, showcase your talent using more flexible printing templates, and more.
1. Streamlined Photoshop CS4 integration
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 Lightroom.
2. Multiple monitor support
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.
3. Extensible architecture
Take advantage of the wide range of plug-ins to help you quickly and easily transfer images to your favorite sharing sites and photo labs.
4. Local adjustment brush
Enjoy more flexible, accurate enhancements by targeting a specific area of a photo for dodging, burning, and other local adjustments.
5. 64-bit processing support
Utilize the advanced memory handling capabilities on the latest Mac OS and Windows systems.
6. Flexible print packages
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.
7. Improved organizational tools
Sort and filter large volumes of photos using powerful metadata filters to quickly find just the photo you want.
8. Batch processing
Quickly import large volumes of photos from cameras or camera cards and automatically rename files, organize them into folders, and make nondestructive adjustments.
9. Output sharpening
Improve the appearance of your photos with enhanced algorithms that can automatically sharpen photos when you export files or output print and web creations.
10. Nondestructive photo editing
Adjust and enhance color, exposure, and tonal curves nondestructively on more than 190 camera raw file formats, as well as JPEG, TIFF, and PSD files.
11. Volume management
Freely manage and organize your images across multiple drives, and continue to work with the high-resolution previews - even when your originals are offline.
Beta Timeframe
When you install the public beta of Lightroom 3, the software will remain active through April 2010. Once the commercial version of Lightroom 3 has shipped, you will need to uninstall the beta and install the final version.
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