Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 (Win/Mac) [OLD VERSION]

by Adobe

Product Features

• One easy application for managing, adjusting, and presenting large volumes of digital photographs
• Automated features help speed the downloading, importing, and renaming of files
• Fine-tune your photographs with precise, easy-to-use tools
• Efficient image viewing, evaluation, and comparison
• Elegant, uncluttered interface

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000MG2KPU
• Item model number: 19250126
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 25, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (84 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,859 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

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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.

Watch the Feature Tour

Quickly download images from your camera to your computer. Automatically rename files, organize folders, and even add metadata to photos as you import them.

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.

Jump to the Develop module to make global adjustments to photographs, including correcting white balance, exposure, tone curves, and color casts.

Assemble and output high-quality printed contact sheets and generate sophisticated online web galleries and slide shows for client presentation.

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. Watch the video (SWF, 2:50 mins)

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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How Lightroom Supports Your Workflow

1. Import

• Robust tools to handle large shoots
  Speedily process high-volume shoots by automatically importing images whenever media cards or cameras are connected to your computer. Then automatically rename files, organize folders, and make nondestructive adjustments as images are imported.
• Import/export presets
  Streamline the importing and exporting of your files by saving your frequently used settings in stored presets, which you can recall and apply when needed.
• Automatic conversion to DNG
  If desired, automatically convert your images from proprietary file formats to the publicly available Digital Negative (DNG) format as they are imported, or easily export photographs from your Library in DNG format.

2. Manage

• Multiple viewing options
  Quickly find and select your best shots with flexible display options like the Grid view for groups of thumbnails, the Loupe view for zeroing in on fine detail in a single image, or the Compare view for displaying two or more images side by side.
• Flexible organization of images
  Bring order to voluminous image libraries by grouping your photographs in stored collections. Create collections for different tasks or subjects, and group similar images within a collection to organize them further.
• Manual thumbnail reordering
  Put your images in the order that you need them for any particular task by selecting any number of photographs in your Library--continuous or not--and then simply dragging them to a new location on the Grid.
• Easy file renaming
  Make your photographs easier to find and keep in sensible order using the Lightroom renaming feature. Simply set naming rules, and Lightroom automatically renames your images as they're imported.
• Single or group metadata stamping
  Organize and annotate your images by adding metadata to a single photo or to groups of selected images. Save metadata sets as presets, which you can apply with one click.
• Image versions without duplication
  Create as many alternate versions of an image as you desire without overloading your hard drive. Then, switch between versions with a single click.
• IPTC/EXIF/XMP metadata support
  Read, add, or edit a comprehensive set of metadata entries, including IPTC, EXIF, and XMP data.
• Metadata stamping on output
  Stamp crucial metadata--such as copyright notification, captions, and keywords--on print jobs or exported images so you can search on it later.
• Keyword synchronization
  Make keywords consistent even if you're using Lightroom on two different computers by importing and exporting keyword sets to external, transferable files.
• Offline image management
  Work with your image library in Lightroom even when some or all of the actual photo files are stored on offline media.
• Easy Library backup to CD/DVD
  Help ensure the safety and preservation of your photographs by backing them up to CD or DVD using simple built-in tools.
• Simple keywording
  Easily organize your photographs and make them searchable with keywords that make sense to you. Assign keywords to a single image or groups of selected images--just type and apply.

3. Develop

• Easy-to-use white balance, exposure, and contrast controls
  Quickly perfect white balance, exposure, and tone curves in your images, including camera raw files, with familiar slider controls, or enter numeric values for the most precise adjustments.
• Simple yet powerful tone curve editor
  Precisely control the tonality and contrast of your images by individually targeting highlights, midtones, and shadows using sliders and visual controls.
• Integration with Adobe Photoshop
  Instantly send any number of images to Adobe Photoshop (sold separately) for advanced editing, and see the changes you've made reflected in the Lightroom Library when you're done.
• Advanced hue, saturation, and luminance editing
  Enhance color saturation and remove color casts in your images with individual control over six color ranges each for hue, saturation, and luminance.
• 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.
• Fast zooming
  Check sharpness, noise, or small details with nearly instant zooming--a simple keyboard command or mouse click toggles between 100% magnification and a full-image view. Smoothly navigate highly magnified areas using the Hand tool in the photo preview pane.
• Convenient before/after comparison mode
  View a side-by-side display of your original picture and a duplicate that shows the effects of your edits as you make them, or display the before and after states in a split view of the image. Toggle either view between portrait and landscape modes, and even see images in "lights out" view.
• Finely tuned black-and-white conversions
  Convert color images to black-and-white with precision. Familiar sliders allow you to control the contrast and detail based on the colors in the original photograph.
• Synchronized adjustments across multiple images
  Edit large numbers of images faster by creating presets that you can apply to many photographs at once, or edit one image and then synchronize your adjustments to other photos you select.
• Explicit history tracking
  Retrace your adjustments to any image--the History panel tracks them automatically as you edit--and instantly return to any state of the photo that you choose.
• Dust buster
  Erase dust spots from an image with a single click.
• Easy-to-use crop and straighten tools
  Crop and straighten your photographs in a snap.
• Red-eye removal
  Quickly eliminate red eye when it occurs in your flash photos.

4. Present

• Fast, high-quality printing
  Quickly and visually format high-quality prints, whether working with one photo or 100, on one page or many. Recall your favorite layouts with saved presets and enjoy speedy output, even of large files.
• Live preview of HTML or Flash based web galleries
  Create HTML or Adobe Flash¨ based web galleries for online presentation with little effort and no programming, and preview the results in Lightroom before you publish them to your site.
• Single-click web publishing
  Save your web server information in Lightroom as an FTP preset, and then publish your Flash or HTML galleries with a single click. There's no more need for a separate FTP client application in your imaging workflow.
• Sophisticated slide shows
  Use the simple controls in Lightroom to create and play elegant slide shows, and include background music from your digital music library, including iTunes.
• Signature stamps
  Stamp your slide shows, web galleries, and printed output with your studio or business logo for an added professional touch.

How Lightroom Works With Photoshop

New Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is the perfect complement to Adobe Photoshop. Use Lightroom to import, manage, adjust, and present large volumes of digital photographs, and use Photoshop to more thoroughly refine individual images.

Together, Photoshop Lightroom and Photoshop work the way the digital photographer works, letting you efficiently and seamlessly process all of your digital images. The picture is complete.

Workflow between Lightroom and Photoshop

Import and manage photo shoots
Download images from your camera to your computer. In Lightroom, automatically rename files, organize folders, and add metadata to photos as you import them. Organize photos into collections to browse, evaluate, and compare images.

Develop entire photo shoots and perfect a single photo
In Lightroom, make global adjustments to groups of photos, including altering white balance, exposure, tone curves, and color casts. Open individual photos in Photoshop for precise image refinement. Changes made in Photoshop are reflected in Lightroom, and vice versa.

Present your photos in any format
In Lightroom, assemble and output high-quality printed contact sheets and generate sophisticated online web galleries and slide shows for client presentation.

Product Description

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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

156 of 159 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I lost over 40gb by switching to Lightroom, February 27, 2007

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Jason (NC, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 (Win/Mac) [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

Adobe Lightroom is amazing. I have been using it since the first beta, it just wasn't something I could switch to. At a studio I work at they have Capture One, which is an amazing piece of software, but I found it lacking when it comes to organizing "my" photos. I bought Apples Aperture when it came out, and it blew me away. Aperture has the loupe, (now found in bridge cs3), light table (Lightrooms new compare feature), which is amazing for setting up comps, if you like to do story work on your photos. Aperture has a rejection tag that you can use to reject photos to delete later (bad blur, or too many like shots), Lightroom now has this feature as well--you just press X, then when you are ready to rid yourself of those click the delete rejected photos button, if you rejected it accidentally press U, if you have a favorite pic just press P to "pick" it. Aperture has stacks, which if you shoot multiple exposures (hdr, pano, etc) they can be stacked up and you can choose a pick, Lightroom in version 1 now has this as well. The other big feature any other raw program needs to compete with Aperture for me is their collections. Its similar to a smart playlist in iTunes, you can sort by rating, keyword, what have you. Lightroom now has this as well, meaning you can pick your favorite waterfall photos from several years of shooting and put them in a logical folder, meaning no extra space to store your favorites. This feature, and rejection caused me to loose over 40gb by switching to Lightroom!

While my review may seem as though Lightroom copied the best features from Aperture and improved upon them, for the most part that's true. The best part is they improved soo many other features. If you have used Aperture, or iPhoto, you know how big a joke their clone stamp tool is. Lightroom? Just as good as Photoshop! I'm constantly changing lens when I'm out in the field shooting. It is such a pain to have to go to Photoshop and save psds of all my work just to get rid of the dust. Now I don't have too. Lightrooms clone stamp feature is worth the price alone.

Lightroom also has snapshots. You can make a sweet black and white, a fancy stylistic design, or whatever, and save these as snapshots, which are basically separate images, that only take up 24k and is store in that one raw file, opposed to 8-22mb depending on your camera. If snapshots are too complicated to mess with you can use "Virtual Copies" (my personal favorite), where you make a virtual copy of the photo, it stacks it behind the other photo. The big deal is this file is fake, it only takes up the 24k that any raw adjustment takes up inside of Lightroom. You can make multiple copies of the same photo, try different effects, and combine these. I cant tell you how many duplicate files I have on my machine, from multiple PSD's of the same image, to copied over raw files being afraid of messing something up.

Another thing Lightroom excels at is speed. The interface is blazing, I can't believe how fast I can view my raw files. The shortcuts just make since, and everything works like a charm. I am truly in love with this program. Another "speed" aspect of Lightroom is when the canon 400d came out, I wanted to buy it as a backup, I did, and Lightroom was the first, and only raw program to support it for sometime. Aperture didn't support the camera until a couple months ago. I plan on buying the new canon Mark 3 for weddings, and this fact alone makes me want to have Lightroom.

If all this isn't enough, you can create your favorite keywords and apply them as keyboard shortcuts, so if you have something you want to send to a stock photo agency, set a keyword up for that and press cmd+1 or whatever you setup your keywords as. Also I enjoy using bridges way of pressing 1-5 for ratings and 6-9 for colors. Aperture makes you press the + key to rate up however many times. It's not well thought out.

For me Lightroom is a killer app. At 200 it is a steal. My nature photos usually require Photoshop to get rid of dust on my images. I then use Photoshop to do some color correction and sharpening. Now with Lightroom if I need Photoshop at all, it is for comp work, selective sharpening, and special effect work (lighting, vignettes, filters, adjustment layers, etc). I know a lot of people who shoot that never get dust on their lens at all, and this clone stamp might not seem like a big deal, but it is, you can clone plants to fill in gaps, get rid of blemishes, etc. Lightroom is a one stop shop. You can import your photos as DNG's, apply keywords and metadata, while you import. Then you can choose your favorites, go to the develop module, finish up your images, then print, or put it on the web. You can even customize the Lightroom logo on the top now to say "Your Studio" or whatever; it's really a fun app, I hope Lightroom sees some plugins soon to add even more functionality, but right now I am very satisfied, and I am very picky.

5 Stars.

100 of 101 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's about time..., February 22, 2007

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C. Stoneham (Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 (Win/Mac) [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

It feels like I've tried them all. Windows Digital Imaging Suite, Adobe Photoshop Elements and so on. They all had strengths and weaknesses. What one did well, the other failed at miserably (and visa versa). Along comes Photoshop Lightroom and it's like a ray of light in the darkness.

I'll try to cover the highpoints:

#1 Speed: While it's not as fast as RawShooter Premium (perhaps the best on the market but sadly gobbled up by Adobe) it handles RAW files like most other programs handle JPGs. Once it has cataloged the collection, thumbnails spring up reasonably quick. The program itself is snappy, with a fast load up and responsive controls.

#2 Interface: In a word... "elegant". The interface feels professional and has innumerable settings to accomplish what you want. Heck, a simple hotkey and all the "clutter" is dimmed so you can focus on your image. hit again, and all the controls black out, leaving just your wonderful (or perhaps not-so-wonderful) photo

#3 Power: The tool suite (to me) feels quite powerful. Elements (4) will never again find its way to my hard drive and Photoshop CS2 is on just as a backup for those hard-to-handle jobs. I really feel like I can do any image adjustment I might want without having to launch a 3rd party program. Granted, I haven't played with the "develop" as much as I'd like, so I'm not sure about tools like dodge, etc.

#4 One program: I no longer have to open Digital Image Suite to catalog the files, then open them up in Photoshop Elements for editing and maybe launch Photoshop CS2 for the in-depth stuff. If I had to pick one program, this would be it. Would I pay the current retail for it? I don't know since it was a free upgrade for me (RawShooter Premium users get it free) and I already have a pretty significant investment in other image-editing software. If I was new to digital photo-editing and didn't have anything else? In a heartbeat. Will I buy 2.0 when it comes out and pay the upgrade price? Without doubt.

I know every person is an individual, so my comments should be taken with a grain of salt. Will some people hate it? Probably. Will most love it?
Without doubt. Is this the "Photoshop-killer" for the average person? I think so.

So, bottom line: Lightroom is the merger of functionality, elegance and power I've been looking for for the past 2-3 years. I can finally put away the review sites and Google searches and trial downloads. Lightroom has a permanent spot on my computer. Heck, when I do my semi-annual OS reinstall, it may find its way to the HDD before MS Office does [though I gotta say I love Office 2007, but that's another review ;) ]


(PS If you're not convinced, Adobe has a 30-day trial on their site you can download but if you're familiar with other programs, give yourself a day or two. The interface is different (but better once you learn it))

Update: One month later and I still love this program. The cataloguing features are phenomenal. Tagging images on import is a breeze and the "look" of the library is "clean". I'm able to disply any of 20-30 different image attributes (such as shutter speed, ISO, meta tags, etc) in the "Library" or hide them with a simple hotkey. Response is still quite fast, even with over 1,000 images imported. It has also changed the way I manage my photos. Instead of importing all 14,000, I simply import the ones I want to work. I put the ones I like best in a separate collection then clear the other from the library (I save *every* picture taken, but I don't necessarily want to wade through them all). The ability to stack images by time-taken is wonderful. I can choose to group them within one second or one hour or one day. Absolutely wonderful. The more I use this program, the more I'm sure the going price of $200 is worth it. I strongly suggest you give the trial a whirl and then buy before 4/30 when it jumps to $300...

55 of 60 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Still a lot of rough edges, February 23, 2007

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orangekay (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 (Win/Mac) [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

I've been using Lightroom since its first beta, and overall I like it a lot. Its interface is pretty slow and unresponsive, but I've actually sat down and timed myself, and despite its sluggishness I still find myself accomplishing a great deal more in less time than I could have in the formerly holy trinity of Bridge, ACR and Photoshop. The highlight recovery, fill light and HSL adjustment sliders alone save me so much time it's not even funny.

Suffice to say I'm very happy that it's finally been released as a commercial product, but in all honesty, I wish it would have had at least another five public beta revisions before this point. Many of the features they snuck into the GM which we beta users had never seen before are just plain awful--the implementation of "stacks" in particular--and could have benefited greatly from some user feedback. Other features still seem woefully incomplete. Pretty much every module after "Develop" in the topmost toolbar feels like an afterthought which nobody really wanted to dedicate any real time to; slideshows don't work at all for me, the web galleries are painfully simplistic and inflexible, and color management support in printing is just plain horrible (it can't even FIND any of my ICC profiles so the only choice I get is to let the printer do its own color management).

I still like it much better than Aperture, but I really don't think Adobe should be charging money for it just yet. What's worse is that their online bug report form is broken, so there's no way for us early adopters to provide feedback anymore now that the public forum on the Adobe Labs site has been put to pasture. Get the demo and try it out before you plunk down $200 for it. It's still a little green for my tastes, but I do have high hopes for the future.