Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.0 (Win/Mac)

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, including world-class noise reduction. Easily manage all your images. And showcase your work in elegant print layouts, slide show videos with music, and on popular photo-sharing sites. All from within one fast, intuitive application.

Simplify photography from shoot to finish

Create brilliant images -- Get just the look you want from every shot with leading-edge processing tools in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom that let you alter contrast, tune color, convert to black-and-white, add grain, adjust sharpness, and much more.

• Creativity and flexibility: Set your creativity free in a nondestructive editing environment that encourages experimentation. Extend your creative control with a flexible brush that lets you adjust selected areas of your photo for just the look you want.


• Tone and color: Gain powerful, subtle control over the tonal qualities that make or break black-and-white images. Enhance color saturation and remove color casts with individual control over eight color channels each for hue, saturation, and luminance.


• Detail and correction: Achieve amazing, natural-looking results from your high ISO images with all-new state-of-the-art noise reduction technology. Quickly and easily perfect your images by automatically reducing lens defects like geometric distortion, chromatic aberration, and vignetting with single-click profiles.

Streamline your digital photography -- Boost your creativity, save time, and enjoy photography more with a fast, intuitive assistant that gives you the tools you need to efficiently manage, edit, and showcase your images.

• Saving time and working efficiently: Get your digital photography essentials in one package that includes what you need to manage, perfect, and showcase all your images.


• Organizing and managing: Take advantage of a powerful set 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.


• Finding, searching, and sorting images: Make your images easier to find and sort by creating a more logical and useful naming system than the default filenames provided by your camera. Then rename your photos individually, in batches, or automatically as they're imported from your camera, memory cards, or computer folders. Freely sort your photos in whatever order you prefer by selecting any number of images in the Library - contiguous or not - and then dragging them to a new location in the grid. It's that simple.


• Importing and exporting: Save time with fast image importing. The newly designed import interface is easy to set up and navigate, with clear visual indications of where your photos will be located and how they'll be organized after you've imported them Easily save frequently used settings such as metadata, keywords, naming rules, and more. Apply your presets anytime, including on import, and create custom export presets.

Make an impact -- Express your creativity and vision, and make an impact with your photography using highly flexible customized print layouts, elegant slide shows, web galleries, or online photo-sharing sites.

• Printing: Showcase your work in more creative formats using highly customizable print layouts, which you can save as reusable templates. With the new custom print layout creation tool, you just drag one image or several shots onto a page and resize or reposition them as you like.


• Sharing: 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. 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 3 and by using gallery templates - a selection of elegant templates is already built into Lightroom, and you can create and save your own.

TOP NEW FEATURES

• Superior noise reduction - NEW
  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 into Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 to get the cleanest images at any ISO.


• Accelerated performance - NEW
  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.


• Support for DSLR video files - NEW
  Take advantage of new support for video files from most digital SLR cameras, which allows you to easily manage and organize both still photographs and video files side by side.


• Image watermarking - NEW
  Easily embed your identity or your brand and logo in your images with more options for customizing their look. The new watermarking tool lets you apply text or graphic watermarks to a photo with adjustable size, position, and opacity.


• Easy image importing - NEW
  Save time with fast image importing. The newly designed import interface is easy to set up and navigate, with clear visual indications of where your photos will be located and how they'll be organized after you've imported them.


• Perspective correction - NEW
  Get more natural-looking results by applying powerful, nondestructive perspective correction to your images. Reduce or eliminate the distortion that can occur, for example, when you take a photograph with the camera pointed upward, causing buildings to appear to be leaning backward in your image.


• More flexible print packages - NEW
  Showcase your work in more creative formats using highly customizable print layouts, which you can save as reusable templates. With the new custom print layout creation tool, you just drag one image or several shots onto a page and resize or reposition them as you like.


• Lens correction - NEW
  Quickly and easily perfect your images by automatically reducing lens defects like geometric distortion, chromatic aberration, and vignetting with single-click profiles. Even images from the best lenses will be improved.


• More flexible online publishing - NEW
  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.


• Easy-to-share slide show videos with music - NEW
  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 - NEW
  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.


• Film grain simulation - NEW
  Use new sliders to easily control the amount, size, and roughness of grain that you can add to your images to simulate the look of film.
  

TOP FEATURES

• Nondestructive 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.


• 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.


• 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.


• 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.


• 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.


• 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 290 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.


• 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.


• 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.


• 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.


• 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.

Windows

• 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
• 1,024x768 display
• CD-ROM drive

Mac OS

• Intel processor
• Mac OS X v10.5 or v10.6
• 2GB of RAM
• 1GB of available hard-disk space
• 1,024x768 display
• CD-ROM drive

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