Adobe Photshop Lightroom

Built from the ground up for the professional photographer, the primary goal of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is to simplify the photographic workflow, while ensuring the highest possible quality, nondestructive image processing.

Lightroom is designed to move digital photographs efficiently from capture through editing to output—including sideshows, print and web galleries. By streamlining the workflow, Lightroom minimizes the time spent sorting and organizing images, so you can devote your time to actually shooting and perfecting them. Narrowing down a shoot, adding essential metadata, and then creating the perfect negative are its greatest strengths. This includes efficient, nondestructive correction of exposure, tone and color, with custom grayscale conversions, split toning and other creative photographic controls. And Lightroom supports a wide array of photographic file types, including JPEG, TIFF, PSD, DNG, and more than 150 proprietary raw formats.

Lightroom is built to meet the needs of the professional photographer, whether their preferred platform is Mac OS X or Windows. It provides flexible file management, is scalable in architecture, and utilizes open standards such as DNG and XMP. Great care has been taken to ensure that Lightroom is easy to use. Its modular interface reduces the learning curve and streamlines photo management and processing through intuitive controls.

Lightroom is not designed to provide detailed pixel-level editing or advanced compositing—we leave that to Adobe Photoshop. However, integration with Photoshop is simple, with individual image editing as close as a single click away. These two products work hand in hand, partly because Lightroom is developed by many of the same engineers that are responsible for the phenomenal image editing power of Photoshop, and for the most widely used raw processor in the professional photography market—Adobe Camera Raw. Lightroom software integration and compatibility with other applications such as Photoshop reinforce Adobe’s long-term commitment and leadership in the digital photography community.