Lightroom 3 MLP IE

New Features

New in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4

Highlight and shadow recovery

Bring out all the important detail that your camera can capture. New technology brings in more image detail from dark shadows and bright highlights than ever before. Now you've got more power to create great images in challenging lighting conditions.

Photo book creation

Create beautiful photo books from your images with a variety of easy-to-use templates included in Lightroom. Upload your book for printing with just a few clicks. Receive 20% off from Blurb on your first book created using Lightroom 4 software (valid to Dec 31st 2012, max discount £130, one-time use code cannot be combined with other promotions or gift cards).

Location-based organisation

Find and group images by location, easily assign locations to images, or plot a photo journey. Automatically display location data from GPS-enabled cameras and camera phones.

White balance brush

Get more consistent color across your image in scenes with mixed lighting sources. A flexible brush lets you refine and adjust white balance in targeted areas of your shot.

Additional editing brushes

Expand your creative control by targeting particular areas of your images using new local editing brushes for noise reduction and moiré removal.

Extended video support

Organise, view and make adjustments to video clips. Play and trim clips, extract still images from them, or adjust clips with the Quick Develop tool.

Video publishing

Easily share video clips in HD format on Facebook and Flickr. Or save HD clips formatted for phones, tablets, TV, and more.

Soft proofing

Save time and ink and ensure your prints meet your expectations. Soft-proofing lets you preview how an image will look when printed with color-managed printers.

Enhanced online sharing integration

Easily post images to social media and photo sharing sites like Facebook and Flickr. With selected sites, online comments about your images are visible within Lightroom.

Emailing with Lightroom

Email images directly from Lightroom using the email account of your choice.

Import of other libraries

Bring the power and elegance of Lightroom to all your images, new and old. Easily import photos from other applications.

Features

Key features of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

Non-destructive editing

Set your creativity free in a non-destructive 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 world-class tools designed specifically for photographers. The intuitive environment and controls of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom are easy to master and let you quickly and smoothly accomplish your photography tasks.

Image management

Take advantage of a powerful set of image management features to organise 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 favourite 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 supersaturated 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.

Tight Photoshop integration

Select one or multiple photos and then automatically open them in Adobe Photoshop software to perform detailed, pixel-level editing or to merge multiple photos into a panorama, a high dynamic range photo, or a creative composite. After making your edits in Photoshop, see the results immediately back in Lightroom.

One-click adjustments for multiple images

Save time when processing images by applying the same Develop settings to all the photographs in a group at once using presets or the sync feature. For example, correct the exposure from an entire shoot or convert all of the images to black-and-white.

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.