Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.0

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom - The art and craft of digital photography

The complete, elegant environment for the art and craft of digital photography, from raw capture to creative output

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom answers the digital photographer's call for a workflow application that allows photographers to quickly work with raw format images. With Lightroom you can manage all of your photographs; showcase them in print, dynamic slideshows, and interactive Web galleries that are a simple to produce.

Lightroom's cross platform support allows photographers to effortlessly work on projects from any Windows or Macintosh computer on-location or in the office. Lightroom-spend less time at the computer, and more time behind the lens, doing what you love.

Lightroom Beta builds on the success of the first Lightroom beta program and provides photographers with early access to our next release so that you can kick the tires and ensure that this release meets your needs. Lightroom Beta expires at the end of August 2008.

Enhancements that can be found in the Lightroom include the following:
- Localized corrections - Enhance specific areas of an image for unsurpassed nondestructive flexibility and control reminiscent of the traditional darkroom dodge and burn experience.
- Improved organizational tools - Find the images you need quickly and easily.
- Multiple monitor support - Add an additional monitor to efficiently manage photographic workflow and presentation.
- Flexible print package functionality - Create custom layouts containing multiple sizes of a photograph on a single page.
- 64-bit support - Lightroom 2.0 now takes advantage of the latest hardware architectures with improved memory handling and performance.

Lightroom is Adobe's effort to engage the professional photography community in a new way, giving you the opportunity to kick the tires and shape the feature set of a new tool being created just for you. Ultimately, we want Lightroom to be truly built from the ground up by photographers, for photographers, helping solve your unique workflow challenges.

Adobe Lightroom is a new, exciting product built from the ground up for professional photographers. It is an efficient, powerful way to import, select, develop and showcase large volumes of digital images.

Adobe Lightroom will allow you to spend less time organizing and sorting images, so you have more time to actually shoot and perfect them.The Lightroom program aims to get direct product feedback from the photography community, via our new Adobe Labs web site, so that photographers will have an impact in what Adobe actually ships.

Adobe Lightroom features:

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.


Requirements:

- Processor: Intel Pentium 4
- RAM: 1 GB
- Hard Disk: 1 GB of available hard-disk space
- Media: CD-ROM drive
- Display: 1024 x 768 Monitor Resolution

Limitations:

- 30 days trial

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.0 is licensed as Trial for the Windows operating system / platform. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is provided as a free to try download for all software users (Trial).