Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 (Win/Mac) [OLD VERSION] | Fantastic for prolific amateur photographers

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 (Win/Mac) [OLD VERSION] | Made for Photographers

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	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 (Win/Mac) [OLD VERSION] Mac OS X, Windows, Mac OS X Intel \| Adobe, 2007 average customer review:based on 74 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Adobe Lightroom software is the professional photographer's essential toolbox. It provides 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. Enjoy robust support for more than 150 camera raw formats, and experiment with confidence. Fine-tune your photographs with precise, easy-to-use tools for globally correcting white balance, exposure, tone curves, lens distortion, and color casts. 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. 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. Fast zooming - Check sharpness, noise, or small details with nearly instant zoomin Edit large numbers of images faster, by creating presets you can apply to many photographs at once -- or edit one image and then synchronize your adjustments to other photos Retrace your adjustments to any image & return to any state of the photo that you choose, with explicit history tracking Erase dust spots from an image with a single click Easy-to-use crop and straighten tools Red-eye removal Fine tuned black-and-white conversions Quickly and visually format high-quality prints -- recall your favorite layouts with saved presets and enjoy speedy output, even with large files Preview the results of your HTML or Adobe Flash based Web galleries -- for a better online presentation with little effort and no programming

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Fantastic for prolific amateur photographers

The several-day learning curve is worth it, even if you aren't a professional. Lightroom cut the time I spend sorting photos in a third.

It's well worth spending some time learning the keyboard shortcuts - check out the video tutorials on Adobe's site (even before you buy). They'll give you a sense of how you can speed up your workflow, and spend your time actually *taking* pictures, rather than fiddling with them after the fact.

Made for Photographers

Adobe LightRoom is most definitely made for photographers.

This program has amazing organizational features for your giant photo library. Giving you the ability to add tags to your photos for idenitfication, to flag a photo or reject it completely, and also to rate a photo from 1 to 5 stars or by 5 different colors, allowing for incredible diversity when it comes to sorting, comparing and filing photographs.

A basic, but intuitive, development section gives you all the necessary Photoshop processing tools for tone adjustment, exposure, color, and more. This allows basic processing feature access without waiting for Photoshop to load. For more in-depth processing, you can open the photo with Photoshop right from the lightroom window, and it saves the results back to LightRoom.

Lightroom also includes a section for preparing your Photos for the web or for print.

As far as I'm concerned, this program is necessary for my work and is an incredible asset for any photographer with more than a few dozen files.

As far as some of the complaints I've read, many bugs have been worked out since it's inception as would be expected. Working with photographers, Adobe has released LightRoom 2 which offers many new processing and filing features.

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Rather Steep Learning Curve....

From reading some of the other reviews this product is one that you either love or hate. Yes the 300 USD. is rather steep as is the learning curve, it has helped me to arrange over 25,000 photos stored rather easily. Tagging and date arrangements, the powerful find function will let you sort by specific exif data like type of lens used or aperture or speed photo was shot as well as all the common find functions. Even incorporates geotagging, although because documentation is skimpy if you download the product from adobe, most knowledge breakthroughs come from the internet, where many people have made more gallery settings, web site settings, develop settings that you can add into Lightroom. Once the keyboard shortcuts are learned, cropping, straightening and so many other features become quite easy.

As an owner of photoshop cs3, find myself seldom opening photoshop, tweaking pictures within the develop module with great results with post processing. Buyers should be aware that Lightroom 2.0 beta is out and adds even more features and fine tunes many of the existing features from Lightroom 1.4. Lightroom 2.0 should be out in August of September of this year.

For me, the non-destructive editing is a space saver and picture file conserver of space, not ending up with multiple copies of the same picture each with their own adjustments.

Bottom line if you are willing to read the help columns and blogs and discussion groups on the internet as well as look at the help files on Adobe for learning and try and learn just a couple of things each day, there isn't much that this program will not do for you in categorizing, postprocessing, publishing via ftp for a web site. The only thing that stopped me from 5 stars is the 300 USD price tag, but i guess that is to cover all of the lost revenue to all the bootleg copies floating around.

If you are into photography, have a lot of photos that need organizing and tuning up, this program works very well. Converting raw files to most other image formats and allowing batch exporting, file renaming in a few clicks the task s done..

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