1st Cameras. Adobe Lightroom 1.0 Mac/Win

Work with a tool focused on photographers' needs
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom was designed expressly for professional photographers. From its elegant, uncluttered interface to its carefully tailored tools and features, Lightroom puts your photographs first and helps you get your work at the computer done faster. To guide the development of Lightroom, Adobe actively sought the input of experienced photographers during a groundbreaking public beta program. Everything from image viewing and evaluation tools to timesaving editing features was developed with help from the photographers who participated in the program.

Accelerate your workflow
Lightroom is a nimble tool that moves you efficiently through every step of your workflow, from image capture to client presentation. Use flexible tools and features to manage the processing of large volumes of photographs, and customize a wide range of importing, renaming, and metadata stamping functions to suit your needs. Easily assemble and output high-quality printed contact sheets, online web galleries, and slide shows for client presentation. And keep track of the changes you�ve made to images, including alternate versions, easily and automatically with the History panel.

Use it your way
Lightroom is adaptable and compatiblewith the way you work, with the hardware you use, and with open standards rather than proprietary systems and formats. Use it on Microsoft� Windows� or the Mac OS. Work with JPEG and TIFF images or more than 140 raw file formats - which you can convert to the universal DNG format without a loss of image quality. Store your photographs in the Lightroom Library - even if they�re located on offline media. Switch to Adobe Photoshop software (sold separately) at any time to perform detailed editing, and then return to Lightroom to see the changes reflected in the Library. And take advantage of robust metadata support and advanced keywording capabilities to help you find the photographs you need quickly and easily.

Top reasons to buy Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

Extensive workflow support - Transfer and work with large volumes of photographs with ease. Automated features help speed the downloading, importing, and renaming of files and let you easily apply global adjustments to photographs.

Nondestructive editing - Enjoy robust support for more than 140 camera raw formats, and experiment with confidence. 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.

Professional editing tools for making global adjustments - Fine-tune your photographs with precise, easy-to-use tools for globally correcting white balance, exposure, tone curves, lens distortion, and color casts.

Efficient image viewing, evaluation, and comparison - Browse, evaluate, and select your images with efficient, flexible viewing and comparison tools.

More top reasons to buy Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

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, high-quality printing - Quickly and visually format high-quality prints, whether working with one photo or 100, on one page or many.

Finely tuned black-and-white conversions - Convert color images to black-and-white with precision. Familiar sliders allow you to control the contrast and detail based on the colors in the original photograph.

Versatile client presentation capabilities - Use simple yet powerful tools to present your images and get client approval in print, on the web, or in a slide show.

Automatic tracking of image changes - Always find the image state you need by keeping track of the changes you�ve made to images, including alternates, with the History panel.

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