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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3From: Adobe
Category: Software

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 reviews
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Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP, Mac OS X
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.9 x 1.7
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MPN: 65064073
Model: 65064073
UPC: 883919186016
EAN: 0883919186016
ASIN: B003739DVY

Release Date: June 16, 2010
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Features:
  • Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 software helps you bring out the best in your photography, whether you're perfecting one image, searching for ten, processing hundreds, or organizing thousands.
  • Get the absolute best from every image you shoot with world-class editing power and intuitive controls that set your creativity free.
  • Breeze through your digital photography tasks quickly and efficiently, so you can spend more time shooting--your core photography essentials are included in one fast, intuitive application.
  • Experiment fearlessly with state-of-the-art nondestructive editing tools, including world-class noise reduction.
  • Share your vision with elegant options for showcasing your images in customized print packages, dynamic slide show videos with music, web galleries, and on popular photo-sharing sites.

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Product Description

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 software helps you bring out the best in your photographs, whether you're perfecting one image, searching for ten, processing hundreds, or organizing thousands.

Create incredible images that move your audience. Experiment fearlessly with state-of-the-art nondestructive editing tools. Easily manage all your images. And showcase your work in elegant print layouts, slide shows, and web galleries, as well as on popular photo-sharing sites. All from within one fast, intuitive application.

Above all, it's your images that matter. Make them as great as you imagined they could be using the leading-edge image processing tools in Lightroom. From sophisticated exposure and color controls to superior noise reduction and sharpening, Lightroom provides what you need to create stunning photographs.

New Key Features:

Superior noise reduction (NEW FEATURE) - Achieve amazing, natural-looking results from your high ISO images with all-new state-of-the-art noise reduction technology. You won't need more than what's built into Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 to get the cleanest images at any ISO.

Accelerated performance (NEW FEATURE) - Get your digital photography tasks done fast and have more time to shoot and promote your work. Already quick performance has been dramatically accelerated in Lightroom 3, saving you time from first look to final image.

Support for DSLR video files (NEW FEATURE) - Take advantage of new support for video files from most digital SLR cameras, which allows you to easily manage and organize both still photographs and video files side by side.

Image watermarking (NEW FEATURE) - Easily embed your identity or your brand and logo in your images with more options for customizing their look. The new watermarking tool lets you apply text or graphic watermarks to a photo

Amazon.com Product Description
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 software helps you bring out the best in your photography, whether you're perfecting one image, searching for ten, processing hundreds, or organizing thousands. Create incredible images that move your audience. Experiment fearlessly with state-of-the-art nondestructive editing tools, including world-class noise reduction. Easily manage all your images. And showcase your work in elegant print layouts, slide show videos with music, and on popular photo-sharing sites. All from within one fast, intuitive application.

Adobe Lightroom 3 GUI

Bring out the best in your photography, whether you're perfecting one image, searching for ten, processing hundreds, or organizing thousands. Click to enlarge.

Lightroom 3 Importing

Save time with fast image importing. Click to enlarge.

Lightroom 3 Slide Shows

Share your images in style using elegant slide shows with music. Click to enlarge.

Lightroom 3 and Flickr

Use Lightroom seamlessly with Flickr. Click to enlarge.

Simplify Photography From Shoot to Finish

Nondestructive editing environment
Set your creativity free in a nondestructive 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.

Superior image processing
Get the absolute best from your images with state-of-the-art image processing controls that work with raw files from more than 290 camera models as well as JPEG, TIFF, and other file formats. Make precise overall adjustments or correct targeted areas for just the look you want. Dodge and burn, convert to black-and-white, add grain, reduce noise, adjust sharpness, create vignettes, and more.

Intuitive environment
Be more productive and efficient, and enjoy the freedom and creativity that comes from working with excellent tools designed specifically for photographers. The intuitive environment and controls of Lightroom are easy to master and let you quickly and smoothly accomplish your essential photography tasks.

Accelerated performance
Get your digital photography tasks done fast and have more time to shoot and promote your work. Already quick performance has been dramatically accelerated in Lightroom 3, saving you time from first look to final image.

Image management
Take advantage of a powerful suite of image management features to organize your photographs, flexibly rate and label them, and find them easily using a wide range of metadata tags and information.

Superior noise reduction
Achieve amazing, natural-looking results from your high ISO images with all-new state-of-the-art noise reduction technology. You won't need more than what's built in to Lightroom 3 to get the cleanest images at any ISO.

One-click adjustments for multiple images
Save time when processing photographs that were shot under consistent conditions by applying the same Develop settings to all the images in a group at once using presets or the sync feature.

Flickr integration
Use Lightroom seamlessly with Flickr, a Yahoo! service. When friends or clients post comments and ratings on your Flickr galleries, you can immediately see their feedback in the Lightroom 3 Library alongside your images.

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.

Develop presets
Save time by instantly applying favorite 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 super saturated 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.

Easy-to-share slide show videos with music
Show your images to clients, friends, or family with more style and flair using elegant slide shows with music. Slide shows are a breeze to create, and you can share them easily by exporting them as videos, even in high definition.

Tethered shooting
Instantly import and view images as you shoot them with tethered capture, available for select cameras. Use it to make an immediate, highly detailed check of your shot, the lighting, or the shooting setup. Or get instant feedback from clients or subjects.

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


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4 out of 5 stars Software with a lot of depth, many excellent features...   September 9, 2010
Bass Lake (Bass Lake, CA)
Lightroom3 is a fantastic piece of software that is an excellent tool for the professional or serious amateur. There are many reviews here and elsewhere on the web that describe its functionality in great detail, so there is no need for me to bother with that here.. I use the software and recommend it highly. I would suggest that you take the time to tour the Adobe Learning site that has many excellent video tutorials that will give you an in depth look at the software in actual use in real life situations. A picture (or video in this case) is definitely worth a thousand words.
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However, I want to bring to your attention one serious potential technical problem with software designs like Lightroom. My own professional background has included a stint in software design and programming so the following is information that I want to share with you, but it is information that you will most likely not hear about in the photographic press or other locations that are likely to be talking about Lightroom. Here is the issue: * Central to its core and necessary for operation of Lightroom is a proprietary database system that holds all user entered data for recipe or change files to your RAW development, as well as dozens of other variables and user entered and program generated data and variables. Lightroom *does not* embed the change information into the image files. This is a very dangerous design leap in the making of Lightroom. Why do I say that? What can go wrong here?

Very simply put, if anything corrupts or makes unavailable that proprietary database, then you can kiss good by what might be hundreds of hours and possibly years of work that you inputted while using the program over whatever amount of days, weeks, months or years that you were using Lightroom as your tool of choice for handling your photo library.

It is not clear that Lightroom can make sense of and reconstruct its database in the event of a replaced hard disk unless the RAW and JPEG image files are placed on the new replacement disk in the exact format and file hierarchy and structure of the old disk. Therefore, you must keep image backups of your disks, just having the data is not enough, the structure of the data in the file system must be preserved. You must assure yourself that your backup software can place back this disk image if called upon to do so in the future.

Additionally several other things might cause you real problems: You can be so foolish as to not back up the database files to multiple locations that will survive the common physical risks of fire, theft, hardware crashes, etc. We will assume that you are a good computer user and have an off premises back up system and also at least two other removable and transportable hard drives onto which you will keep your back up database files. So you have that base covered. No worry there for you!

It's number #3.) that most people never think about but happens once in a great while. It is, admittedly, a long shot but so is winning the lottery. But people do win, or in this case loose. It is this "gottcha" that does happen in the high tech world of computers and even the most sophisticated users, from government agencies to large private corporations, have been "burned" by it. Simply put the vendor (in this case Adobe) either goes out of business or changes the internal design of its proprietary database and you only then have access to your data for however long into the future that you can keep a running copy of the original software on your machines.

Don't laugh, and before you flame me for this review, I will mention two of the most famous examples of this happening: One is Western Digital Corp that used a third party vendor for years that supplied them with an ISAM engine database image backup system. WD sort of fell asleep at the switch and forgot to watch out for its vendors health. The vendor went out of business and WD was stuck with thousands of customers that could not get their backup data off of the WD drives that were affected. The second example is at NASA, that to this day has millions of image files from early space exploration that was encoded in a proprietary format that, inexplicably, over time, the programming code to decode was somehow lost or destroyed. Actually, there are many more examples, and the very nature of the programming world, it seems, is to be littered with the remains of old dead code systems that no one any longer uses, understands or has the time to bother with.

I only mention all this, just so that someone has told you. You are now informed, and if you ever do win this lottery you can not say that you did not know it could happen to you.



5 out of 5 stars Love it   September 4, 2010
E. Mancia
I have been a Lightroom user since the first one and I just love this program, because I can do most of my edits without going to another software. The work flow is just supper easy to get used to and if you need the help from Photoshop, you have access to it within Lightroom as well. If you are a first time user, I would recommend to get an instructional book. Scott Kelby has the best easy to follow step by step book, but if you like more in depth information books, you can find other authors as well.


4 out of 5 stars Order on Amazon, not from Adobe   August 31, 2010
Murphy (Maryland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I just ordered Adobe Lightroom 3 from the Adobe web site and wish I had ordered from Amazon instead. Normally, one would think that the benefit of ordering software from the company's online store would mean that you could download it immediately. Not so with Adobe. I placed an order in the online store and then had to wait hours for the confirmation, which didn't include the serial number I needed to enter for the download. I had to wait longer for that. The application costs less on Amazon and with Prime Shipping, I would have gotten it in about the same amount of time and with a lot less frustration.Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3


5 out of 5 stars LR 3 Very good for for the right person   August 24, 2010
Hank (Wilmington, DE United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

I'll start off by saying I thought $300 for a photo program was more than I wanted to spend. I had tried the 30 day trial when LR2 came out, but couldn't get in enough keyboard time during the 30 day trial period. I decided to try the Beta when LR3 B1 came out and actually got about 70 days under my belt before B2 expired.
I had bought and used Elements 3 and 7, and while pretty good enhancers, there organizational abilities were weak. By weak, I mean, once they were catalogued and or key worded, they were fine, but the key wording was tedious.

Enter LR3. It doesn't have the capability of Elements (or photoshop either, I assume) but it does have enough capability to handle 90+% of what I do. What I usually do is correct color and exposure, saturate or desatureate some colors to enhance the image or de-emphasize the back ground, sharpen things up a bit and or decrease noise, mostly luminous, and apply the lens correction feature. I have also used the curves feature and the section I think they call shade, saturation and Lumination to make local adjustment to brightness and color. All in all, I can make almost all reasonably exposed photos, (+-2.5 stops) look pretty good. The program doesnot have the capability to distort shape, color or texture for artistic purposes, which I do not do at this time. The program does have a perspective correction section which I have had reasonable success with on the small number of uses I have had with it.

I have dabbled in the other features, such as healingand red eye reduction (easy and effecetive), paint brushing, tinting etc. My experience here is limited, but the features seem to be effective.

Its real standout is organization. I had about 11,000 photos in my file which I reduced to about 8000 by using the easy to use "compare mode". I also keyworded these images in about 2 weeks of daily effort averaging 2 to 4 hours per day. ( a concentrated effort for sure). The keywords are easy to set up and the program's auto-type and table of recent keywords is very helpful and a great time saver.

In general, I say if your main goal is organization of your file, perhaps coupled with a desire for slide show, this program has a lot of features to consider, (I did not use the print or post to facebook sections at all). If you're into MAJOR image correction or enhancement, for artistic purposes, this program will fall short. I hope this helps.



5 out of 5 stars If you shoot and process a lot of pics, how could you live without it   August 21, 2010
Michael Khalsa (Crestone, CO United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Years ago i use photoshop a lot, you know the hands fly over the shortcut keys, adjustment here or there, and you could do basic processing in your sleep. This was some time ago, and now i am getting back into photgraphy as a hobby. I downloaded the trial of lightroom, as not really sure if it simply a subset of photoshop or not.
Well, lightroom is great. It is not simply a subset, rather optimized for workflow and is a lot of fun.I would suggest also purchasing the Lightroom 3 book by Scott Kelby who explains it really well in an easy to follow manner.
If i had to chose between photoshop and lightroom, i would pick lightroom and use a cheaper editer such as elements, corel, ... NOt that this is the best, both programs have their place, just saying if i had to.

Anything you can do in lightroom, you can do in photoshop; however photoshop is more of a single pic type of focus (even with batch processing stuff), while lightroom is more like, here is the lot of photos from a shoot; lets quickly pic through them, organize them, and get them looking nice from raw, all non-destructively.

If has a set of workflow steps that you can rapidly switch between. The first step is organizational, the next one Develop is where you tweak photos, and the next are for presentation and export. The slideshow module is weak, not really up to scratch.

Ths program is going places - i bet version 4 will be (or could be) a killer app when all facets of the program are filled out.


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