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Spend less time in front of the computer and more time behind the lens with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3--an intuitive digital darkroom and efficient photographer’s assistant in one. Ideal for professional and advanced amateur photographers, Photoshop Lightroom 3 is the perfect choice for DSLR users shooting high volumes of RAW images. Quickly import, process, manage and showcase your images, whether you’re processing thousands of images or perfecting just one. Create incredible images that move your audience. Experiment fearlessly with state-of-the-art non-destructive editing tools, including world-class noise reduction. Easily manage all your images. 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.
New in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3
Superior image processing--Get the absolute best from your images with state-of-the-art image processing controls. Work with RAW files from more than 275 camera models, plus 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.
Accelerated performance--The already quick performance of Lightroom has been dramatically accelerated in Lightroom 3, saving you time from first look to final image. Speed through time-consuming editing and processing tasks and have more time to shoot and promote your work.
Superior noise reduction--Achieve amazing, natural-looking results from your high ISO images. All-new state-of-the-art noise reduction technology built in to Lightroom 3 delivers the cleanest images at any ISO.
Tethered shooting--Instantly import and view images as you shoot them with tethered capture (available for selected cameras). Make an immediate, highly detailed check of your shot, the lighting or the shooting set-up, or get instant feedback from clients or subjects.
Lens correction--Quickly and easily perfect your images by automatically reducing lens defects like geometric distortion, chromatic aberration and vignetting with single-click profiles. Even images from the best lenses will be improved.
Image management--Take advantage of a powerful suite 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.
Easy-to-share slide show videos with music--Show your images to clients, friends or family with more style and flair using easy to create slideshow. Share your shows easily by exporting them as videos, even in high definition.
Image watermarking--Embed your identity or your brand and logo in your images with more options for customising their look. The new watermarking tool lets you apply text or graphic watermarks to a photo with adjustable size, position and opacity.
Perspective correction--Get more natural-looking results by applying powerful, non-destructive perspective correction to your images. Reduce or eliminate the distortion that can occur, for example, when you take a photograph with the camera pointed upwards, causing buildings to appear to be leaning backwards in your image.
More flexible print layout--Showcase your work in more creative formats using highly customisable print layouts, which you can save as reusable templates. With the new custom print layout creation tool you can drag one image or several different shots onto a page and resize or reposition them as you like.
Film grain simulation--Use new sliders to easily control the amount, size and roughness of grain added to your images to simulate the look of film.
More top reasons to buy Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3
Non-destructive editing --Set your creativity free with non-destructive editing features which encourage experimentation, including advanced exposure and colour controls, plus superior noise reduction and sharpening. 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 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.
Image management--Take advantage of a powerful suite 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.
One-click adjustments for multiple images--Save time when processing photographs shot under consistent conditions by applying the same Develop settings to all the images at once using presets or the sync feature.
Develop presets--Save time by instantly applying favourite looks to images. When you’ve perfected a look that you particularly like for an image, 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 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.
Fast performance across platforms--Speed up day-to-day imaging tasks and process your images more quickly by taking advantage of cross-platform 64-bit support. Use the advanced memory handling capabilities of the latest Mac OS and Windows operating systems.
 The state-of-the-art image processing tools in Lightroom 3 boost your creativity and let you get the absolute best from every shot. |
New in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3
Superior image processing--Get the absolute best from your images with state-of-the-art image processing controls. Work with RAW files from more than 275 camera models, plus 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.
Accelerated performance--The already quick performance of Lightroom has been dramatically accelerated in Lightroom 3, saving you time from first look to final image. Speed through time-consuming editing and processing tasks and have more time to shoot and promote your work.
Superior noise reduction--Achieve amazing, natural-looking results from your high ISO images. All-new state-of-the-art noise reduction technology built in to Lightroom 3 delivers the cleanest images at any ISO.
Tethered shooting--Instantly import and view images as you shoot them with tethered capture (available for selected cameras). Make an immediate, highly detailed check of your shot, the lighting or the shooting set-up, or get instant feedback from clients or subjects.
Lens correction--Quickly and easily perfect your images by automatically reducing lens defects like geometric distortion, chromatic aberration and vignetting with single-click profiles. Even images from the best lenses will be improved.
Image management--Take advantage of a powerful suite 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.
Easy-to-share slide show videos with music--Show your images to clients, friends or family with more style and flair using easy to create slideshow. Share your shows easily by exporting them as videos, even in high definition.
Image watermarking--Embed your identity or your brand and logo in your images with more options for customising their look. The new watermarking tool lets you apply text or graphic watermarks to a photo with adjustable size, position and opacity.
Perspective correction--Get more natural-looking results by applying powerful, non-destructive perspective correction to your images. Reduce or eliminate the distortion that can occur, for example, when you take a photograph with the camera pointed upwards, causing buildings to appear to be leaning backwards in your image.
More flexible print layout--Showcase your work in more creative formats using highly customisable print layouts, which you can save as reusable templates. With the new custom print layout creation tool you can drag one image or several different shots onto a page and resize or reposition them as you like.
Film grain simulation--Use new sliders to easily control the amount, size and roughness of grain added to your images to simulate the look of film.
More top reasons to buy Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3
Non-destructive editing --Set your creativity free with non-destructive editing features which encourage experimentation, including advanced exposure and colour controls, plus superior noise reduction and sharpening. 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 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.
Image management--Take advantage of a powerful suite 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.
One-click adjustments for multiple images--Save time when processing photographs shot under consistent conditions by applying the same Develop settings to all the images at once using presets or the sync feature.
Develop presets--Save time by instantly applying favourite looks to images. When you’ve perfected a look that you particularly like for an image, 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 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.
Fast performance across platforms--Speed up day-to-day imaging tasks and process your images more quickly by taking advantage of cross-platform 64-bit support. Use the advanced memory handling capabilities of the latest Mac OS and Windows operating systems.
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33 of 36 people found the following review helpful
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Lightroom 3.0 offers a range of minor improvements to almost every aspect of the product. However, the two most important improvements are speed and Raw image management. It effortlessly upgrades even very large databases from Lightroom 2, and the speed hike is immediately noticeable. This is important, as the relatively sluggish performance on large databases (20,000 images +) was the most serious objection to the previous version. Additionally, Raw image handling has improved, now offering automatic lens distortion and chromatic aberration correction. Among other new features are support for video, tethering for select Nikon and Canon equipment, film grain effect, watermarks and a much improved sharpening and noise reduction algorithm.
I've used Lightroom as my main image database and raw converter since version 2.0, having skipped version 1.0 after some beta testing because of its poor speed by comparison with iView Multimedia and others. I principally moved to it because it offered a much cheaper upgrade path for raw capture on new cameras such as the Nikon D3 than upgrading Photoshop or Nikon Capture, while also offering a photographic database. The included toolset, although not as good as Nikon Capture, was responsive and, in many cases, meant I didn't have to take images into Photoshop. However, the downside was that, after about 10,000 images, the speed dropped dramatically, and the experience of navigating from image to image could at times be painfully slow.
With version 3.0, Adobe has obviously listened to the concerns of working photographers. Although it still isn't instantly responsive in the way that, say, iView Multimedia was, the overall workflow speed is substantially better. The inclusion of a lens database with automatic aberration and distortion controls means that the tools now rival Capture NX, and Lightroom begins to fulfil some of the functions of DxO, in addition to its own powerful digital assets management.
For upgraders, the inclusion of tethering for Nikon and Canon is worth the cost of the upgrade, as this would otherwise -- at least for Nikon -- be another piece of software to purchase. Other functions, such as better web publishing, support for video, and more print options, alongside some new effects such as film grain and postcrop vignette, may be enough to tempt the sceptical.
Overall an incremental upgrade which cements Lightroom as a very strong alternative to Aperture on a Mac, and a product really without competition on a Windows PC.
Recommended.
I've used Lightroom as my main image database and raw converter since version 2.0, having skipped version 1.0 after some beta testing because of its poor speed by comparison with iView Multimedia and others. I principally moved to it because it offered a much cheaper upgrade path for raw capture on new cameras such as the Nikon D3 than upgrading Photoshop or Nikon Capture, while also offering a photographic database. The included toolset, although not as good as Nikon Capture, was responsive and, in many cases, meant I didn't have to take images into Photoshop. However, the downside was that, after about 10,000 images, the speed dropped dramatically, and the experience of navigating from image to image could at times be painfully slow.
With version 3.0, Adobe has obviously listened to the concerns of working photographers. Although it still isn't instantly responsive in the way that, say, iView Multimedia was, the overall workflow speed is substantially better. The inclusion of a lens database with automatic aberration and distortion controls means that the tools now rival Capture NX, and Lightroom begins to fulfil some of the functions of DxO, in addition to its own powerful digital assets management.
For upgraders, the inclusion of tethering for Nikon and Canon is worth the cost of the upgrade, as this would otherwise -- at least for Nikon -- be another piece of software to purchase. Other functions, such as better web publishing, support for video, and more print options, alongside some new effects such as film grain and postcrop vignette, may be enough to tempt the sceptical.
Overall an incremental upgrade which cements Lightroom as a very strong alternative to Aperture on a Mac, and a product really without competition on a Windows PC.
Recommended.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
I've had Lightroom 2 for a few years now I have to say I found it a little limiting, though the work-flow side of it is of course fab and the reason you buy Lightroom.
Lightroom 3 is about using less plug-ins and Photoshop for things that really are work-flow items rather than true 'editing' tasks.
The hightlight features for me are the improved noise control, built-in watermarking, vignette tools and video slideshow output; the noise control alone is worth looking at older photos and re-processing them. The vignette and watermark mean less Photoshop which is good because the integration with Photoshop & Lightroom is OK but a little cumbersome. The video output is neat - not massively customisable but quick and good quality.
I've used the lens correction tools a few times but don't find them 'essential' though they do add to some shots with geometric patterns like buildings - the downside is that it seems a little limited in coverage right now - Canon, Nikon etc. - certainly not the Olympus PEN or Lumix G2 that we also have in the family.
Performance is also better - I certainly have had no crashes or bugs on my Mac and now it's native and 64bit it's certainly faster. I also like that it asks if you want to backup your catalogue at the end of session, not at the beginning. It always used to annoy me when I was waiting to start.
So in summary it's faster and enhances your workflow so you'll have to use fewer plugins and dip into other programs much less often, as well as getting better results. That sounds like a worthwhile upgrade to me.
Lightroom 3 is about using less plug-ins and Photoshop for things that really are work-flow items rather than true 'editing' tasks.
The hightlight features for me are the improved noise control, built-in watermarking, vignette tools and video slideshow output; the noise control alone is worth looking at older photos and re-processing them. The vignette and watermark mean less Photoshop which is good because the integration with Photoshop & Lightroom is OK but a little cumbersome. The video output is neat - not massively customisable but quick and good quality.
I've used the lens correction tools a few times but don't find them 'essential' though they do add to some shots with geometric patterns like buildings - the downside is that it seems a little limited in coverage right now - Canon, Nikon etc. - certainly not the Olympus PEN or Lumix G2 that we also have in the family.
Performance is also better - I certainly have had no crashes or bugs on my Mac and now it's native and 64bit it's certainly faster. I also like that it asks if you want to backup your catalogue at the end of session, not at the beginning. It always used to annoy me when I was waiting to start.
So in summary it's faster and enhances your workflow so you'll have to use fewer plugins and dip into other programs much less often, as well as getting better results. That sounds like a worthwhile upgrade to me.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
The noise reduction is LR3 alone is worth the price of the upgrade. Some sample images I've processed in parallel with Noise Ninja and LR3 show a comparable benefit at default settings. For the vast majority of images, I'll likely never use Noise Ninja now. You get fewer knobs and buttons than in specialist NR tools, but who really uses them all the time? Of course, you can also add film grain noise if you want to, which looks very convincing, and is a nice feature if you want to go for a reportage/retro look.
The new lens correction (distortion and vignetting) feature is fantastic, and I will be using this as a matter of course on the majority of my shots. Just check the list of supported lenses to be sure you're covered. There are 14 Nikon lenses (including popular Pro zooms like the holy trinity and the seemingly ubiquitous 18-200) and 27 Canon lenses listed along with a surprisingly long list from Sigma, but only 2 for Sony lenses and a miserly 1 for Tamron. No doubt this will be expanded as updates to LR3.1 and above are released. If your lens isn't specifically listed, then you can make manual adjustments, which should save an unnecessary trip into Photoshop.
The import dialogue is improved and clarified, and has extended options for applying standardised filenaming and metadata on import.
There is a tight integration with Flickr, and I have found a plugin allowing direct export to Photobox too, which is very useful (note that this is a 3rd party plugin and may not be free).
The image watermarking is improved, and lets you embed your professional logo in exports, which I will certainly be using.
The Tethered Capture feature is a great new addition, especially for Nikon shooters who don't get free remote capture software supplied. I plug my D700 into any USB port on my PC, fire up the Tethered Capture facility and the camera is immediately recognised. I can then fire away, and the shots will all be stored in a folder of my choice, with whatever naming convention I choose and with standard metadata applied as required. A preview of the last shot taken is displayed as I shoot. You can also add standard keywords at capture time, which is useful.
All of the above were the icing on the cake for me. The real reason why I upgraded to LR3 was the improved speed. When scanning through 30,000 photos, LR2.6 could be rather sluggish, especially displaying the thumbnail images in a non-pixellated format. LR3 is not instant, but it's certainly a lot faster, and that makes my job easier. It's a real time saver.
Overall, the upgrade from LR2.6 to LR3 is a very worthwhile jump for a reasonably modest amount of money, so if you already have LR2.x I can thoroughly recommend it.
The new lens correction (distortion and vignetting) feature is fantastic, and I will be using this as a matter of course on the majority of my shots. Just check the list of supported lenses to be sure you're covered. There are 14 Nikon lenses (including popular Pro zooms like the holy trinity and the seemingly ubiquitous 18-200) and 27 Canon lenses listed along with a surprisingly long list from Sigma, but only 2 for Sony lenses and a miserly 1 for Tamron. No doubt this will be expanded as updates to LR3.1 and above are released. If your lens isn't specifically listed, then you can make manual adjustments, which should save an unnecessary trip into Photoshop.
The import dialogue is improved and clarified, and has extended options for applying standardised filenaming and metadata on import.
There is a tight integration with Flickr, and I have found a plugin allowing direct export to Photobox too, which is very useful (note that this is a 3rd party plugin and may not be free).
The image watermarking is improved, and lets you embed your professional logo in exports, which I will certainly be using.
The Tethered Capture feature is a great new addition, especially for Nikon shooters who don't get free remote capture software supplied. I plug my D700 into any USB port on my PC, fire up the Tethered Capture facility and the camera is immediately recognised. I can then fire away, and the shots will all be stored in a folder of my choice, with whatever naming convention I choose and with standard metadata applied as required. A preview of the last shot taken is displayed as I shoot. You can also add standard keywords at capture time, which is useful.
All of the above were the icing on the cake for me. The real reason why I upgraded to LR3 was the improved speed. When scanning through 30,000 photos, LR2.6 could be rather sluggish, especially displaying the thumbnail images in a non-pixellated format. LR3 is not instant, but it's certainly a lot faster, and that makes my job easier. It's a real time saver.
Overall, the upgrade from LR2.6 to LR3 is a very worthwhile jump for a reasonably modest amount of money, so if you already have LR2.x I can thoroughly recommend it.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
This won't run without Lightroom 1 or 2
I was very disappointed when I purchased this item. I spent time looking at all the requirements needed to run this software, and nowhere did it specify that you needed Lightroom 1... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Olivetree
An Up Grade worth doing.
I eventually sucumbed to all the advertising & hype about Up-Grading from Adobe's Lightroom Version 2 to 3 on my Windows PC.
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Published 5 months ago by Mr. ML EDDIFORD
Adobe Lightroom 3
An excellent update to an established programme which allows a good lebel of editing, but which is primarily a database for photos
Published 6 months ago by G. C. Bond
superb software
Bought the upgrade from LR1 to LR3. This programme is very versatile. The improved noise and sharpening tools are really brilliant - as are most of the tools in the Develop module... Read more
Published 16 months ago by alfpics
Not a good upgrade!
If you have been using previous versions of Lightroom, this version may be a disappointment!
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We earn a living using Adobe products in our studio and have found Lightroom... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Graeme
Happy so far
I updated from Lightroom 2 to 3, partly with an eye to the new lens corrections feature. Although not a skilled user of LR2, and certainly not yet of LR3, I did use its lens... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Picky reader
Wonderful Lightroom 3
Lightroom 2 was a great improvement over LR1, but with Lightroom 3 the difference was even greater especially with the 64 bit version. Really good options for multiple screens. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Dd
Lightroom is getting better & better
Lightroom 3 is maturing into an excellent photo management & editing tool. Importing is much better than before. The noise handling is excellent. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Mr. S. Mathison
Fantastic Product
Loved Lightroom 2. LR3 even better. I'm not a professional photographer but I can see why professionals use this. Read more
Published 20 months ago by The Rescue Team
Lightroom 3
Having purchased all editions of LR I find the product easy to load, update and use daily. My photographs have improved thanks to LR and my first choice of the software I use,what... Read more
Published 21 months ago by H.G.Millichip
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