Adobe Lightroom 3.0, Student and Teacher Version (Mac/PC)

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.

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.