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Perfect Your Photography from Shoot to Finish
With Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4, you can bring out the best in every shot with powerfully simple one-click adjustments and cutting-edge advanced controls.Reasons to Buy Lightroom 4
New--Highlight and Shadow Recovery
Bring out all the detail that your camera captures in dark shadows and bright highlights. Now you have more power than ever before to make great images under challenging lighting conditions.
 Highlight and shadow recovery tool--before |  Highlight and shadow recovery tool--after |
New--Photo Book Creation
Create beautiful photo books from your images with a variety of easy-to-use templates included in Lightroom, and then upload your book for printing with just a few clicks.
Superior Image Processing
Get the very best from your images with state-of-the-art image processing controls. Make precise overall adjustments, or correct specific targeted areas.
Non-Destructive Environment
Set your creativity free in a non-destructive editing environment that encourages you to experiment. Your original images are never altered and it's easy to reverse your steps.
Selective Editing Brushes
A flexible brush lets you adjust selected areas of your photo for just the look you want.
Advanced Black-and-White Conversion
Gain powerful control over the tonal qualities that make or break black-and-white images. Lightroom 4 allows you to precisely mix information from eight colour channels when you convert to grayscale.
Extended Video Support
Organise, view, and make adjustments and edits to video clips. Play and trim clips, extract still images from them, or adjust clips with the Quick Develop tool.
Superior Noise Reduction
Achieve amazing, natural-looking results from your high ISO images with state-of-the-art noise reduction technology. You can apply noise reduction to the entire image or target specific areas.
One-Click Adjustments to Multiple Images
Save time when processing many images. Apply the same Develop settings--exposure or contrast, for example--to all photos in a group at once using presets or syncing.
Tight Adobe Photoshop integration
Select one or multiple photos and automatically open them in Adobe Photoshop software to perform detailed, pixel-level editing. See your results immediately in Lightroom 4.
Fast Performance Across Platforms
Speed up day-to-day imaging tasks and process images faster with cross-platform 64-bit support for the latest Mac OS or Microsoft Windows operating systems.
Intuitive Environment
Be more productive and efficient. The intuitive environment and controls of Lightroom 4 are easy to master and let you quickly and smoothly accomplish your photography tasks.
Tethered Shooting
Instantly import and view images in detail as you shoot them with tethered capture, available for select cameras. Check the shot, the lighting and more, as you work.
Develop Presets
Save time by instantly applying favorite looks to images. Just save Develop settings as a preset and apply it to your other photos at any time with one click.
Extensive Image Management Tools
Use a powerful set of image management features to organise your photos, flexibly rate and label them, and find them easily using metadata tags and information.
Enhanced Online Sharing Integration
Easily post images to more social media and photo sharing sites. With selected sites, online comments about your images are visible within Lightroom 4.*
 Distinguish image adjustments using the before-and-after comparison tool |
I Have Older Versions of Lightroom. Why Should I Upgrade?
Lightroom 4 extends your ability to make great images and share your vision. New tools provide greater detail in highlights and shadows and let you make targeted adjustments to white balance, noise reduction and more. Lightroom 4 allows you to organise images by location; craft elegant photo books; and easily share your images on social media and photo sharing sites including Facebook and Flickr. You can also view video clips, make simple edits and upload HD clips to the web.*
How Does Lightroom Differ from Photoshop?
Lightroom provides all the tools you need for digital photography in one intuitive solution. Lightroom helps photographers work fast and efficiently, while maintaining the highest quality. Adobe Photoshop software is the industry standard in digital image editing, with advanced tools for detailed, pixel-level editing and working with multi-layered files.
Compare Lightroom Editions
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| Get Everything You Need Beyond the Camera | Version 2 | Version 3 | Version 4 |
| New Location-based photo organisation |  | ||
| New Extended video support | | ||
| New Importing libraries from other software | | ||
| Basic support for video files | | | |
| Improved watermarking | | | |
| Cross-platform 64-bit support | | | |
| Multiple monitor support | | | |
| Off-line photo management | | | |
| Batch application of Develop settings | | | |
| Adobe Photoshop integration | | | |
| Develop presets | | | |
| Tools to manage and refine many images at once | | | |
| Comprehensive image management | | | |
| Multiple viewing options | | | |
| DNG file conversion | | | |
| Single or group metadata stamping | | | |
| File renaming | | | |
| Advanced search and sort | | | |
| Simple, customised keywording | | | |
| IPTC/EXIF/XMP metadata support | | | |
| Time-saving presets for import and export | | | |
| Metadata stamp on import | | | |
| Get the Best from Every Image | Version 2 | Version 3 | Version 4 |
| New Highlight and shadow recovery | | ||
| New White balance brush | | ||
| New Additional adjustment brush options | | ||
| Advanced noise reduction | | | |
| Film grain simulation | | | |
| Lens correction | | | |
| Perspective correction and crop | | | |
| Selective editing brush | | | |
| Non-destructive environment | | | |
| Superior image processing | | | |
| Tracking of editing adjustments | | | |
| Before-and-after comparison | | | |
| Advanced black-and-white conversion | | | |
| Simplified tone curve tools | | | |
| Advanced hue, saturation and luminance editing | | | |
| Intelligent sharpening | | | |
| Dust busting | | | |
| Red-eye removal | | | |
| Share Effortlessly | Version 2 | Version 3 | Version 4 |
| New Photo book creation | | ||
| New Video publishing | | ||
| New Soft proofing | | ||
| New Direct email support | | ||
| Enhanced online sharing integration | | ||
| Improved customisable print packages | | | |
| Portable, easy-to-share video slide shows | | | |
| Flexible online publishing directly from Lightroom | | | |
| HTML or Adobe Flash Player compatible web gallery output | | | |
| One-click publishing to your website | | | |
Minimum System Requirements for Windows
- Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 processor
- Microsoft Windows Vista with Service Pack 2 or Windows 7 with Service Pack 1
- 2GB of RAM
- 1GB of available hard disk space
- 1024x768 display
- DVD-ROM drive
- Internet connection required for Internet-based services*
Minimum System Requirements for Mac
- Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support
- Mac OS X v10.6.8 or v10.7
- 2GB of RAM
- 1GB of available hard disk space
- 1024x768 display
- DVD-ROM drive
- Internet connection required for Internet-based services*
*Adobe online services and other third-party online services are available only to users 13 and older and require agreement to additional terms and/or Adobe’s online privacy policy (available at www.adobe.com/go/terms). Online services are not available in all countries or languages, may require user registration and may be subject to change or discontinuation without notice. Additional fees or subscription charges may apply.
Product Description
Customer Reviews
I have a plethora of pre-sets I have gathered over the years and I'm happy to say all have been imported without any problems. I made the transition from Lightroom 2 without any drama and within minutes was back in the swing using LR4.
At the same time I purchased a new IMac and made the full transition. Initially I was at a cross roads as making such a big jump. It's been totally unfounded. I have both PC and Mac versions of LR and found them both identical. Though I do prefer the ease of magic mouse for the brush settings. Anyways back to LR4. When I first started out in Digital photography I had major problems sorting "keepers" and struggled to sort out dead shots. LR4 library is far easier to group and move. If your just starting out in Photography and your like I was on my very first wedding shoot I used to shoot off something like 1000 shots per wedding and then spend hours and hours filtering keepers and kill shots. With LR 4 it's a doddle.
Though, with experience now I now shoot approx. 300 shots per wedding and find file management is so much easier. The correction of images is better and I never find myself going to Photoshop any more. All post editing is done in Lightroom. Its simple to use, the layout is fantastic and I'm very happy with the product. The version from Amazon is both PC/Mac and so you will have no problems with either.... Read more ›
The big changes (and potential pitalls) in this release are
Improved (and easier to use) tonal control via a new process engine.
If you update your image to the latest process engine, the LR3 sliders are replaced by a simpler set of sliders more relevant to photographers: you can now alter shadow levels via a single slider for example (something I now use a LOT - its really useful for visually separating the main subject from the background).
Better highlight handling.
You are much less likely to have (or create) burnt highlights, and its easier to fix highlights if the original RAW has them. This affects many other features in the application. For example, the clarity slider is much improved because it now has a fuller dynamic range to work with (I often find it better to increase clarity rather than contrast, because clarity inreases both detail and contrast, whereas the contrast slider increases contrast but loses detail).
The adjustment brush tool now works with more properties.
Best of the bunch is ability to add selective noise reduction. Maybe not an issue for high end full frame users, but will certainly be a boon for enthusiasts with noisier APS-C digital cameras.
One great use of the new adjustment brush is that you can now bring up the brightness of underexposed areas AND at the same time give them more noise reduction. In LR3 (which only has a global noise reduction control) you simply can't do this because overexposing shadow areas creates lots of noise in the same areas.
Selective noise reduction also has a many 'thinking out of the box' applications.... Read more ›
I shoot in RAW since for me, I like to be able to make any necessary adjustments to white balance, levels and so on.
Until recently I have used ACR in Photoshop Elements, which was adequate for my needs.
I was invited by a friend (a vastly more experienced photographer) to have a look at his copy of Lightroom 4, and 'see what it could do'.
After a couple of hours during which I sat and watched him put it through its paces, I returned and immediately ordered a copy for myself.
It is not that often I spend so much on software, but I am glad I did and view it, even at full RRP as something of a bargain.
This is not intended to be a complete review, but here goes:
My images are all uniquely named and in order on my drives, so I can find almost any shot I want just through the folder structure - I have not used 'library' programs, or organisers such as that found in Elements.
I was at first dubious about the fact that the library module is used by default in Lightroom and was not overly keen on this - but - having used it, I wonder why did not make the change sooner.
It makes things so much easier - although I would mention one thing. I can't vouch for how the program loads a library with hundreds (or more) images in one folder - my image folders tend to hold less than 100 shots each (with one or two exceptions) - and I find that there is no 'lag' at all when viewing the library at all (aside from the expected loading or caching which takes up to about 5 seconds).... Read more ›
It does everything you used to do the picture that you used to be able to do in the dark... Read more
It really comes into its own if you shoot RAW as it provides a brilliantly... Read more
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