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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.*
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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
Lightroom software provides a comprehensive set of digital photography tools, from powerfully simple one-click adjustments and features to cutting edge advanced controls. With Lightroom, you can organize, enhance, and showcase your images all from one fast and nimble application.
General
Category Creativity application
Subcategory Creativity - graphics & image editing
Version 4
Language(s) English
Localisation European Union
Software
Licence Type Upgrade package
Licence Qty 1 user
Licence Pricing Standard
Platform Windows, MacOS
Distribution Media DVD-ROM
Package Type Retail
System Requirements
OS Required Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, Apple MacOS X 10.7 Lion, Apple MacOS X 10.6.8
Peripheral / Interface Devices DVD-ROM, 1024 x 768 monitor resolution
System Requirements Details Microsoft Windows - Pentium 4 - RAM 2 GB - HD 1 GB
Apple MacOS X - Intel multi-core proccessor - RAM 2 GB - HD 1 GB
Customer Reviews
First I must admit my PC is a Windows 7 64bit i5 with 8GB RAM, I upgraded to improve the performance of Lightroom 3. My PC coped well with Lightroom 4. There is no doubt this is a power hungry application that needs processor speed and lots of RAM. Those of you experiencing installation and performance problems, you need more welly. The minimum standards published for Lightroom are precisely that, absolute minimum.
The CS6 edit linking is a new maximum, Lightroom 3 could only link to CS5 max. Two ideas here: the new RAW image processor in Lightroom 4 is probably the same as the new RAW image processor of CS6 (Lightroom 3 has the CS5 RAW processing engine). The other point is that CS6 is only a maximum. I have CS2 (shows how long I have been a Lightroom user) and the edit link works well. The editing facilities and the workflow in Lightroom are so good that I only use CS2 for clone edits to remove telegraph wires and satellite dishes (i.e. rarely).
The major upgrade that is relevant to me are in the Basic Development facilities. Gone the Recovery & Fill Lights sliders and new Whites & Highlights sliders are added, with corresponding areas in the histogram. The same changes also occur in the Tone Curve tab. This looks good and will take some getting used to. The absolute major development for me is the Adjustment brush. Now every edit can be varied on a local basis including temperature/tint. No longer is it necessary to apply these to the whole photo. The other major improvement is the rendering of a basic RAW/DNG photo.
There are other changes but I have not tested them, mostly because I do not use them.
Based on my trial version, I will go for the full upgrade and Kelby's book.
Further feedback after some use, several moths later
Two items. First the new development slider suite is not difficult to use. As usual, I did not read about this before in Kelby, so it is fairly intuitive to an experienced user. Also the Adjustments brush is much improved.
Second this is a much more power hungry version. It is noticeably slower than the version 3 that I upgraded from but still works reliably on my PC. That said, not so slow as to make it unworkable.
Finally does not do pixel based editing very well. OK if you want to clone out something small but still needs a good pixel editor like Photoshop CSx for anything more substantial.
I am happy with this upgrade.
Unfortunately, due to the revised technicalities, it will only fully integrate with the new Adobe Photoshop CS6. I am sure this is not just a marketing ploy by Adobe but it is the reason why I have dropped one star!
Worth the upgrade, several features seemed to work much better.
Lightroom 4 is even better than version 3.
So much faster than Apple's Aperture. Read more
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