Adobe Lightroom is essential software for professional photographers, providing a complete suite of digital photography tools that range from one-click adjustments to advanced fine-tuning controls. Engineered for creative professionals, Lightroom ensures efficient photo organization and powerful editing tools, making it a leading choice for professional photographers.
This intuitive application simplifies the process of adjusting, managing, and showcasing large collections of digital photos. It offers streamlined tools to organize and refine images, manage video clips, trim footage, extract still frames, and enhance visual quality through the Quick Develop feature.
Unleash your creative potential with Adobe Lightroom to craft images that captivate and inspire. Experiment freely with nondestructive editing tools, manage entire photo libraries effortlessly, and present your work through stunning print layouts, slideshows, and web galleries. Whether for personal portfolios or professional projects, Lightroom keeps your workflow fast and efficient.
Upload your photo books for printing within moments and reveal every intricate detail from deep shadows to vivid highlights. Lightroom ensures precise tonal balance, giving photographers unmatched control over every image.
Transform your imagination into visuals that inspire. Take advantage of built-in templates to design refined photo books that express your personality. With its advanced location-based organization, Lightroom helps you sort, group, and map images effortlessly—displaying GPS data automatically from compatible cameras and smartphones.
Adobe Lightroom features:
Organize effortlessly
- Automatically organize photos using Smart Collections.
- Work with high-quality previews of offline images from multiple libraries and drives.
- Automatically import and process high-volume shoots
- Use custom keywords to organize photos. Enhanced
- Automatically rename files on import and convert to the universal Digital Negative (DNG) format.
- Manage photos and volumes even when they’re offline
- Quickly find any photo with powerful sorting and filtering
- Apply custom presets to images on import/export
- Access and edit a comprehensive set of metadata fields
- Browse groups, compare photos, and zoom in on details
- Create virtual copies of photos to save hard disk space
Correct, enhance, edit
- Target specific areas of a photo for dodging and burning
- Expand your workspace across multiple monitors
- Enjoy state-of-the-art 64-bit memory handling
- Tightly integrate with Adobe Photoshop
- Easily compare before and after versions of photos
- Precisely convert color to black and white
- Eliminate dust, specks, and red eye
- Retrace your editing steps to return to any version of a photo
Showcase your talent
- Easily transfer images to popular photo-sharing sites
- Access a rich community of export plug-ins and web gallery styles at the Lightroom Exchange
- Print more efficiently with flexible and customizable templates
- Create web galleries with no coding required
- Sharpen photos when you output to print or the web
- Stamp your photos with metadata on the output
- Compose sophisticated slide shows with music
Changes in Adobe Lightroom 9.0
- Access 8 new Adaptive Landscape presets, including Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter.
- With the Detect Object tool, brushing across an object makes Lightroom select both the object and its accompanying shadows or reflections. (Available on Lightroom on desktop and mobile)
- Fine-tune highlight headroom with the new HDR Limit slider.
- See noticeably faster and more precise results when removing reflections with the Reflection Removal tool.
- You can now access in-app tutorials in Lightroom to learn about features.
- A download arrow and badge are now displayed whenever you export an image in the mobile version of Lightroom.
Changes in Adobe Lightroom Classic 15.0
Performance improvements:
Experience faster image previews while hovering over Presets, History, and Snapshots. You can now pause the live preview by holding down the Shift key.
Cropping is now more fluid, with noticeably better performance when Soft Proofing is enabled. Image rendering is now quicker when editing in the Crop view.
Edit:
Access 8 new Adaptive Landscape presets, including Spring, Summer, and more.
The Detect Objects tool now selects an object along with its shadows or reflections for better overall removal.
With the new Snow element in the Landscape mask, you can now detect and edit snow in your winter shots.
Quickly adjust the HDR headroom with the HDR Limit slider.
The Reflection Removal tool is now better and faster.
External Editing:
Experience a more organized and intuitive workflow in External Editing preferences. You can now export images to Photoshop in 16-bit or 32-bit HDR formats, which support three widely used color profiles: HDR sRGB, HDR Rec. 2020, and HDR Display P3.
For SDR images, you now have the flexibility to select from an expanded range of color profiles, including Rec. 2020 and other custom ICC profiles that are pre-installed on your system.
Library:
You can now see an Alert icon in a parent folder when any of its subfolders are missing and need to be relinked.
Lightroom Classic now splits large metadata into XMP and ACR sidecar.
Lightroom Classic preserves capture time details with millisecond precision, displayed consistently across time-related fields in the Metadata panel. You can modify capture time details in the Edit Capture Time dialog box.
You can filter images by Likes and Comments in the Attributes panel and Smart Collection.
Quickly filter photos by stacked and non-stacked status directly from the Attributes panel.
Export:
You can now export videos and slideshows in 4K quality.
Sync:
Notifications for Likes and Comments on ‘Invite Only’ albums are now visible for albums shared after the v15.0 upgrade.
Tethered capture:
You can choose between the native tethered capture or the installed Fuji and Leica tethering plugins. If these plugins are installed, you can select your preferred mode when starting tethered capture with a Leica or Fujifilm camera.
Supported Operating Systems:
- Windows 10 (64-bit) version 22H2 or later
- macOS Monterey (version 12.0) or later
- Android 8.x (Oreo) and later
- iPhone or iPad that runs iOS 15.0 or later.
