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| • | Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 software helps you bring out the best in your photography, whether you're perfecting one image, searching for ten, processing hundreds, or organizing thousands. | | • | Get the absolute best from every image you shoot with world-class editing power and intuitive controls that set your creativity free. | | • | Breeze through your digital photography tasks quickly and efficiently, so you can spend more time shooting--your core photography essentials are included in one fast, intuitive application. | | • | Experiment fearlessly with state-of-the-art nondestructive editing tools, including world-class noise reduction. | | • | Share your vision with elegant options for showcasing your images in customized print packages, dynamic slide show videos with music, web galleries, and on popular photo-sharing sites. |
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Product Description Adobe Lightroom V3 Upgrade for Windows and Mac. Lightroom provides an efficient way to import, select, develop, and showcase large volumes of digital images.
Amazon.com Product Description Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 software delivers sweeping new capabilities to help you bring out the best in your photography. Accelerated performance makes key tasks quicker, and now you can manage video files from most digital SLR cameras side-by-side with your still photos. Perfect your images with new nondestructive editing tools, including world-class noise reduction and lens correction. Showcase your work with greater style and impact using more customizable print layouts, captivating slide show videos with music, streamlined publishing to online photo-sharing sites, and more. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 software delivers sweeping new capabilities to help you bring out the best in your photography. | Top reasons to upgrade to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Accelerated performance Get your digital photography tasks done fast and have more time to shoot and promote your work. Already quick performance has been dramatically accelerated in Lightroom 3, saving you time from first look to final image. Superior noise reduction Achieve amazing, natural-looking results from your high ISO images with all-new state-of-the-art noise reduction technology. You won’t need more than what’s built into Lightroom 3 to get the cleanest images at any ISO. 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. Support for DSLR video files New support for video files from most digital SLR cameras lets you easily manage and organize both still photographs and video files side-by-side. Image watermarking Easily embed your identity or your brand and logo in your images with more options for customizing their look. The new watermarking tool lets you apply text or graphic watermarks to a photo with adjustable size, position, and opacity. Flickr integration Use Lightroom seamlessly with Flickr, a Yahoo! service. When friends or clients post comments and ratings on your Flickr galleries, you can immediately see their feedback in the Lightroom 3 Library alongside your images. Easy-to-share slide show videos with music Show your images to clients, friends, or family with more style and flair using elegant slide shows with music. Slide shows are a breeze to create, and you can share them easily by exporting them as videos, even in high definition. Easy image importing Save time with fast image importing. The newly designed import interface is easy to set up and navigate with clear visual indications of where your photos will be located and how they’ll be organized after you’ve downloaded them. Tethered shooting Instantly import and view images as you shoot them with tethered capture, available for select cameras. Use it to make an immediate, highly detailed check of your shot, the lighting, or the shooting setup. Or get instant feedback from clients or subjects. Perspective correction Get more natural-looking results by applying powerful, nondestructive perspective corrections 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 customizable print layouts, which you can save as reusable templates. With the new custom print layout creation tool, you just 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 that you can add to your images to simulate the look of film. Bring out the best in your photography, whether you're perfecting one image, searching for ten, processing hundreds, or organizing thousands. Click to enlarge. | Save time with fast image importing. Click to enlarge. | Share your images in style using elegant slide shows with music. Click to enlarge. | Use Lightroom seamlessly with Flickr. Click to enlarge. | Simplify Photography From Shoot to Finish Nondestructive editing environment Set your creativity free in a nondestructive editing environment that encourages experimentation. Your original images are always safely unaltered, and it's easy to reverse your steps or save multiple versions of any photo. Superior image processing Get the absolute best from your images with state-of-the-art image processing controls that work with raw files from more than 290 camera models as well as 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. 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. Accelerated performance Get your digital photography tasks done fast and have more time to shoot and promote your work. Already quick performance has been dramatically accelerated in Lightroom 3, saving you time from first look to final image. Image management Take advantage of a powerful suite of image management features to organize your photographs, flexibly rate and label them, and find them easily using a wide range of metadata tags and information. Superior noise reduction Achieve amazing, natural-looking results from your high ISO images with all-new state-of-the-art noise reduction technology. You won't need more than what's built in to Lightroom 3 to get the cleanest images at any ISO. One-click adjustments for multiple images Save time when processing photographs that were shot under consistent conditions by applying the same Develop settings to all the images in a group at once using presets or the sync feature. Flickr integration Use Lightroom seamlessly with Flickr, a Yahoo! service. When friends or clients post comments and ratings on your Flickr galleries, you can immediately see their feedback in the Lightroom 3 Library alongside your images. Fast performance across platforms Speed up day-to-day imaging tasks and process your images faster by taking advantage of cross-platform 64-bit support. Use the advanced memory handling capabilities of the latest Mac OS and Windows operating systems. Develop presets Save time by instantly applying favorite looks to images. When you've perfected a look that you particularly like for an image—a high-contrast black-and-white effect or a super saturated color look, for example—you 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. Easy-to-share slide show videos with music Show your images to clients, friends, or family with more style and flair using elegant slide shows with music. Slide shows are a breeze to create, and you can share them easily by exporting them as videos, even in high definition. Tethered shooting Instantly import and view images as you shoot them with tethered capture, available for select cameras. Use it to make an immediate, highly detailed check of your shot, the lighting, or the shooting setup. Or get instant feedback from clients or subjects. Tight Photoshop integration Select one or multiple photos and then 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.
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Fantastic upgrade - a must-have for all photographers. July 4, 2010 MiRSD 21 out of 23 found this review helpful
I've been using Lightroom since the beginning - ordering Lightroom v1 immediately upon it's release and absolutely loved it. It's not a complete replacement for photoshop (it does a LOT of the stuff Photoshop does, but not a lot of the selective editing/power you get in PS).
After using the Lightroom 3 beta for the past few months, I knew I needed to get this upgrade.
Unlike Photoshop which is more of a "One image at a time" program, Lightroom brings your whole collection of photos into the application, allowing you to quickly navigate through them, tag/flag them (by stars, for example) and make quick edits to either a single photo or the whole set. This is the most important thing as if you shoot a few hundred photos and need the SAME settings quickly applied to each of them (white balance, for example) it's just a few clicks away. Lightroom also uses a non-destructive editing system, which means you can make as many edits to photos as you want, and the original is still untouched (you don't "save" over your photos, you create new versions once you've edited them how you like).
The built in presets, and ability to create your own/download others online, is a huge feature. Need a black and white high-contrast look with a vignette? You can find it. Need a HDR look? You can find it. Just about any "look" you need, you can either create or find online as a preset (most free).
With Lightroom 3 there are some obvious upgrades/changes:
One of the nicest is the noise reduction - take those ISO 3200 photos and make them look like ISO 200. The feature is much improved over Lightroom 1 and 2, and of course you have full control of the strength.
Faster (at least for me). It was never too slow to begin with, but seems to have gotten even faster in V3 (Windows 7, quad-core)
Lens Correction - great for those super-wide lenses!
Watermarking - I believe this was in LR1, but the current version is VERY nice. I'm usually one to avoid watermarks, but the ones on LR3 can be classy and non-obtrusive.
Tethered shooting - now you don't need to combine multiple programs and set up a "ghetto" tethering solution - it's built in!
Flickr upload built in - a nice feature for those that use the service.
Video importing - unfortunately you can't edit the video, but it's nice to have it in the same spot if you do both photo and video (like most HD DSLRs and almost all point and shoots do now)
Slideshows - you can now export them as video (even HD), with music!
New print options - I don't use these, but I'm guessing some people do. If that's you, you have some upgrades here!
Ability to create galleries for your site (either basic HTML or Flash) - This is the same as Lightroom V2 (but an upgrade for those who went from v1 to v3)
Selective editing brush - Same as above, nothing new but something not available in Lightroom v1
Overall it's a great system, especially working with hundreds or thousands of photos at once! A must-have for all photographers, professionals or amateurs. I'd like to see the ability to add effects/filters and edit video files in the future, but this is a PHOTO application so I won't hold it against them! Can't wait to see the new updates coming out over the upcoming months (Adobe has been very good about adding new features in same-version updates (like 3.1, 3.2) which come free.
Essential Upgrade August 10, 2010 David J. Schneider (Houston, TX USA) 5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is the first Lightroom version that I would consider fully mature. Lots of new features worth having, and the whole operation seems sleek and efficient. While certainly easier to use than Photoshop, this is not a beginner's photo-editing program (at least if one uses most of the features). I bought it primarily for the lens correction feature which works well but since I use good Nikon lenses the corrections are hardly earthshaking and in fact I now rarely use the feature. Importing is now much easier, and the print module more sophisticated. Noise reduction is much improved. Tethered shooting is now possible although I prefer to use another product I already own. I feels much faster and although I haven't checked on changes in menus and modules, it somehow seems more intuitive. With the first version of LR I did about 50% of my editing in LR and the rest in PS, second version about 70% in LR, but now I'm using LR for probably 90% of my image processing. You still need PS for some things, but LR does most corrections faster and easier. There are certainly programs that are easier to use and cheaper, and then there's PS. I like LR for the tight integration of photo correction and a database; many of the cheaper programs do not have such a powerful database engine. ACEsee is also a good program, perhaps easier to use as a photo management system but not as good on editing. For those who already own LR, an upgrade is almost a no-brainer even for those like myself for whom $95 is a significant sum of money.
The best...gets better July 20, 2010 REM 4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I am a Ligthroom fan since its version 2. First I used it together with Adobe Camera Raw as I was getting acquainted with LR, but as my knowledge was getting deeper I started to use it alone. The main functions I used were importing, classifying, labelling, keywording, adjusting (exposition, levels and curves, correcting lenses, lessening noise) and exporting versions for printing or web. LR was my "digital lab" and PS used for "postproduction". I didn't use Bridge anymore.
Luckily enough, I tried the beta version of LR3 before the release, and the change in interface for importing, I personally fancy more this part from LR2.7, but at the end I made my way through to enhance my workflow with the new version and its capacity to crunch hundreds of takes. The Reveal module is plenty of better things, and I ran to try the much praised treatment of noise reduction...to find that it lived up to the expectations. Also it is worth mention the direct connection with Flickr or other publishing sites, a very handy and useful function. I will try to make it work together with Pixelpost for photoblogging.
At the end, it seems to me a nice improvement over LR2, but I asked myself what would be the level of improvement that Adobe will put in LR if it is doing better than Bridge and ACR. For the moment, to me LR will continue be my digital lab and Photoshop for major interventions and manipulation of pictures and images. For my workflow, LR will continue be the backbone, the key part to manage my pictures.
Best Photo Workflow Product July 22, 2010 Greg Snider 3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The best has just been made better. As a user of LR for years I have been greatful for the ease and depth of this product. With the introduction of LR3 I now have a product which has made my life as a photographer easier and more productive. They have taken a great workflow product and added and tweeked it so it is even more user friendly with features that allow taking a photo completely through the process of managing its library location, perform extensive development process and provide different forms of presentation and print options. All in all a complete package.
I would also recommend purchasing Scott Kelby's book on this product as a down-to-earth, easy to read step by step explination of the LR system.
Noise reduction is awesome! July 27, 2010 Max Beagleton (Clifton Park, NY) 3 out of 3 found this review helpful
From the viewpoint of a Mac user... your mileage may vary...
I had to get my brother to help me figure out how to do noise reduction (hint: the camera calibration on the "Develop" page needs to be set to "2010 (Current)") but once we got that worked out, my extremely low light, high ISO images de-noised beautifully (another hint: be sure to shoot in raw-mode).
Importing directly from the camera works better than version 2.6 and version 3 will import videos too, unlike the older version, although there is almost nothing you can do in LightRoom with videos. That's okay with me, iMovie works fine for me.
I'm just a beginning amateur, but I really like the fact that you can setup and see your directory structure where the original photos were imported, unlike iPhoto and/or Aperture. I wish LightRoom had the same MobileMe gallery building ease as iPhoto. Currently, I develop in LR, then export jpegs, import the jpegs to iPhoto, then build my MobileMe galleries. This also means my iPhone gets a copy of the LR-developed photos. I like that.
LR's develop workflow is very good and the history makes it easy to peel back as many steps as you like, all the time, it's never fooling with the original image. I like that too.
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