Adobe Lightroom 3.0 (Mac/PC)

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• Item Weight: 41 g
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• ASIN: B003N7O3CI
• Release Date: 1 Jun 2010
  

By : Adobe Systems Inc.
Price : £95.00

Product Description

Manufacturer's Description
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.
Minimum system requirements for Windows:

• Intel® Pentium® 4 processor (or equivalent)
• Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 3; Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise (32 bit and 64 bit); or Windows 7 (32 bit and 64 bit)
• 2GB of RAM
• 1GB of available hard-disk space
• 1,024x768 display
• CD-ROM drive

Minimum system requirements for Mac OS

• Intel processor
• Mac OS X v10.5 or v10.6
• 2GB of RAM
• 1GB of available hard-disk space
• 1,024x768 display
• CD-ROM drive

 

Adobe Lightroom 3.0 (Mac/PC)

 

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Customer Reviews

I'm a pro photographer, and shoot fashion product for a living, and image clarity and accuracy is key. I've been using the beta 2 trial of Lightroom 3 for a while now, and it's amazing! Lightroom 2.whatever was ok, but not a patch on Capture One Pro. but Lightroom 3 does it all just as well, and does the important things SO much better! Image Quaity! As for RAW image handling, it is THE BEST! ACR in CS5 still makes for noisy, unsharp images that need a lot of extra work done to them - as did the old Lightroom. Capture One Pro did a much better job, but shadow details were still a little 'grainy'. Lightroom 3 delivers wonderful shadows, lovely accurate colours, and little need for additional sharpening - and it's fast! ACR is slow, Capture One is faster, but Lightroom 3 is quicker still! I use Canon gear, and this software has been the answer to my prayers!
I'd long given up on Adobe's RAW converters, but this has drawn me back (and away from my beloved Capture One). Not only are the converted jpegs great quality, Lightroom 3 is the fastest converter I've used! A good 40% faster than Capture One, and if you're a Canon user and use Canon's DPP, then it's a million times faster! Forget DPP, get this!

Lightroom 3 is a leap. Its raw conversion--Lightroom's core feature--produces clarity, sharpness and detail that shame all previous Adobe raw converters, particularly for higher-ISO images. Noise reduction is outstanding--in previous releases, a base level of luminance noise reduction blunted the finer detail of your low-light work, robbing it of some of its bite, even with the luminance slider set to zero. Now, you get zesty details and exceptionally effective control of noise. Colour noise reduction is simply in another league now, and luminance NR can restore the gloss to smooth surfaces (like car bodywork shot in low light) in a way that was previously the preserve of dedicated, third-party noise-reduction applications and plugins. Learn the combined effects of sharpening, masking, the detail sliders and noise reduction in Lightroom 3; when you do, you'll find it hard to produce better basic conversions from other raw converters. With the creative sharpening tools, the graduated filters and the other brushes for local adjustments, the quality of Lightroom 3's output quickly reaches giddy heights.
This release includes all the image management and workflow capabilities of Lightroom 2 with some useful workflow tweaks and an improved import interface. There are new and very useful development tools to reduce optical distortion and to quickly correct for the effects you get when subjects have parallel lines that appear to converge when photographed from less-than-perfect positions. (This easy, after-the-fact correction is a poor photographer's shift lens and you pay in pixels, not pounds. We'd all love a decent set of tilt-shift lenses but sometimes, you have to take what you can afford and pixels are getting more affordable, unlike, say, a Nikkor 24mm PC-E. Ah, the Nikkor 24mm PC-E... [Pauses for a moment and wipes a tear from his eye.])
For many photographers, Lightroom 3 is all the post-processing and image management they'll ever need. For those who require Photoshop for advanced pixel-level work, photomontage or the addition ; removal of elements from pictures, Lightroom 3 works exceptionally well with Photoshop CS 4 (you need to upgrade your ACR plugin to v5.7 for free) and of course, with CS 5. If you round-trip between Lightroom and Photoshop, you'll be glad to know that you can send a Photoshopped image back to Lightroom and later, back to Photoshop with all your previous layers preserved--no need to flatten.
Print and web output, with the output sharpening licensed from the PixelGenius folks, is unmatched. Upsizing and downsizing are both handled beautifully--your low-res web images will look sharp but not crunchy. Printing is one of Lightroom's strong points but I'll leave that for another time. If you made it this far, you'll have realised that I consider Lightroom 3 to be a terrific package. I'm withholding a quarter of a star because there's no soft proofing and a quarter because there's no book-printing package included. (Unfortunately, I had to round up to the nearest number of whole stars.) The Lightroom team has done an exceptionally good job--this is a landmark release.

 

Adobe Lightroom 3.0 (Mac/PC)