Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a photo processor and image organizer developed by Adobe Systems for Windows and OS X. It allows viewing, organizing and retouching a large number of digital images.^[1] Lightroom's edits are non-destructive. However, despite sharing name with Adobe Photoshop, it is incapable of performing many of Photoshop functions such asdoctoring (adding, removing or altering the appearance of individual image items), rendering text or 3D objects on images or modifying individual video frames.

Lightroom is not a file manager like Adobe Bridge: It cannot operate on files unless they are imported into its database first; in doing so, Lightroom accepts only recognized image formats.

Overview

Lightroom is focused on the following workflow steps:

Library

Similar in concept to the 'Organizer' in Adobe Photoshop Elements and other image organizers, this module imports and exports images, creates image collections, organizes images by their metadata and adds rating to them. Library is the gateway into Lightroom.

Develop

Supports non-destructive editing of images en masse. This modules is geared more towards retouching, i.e. enhancing and improving digital photographs, including changing color balance, improving tone, removing red-eye effect, sharpening, reducing noise, cropping, straightening or converting to black-and-white. It is not capable of creating or editing non-photographic images (such as drawings, symbols, line arts or diagrams or maps), rendering text or 3D objects. It has very limited photo doctoring features. Only JPEG and raw image formats are supported. It has a number of standard presets for color correction or effects, and supports the sharing of custom presets online. Another often used feature in the Develop module is the ability to synchronize edits from one particular photo to the whole selection.

Map

Added in Lightroom 4, it facilitates geographical organization of photos based on embedded or manually added geolocation data.

Book

Added in Lightroom 4, it allows creation of photobooks.

Slideshow

Allows creating slideshows from any number of photos. Music or background can be added to the slideshow.

Print

Prints images. Printing parameters such as layout and orientation can be adjusted.

Web

Creates a web gallery for website owners. Several templates that influence the layout are available.

Tethered Capture Support for many popular Nikon and Canon DSLRs