Adobe Lightroom 4.1 RC 2 / 4.0

Adobe Lightroom is a cross-platform utility that provides an efficient way for professional photographers to quickly and easily import, select, showcase and develop large volumes of digital images.

Adobe Lightroom allows one to spend less time refining and sorting photographs, and more time actually shooting them.

Adobe Lightroom's clean and straightforward interface literally steps out of the way and allows you to view and work with the images you shot today, as well as the other thousands of images you will shoot over the course of the entire year.

Because no two photographers work identically, Adobe Lightroom has been designed to adapt to your workflow, not the other way around.

Accurate, photography-specific refinements help you to fine tune your images while maintaining the highest level of image quality from capture until output. And, best of all, Adobe Lightroom runs on most commonly used computers, even notebook computers used on location.

Adobe Lightroom helps you produce incredible images capable of moving your audience and boldly experiment with cutting-edge non-destructive photo editing tools.

Adobe Lightroom will also lend you a hand in easily managing all your images and showcasing your work in tasteful slide shows, print layouts, and web galleries, as well as on popular photo-sharing websites.

All of this from within one fast, intuitive and trouble-free Mac OS X application.

NOTE: To buy Adobe Lightroom via the App Store an Apple account is required.

Here are some key features of "Adobe Lightroom":

Creativity and flexibility:
· Nondestructive environment
· Superior image processing
· Selective editing brush
· Tracking of editing adjustments
· Before-and-after comparison

Tone and color:
· Advanced black-and-white conversion
· Simplified tone curve tools
· Advanced hue, saturation, and luminance editing

Detail and correction:
· Superior noise reduction
· Intelligent sharpening
· Red-eye removal
· Film grain simulation
· Lens correction
· Perspective correction
· Dust-busting

Streamline your digital photography:
· Save time and work efficiently
· One toolset for your photography tasks
· One-click adjustments for multiple images
· Tight Photoshop integration
· Fast performance across platforms
· Image versions
· Image watermarking
· Intuitive environment
· Accelerated performance
· Tethered shooting
· Develop presets
· Support for DSLR video files
· Multiple monitor support
· Tools to manage and refine many images at once

Organizing and managing:
· Extensive image management tools
· Multiple viewing options
· Fast zooming
· Collections
· Offline photo management
· DNG conversion

Finding, searching, and sorting images:
· File renaming
· Simple, customized keywording
· Manual photo sorting
· Single or group metadata stamping
· Advanced search and sort
· IPTC/EXIF/XMP metadata support
· Import or export of keywords sets

Importing and exporting:
· Easy image importing
· Metadata stamp on import
· Timesaving presets for import or export
· Metadata stamp on output
· Make an impact

Printing:
· More flexible print layout

Sharing:
· Online sharing integration
· One-click publishing to your website
· Easy-to-share slide show videos with music
· Output web galleries to HTML or Flash

Requirements:

· 2GB of RAM
· 1GB of available hard-disk space.
· 1,024x768 screen resolution.
· DVD-ROM drive
· 64-bit processor
· Internet connection required for Internet-based services

Limitations:

· 30 days trial

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· New Defringe controls to help address chromatic aberration. Defringe is available as part of the Lens Correction panel.
· This update also provides the ability to read 16-bit, 24-bit, and 32-bit HDR files.

New Camera Support:
· Canon EOS 5D Mark III — introduced with release candidate 1 (March 29, 2012)
· Canon EOS 60Da
· Fuji FinePix F770EXR
· Fuji FinePix F775EXR
· Nikon D3200
· Olympus OM-D EM-5
· Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF5
· Pentax K-01
· RICOH LENS A16 24-85mm F3.5-5.5
· Samsung NX20
· Samsung NX210
· Samsung NX1000
· Sony Alpha NEX-VG20
· Sony SLT-A57

Fixed Issues:
· Estimated price does not update when switching between books in the Collection panel.
· Postscript Type 1 Fonts do not appear in the Font menu within the Book module.
· Filenames can be used as auto text captions within the Book module.
· Fonts such as Courier New and Times were not displaying properly on books exported as PDF files.
· The Adjustment Brush pin would not properly ...