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● Intel® Pentium® 4 processor

● Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista™ Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise (certified for 32-bit editions)

● 768MB of RAM (1GB recommended)

● 1GB of available hard-disk space

● 1,024x768 screen resolution

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● PowerPC® G4, G5, or Intel-based Mac

● Mac OS X v.10.4

● 768MB of RAM (1GB recommended)

● 64MB of video RAM

● 1GB of available hard-disk space

● 1,024x768 monitor resolution

● CD-ROM drive

It's About Time

It feels like I've tried them all. Windows Digital Imaging Suite, Adobe Photoshop Elements and so on. They all had strengths and weaknesses. What one did well, the other failed at miserably (and visa versa). Along comes Photoshop Lightroom and it's like a ray of light in the darkness.

I'll try to cover the highpoints:

1 Speed: While it's not as fast as RawShooter Premium (perhaps the best on the market but sadly gobbled up by Adobe) it handles RAW files like most other programs handle JPGs. Once it has cataloged the collection, thumbnails spring up reasonably quick. The program itself is snappy, with a fast load up and responsive controls.

2 Interface: In a word... "elegant". The interface feels professional and has innumerable settings to accomplish what you want. Heck, a simple hotkey and all the "clutter" is dimmed so you can focus on your image. hit again, and all the controls black out, leaving just your wonderful (or perhaps not-so-wonderful) photo

3 Power: The tool suite (to me) feels quite powerful. Elements (4) will never again find its way to my hard drive and Photoshop CS2 is on just as a backup for those hard-to-handle jobs. I really feel like I can do any image adjustment I might want without having to launch a 3rd party program. Granted, I haven't played with the "develop" as much as I'd like, so I'm not sure about tools like dodge, etc.

4 One program: I no longer have to open Digital Image Suite to catalog the files, then open them up in Photoshop Elements for editing and maybe launch Photoshop CS2 for the in-depth stuff. If I had to pick one program, this would be it. Would I pay the current retail for it? I don't know since it was a free upgrade for me (RawShooter Premium users get it free) and I already have a pretty significant investment in other image-editing software. If I was new to digital photo-editing and didn't have anything else? In a heartbeat. Will I buy 2.0 when it comes out and pay the upgrade price? Without doubt.

I know every person is an individual, so my comments should be taken with a grain of salt. Will some people hate it? Probably. Will most love it? Without doubt. Is this the "Photoshop-killer" for the average person? I think so.

So, bottom line: Lightroom is the merger of functionality, elegance and power I've been looking for for the past 2-3 years. I can finally put away the review sites and Google searches and trial downloads. Lightroom has a permanent spot on my computer. Heck, when I do my semi-annual OS reinstall, it may find its way to the HDD before MS Office does [though I gotta say I love Office 2007, but that's another review ;) ]."

- C.S.

Essential Purchase for Photographers

Having seen aperture and been blown away was hungry to see what lightroom had to offer, and its a very impressive piece of software. i am amazed how much of my workflow i have moved from photoshop and bridge is now redundant. its very well designed software and really makes photoshop look dated, aperture looks a little but more shiny, but for me in terms of use both weigh in equally.

Its a joy to organise and manage vast collections of images, and works suprisingly well on older less powerful systems. tweaking images has never been easier, and the results are stunning, not only for raw files but great for revisiting some of the older images lurking in your archives, in fact some film scans which previously had required too much work to make into decent digital files, lightrooms subtle touch can really work wonders.

I have rarely been so impressed with a new piece of software, a pleasure to use and a simple and powerful tool for a photographers digital darkroom."

- S.Q.

LOVE This

I love Lightroom. Been using it since Adobe had it free in Beta. I am a real amateur photographer. mostly of my kids and us up in mountains. Live in NYC so need to take pictures to remind us of the outdoors! :-)

I use this on a Mac Mini Intel and a Windows XP machine. They are EXACT looking and functioning on either machines/OS. And what made this an even sweeter deal was I got it with the Special Introductory Price. $100 off. Worth the full price though.

I use a Canon Rebel XT (will soon move up to a Canon 30d) and it has saved many a photo.

A couple of suggestions to others like me.

1: Get a Gray Card. I use a WhiBal (website is name plus dot com) Most digital SLR's have BAD auto white balance. And even if you set it to the light condition using the presets they can be off. A quick snapshot of the gray card and you can correct all the photos you shot in that light condition. If you do shot in jpg only, WhiBal comes with app that reads the gray card and the black and white stickers on the card to better color & white balance your jpg. But nothing beats Raw for corrections.

2: Shot in RAW all the time. if you don't like the space it eats up get a larger card, there cheap nowadays. And if you are Hard drive space worried. Save the raw, make your corrections in light room, DxO &/or Photoshop and then export to jpg. Then delete the raw or better yet offload onto a DVD-R, dvd-r's are cheap like 10¢ a piece nowadays in bulk at Big Box Stores.

3: Have a look at a software product called DxO [...] If you are not a pro at fixing barrel or pin cousion distortion or even noise this will do it automatically for you based on your lens and camera body. Man this is such a worth while piece of software."

- E.W.

Groundbreaking

I got this (using the trial, soon to purchase) because it allows non-destructive editing of JPGs as you can with RAW files. I have a DSLR that shoots RAW, but I also have a couple of quality P&S cameras that don't. Editing copied JPGs and preserving master copies gets old really fast, even in Photoshop CS2 which I own. As an organizational tool, LR is a breakthrough. I only have to keep *one* JPG photo - it's archival *and* can be diddled with, just like a RAW image.

Editing in LR you can do a few things you can't in Photoshop - such as put your cursor on the image and drag it to change the saturation or hue for the precise color under the original click (and wherever it occurs in the rest of the image, natch). This is *so* much easier than moving sliders. It allowed me to erase the green cast of a fluorescent light in a few seconds - no experimenting. There is also a "vibrance" adjustment that adjusts the saturation of the image but weights the movement in favor of the under-saturated colors, not all colors equally. Brilliant! These features will probably become available in updates to Camera Raw and to PS, but if you have to choose, there's a big price difference.

LR will not do many things Photoshop does in the way of montages and even the clone stamp, which is much harder to use in LR. It won't do perspective cropping (but it does do level cropping to straighten horizons and so on). But, what it does it does really well, and again, for organizing photos, it kills Photoshop and Bridge. The bargain package for new users might just be LR and Photoshop Elements for under $300. (You can set up LR to work with *any* other photo editor, such as Paintshop Pro or whatever.) Need more than that? You are dangerously close to becoming a Pro.

Four stars because it's release 1.1 and I hope will add features I need. Then it gets Five. "

- C.B..

Amazing Software

Abobe hits one out of the park. I find Adobe software clunky and hard to use. While I understand that the more flexibility you want the more complex the program but Photoshop and InDesign have learning curves that are steeper than Mount Everest. I expected Lightroom to be the same - an excellent program with a huge learning curve. Well it is and it isn't which it why Lightroom is such a pleasure to use. I don't know what Adobe is thinking in creating this gem of a program but the team who designed it are collective geniuses. For they have taken a complex and sometimes frustrating chore and for lack of better words made it gentle and pleasing. The program makes spending time with your photographs actually enjoyable.

Lightroom is fabulous from look and feel to functionality. The strength is not only in the photo management portion of the program but also in the strong photo developing functions that can turn an OK photo into an amazing one.

If you do anything with photographs buy this program. You won't regret it. "

- D.B.

Seamless Integration with Photoshop

I've only been using Lightroom for a day, but I was pleasantly surprised with the Photoshop integration. Just hit Cmd-E, and Lightroom creates a copy of the photo (with our without the changes you applied in Lightroom) for editing in Photoshop format, and groups that copy in a stack with the original. As you save your changes in Photoshop, the image is updated in Lightroom.

I felt that the workflow was very smooth."

- C.O.

Finally Everything in One Place...Almost

I've just started using Lightroom 1.1 and I love it. I especially love the organizational capabilities and the develop module is terrific. There is a bit of a learning curve, but with time I know that Lightroom and I will be producing some superb images. I'm not sure yet if I will bite the bullet for CS3. Digital photography is always expanding, always improving and alas....always getting more expensive. What does annoy me is the current trend towards very little printed documentation. Lightroom arrived with a little booklet...only much later did I discover the documentation file on the cd. What ever happened to providing a basic book with the software????"

- B.B.

An Excellent Way to Manage & Improve Your Digital Photo Ccollections

This is an excellent digital photo management tool. Given that it's just in version 1.1 this is already an outstanding product and can only get better with future releases and updates. I wouldn't recommend anybody who was thinking about it to wait - I'd say go get it!

The metadata and keywording aspects of the programme allow you to organise your photos in a standard fashion but in a way that is relevant to you and your work/life-style. The develop tools are intuitive and responsive and immediate (the sharpening tool needs looking at by Adobe though) and the real beauty is that you know that you are not affecting your original image in any way - it's all done with xml attributes. There are still issues with regard to speed on Windows platform but these are known about at Adobe and are being dealt with (according to the user forums).

I bought a new DSLR and decided to try the trial version of LR, and was hooked immediately. A great product already and I look forward to the updates and new versions."

- A.C.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.1

A new Photoshop program, and another reason to rave. This new program does everything it say's it does with excellent result's! It is fast - intuitive - precise. Somebody really did their homework when designing this program. It is now, for me, a pleasure to go through a large amount of photo's! Everything I need to do is fast & efficient. The learning curve was almost nothing."

- P.M.

I Love Lightroom

I am falling in love with Lightroom. I am a semi-pro photographer and have been using Bridge and Photoshop to process my RAW files and Lightroom is doing the whole process easier and better than CS2 bridge. It has forced me to start cataloging my images, which I desperately needed. One of the great things is that I can revisit my old work and import those old Jpeg files. Finally the image editing features do a great job and I only have to use Photoshop for special touch up needs. I recommend it highly."

- D.N.

Adobe Lightroom is Amazing

Adobe Lightroom is amazing. I have been using it since the first beta, it just wasn't something I could switch to. At a studio I work at they have Capture One, which is an amazing piece of software, but I found it lacking when it comes to organizing "my" photos. I bought Apples Aperture when it came out, and it blew me away. Aperture has the loupe, (now found in bridge cs3), light table (Lightrooms new compare feature), which is amazing for setting up comps, if you like to do story work on your photos. Aperture has a rejection tag that you can use to reject photos to delete later (bad blur, or too many like shots), Lightroom now has this feature as well--you just press X, then when you are ready to rid yourself of those click the delete rejected photos button, if you rejected it accidentally press U, if you have a favorite pic just press P to "pick" it. Aperture has stacks, which if you shoot multiple exposures (hdr, pano, etc) they can be stacked up and you can choose a pick, Lightroom in version 1 now has this as well. The other big feature any other raw program needs to compete with Aperture for me is their collections. Its similar to a smart playlist in iTunes, you can sort by rating, keyword, what have you. Lightroom now has this as well, meaning you can pick your favorite waterfall photos from several years of shooting and put them in a logical folder, meaning no extra space to store your favorites. This feature, and rejection caused me to loose over 40gb by switching to Lightroom!

While my review may seem as though Lightroom copied the best features from Aperture and improved upon them, for the most part that's true. The best part is they improved soo many other features. If you have used Aperture, or iPhoto, you know how big a joke their clone stamp tool is. Lightroom? Just as good as Photoshop! I'm constantly changing lens when I'm out in the field shooting. It is such a pain to have to go to Photoshop and save psds of all my work just to get rid of the dust. Now I don't have too. Lightrooms clone stamp feature is worth the price alone.

Lightroom also has snapshots. You can make a sweet black and white, a fancy stylistic design, or whatever, and save these as snapshots, which are basically separate images, that only take up 24k and is store in that one raw file, opposed to 8-22mb depending on your camera. If snapshots are too complicated to mess with you can use "Virtual Copies" (my personal favorite), where you make a virtual copy of the photo, it stacks it behind the other photo. The big deal is this file is fake, it only takes up the 24k that any raw adjustment takes up inside of Lightroom. You can make multiple copies of the same photo, try different effects, and combine these. I cant tell you how many duplicate files I have on my machine, from multiple PSD's of the same image, to copied over raw files being afraid of messing something up.

Another thing Lightroom excels at is speed. The interface is blazing, I can't believe how fast I can view my raw files. The shortcuts just make since, and everything works like a charm. I am truly in love with this program. Another "speed" aspect of Lightroom is when the canon 400d came out, I wanted to buy it as a backup, I did, and Lightroom was the first, and only raw program to support it for sometime. Aperture didn't support the camera until a couple months ago. I plan on buying the new canon Mark 3 for weddings, and this fact alone makes me want to have Lightroom.

If all this isn't enough, you can create your favorite keywords and apply them as keyboard shortcuts, so if you have something you want to send to a stock photo agency, set a keyword up for that and press cmd+1 or whatever you setup your keywords as. Also I enjoy using bridges way of pressing 1-5 for ratings and 6-9 for colors. Aperture makes you press the + key to rate up however many times. It's not well thought out.

For me Lightroom is a killer app. At 200 it is a steal. My nature photos usually require Photoshop to get rid of dust on my images. I then use Photoshop to do some color correction and sharpening. Now with Lightroom if I need Photoshop at all, it is for comp work, selective sharpening, and special effect work (lighting, vignettes, filters, adjustment layers, etc). I know a lot of people who shoot that never get dust on their lens at all, and this clone stamp might not seem like a big deal, but it is, you can clone plants to fill in gaps, get rid of blemishes, etc. Lightroom is a one stop shop. You can import your photos as DNG's, apply keywords and metadata, while you import. Then you can choose your favorites, go to the develop module, finish up your images, then print, or put it on the web. You can even customize the Lightroom logo on the top now to say "Your Studio" or whatever; it's really a fun app, I hope Lightroom sees some plugins soon to add even more functionality, but right now I am very satisfied, and I am very picky."

- J.

Five Stars

Adobe has hit the leather off the ball with release 1. I've been a photoshop fan for over 10 years now and have become fairly adept at using all features. Simply put, Lightroom blows it away. I've never seen more intuitively developed software.

Sliders make choices easy and there's a one click feature that allows you to compare the effects of tweaks before and after and best of all, everything you do to the photo is non destructive, so you can revert back to the original with one click of the button. I now have a process for importing, filing, metataging, processing, tweaking, output and printing in one sweet little bundle.

It must have been how scientists felt after reading Darwin... why didn't anyone think of this before?

Trust me, buying this program will be the best money spent this year. "

- L.I.

Simply Amazing!

This is truly an amazing piece of software. If you are serious about photography, then you need this program. I used the beta prior to the official release and I knew it was going to be a great product, but it's even better now! The commands are intuitive and powerful. It is very easy to post process your images and it is all done in a non-destructive way. I love this software. It's a must buy!"

- P.W.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.1 is a Winner

The most awkward part of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is the title; why Adobe didn't just stick with "Lightroom" is a mystery. If you were expecting Adobe Photoshop, this isn't it; instead, it is a specialized application tightly focused on the needs of a digital photographer. It is at once very similar to and quite distinct from Apple's Aperture package, with the most obvious distinction being that Aperture is Mac-only and Lightroom is not. Both applications are superbly focused on digital photography and the often burdensome tasks of reviewing, rating, sorting, classifying, and adding meta tags to photographs. Each has its own strengths, and there is a good chance that many serious photographers will end up purchasing both. Highly recommended for photographers, and completely unnecessary for graphic artists."

- L.C.

Lightroom Rocks

This application is sweet! It can draw every pixel of information out of a camera RAW file with infinite tweaking ability. The main difference for me is the 16 bit work flow. I used to use just Photoshop for image work with 8 bit camera JPG's, now I use Lightroom to prepare image files and Photoshop to do the heavy photo-manipulation, keeping the files in 16 bit until the final output. Twice as much value information makes a big difference.

I used to hear photographer's and the Photoshop TV guys going on and on about 16 bit and camera RAW without understanding what they were really talking about, now I'm a convert. Unfortunately some of Photoshop's filters only work in 8 bit, so I save those until the last.

Adobe really thought out the layout, and it is a pleasure to look at, especially on a nice display. I've only scratched the surface of all of the control possibilities and look forward to discovering more."

- B.E.

Post-Processing Workflow Solution—Great and Getting Better All the Time.

Lightroom is a revolution for processing RAW and JPG files for photographers that create tons of images.

As a user of Apple's Aperture and long time user of Photoshop, iView, and others I would say that Lightroom has an organic interface that's very logical and easy to adapt to. My favorite developmental tools are the draggable histogram for exposure control and targeted adjustment tools for tweaking saturation, color, curves, and more. Enjoy the fact you can trade adjustment presets with other computers and users and have a quick view when you drag over a preset name as well.

Lightroom is not to be confused with "Photoshop" as an image editing tool. Although it offers basic cloning and healing tools, rotation, vignette, and cross processing tools, it's sole purpose is to act as "the photo lab" (in my view) as it batch edits any of it's adjustments with simple key commands and lightning speed. Also given the power to sort and rank, label and rename, print and slideshow, lightroom obviously has a lot of power as a post-production tool. Don't throw away photoshop; you'll want to use it for special effects and major image surgery.

All-in-all, if you shoot a ton and find yourself buried in "workflow" with lots of time at the computer -- demo and possibly buy Lightroom. If you like the fancy box and think the name sounds neat, keep walking. It's only on version 1 and already incredibly powerful so with some of the suggestions we keep giving Adobe, Lightroom will be a force to be reckoned with. The relative weaknesses it has right now are eclipsed by the power, flexibility, and price tag."

- D.T.

Approaching the Speed of Light

Lightroom runs very fast on my minimum configured Mac PowerBook. I haven't used the software very much, nor have I read the manual, yet I have been able to process RAW files acceptably well. It definitely sits on the shelf with the big boys. Other products I use are: Capture One by Phase One, Nikon Capture and Capture NX and of course Photoshop. I haven't tried Aperture because it is a memory hog.

As you would imagine, different results are achieved by each process of the same image. Each product can do something the other can't. When I have an image or a project that is very important to me, I will take the time to find the one I like best. The point is, don't expect this to be the perfect tool that does it all. Most people are going to fall in love with Lightroom, but forget the hype. In my opinion, 2 things can definitely be said: It's fast as grease lightning, and it's fun."

- P.M.

Cheaper and Better Than Photoshop

If you are an amateur or professional photographer and are looking for a great piece of software then look no further. Not only is lightroom cheaper than photoshop, but in my opinion its much more user friendly and easier for you to learn, yet offers many features.

Whats great about lightroom is it was in beta stage for about 2 years and had many photographers from all over using the software and advising Adobe what worked and didnt work. I think with all the input Adobe was able to put together a product that works for anyone.

I love the easy to use interface and how easy it is to enhance or fix photos that need it. I have about 5000 photos loaded and its always easy to find whatever photo Im looking for."

- S.P.

Great Photography Workflow Software!

Very nice user interface. Has great tools that are easy to use to categorize and keep track of large numbers of photos, and to make adjustments to the photos themselves. Most useful features for adjustments for my use are those that control white balance and exposure. This software meets 90% of my needs for managing photos taken with my digital SLR camera.

IMHO the slick user interface and ease of use still make it the best value in this category of software. My comparisons with other like software were made using trial versions I downloaded to my computer."

- R.

Awesome to Use!

I am a professional photographer and tried out other photo editing products. This one really works. You do need a level of experience with software, but I found the manual very helpful. Great tool!"

- D.

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