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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.1 Editor's Review

When it comes to bitmap image editing and retouching, Adobe Photoshop reigns supreme, presence of industry rivals and emergence of new contenders notwithstanding. This has been the case for last decade. As Photoshop has evolved into the feature loaded behemoth it is, Adobe has realized the need to offer niche users with specialized tools based on same technology but narrowed application area. That explains creation of Photoshop Lightroom, a feature loaded app aimed at professional photographers looking for versatile image management app. With each release Lightroom has established itself as a strong contender for this category and this release carries forward that trend.

As is the case with Adobe’s flagship multimedia apps, Photoshop Lightroom requires a fairly powerful desktop or laptop to run smoothly. To extract the most out of the app, ensure your PC has at least 3 GB or more RAM, as Adobe recommended 2 GB will not be adequate for you. Users with PCs still running Windows XP has no luck as Adobe has ditched support for the ageing OS. Ideally, you will have to use a PC with Windows Vista and later versions and 64 bit version will be better suited. Remember that post installation, Lightroom gobbles 1GB of disk space.

Apart from organizing and sharing your images, Lightroom also offers some amount of editing power. It is aimed at professional photographers but casual users with knowledge of image manipulation will find using the tool easy too. Lightroom has a modular interface and you get modules like Map, Book and Develop. The Map module is meant for users particular about embedding GPS data in images. The Book module enables you publish and share your files. It also allows you to save projects in convenient PDF formats. As is event from its name, the develop module is meant for image editing and tweaking. Each module button is located at right top end of the app interface. Speaking of the interface, it does look dark and classy but at times get cluttered.

As it is, Lightroom allows you to make basic to moderate changes in image quality in Develop module. You will find its new Highlight and Shadow Recovery quite useful. Addition of features like moiré and noise reduction also makes things simpler for users. Users who always struggle with making their photo printouts match what get displayed on monitors will like the app’s new Soft Proofing feature. It will help you find part of images that contain out of gamut colors. While Soft Proofing does not fix color issues in your images, it helps you understand the anomaly and fix it to ensure the printouts match the displayed image.

With each release of apps Adobe engineers perform the necessary optimizations to enhance speed and overall performance. Like its mainstream sibling, Photoshop CS 6, Lightroom’s new version also offers significant speed boost, a boon for advanced users dealing with large file collections. You will notice the speed enhancement while importing large collection of files or applying effects. Even when you convert files from RAW to DNG format, there is hardly any sluggishness.

There are quite a few other enhancements and additions that Adobe team has made to Lightroom and they are aimed at speeding and easing up workflow. The new video related features introduced Lightroom will entice you. You can now play back video files within the app and no external player is required. Making tone adjustments and white balance changes to videos is also possible. However, do not expect to apply extensive changes to video files in the app’s develop module.

Nowadays, every image editor or management app comes with online image sharing option and Lightroom does not dishearten users in this aspect. You can publish to social media sites without any issue using the app. It also offers you an integrated email feature. You can simply select the required images and right click on them to select Email Photo option. This eliminates the need to open your regular email program to send images to friends or others. You can select an image size from available presets or create one that suits your need.

While Lightroom’s new version stacks up well against the competition with its enhanced processing engine and useful new features, the app is still not perfect. You may feel irked while using crop tool, as mouse movement will move the image instead of crop rectangle. The fact that you always need to import an image to Lightroom's library before editing or any other activity is kind of limiting. A section of users are not too happy with the way Lightroom still separates its collections and folders. Separate panels for displaying and managing Folders and collections can prove to be tedious at times. The interface can seem cluttered sometimes and despite core improvements, Lightroom can occasionally slow down while opening or rendering large files.

Positive Points:
•    Quite affordable.
•    Highlight and shadow recovery works great.
•    Improved core engine offers faster responsiveness.
•    Enhanced online sharing features.

Negative Points:
•    Interface may get cluttered.
•    Occasional sluggishness.
•    Limited video editing options.
•    Crop tool feels rudimentary.

Conclusion:
There is no denying that Adobe Lightroom offers quite a lot of features and improved workflow for its price. The price reduction in fact makes it as a good alternative to rivals like Aperture and Corel Aftershot Pro. The improved processing engine speeds up working and inclusion of video editing and online sharing gets thumbs up. However, there are still rooms for improvement. The crop tool can be tedious to use and Lightroom’s way of dealing with folders and its collections can seem irksome. Like many other Adobe apps, Lightroom is also high on resource consumption. It can bring computers with 32 bit Windows OS and limited amount of RAM down on knees. Professional photographers looking for a suitable image organizing and sharing tool will not be disappointed if they can put up with its minor quirks.

Rating: 3.5/5








Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.1 Publisher's Description

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom answers the digital photographer's call for a workflow application that allows photographers to quickly work with raw format images. With Lightroom you can manage all of your photographs; showcase them in print, dynamic slideshows, and interactive Web galleries that are a simple to produce.

Lightroom's cross platform support allows photographers to effortlessly work on projects from any Windows or Macintosh computer on-location or in the office. Lightroom-spend less time at the computer, and more time behind the lens, doing what you love.

Create the perfect look for every image whether you shoot raw or JPEG -  Lightroom includes a comprehensive range of leading-edge image processing tools. Make precise overall adjustments to color and contrast, use a flexible brush to edit targeted areas of your photo, convert to black-and-white, reduce noise, adjust sharpness, and much more.

Experiment fearlessly with as many image-editing controls, enhancements, and looks as you like. Lightroom is a nondestructive environment that encourages your creative exploration. Your original images are safely unaltered, and it's easy to reverse your steps or save multiple versions of any photograph.

Select multiple photos in Lightroom and easily open them in Photoshop CS5 to merge them into a panorama, a high dynamic range (HDR) photo, or a creative composite. See your edits immediately back in Lightroom.

Apply your favorite looks -  including complex sets of adjustments -  with a single click using presets. Many are included, and you can create and save your own.

Lightroom boosts your creativity and saves you time. Built to be fast, intuitive, and easy to use, it's the efficient assistant you need -  one set of powerful tools for your photography tasks, whether you're adjusting one image, searching for ten, processing hundreds, or organizing thousands.

FEATURES:

Your photography essentials in one package

Quickly achieve the best from your photography with proven, refined software that provides efficient tools for all your photography tasks. You can edit, manage, and showcase all your images with one integrated solution.

Intuitive environment

Enjoy the freedom, creativity, and productivity that comes from working within an intuitive environment perfectly designed for the job. The controls of Lightroom are easy to master and let you breeze through your photography tasks quickly and smoothly.
Highly tuned performance and design

Quickly edit one photograph or work efficiently with libraries of up to hundreds of thousands of images. The already speedy performance of Lightroom has been accelerated even further in Lightroom 3. Import images faster and easier. Apply the same Develop settings to all photos in a group at once using presets or the sync feature.

Efficient image viewing and selecting

See, evaluate, and select your images quickly and clearly with flexible image viewing features. Instantly magnify one image or compare several. Even hide the background and application interface so that you can focus on what matters most -  your images.

Image management

Get organized and find images quickly with powerful asset management features. Easily group photos into collections, quickly assign searchable ratings and keywords to one image or hundreds, manage your library across multiple drives, and sort or search for photos using many different criteria.

The Lightroom community

Trade tips, experience, Develop presets, and more with a thriving worldwide community of Lightroom users and photographers just like you in many venues online and offline.

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Publisher: Adobe Systems | License: Shareware | Price: 299.00
Version: RC2 | Size: 142336 KB | Platform: WinOther
Released Date: 21-06-2012 | Rating: 5 | Title: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.1

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