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The Digital Photographer's Software Guide
Featured Product: Adobe Lightroom
Vendor: Adobe Systems
Purpose: Workflow tool for sorting, processing, editing, and printing digital images
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Adobe Lightroom packs the entire photographic workflow into just a few screenfuls.
Description
Since its launch in 2007, Adobe Lightroom has become the workflow tool of choice for
many professional photographers. It was developed with an unusual amount of input
from its target market, a factor that undoubtedly helped make it a practical and intuitive
environment in which to work. Its user interface has set new standards in both aesthetics
and ease-of-use, despite introducing unfamiliar techniques such as directly
grabbing the histogram and stretching/compressing its values.
Although Lightroom initially lacked a suite of retouching tools, it was always destined
to become a comprehensive solution for digital photographic processing, editing, organizing,
and printing. It began life with all the code from Adobe Camera RAW incorporated
into its Develop module, plus a full set of tools for tone and color adjustment,
lens correction, cropping, and camera calibration. To this it adds a proper relational
database that provides an excellent organizational structure with easy import and export
of files to other spaces and applications.