Adobe releases the final version of their popular image editing software, Photoshop Lightroom 5, priced at $149 for a new copy and $79 for an upgrade. Adobe announced the release of the newest version of their popular image editing software which was originally launched in beta back in Spring (mid-April). You can purchase Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (standalone license or a part of the Adobe Creative cloud) for $149 (standalone software). For existing owners of previous versions, the price for upgrading has been nearly halved to $79. From first look to the final image, Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 5 makes everything about digital photography easier, faster, and more amazing.
Perfect your shots with powerful new adjustment tools like the Advanced Healing Brush. Efficiently organize all your photos and share them almost anywhere. And now that Lightroom is also available in, making good shots great is only the beginning. Here are some of the new features that you’ll come across with Lightroom 5:. Improved workflow features.
New “Upright” tool, used for perspective-correction. Radial filter.
Off-center vignettes. Smart Preview function. PNG support. True full screen mode.
Slide show (mixes video and still images). 400 bug fixes, and more Before you rush to purchase this excellent piece of software, confirm if your machine is capable of running it smoothly.
Available immediately on both the Windows and Macintosh platforms, Lightroom 4 brings a number of important new features. (You can get a fuller overview of these in of the Lightroom 4 beta.) Key among the changes are support for video editing and geotagging, and a refined selection of adjustment controls that are at once less confusing, yet more powerful. There's also local white balance, noise and moire adjustments, soft proofing, photo book creation via Blurb.com, support for video uploading to Facebook and Flickr, and simplified emailing. Lightroom 4 also supports a number of new camera models.
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From Canon, this includes the EOS-1D X, PowerShot G1 X, and PowerShot S100. Fujifilm models added include the FinePix F505 EXR, F605 EXR, HS30 EXR, HS33 EXR, and X-S1. Finally, Nikon's D4, D800, and D800E are also newly supported. Press Release Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Now Available Innovative Shadow and Highlight Recovery and Enhanced Digital Photography Workflows Mark A Milestone Release SAN JOSE, Calif., — March 6, 2012 — (Nasdaq: ADBE) today announced the availability of Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 4 software for Mac OS and Windows. Lightroom is the essential digital photography workflow solution helping amateur and professional photographers quickly import, manage, enhance and showcase their images.
First released as a public beta in January 2012, the final version of Lightroom 4 is now available for US$149 for the full version and US$79 for the upgrade, providing an incredible value for photographers. Lightroom 4 introduces refined technology for superior shadow and highlight processing, ability to create photo books, additional local adjustment controls, and enhanced video support. 'Feedback from our customers is invaluable in developing Lightroom and the real trick to a great release is to combine these insights with Adobe's unrivalled image processing innovation,' said Winston Hendrickson, vice president of Digital Imaging Products, Adobe. 'Lightroom 4 is a stunning new release that will enhance photography workflows and help photographs stand out from the crowd.' New Features in Lightroom 4 Lightroom 4 is a major release, adding significant new capabilities and innovations.
New adjustment controls maximize dynamic range from cameras, recovering exceptional shadow details and highlights. The software features new and improved auto adjustments to dynamically set values for exposure and contrast, and additional local adjustment controls including Noise Reduction, Moire and White Balance. Lightroom 4 provides photographers the tools to create beautiful photo books with text controls and a variety of easy-to-use templates, as well as a direct link for photo book creation from within the new Book module.
A new intuitive Map module displays images already assigned a location, provides location tagging and reverse geo-tagging controls and saved locations for easy assignment of a photographer's common locations. Now, native video support gives photographers the capability to play, trim and extract frames from video clips shot on DSLRs, point-and-shoot cameras and smartphones. Video-specific presets and many standard Lightroom image adjustment controls can be applied to video clips, and adjusted videos can be exported as a H.264 file or published directly to Facebook or Flickr. In the Develop module, presets fully utilize new processing technology and the addition of soft proofing helps photographers tune images in a destination color space to ensure content looks its best. In addition, customers can now email images directly from Lightroom using an email account of their choice.
Pricing and Availability Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 is now available for Mac and Windows at. The estimated street price is US$149 for new users or US$79 for upgrades. Minimum system requirements are Mac OS X v10.6.8, v10.7 with Multicore Intel processor, or Microsoft Windows Vista with Service Pack 2 or Windows 7 with Service Pack 1, Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 processor, 2 GB of RAM and a 1024x768 display. For more detailed information about product features, upgrade policies, pricing and language versions, please visit. Users can also connect with the Lightroom team directly on, via or on the. For Lightroom how-to videos, visit.
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