Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Student and Teacher Edition

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Perfect your photography from shoot to finish

Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 4 software helps you create amazing images that inspire, inform, and delight. Bring out the best in every shot with powerfully simple one-click adjustments and a full range of cutting-edge advanced controls. Craft elegant photo books and effortlessly share your best shots on social networks, in web galleries, and more. Perfect your images, organize all your photographs, and share your vision—all with one fast, intuitive application.

Get everything you need beyond the camera
Organize, perfect, and share—Lightroom combines all your digital photography tools in one fast, efficient application. Use powerful yet simple automatic adjustments or take detailed control of every feature, from editing to sharing.

Get the best from every image
Get the highest possible quality from every pixel in your images, whether you shot them with a pro DSLR camera or a camera phone. Lightroom includes a comprehensive set of state-of-the-art tools.

Share effortlessly
Craft elegant photo books and easily share your photographs on social networks or in web galleries, slide shows, prints, and more. Lightroom includes efficient tools to showcase your work withfriends, family, and clients.

Highlight and shadow recovery


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Advanced black and white conversion


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Features

	Highlight and shadow recovery—Bring out all the detail that your camera captures in dark shadows and bright highlights. Now you have more power than ever before to make great images under challenging lighting conditions.
	Photo book creation—Create beautiful photo books from your images with a variety of easy-to-use templates included in Lightroom, and then upload your book for printing with just a few clicks.
	Superior image processing—Get the absolute best from your images with state-of-the-art image processing controls. Make precise overall adjustments or correct targeted areas.
	Nondestructive environment—Set your creativity free in a nondestructive editing environment that encourages experimentation. Your original images are never altered, and it’s easy to reverse your steps.
	Selective editing brushes—Extend your creative control with a flexible brush that lets you adjust selected areas of your photo for just the look you want.
	Advanced black-and-white conversion—Gain powerful control over the tonal qualities that make or break black-and-white images. Precisely mix information from eight color channels when you convert to grayscale.
	Extended video support—Organize, view, and make adjustments and edits to video clips. Play and trim clips, extract still images from them, or adjust clips with the Quick Develop tool.
	Superior noise reduction—Achieve amazing, natural-looking results from your high ISO images with state-of-the-art noise reduction technology. Apply noise reduction to the entire image or target specific areas.
	One-click adjustments to multiple images—Save time when processing many images. Apply the same Develop settings—exposure or contrast, for example—to all the photographs in a group at once using presets or syncing.
	Tight Adobe Photoshop integration—Select one or multiple photos and automatically open them in Adobe Photoshop software to perform detailed, pixel-level editing. See your results immediately in Lightroom.
	Fast performance across platforms—Speed up day-to-day imaging tasks and process images faster with cross-platform 64-bit support for the latest Mac OS and Microsoft® Windows® operating systems.
	Intuitive environment—Be more productive and efficient. The intuitive environment and controls of Lightroom are easy to master and let you quickly and smoothly accomplish your photography tasks.
	Tethered shooting—Instantly import and view images in detail as you shoot them with tethered capture, available for select cameras. Check the shot, the lighting, and more as you work.
	Develop presets—Save time by instantly applying favorite looks to images. Just save Develop settings as a preset and apply it to your other photographs at any time with one click.
	Extensive image management tools—Use a powerful set of image management features to organize your photographs, flexibly rate and label them, and find them easily using metadata tags and information.
	Enhanced online sharing integration—Easily post images to more social media and photo sharing sites like Facebook and Flickr. With selected sites, online comments about your images are visible within Lightroom.

Tech Specs

	To install an upgrade version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 software, you must have an eligible earlier version of Lightroom (Lightroom, Lightroom 2, or Lightroom 3). For information on eligibility, visit www.adobe.com/go/photoshoplightroom_upgrade.
	FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ)
	Q: How does Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® differ from Adobe Photoshop?
	A: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software provides all the tools you need for digital photography in one intuitive solution. Lightroom helps photographers work fast and efficiently, while maintaining the highest quality. Adobe Photoshop software is the industry standard in digital image editing, with advanced tools for detailed, pixel-level editing and working with multilayered files.
	Q: Why should I use Lightroom if I already have Photoshop?
	A: Lightroom is designed to boost your efficiency by handling all the tasks a digital photographer faces in one intuitive environment. It includes powerfully simple one-click adjustments, as well as the widest range of advanced tools for efficiently processing sets of images, organizing photo libraries, and sharing images.
	System requirements
	Windows
	Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor
	Microsoft® Windows Vista® with Service Pack 2 or Windows 7 with Service Pack 1
	2GB of RAM
	1GB of available hard-disk space
	1024x768 display
	DVD-ROM drive
	Internet connection required for Internet-based services
	Mac OS
	Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support
	Mac OS X v10.6.8 or v10.7
	2GB of RAM
	1GB of available hard-disk space
	1024x768 display
	DVD-ROM drive
	Internet connection required for Internet-based services