Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Features

Create incredible images that move your audience. Experiment fearlessly with state-of-the-art nondestructive editing tools. Easily manage all your images. And showcase your work in elegant print layouts, slide shows, and web galleries, as well as on popular photo-sharing sites. All from within one fast, intuitive application.

Adobe Photoshop is now so firmly entrenched in our collective consciousness that it has become a verb - the expression 'to Photoshop' an image is now commonly accepted to mean digital manipulation of any kind, using any software.

The problem, from the point of view of many enthusiast photographers, is that Photoshop is now so huge, so complex and so all-encompassing a piece of software that the majority of its functionality is obscure, or at least remote from their immediate requirements. It is also extremely expensive, and currently retails for $999 - more than a lot of consumer-level DSLRs.

A cut-down version of Photoshop CS5 does exist, and Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 is an excellent piece of software at a good price. However, like CS5, Elements 8 (and its predecessors) is still primarily a space in which to perform complex, pixel-level adjustments to individual images. Although significantly less bloated than the full version of Photoshop, Elements still offers more functionality than a lot of photographers - and ironically many professionals ever really need. And this is where Photoshop Lightroom comes in.

Features 

Superior noise reduction new 

Achieve amazing, natural-looking results from your high ISO images with all-new state-of-the-art noise reduction technology. You won't need more than what's built into Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 3 to get the cleanest images at any ISO.

Accelerated performance new

Get your digital photography tasks done fast and have more time to shoot and promote your work. Already quick performance has been dramatically accelerated in Lightroom 3, saving you time from first look to final image.

Lens correction new

Quickly and easily perfect your images by automatically reducing lens defects like geometric distortion, chromatic aberration, and vignetting with single-click profiles. Even images from the best lenses will be improved

Support for DSLR video files new

Take advantage of new support for video files from most digital SLR cameras, which allows you to easily manage and organize both still photographs and video files side by side

Image watermarking new

Easily embed your identity or your brand and logo in your images with more options for customizing their look. The new watermarking tool lets you apply text or graphic watermarks to a photo with adjustable size, position, and opacity.

Tethered shooting new

Instantly import and view images as you shoot them with tethered capture, available for select cameras. Use it to make an immediate, highly detailed check of your shot, the lighting, or the shooting setup. Or get instant feedback from clients or subjects.

Film grain simulation new

Use new sliders to easily control the amount, size, and roughness of grain that you can add to your images to simulate the look of film.

Download a free trial of Photoshop Lightroom 3