Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4

 

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 software provides a comprehensive set of digital photography tools, from powerfully simple one-click adjustments to cutting-edge advanced controls. Create images that inspire, inform, and delight.

NEW FEATURES:

• Highlight and shadow recovery
  Bring out all the important detail that your camera can capture. New technology brings in more image detail from dark shadows and bright highlights than ever before. Now you've got more power to create great images in challenging lighting conditions.
• Photo book creation
  Create beautiful photo books from your images with a variety of easy-to-use templates included in Lightroom. Upload your book for printing with just a few clicks. Receive 20% off from Blurb on your first book created using Lightroom 4 software.
• Location-based organization
  Find and group images by location, easily assign locations to images, or plot a photo journey. Automatically display location data from GPS-enabled cameras and camera phones.
• White balance brush
  Get more consistent color across your image in scenes with mixed lighting sources. A flexible brush lets you refine and adjust white balance in targeted areas of your shot.
• Additional editing brushes
  Expand your creative control by targeting particular areas of your images using new local editing brushes for noise reduction and moiré removal.
• Extended video support
  Organize, view, and make adjustments to video clips. Play and trim clips, extract still images from them, or adjust clips with the Quick Develop tool.
• Video publishing
  Easily share video clips in HD format on Facebook and Flickr. Or save HD clips formatted for phones, tablets, TV, and more.
• Soft-proofing
  Save time and ink and ensure your prints meet your expectations. Soft-proofing lets you preview how an image will look when printed with color-managed printers.
• Enhanced online sharing integration
  Easily post images to social media and photo sharing sites like Facebook and Flickr®. With selected sites, online comments about your images are visible within Lightroom.
• Emailing within Lightroom
  Email images directly from Lightroom using the email account of your choice.
• Import of other libraries
  Bring the power and elegance of Lightroom to all your images, new and old. Easily import photos from other applications.

Features:

Creativity and flexibility
Bring out the best in every image with Lightroom 4. Experiment freely with comprehensive image processing tools in a nondestructive environment.

• 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.

Tone and color
Precisely adjust color, tone, and contrast. Easily make beautiful black-and-white conversions.

• 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.
• Advanced color editing
  Enhance color saturation and remove color casts with control over eight color channels each for hue, saturation, and luminance.

Detail and correction
Use powerful tools to maximize detail and perfect your images. Sharpen, reduce noise, add grain, and correct lens defects and perspective distortion.

• 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.
• Lens correction
  Quickly and easily perfect your images by automatically reducing lens defects like geometric distortion, chromatic aberration, and vignetting with single-click profiles.
• Perspective correction
  Get truer images by correcting perspective distortion that occurs when you shoot with your camera tilted, causing a building, for example, to look as if it's leaning.
• Film grain simulation
  Use sliders to easily control the amount, size, and roughness of grain that you can add to your images to simulate the look of film.
• Intelligent sharpening
  Make sharp, natural-looking images with intelligent sharpening, which enhances detail without introducing harmful artifacts. Tailor sharpening for print, web, and more.
• Red-eye removal
  Instantly fix red eye in flash photos.

Saving time and working efficiently
Get all your digital photography tools in one intuitive solution. Make one-click adjustments to multiple images, create and store timesaving presets, and more.

• One toolset for your photography tasks
  Get your digital photography essentials in one package that includes what you need to organize, perfect, and share all your images.
• 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.
• 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.
• Tight Photoshop integration
  Select one or multiple photos and automatically open them in Photoshop to perform detailed, pixel-level editing. See your results immediately back in Lightroom.
• One-click adjustments of 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.
• 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 Windows® operating systems.
• 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.
• Image versions
  Let Lightroom track the changes you make to an image, with as many remembered set points as you choose. Then switch between versions of the photo with a single click.
• Image watermarking
  Easily embed your name or business identity in your images and customize their look. Apply text or graphic watermarks to a photo with adjustable size, position, and opacity.
• Multiple monitor support
  Gain even more speed and efficiency by using a second monitor to enlarge your workspace.
• Manage and refine many images at once
  Automatically import, rename, group, and even process any number of images from cameras or camera memory cards as they're connected to your computer.
• Multiple viewing options
  See and evaluate your images quickly and clearly using the Grid, Compare, and Loupe views to browse large groups of images, see them side by side, and zoom in on details.
• Fast zooming
  Check for critical sharpness and see small details by zooming in and out of any area of a photo with simple keyboard commands or a click of the mouse.
• Image management features
  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.

Organizing and managing
Take control of your image library. Extensive image management tools let you easily view and organize all your photographs.

• Offline photo management
  Work with the photos in your Lightroom Library even when the actual image files are stored on drives or media that are not currently connected to your computer.
• DNG conversion
  Increase the compatibility and archival security of your proprietary raw format images by converting them to the universal DNG format, on import or in the Lightroom library.

Finding, searching, and sorting images
Find your images whenever you need them. Intuitive tools for file renaming, sorting, tagging, and searching let you quickly locate your best shots.

• Simple, customized keywording
  Track your photos with the keywords that make sense to you — just type and apply.
• Manual photo sorting
  Freely sort your photos by selecting any number of images in the Library — contiguous or not — and then dragging them to a new location in the grid. It's that simple.
• Single or group metadata stamping
  Add information to photos individually or to groups of selected images. Store metadata sets as presets and apply them to one photo or to hundreds with a single click.

Importing and exporting
Easily import images with a clear, intuitive interface. Save time with import and export presets.

• Import or export of keywords sets
  Create a system for categorizing your images with keywords and then easily transfer keyword sets between computers, so you can use the same keywords in every image library.
• Metadata stamp on import
  Efficiently combine image management tasks by applying custom metadata or metadata presets to images as you import them.
• Metadata stamp on output
  Add metadata stamps with your copyright, instructions for contacting you, or other information to every photo you print or send out.

Sharing and printing
Share your images easily on popular social network and photo sharing sites, and make an impact with creative print layouts.1 Use soft-proofing to preview how your images will look in print.

• Flexible print layouts
  Showcase your work in customizable print layouts, which you can save as templates. Just drag one or several images onto a page and resize or reposition them as you like.
• Easy-to-share slide shows with music
  Show your images to clients, friends, or family with more style and flair using elegant slide shows with music. Share them easily by exporting them as HD videos.
• One-click publishing to your website
  Export your HTML or Adobe Flash® Player compatible web galleries directly to the web in a single click — there's no need for a separate FTP application.

Minimum System Requirements

Windows
Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor (Dual-core processor recommended for HDV or AVCHD video functionality)
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

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Pricing (inclusive of VAT)

Part number	Description	Price in £ Sterling (Incl. VAT)	Qty
ADLR16757 *	Photoshop Lightroom 4 - Student & Teacher Box (Win/Mac) Product Note: (close) One product per student. You have to provide proof of educational status. See link for Eligibility.	£59.09