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Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop Lightroom 2

See how professional photographers use Lightroom 2 and Photoshop CS4 together to create amazing art: Experience it

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Adobe Photoshop CS4

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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2


The professional photography solution

Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom® 2 software work together so you can efficiently manage thousands of images — or perfect just one. Photoshop CS4, the industry standard in digital imaging, now provides improved access to its unrivaled editing power through a more intuitive user experience, greater editing freedom, and significant productivity enhancements. Lightroom 2 streamlines your photography workflow, so you can easily import, manage, and showcase large volumes of photographs.

Using Lightroom 2 for developing images, together with Adobe Photoshop CS4 for retouching, digital photographers now have the complete and essential photography software toolkit.

Import and manage

Streamlined Photoshop CS4 integration

Enjoy tight integration with Adobe Photoshop software for streamlined use of Smart Objects, panorama stitching, high dynamic range (HDR) functionality, multiple layer workflow, and more. See your edits automatically updated in Lightroom.

Streamlined Photoshop CS4 integration
Streamlined Photoshop CS4 integration

Retrace your editing steps

Track the changes you make to a photo in the History panel, which automatically enters easy-to-understand text as you edit. Add set points in the panel at any time so you can instantly return to those versions of the photo.

Automatically apply metadata stamps

Easily apply your preferred metadata settings to photos as you import them.

Easily group photos

Store any number of related photos as a collection by simply giving the group a name or specifying criteria that will automatically include a new photo. Recall your collections with a single click and modify them at any time.

Easily group photos
Easily group photos

Automatically rename files

Quickly set up naming rules, and then apply them to individual photos or groups. Even apply naming rules automatically on import.

Choose the appropriate view

Quickly browse groups of photos in Grid view. Switch to Compare or Survey view to easily and intuitively narrow down a series of photos to just the one you need. Or use Loupe view to zoom in on the finest detail of any single photo.

Organize effortlessly

Find your photos quickly with powerful yet flexible sorting, selecting, and organizing tools. Automatically import, rename, and sort your entire shoot.

Organize effortlessly
Organize effortlessly

Use suggested keywords

Organize your photos the way that makes sense to you. Just type keywords and apply them to individual or multiple photos. Lightroom can automatically suggest keywords based on previous keyword associations.


Develop and perfect

When you're ready to refine and perfect your individual images, switch to Photoshop CS4 to take advantage of industry-leading editing and compositing capabilities.

Improved Adobe Photoshop Lightroom workflow

Select multiple photos in Lightroom and automatically open them in Photoshop CS4 to merge them into a panorama, a high dynamic range (HDR) photo, or a multilayered Photoshop document. And seamlessly roundtrip back to Lightroom.

Adjustments panel

Simplify image adjustment by easily accessing every tool you need to nondestructively adjust and enhance the color and tone of your images; on-image controls and a wide variety of presets are also included in the new live and dynamic Adjustments panel.

Adjustments panel screenshot
Adjustments panel

Masks panel

Quickly create and edit masks from the new Masks panel. This panel offers all the tools you need to create editable pixel- and vector-based masks, adjust mask density and feathering, easily select noncontiguous objects, and more.

Masks panel screenshot
Masks panel

Better raw image processing

Enjoy superior conversion quality as you process raw images with the industry-leading Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 5 plug-in, which now offers localized corrections, post-crop vignetting, TIFF and JPEG processing, and support for more than 190 camera models.

Quick Selection and Refine Edge tools

Make selections in a snap. Loosely draw on an image area, and the Quick Selection tool automatically completes the selection. Fine-tune your selections with the Refine Edge tool.

Content-Aware Scaling

Use the new and revolutionary Content-Aware Scaling feature to automatically recompose an image as you resize it, smartly preserving vital areas as the image adapts to the new dimensions. Get the perfect image in one step without time-intensive cropping and retouching.

Content-Aware Scaling screenshot
Content-Aware Scaling

Smoother panning and zooming and fluid canvas rotation

Navigate to any area of an image with new, ultra-smooth zooming and panning. Maintain clarity as you zoom to individual pixels and easily edit at the highest magnification with the new Pixel Grid. And use the revolutionary new Rotate View tool to smoothly turn your canvas for distortion-free viewing at any angle.

Auto-blending of images

Easily create a single image from a series of shots that have different focal points with the enhanced Auto-Blend Layers command, which smoothly blends color and shading and now extends your depth of field, automatically correcting vignettes and lens distortion.

Extended depth of field

Combine a range of images, each with a different exposure, color, and focal point — with options to preserve tones and colors — into a single color-corrected image.

32-bit high dynamic range (HDR) support

Combine multiple exposures into a single, 32-bit image that preserves the full range of a scene – from the deepest shadows to the brightest highlights. Image processing and alignment algorithms deliver superior results.

Industry-leading color correction

Enjoy dramatically enhanced color correction with reengineered Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools that now intelligently preserve color and tone details.

Black-and-white conversion

Instantly convert color images to black-and-white with easy-to-use presets, and then make on-image adjustments of tonal values and tints to immediately see the results. Even create and save your own custom presets.


Present

After perfecting your images, use Lightroom to arrange them in any order you choose. Present images to your clients and get approval in print, on the web, or in a slide show.

Print more efficiently

Quickly arrange a photo for printing multiple sizes on one or many pages with flexible and customizable templates to make the most of paper and ink every time you print.

Print more efficiently
Print more efficiently

Publish to your website in one click

Export your HTML or Adobe Flash® Player compatible web galleries directly to the web with a single click. Just save your web server information as an FTP preset and there's no need for a separate application.

Create web galleries

Easily present your photos in an HTML or Flash Player compatible web gallery, which you can preview before publishing. Save time by uploading your gallery directly from Lightroom.

Mark your photos

Add customized information including your logo to every photo you output.

Compose sophisticated slide shows

Easily play elegant slide shows of your photos on your monitor, including background music from your iTunes library or other digital music collection.

Share more easily

Take advantage of the wide range of plug-ins created by third-party developers to help you quickly and easily transfer images to your favorite sharing sites and photo labs.

Share more easily
Share more easily


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