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Adobe Lightroom (officially Adobe Photoshop Lightroom) is a creative image organization and image manipulationsoftware developed by Adobe Systems, as part of the Creative Cloud subscription family. It's optimized for Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and tvOS (Apple TV) and allows for importing/saving, viewing, organizing, tagging, editing, and sharing large numbers of digital images. Lightroom's editing functions include white balance, tone, presence, tone curve, HSL, split toning, detail, lens corrections, and calibration manipulation, as well as transformation, spot removal, red eye correction, graduated filters, radial filters, and adjustment brushing.

Overview

Unlike Photoshop, Lightroom is a non-destructive editing software that keeps the original image separate from any in-program edits, saving the edited image as a new file. While Photoshop includes doctoring functions like adding, removing or altering the appearance of individual image items, rendering text or 3D objects on images, or modifying individual video frames, Lightroom is a library and development software. Lightroom can store and organize photos once imported into the platform database, and is currently compatible with TIFF, JPEG, PSD(Photoshop), PNG, CMYK (edited in RGB color space) and raw image formats.

Initially, Adobe Lightroom was only available on one platform, desktop. But as of 2017, it has evolving into a range of productions including Lightroom Classic CC, Lightroom CC (desktop), and Lightroom Mobile. While similar in some ways, all three Lightroom variations have significant differences in how they store images and interact with Adobe's cloud storage offering and in feature parity. Lightroom CC actively stores all uploaded photos and RAW files on a cloud server, while Lightroom Classic CC holds the software power designed for desktop systems. Both CC platforms and Lightroom Mobile also allow users to create, upload, and export Lightroom Presets, a batch copy of an image's in-program edits. There is currently a large market for Lightroom Presets as a tool for both mobile and digital photographer looking to build their brand, develop their skills, and improve their workflow process.

Lightroom Classic CC and Lightroom CC feature the following workflow steps:

Library

Similar in concept to the 'Organizer' in Adobe Photoshop Elements and other image organizers, this module imports and exports images, creates image collections, organizes images by their metadata, and allows for users to flag, rate, tag, and color code images. Library is the gateway into Lightroom. Library is home to Lightroom extensions, extras, and plug-ins like focus finder.

Develop

Supports non-destructive editing of images en masse. This module is more for retouching and manipulations, such as enhancing and improving digital photographs by changing color balance, improving tone, sharpening, reducing noise, cropping, straightening, and converting to black-and-white. Lightroom cannot create or edit non-photographic images, such as drawings, symbols, line arts or diagrams or maps, or render text or 3D objects. It has very limited photo doctoring features, including spot removal, brush adjustments, radial and graduated filters, and red eye removal. Another often used feature in the Develop module is the ability to synchronize edits from one selected photo to the whole selection.

Upon download, Lightroom provides users with several standard presets for color correction and effects, and supports sharing custom presets online. There is currently a large market for both desktop and mobile image manipulation packages. Photographers and creators with large followings on Instagram and Facebook sell Lightroom Presets to their audience, marketing to their ease and versatility after download. Presets are attached to .XMP and .LRTEMPLATE files that can be imported to Lightroom via the presets pane and include all adjustment settings from the originally doctored photo. Presets are around 4 Kilobytes in size and can range in price from free, to upwards of $200.

Map

Added in Lightroom 4, this module facilitates geographically organizing photos based on embedded or manually added geolocation data (since end of 2018 this is no longer supported for up to Lightroom CC 2015.x / Lightroom 6.x).

Book

Added in Lightroom 4, this module allows users to create and format photobooks. Books can be exported to the self publishing vendor Blurb or printed at any local press as a PDF.

Slideshow

This module creates slideshows from any number of photos, to which music or a background can be added.

Print

Allows users to print images and adjusts printing parameters such as layout and orientation.

Web

Allows website owners or editors to create simple or sophisticated HTML5 web galleries from their uploaded images. This module has several templates available to users that create layout suggestions. The design and HTML can be exported locally to the device or directly to a site's server.