Adobe Debuts Photoshop Lightroom 1.0

PRESS RELEASE

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Jan. 29, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that Adobe Photoshop® Lightroomâ„¢ 1.0 soft­ware is now avail­able for pre-order and is expect­ed to ship in mid-February 2007. Photoshop Lightroom enables pro­fes­sion­al pho­tog­ra­phers to import, man­age and present large vol­umes of dig­i­tal pho­tographs, help­ing pho­tog­ra­phers spend more time behind the lens and less time at the com­put­er. With more than 500,000 pho­tog­ra­phers par­tic­i­pat­ing in the pub­lic beta pro­gram over the last 12 months, Photoshop Lightroom now includes a wealth of inno­v­a­tive fea­tures that stream­line dig­i­tal pho­tog­ra­phy work­flows. Recognizing the pho­tog­ra­phy com­mu­ni­ty for their efforts, Adobe is offer­ing Photoshop Lightroom at a spe­cial intro­duc­to­ry price of US $199 through April 30, 2007 at the Adobe Store. Photoshop Lightroom will lat­er sell for an esti­mat­ed street price of US $299.

“It’s an unlike­ly sce­nario that pro­fes­sion­al pho­tog­ra­phers would moon­light as soft­ware developers,” said John Loiacono, senior vice pres­i­dent, Creative Solutions Business Unit at Adobe. “Fortunately for us, they were will­ing to give it a shot. Everything, from image view­ing and eval­u­a­tion tools to time­sav­ing edit­ing fea­tures, was devel­oped with the help of pho­tog­ra­phers. This was tru­ly a col­lab­o­ra­tive effort and we extend our thanks to every­one who pro­vid­ed invalu­able feed­back to help us deliv­er a pow­er­house pro­fes­sion­al pho­tog­ra­phy tool.”

Lightroom Feature Advancements
Photoshop Lightroom includes new func­tion­al­i­ty added since beta 4.1, with sig­nif­i­cant changes to the Library and Develop mod­ules com­ple­ment­ing improve­ments to the Slideshow, Print and Web com­po­nents. While in the Library mod­ule, new advanced key­word­ing tools help pho­tog­ra­phers fil­ter through large col­lec­tions, and an improved import dia­logue with more flex­i­ble file han­dling allows more choice when deter­min­ing file loca­tion. The new Key Metadata Browser pro­vides quick access to key infor­ma­tion tags with an improved rank­ing and rat­ing sys­tem that now incor­po­rates col­or labels and a pick/reject sys­tem that sorts and locates pho­tographs faster than ever. New to the Develop mod­ule, Virtual Copies and Snapshot tools help present mul­ti­ple ver­sions of the same image, pro­vid­ing the most choice to clients with­out the con­fu­sion of sav­ing sep­a­rate phys­i­cal versions.

Additional tools added include a Hue, Saturation and Luminance tar­get­ed adjust­ment tool for pre­cise and intu­itive image edits. Clone and Healing fea­tures pro­vide non-destructive edits to elim­i­nate sen­sor dust across one or many images.

High-Quality Raw Processing
Photoshop Lightroom lever­ages Adobe Camera Raw tech­nol­o­gy and sup­ports over 150 native raw file for­mats, in addi­tion to JPEG and TIFF, bring­ing raw con­ver­sion into a sin­gle work­flow expe­ri­ence. The lat­est cam­era mod­els sup­port­ed include the Nikon D40 and D80 and the Pentax K10D. This sup­port means that pho­tog­ra­phers can use Lightroom with even the newest cam­eras on the mar­ket, know­ing that the image files will be rec­og­nized today and in the future. Upon import, files can be con­vert­ed to the Digital Negative spec­i­fi­ca­tion (DNG) or renamed and seg­ment­ed by fold­er or date. DNG is an industry-wide ini­tia­tive to cre­ate a uni­ver­sal file for­mat for solv­ing work­flow and archiv­ing issues. It aims to elim­i­nate bar­ri­ers to new cam­era adop­tion while giv­ing pro­fes­sion­al pho­tog­ra­phers the con­fi­dence that their dig­i­tal body of work is secure­ly archived and will remain acces­si­ble as dig­i­tal imag­ing tech­nol­o­gy evolves.

“Photoshop Lightroom gives me the capa­bil­i­ties to get every­thing out of a raw file. Now I can eas­i­ly dupli­cate enhance­ments and apply them across a range of sim­i­lar images almost instantly,” said Denis Reggie, a nation­al­ly renowned celebri­ty and soci­ety wed­ding pho­tog­ra­ph­er. “Lightroom is bril­liant­ly con­ceived and mas­ter­ful­ly exe­cut­ed. I can see my dig­i­tal work­flow mov­ing ful­ly to Lightroom now that it is final.”

Pricing and Availability
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom will ship in mid-February 2007 and is avail­able for pre-order in the United States and Canada through the Adobe Store at www​.adobe​.com/store for a spe­cial intro­duc­to­ry price of US $199. The $100 dis­count is offered to all cus­tomers through April 30, 2007 in appre­ci­a­tion of loy­al Photoshop users, ear­ly sup­port­ers of Photoshop Lightroom and beta par­tic­i­pants who devot­ed time, ener­gy and feed­back through­out the process. Photoshop Lightroom will lat­er sell for an esti­mat­ed street price of US $299. Recommended sys­tem require­ments are Macintosh OSX 10.4.3, 1 GHz PowerPC G4 proces­sor or Microsoft® Windows® XP SP2, Intel® Pentium 4® Processor, and 768 MB RAM and a 1024x768 res­o­lu­tion screen. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a Universal Binary appli­ca­tion that will run native­ly on PowerPC and new Intel-based Macintosh systems.

The announce­ment of Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 sig­ni­fies the offi­cial con­clu­sion of the ground­break­ing Lightroom beta pro­gram. Users of Lightroom beta will have access to the pro­gram until its expi­ra­tion on February 28, 2007.

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