*Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4* is the official public release of the next
generation of Adobe's famous Lightroom photo processing suite. *What is
Lightroom?* If you're not familiar with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, it's a
photo processing app that's designed to be used by professional photographers
for the post-production of batches of photos, and it's often used in
conjunction with Adobe's seminal app, Photoshop. *The new interface* This
latest version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom looks great. It's divided into
seven sections - *Library, Develop, Map, Book, Slideshow, Print* and *Web*-
which let you easily flit between different stages of management, processing
and presentation. There's also some awesomely configurable options, running
from how the app looks to how it acts, before and after processing. There's
only one thing - the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom interface is vast, and to get
the most from it, you'll need a large screen. *Photo management* The upside
to using a dedicated photo processing app is the ease with which Adobe
Photoshop Lightroom allows you to see, categorize and manage your photos.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is no exception, with a great import features and
options, and, new to this version, location-based organization. You'll find
the tools to manage this function under *Map*. *Photo processing* In version
4 of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Adobe's self-stated aim has been to /"extract
more detail from highlights and shadows, make a wider range of targeted
adjustments, and easily share your images and video clips on social media and
photo sharing sites"/. It certainly provides some interesting options to do
this, including highlight and shadow recovery, white balance features and
local noise/moire tools. This is in addition to all the usual editing tools,
which are present and easy to apply. *Presentation options* Adobe Photoshop
Lightroom really excels when it comes to presenting your photos and passing
them on. You can email directly from this new version, as well as sharing
with a variety of social networks and photo sharing sites. The *Book* feature
is also new, allowing you to create a variety of beautiful photo books from
templates. This complements Adobe Photoshop Lightroom's *Slideshow* option,
giving you even more scope for creating en eye-catching and imaginative end
product. *Video management* In this version, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom really
ramps up *video support*, further increasing its versatility. This means that
you can make even more complex edits to video clips, as well as easier video
publishing. *Conclusion* Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 is an exceedingly
promising piece of software. It can look complicated - and even overcrowded -
on first glance, but once you become more familiar with app, you'll see
everything adds up to offering you one of the most comprehensive photo
processing apps around.Download *Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.1* in Softonic
