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.
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.
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.
Highlight and shadow recovery
Bring out all the detail that your camera captures in dark shadows and bright highlights. Now you have more power than ever before to create great images in challenging light.
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.
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 moir� removal.
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.
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.
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.
File renaming
Replace default camera file names with more logical names that make your images easier to find and sort. Rename photos individually, in batches, or automatically on import.
Import of other libraries
Bring the power and elegance of Lightroom to all your images, new and old. Easily import photos from other applications.
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 output
Add metadata stamps with your copyright, instructions for contacting you, or other information to every photo you print or send out.
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
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.
And so much more!