Adobe Lightroom 4.4

Helps you bring out the best in your photographs.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software helps you bring out the best in your photographs, whether you're perfecting one image, searching for ten, processing hundreds, or organizing thousands.

Recover more detail from highlights and shadows and make targeted adjustments of white balance and noise reduction with Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 4 software. Craft elegant photo books. Easily share your images on social media and sharing sites and take advantage of expanded video support.

Highlight and shadow recovery

Bring out all the important detail that your camera can capture. New technology brings in more image detail from dark shadows and bright highlights than ever before. Now you've got more power to create great images in challenging lighting conditions.

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. Receive 20% off from Blurb on your first book created using Lightroom 4 software.*

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.

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 moiré removal.

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.

Video publishing

Easily share video clips in HD format on Facebook and Flickr. Or save HD clips formatted for phones, tablets, TV, and more.1

Soft-proofing

Save time and ink and ensure your prints meet your expectations. Soft-proofing lets you preview how an image will look when printed with color-managed printers.

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.

Emailing within Lightroom

Email images directly from Lightroom using the email account of your choice.

Import of other libraries

Bring the power and elegance of Lightroom to all your images, new and old. Easily import photos from other applications.

What's New:

Lightroom 4.4 is now available as a final release on Adobe.com and through the update mechanism in Lightroom 4. The goal of this release is to provide additional camera raw support, lens profile support and address bugs that were introduced in previous releases of Lightroom.

Changes to Existing Camera Support:

Lightroom 4.4 includes a correction to the demosaic algorithms for Fujifilm cameras with the X-Trans sensor. This specifically impacts the following cameras:

• Fujifilm X-Pro1 (*)
• Fujifilm X-E1 (*)
• Fujifilm X100S
• Fujifilm X20

(*) Based on user feedback, the default sharpening amount applied to Fujifilm X-Pro1 and Fujifilm X-E1 raw files has been increased between Lightroom 4.4 Release Candidate and the final Lightroom 4.4 release.

Lightroom 4.4 includes a correction to the demosaic algorithms for Fujifilm cameras with the EXR sensor. This correction applies only to raw images captured using the “EXR HR” mode with the following cameras:

• Fujifilm X10
• Fujifilm XF1
• Fujifilm X-S1
• Fujifilm S200EXR
• Fujifilm HS20EXR
• Fujifilm HS30EXR
• Fujifilm F550EXR
• Fujifilm F600EXR
• Fujifilm F770EXR
• Fujifilm F800EXR

Adjusted Nikon default white balance for the following camera models:

• NikonD2X
• NikonD2Xs
• NikonD2Hs
• NikonD200
• NikonD40
• NikonD50
• NikonD80

Fix default aspect ratio support for Fujifilm X-E1 raw files.

Bugs Corrected in Lightroom 4.4:

The following bugs that were part the Lightroom 4 releases have been corrected. The team appreciates the very detailed feedback the community has provided on Lightroom 4 and we’re excited to correct a number of issues experienced by our customers. These issues have been FIXED:

• The crop overlay tool resized incorrectly when used in conjunction with the “Constrain to Crop” checkbox in the Lens Correction panel.
• Background graphics were not correctly rendered within the Book Module.
• Reading metadata from file would sometimes result in keyword and and GPS metadata to not save for video files.
• Updated the “Missing File Icon” for HiDPI / Retina displays
• The supplied lens profile for the Sony RX-1 did not contain vignette information.
• Preview in Develop Module was not updated with the latest adjustments.
• Square tile artifacts while painting with brush.
• Previews of photos in portrait orientation were blurry when viewed in the filmstrip in the Develop module. (Mac only).
• Image in Book Disappears After Changing Modules.
• Error changing modules when in Slideshow with second monitor connected.
• Stack badges displayed the wrong count when creating new stack that included a preexisting stack.
• Local Adjustment Effect (Brushed Adjustment) Disappears (temporarily) After Selecting a Pin (Win only).
• Book changes are not saved after switching between modules.
• The Filter scrollbar within the Library module was not rendering properly.
• Auto-tone was not working properly when used in conjunction with the Exposure adjustment slider. (Win only)
• The Black&White button was not creating a History state within the Develop module. (Win only)
• When switching from image to image, remnants of previous image visible on fringes of new photo. This occurred on Retina screens only.
• RGB color readouts were specified in the Adobe RGB colorspace rather than the ProPhoto linear colorspace. This occurred when working in Soft Proofing within the Develop module.
• Horizontal artifacts would occassionally appear in DNG files.
• Adding a page behaved inconsistently in the Book module depending on the method used to add a page.
• The state of the “Remove Chromatic Aberrations” checkbox within the Lens Correction was not persistent between sessions of Lightroom.
• Cannot add contacts from Address Book to email on Mac.
• Sliders can no longer be moved on Win by using mouse wheel.

New Camera Support in Lightroom 4.4:

• Canon EOS 1D C
• Canon EOS 100D (Digital Rebel SL1 / EOS Kiss Digital X7)
• Canon EOS 700D (Digital Rebel T5i / EOS Kiss Digital X7i)
• Casio Exilim EX-ZR700
• Casio Exilim EX-ZR710
• Casio Exilim EX-ZR750
• Fujifilm FinePix F900EXR
• Fujifilm FinePix HS50EXR
• Fujifilm FinePix SL1000
• Fujifilm X100s
• Fujifilm X20
• Hasselblad H5D-40
• Hasselblad H5D-50
• Hasselblad Lunar
• LEICA M (Typ 240)
• Nikon 1 J3
• Nikon 1 S1
• Nikon D7100
• Nikon Coolpix A
• Nikon Coolpix P330 (**)
• Olympus XZ-10
• Pentax MX-1
• Samsung NX300
• Sony Alpha NEX-3N
• Sony Alpha SLT-A58