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

Streamline people-focused culling with the Faces panel

  • Review Eye sharpness and Eyes open scores and details for each face in a photo, helping you quickly identify and select the best photos from a shoot.

Reduce blur with AI Sharpen

  • Improve sharpness, restore fine details, and enhance clarity in out-of-focus images with AI Sharpen.

Add motion to your photos with Generate Video

  • Turn your favorite moment into a short video with Generate Video using simple prompts that describe your creative intent.

Select subjects with more precision when masking

  • Separate subjects from busy backgrounds with enhanced subject detection and more accurate selections for faster, cleaner masks.

Organize photos with custom color labels

  • Modify your color labels and add new custom colors to match your workflow, making it easier to organize projects and track edits at a glance.

Control tonal adjustments through Histogram

  • Adjust Exposure, Whites, Blacks, Highlights, and Shadows directly in the Histogram for faster, more intuitive image editing.

Edit photos from newly supported cameras

  • Find the newly added cameras in the supported camera profile list.

Explore support for new lenses

  • Find the newly added lenses in the supported lens profile list.

Feature updates

  • Use the Faces panel in Assisted Culling Info to view every detected face in an image, along with its Eyes open and Eyes sharpness scores, to quickly identify the best shot.
  • Enhance image sharpness, restore lost detail, and improve clarity in blurred photos with AI Sharpen, powered by Topaz.
  • Turn your photos into short videos with custom or preset text prompts to quickly bring your creative ideas to life.
  • Distinguish your subject from busy backgrounds with improved subject detection and selection when masking.
  • Modify color labels and add up to five new custom labels to better align with your workflow, making it easier to organize projects, identify priorities, and track edits.
  • Control tonal adjustments of your image like Exposure, Highlights, Shadows, Whites, and Blacks through Histogram for faster, more intuitive editing.
  • Enhance images shot with newly added DJI and Canon camera models and Canon and Sony lenses in Lightroom desktop.
  • Explore critical bug fixes.