History of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

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In 2002, veteran Photoshop developer Mark Hamburg began a new task, code-named “Shadowland". Hamburg reached out to Andrei Herasimchuk, former interface designer for the Adobe Creative Suite, to get the project off the ground. The new development was a purposeful departure from many of Adobe’s established conventions. 40% of Photoshop Lightroom is written using the Lua scripting language. After a few years of research by Hamburg, Herasimchuk, Sandy Alves, the former interface designer on the Photoshop squad, and Grace Kim, a product researcher at Adobe, the Shadowland plan got momentum just about 2004. Herasimchuk chose to leave Adobe Systems at that time to start a design company in the Valley, and then Hamburg selected Phil Clevenger, a previous associate of Kai Krause’s, to create a innovative appear for the application.

Photoshop Lightroom’s (LR) engineering talent is based mostly in Minnesota, comprising the team that had already created Adobe’s ImageReady application. Troy Gaul, Melissa Gaul, and the rest of their crew (reportedly known as the “Minnesota Phats”), along with Hamburg, developed the architecture behind the application. George Jardine, a expert photographer and earlier Adobe evangelist, rounded out the early team, filling the Product Manager function.

Beta development
On January 9, 2006, an early version of Photoshop Lightroom, formerly just known as Lightroom, was released to the community as a Macintosh-only free Beta, on the Adobe Labs web site. This was the first Adobe product released to the general community for advice during its development. This technique was then soon used in the development of Adobe Photoshop CS3. Further Beta releases followed. Notable releases included Beta 3 on July 18, 2006, which added support for Microsoft Windows systems. On September 25, 2006, Beta 4 was published, which saw the program merged into the Photoshop product range, followed by a minor update on October 19, which was released as Beta 4.1.

Version 1.0
On January 29, 2007, Adobe announced that Lightroom would be shipping on February 19, 2007. US list pricing was put at $299. The UK retail price was ?199.
Lightroom v1.x is not updated when an upgrade to v2 is installed; old serial number is not supported, too.
Version 2.0
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0 Beta was marketed in official emails from Adobe in April 2008. New features include:
· Localized corrections (edit exact parts of an image)
· Improved organization tools
· Numerous monitor support
· Variable printing possibilities
· 64-bit support
The official release of Lightroom v2 was on July 29, 2008, down with the release of Adobe Camera Raw v4.5 and DNG Converter 4.5. Adobe has added DNG Camera Profiling to both releases. This technology lets custom camera colour profiles, or looks, to be produced by the consumer and saved. It also enables profiles matching the innovative styles in-built to cameras to be replicated. Adobe released a whole collection of such Camera Profiles for Nikon and Canon models, in addition to basic Standard Profiles for all supported makes and models, through Adobe Labs, at the same time as the Lightroom v2 release. This technology is open to all software programs compliant with the DNG file format standard.
Version 3.0
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.0 beta was released on October 22, 2009. New features include:
· Innovative chroma noise reduction
· Enhanced sharpening tool
· New import pseudo module
· Watermarking
· Grain
· Publish services
· Custom package for print
On March 23, 2010, Adobe published a second beta, which added the following features:
· New luminance noise reduction
· Tethered taking pictures for selected Nikon and Canon cameras
· Simple video file support
· Point curve
Features
Contrasting traditional image editing software, Photoshop Lightroom is focused on the following workflow steps:
· Library - image collection review and organization - similar in concept to the 'Organizer' in Adobe Photoshop Elements
· Develop - non-destructive RAW and JPEG file editing
· Slideshow - tools and export features
· Print - layout options and preferences
· Web - automatic gallery creation and upload
The Develop mode has a number of standard presets for colour improvement or effects and supports the sharing of custom presets online.
Latest version is Adobe Photoshop Lightroom v2.7.666138

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