Adobe Lightroom Classic
Desktop optimized photo editing.
Lightroom Classic gives you all the desktop editing tools you need to get the most out of your photos. Intensify colors, make dull-looking snapshots brighter, remove distracting objects, and straighten crooked snapshots. Easily organize all your photos on your desktop and share them in many ways. Lightroom Classic is only available in Creative Cloud.
Creative Cloud is a platform for creativity that connects users, content, applications, services, hardware, learning content, and the community. It gives business customers the creative tools and services they need to collaborate and create their best work, while making managing software fast, easy and flexible.
Principal functions
- Superior performance: With performance improvements, Lightroom Classic lets you import photos, generate previews, and go from Library to Develop in record time.
- Non-destructive environment: Unleash your creativity in a non-destructive editing environment that lets you experiment without limits. The original images are not modified in any way and it is easy to undo steps or save multiple versions of any photo.
- Effortless Panoramas: Create HDR panoramas faster now that you can combine multiple bracketed exposures into multiple HDR photos and merge them to create a panorama - all in one step. Then fill in the uneven edges of your panorama automatically with the Fill Edges option.
- Preset development settings: Save time by instantly applying favorite looks to images. Just save your development settings as presets and apply them to your other photos with one click whenever you want. Lightroom includes dozens of built-in presets, and if you need more, there are other third-party software that offer thousands of more options.
- Facial recognition: Find pictures of family and friends quickly even without metadata tags. Select a face in a photo and Lightroom will find that person in the rest of the images. Categorize and group your photos based on who appears in them.
- One-step panorama photo merge: Create HDR panoramas faster now that you can combine multiple bracketed exposures into multiple HDR photos and merge them to create a panorama - all in one step.
- Simple HDR images: Create natural-looking or surreal images from high-contrast scenes. With HDR Combination, you can easily combine multiple photos taken with different exposure values into a single high dynamic range image.
- Advanced video slideshows: Create beautiful, high-quality slideshows with still images, videos, and music, along with professional effects like panning and zooming.
System Requirements
Windows
- Intel or AMD processor with 64-bit support. 2 GHz or faster processor
- Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit) version 1903 or later
- 8GB RAM (16GB recommended)
- 1024 × 768 screen resolution (1920 × 1080 or higher resolution recommended)
- 2 GB of available free hard disk space. Additional space is required for installation.
- DirectX 12 compatible GPU; 2GB of VRAM (4GB of VRAM for 4K displays or higher)
- Internet connection and registration are required for software activation, subscription validation and access to the necessary online services *
macOS
- Multi-core Intel processor with 64-bit support
- macOS 10.14 or later
- 8GB RAM (16GB recommended)
- 1024 × 768 screen resolution (1920 × 1080 or higher resolution recommended)
- 2 GB of available hard disk space. Additional space is required for installation (cannot be installed on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system, or on removable flash storage devices).
- Metal compatible GPU; 2GB of VRAM (4GB of VRAM for 4K displays or higher)
- Internet connection and registration are required for software activation, subscription validation and access to the necessary online services *
Frequent questions
What is Lightroom Classic and who is it for?
Whether you're a beginner, professional, or intermediate, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic includes all the essential tools to achieve exceptional photos on your desktop. Lightroom Classic gives you access to powerful one-click tools and advanced controls to make your photos impressive. Easily organize all your photos on your desktop and share them in many ways.
How is Lightroom Classic different from Photoshop?
Lightroom Classic includes all the tools you need for most digital photography tasks in a single, intuitive solution. It's the app you should trust to organize, enhance, and share your images every day. It helps photographers streamline and streamline their work, whether it's with a single image, a set of images, or a large image library.
Photoshop is the industry standard in digital image retouching and includes advanced tools used by photographers, graphic designers, and other graphic design professionals when they need full control to edit in pixel-level detail and work with multi-layered files.
Does Lightroom Classic work on my mobile device?
Yes. In addition to Lightroom Classic for Mac and PC, you can also purchase Lightroom for your mobile devices, including iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. You can edit and organize photos on your desktop or mobile devices at any time. Any adjustments you make will be continuously updated on all devices.
What file formats does Lightroom Classic support?
Lightroom Classic supports most native Camera Raw file formats, as well as PNG, DNG, TIFF, and JPEG. In other words, it supports all major file formats used in digital cameras. Additionally, Lightroom Classic supports the PSD file format, which offers better integration with Adobe Photoshop.
How does Lightroom Classic handle my photos when I make edits?
Lightroom Classic offers a non-destructive editing environment, which means that you can always keep your original photos. Instead, changes to photos are stored in metadata as a series of instructions. Whether you're viewing them on screen, creating a web gallery, or making print copies, Lightroom Classic simply applies those instructions to the original, unedited photo file. This gives you total flexibility and control because any change you make to an image is 100% reversible at any time.