What is Adobe Photoshop Lightroom?

Lightroom is a high-quality image processor and image database management system rolled into one. The guiding light behind Lightroom’s development was Mark Hamburg, who was formerly the chief scientist working on Adobe Photoshop. For a good many years Mark and the rest of the Lightroom team at Adobe looked closely at how photographers worked digitally and the problems they faced when processing and managing large numbers of digital images. Lightroom is the result of that research. It is not a single, monolithic application; instead it should be viewed as a suite of application modules which, when combined together, provide an ideal workflow for digital photographers.

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