New Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 2 helps you sort and find the photos you want faster, target specific photo areas for more precise adjustments, and showcase your talent using more flexible printing templates. A host of other new features and enhancements make Lightroom 2 an essential upgrade for professional photographers.
Upgrade eligibility
Lightroom 1.x customers: Upgrade to Lightroom 2 for $US99. To be eligible for the special upgrade price and to install the upgrade software successfully, you must own a previous licensed version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
Lightroom version comparison chart
| Features | Lightroom 1 | Lightroom 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Key: Included in Lightroom 1 and 2 Enhanced in Lightroom 2 New in Lightroom 2 | ||
Organize effortlessly |
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| Automatically organize photos using Smart Collections New | No | Enhanced |
| Work with high-quality previews of offline images from multiple libraries and drives New | No | Enhanced |
| Automatically import and process high-volume shoots Enhanced | Open | |
| Use custom keywords to organize photos Enhanced | Open | |
| Automatically rename files on import and convert to universal Digital Negative (DNG) format Enhanced | Open | |
| Manage photos and volumes even when they're offline Enhanced | Open | |
| Quickly find any photo with powerful sorting and filtering Enhanced | Open | |
| Apply custom presets to images on import/export | Open | Open |
| Access and edit a comprehensive set of metadata fields | Open | Open |
| Browse groups, compare photos, and zoom in on details | Open | Open |
| Create virtual copies of photos to save hard-disk space | Open | Open |
Correct, enhance, edit |
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| Target specific areas of a photo for dodging and burning New | No | Enhanced |
| Expand your workspace across multiple monitors New | No | Enhanced |
| Enjoy state-of-the-art 64-bit memory handling New | No | Enhanced |
| Tightly integrate with Adobe Photoshop CS4 Enhanced | Open | |
| Easily compare before and after versions of photos | Open | Open |
| Precisely convert color to black and white | Open | Open |
| Eliminate dust, specks, and red eye | Open | Open |
| Retrace your editing steps to return to any version of a photo | Open | Open |
Showcase your talent |
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| Easily transfer images to popular photo-sharing sites New | No | Enhanced |
| Access a rich community of export plug-ins and web gallery styles at the Lightroom Exchange New | No | Enhanced |
| Print more efficiently with flexible and customizable templates Enhanced | Open | |
| Create web galleries with no coding required Enhanced | Open | |
| Sharpen photos when you output to print or the web Enhanced | Open | |
| Stamp your photos with metadata on output | Open | Open |
| Compose sophisticated slide shows with music | Open | Open |
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