Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 (LR2) is an advanced image manipulation and image organization tool where you can group your photos in easy-to-find catalogs, quickly import from digital camera or scanner and edit them in a breeze.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 is designed to use by professionals and amateur photography enthusiasts that need to pimp up their pictures. This tool accompanied by the regular Adobe Photoshop for editing and retouching make a powerful suite for cataloging and manipulating of pictures.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 supports batch importing, applying filters and meta data to images vastly automatizing the process of transferring files from your image capturing devices. For those who work on large volumes of photos this function will drastically reduce the time spent on routine tasks.
The interface is clean, intuitive and elegant giving you the overview over the most used functions as well as showing grouped photos so that you can start work quickly.
When you're done with your work, you can export images to slideshows, image galleries, print high quality documents or export them to a Web format for online publication. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 also supports export to community and photo-sharing sites.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 is somehow similar to standard version of Photoshop but with lots of enhancements for importing large number of raw digital files from your camera in a batch. If moving digital images from your is looks like a consuming process for you, you might be better off using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom instead of regular Photoshop. Lightroom handles importing, adjusting and saving originals automatically for you so that you can spend more time editing your pictures.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 supports uncompressed media in RAW format (often used by professional photographers and as scanner output) as well as the most popular compression standards such as GIF, TIFF, JPEG and many other image formats.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 runs on both Mac OS and Microsoft Windows.
Like Apple's Aperture, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 now supports two and more monitors to give you extra working space whilst editing your pictures.