Lightroom, like Apple Aperture, is designed for photographers who don't need all the compositing and effects tools in Photoshop. It provides a more work flow-oriented approach to photographic production tasks -- specifically viewing, selecting, organising, retouching, and outputting photos.
The layout
The basic layout of Lightroom's interface is pretty typical of an organiser: thumbnails along the bottom, with keywording, metadata, and filtering tools around the sides of the screen, and larger previews in the middle. Unlike most organisers, though, Lightroom's Library module has some quick retouching tools, too.
Though we wouldn't call it skinnable, the interface is modestly customisable; you can even replace the product logo in the upper left-hand corner with an Identity Plate.
Credit: Lori Grunin
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