Hamburg contacted Andrei Herasimchuk, former interface designer for the Adobe Creative Suite, to start the project.

In, veteran Photoshop developer Mark Hamburg began a new project, code-named Shadowland a reference to the KD Lang music album of same name. There is currently a large market for Lightroom presets as a tool for both mobile and digital photographers looking for an easy way to apply a stylized look to their images. Lightroom CC stores all uploaded photos and raw files on a cloud server, while Lightroom Classic CC stores files locally and has a more comprehensive set of features. While similar in some ways, all three Lightroom variations have significant differences in how they store images and interact with Adobe’s cloud storage offering and in feature parity. Later in, Adobe released a brand new variant of Lightroom called Lightroom CC to be more cohesive with their mobile software. However, in, it was expanded to support mobile operating systems with the release of Lightroom Mobile.

Initially, Adobe Lightroom was only available on desktop operating systems. While Photoshop includes doctoring functions like adding, removing or altering the appearance of individual image items, rendering text or 3D objects on images, or modifying individual video frames, Lightroom is a library and development software. Lightroom is a non-destructive editing software that keeps the original image separate from any in-program edits, saving the edited image as a new file. The name of the software is based on darkrooms used for processing light-sensitive photographic materials. Its primary uses include importing, saving, viewing, organizing, tagging, editing, and sharing large numbers of digital images. Adobe Lightroom officially Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a creative image organization and image manipulation software developed by Adobe Inc.

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