Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 2: Streamlining Your Digital Photography Process

How to use this book

This book was written for digital photographers capturing and processing lots of images. Lightroom represents a major change in how we work with our photographs. The main purpose of this book is to give you the Lightroom skills to process your images more quickly and with greater confidence while achieving the highest quality results possible. Your expertise will lead to expanded creative freedom and the joy of seeing your inner visions become real.

This book is not meant to be read as much as it is meant to be used. Though the workflow is presented in sequence, it's also helpful to jump from one topic to another as needs dictate. You can use the material to learn Lightroom from the ground up or to refer back to something later. If you're new to digital photography, or have never used Lightroom, you can benefit from working through this book in a linear fashion. When you have a basic familiarity with the software and workflow, you can refresh your knowledge by going straight to the section or page containing the shortcuts, tips and techniques appropriate for the task at hand. Before long, you'll know Lightroom inside and out—and that's when the real fun begins.

The content of this book assumes you have basic- to intermediate-level computer skills, are comfortable managing files on your hard disk drives and removable media and understand common computer operations such as copy/paste and manipulating dialog boxes. I also assume you have a fundamental working knowledge ...