The Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 4 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers

Working through the book

I’ll be explaining each aspect of the program in greater depth throughout the book, where you will notice that I have structured the book to match a typical workflow, starting with the various ways you can import your photos into Lightroom. At the beginning of this chapter I described how the philosophy behind Lightroom was to offer “unreasonable simplicity.” If Adobe has been successful in this mission, you should find that much of the Lightroom program is fairly self-explanatory. For example, if you go to the Help menu, you will see a Shortcuts item for whichever module you happen to be using (Figure 1.21 shows the shortcuts for the Library module). In keeping with the spirit of Lightroom, I have tried as much as possible ...