Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Resources

Photoshop Lightroom provides one easy application for managing, adjusting, and presenting large volumes of digital photographs so you can spend less time in front of the computer and more time behind the lens.

I purchased Lightroom and it has speeded up my workflow when shooting hundreds of images at a time and I get
better results too. Lightroom 2.0 update has many new tools and refinements that make it an excellent choice as a raw converter and cataloging application.

  • Import images into the Library and add keywords that make sense to you as you are importing the images
  • Search your Library by keywords to quickly locate images
  • Create Collections in the Library to organize your images
  • Quickly go through your images and flag them for deletion or flag them as picks. Then you can delete the rejects.
  • Develop your images quickly with easy-to-use controls
  • Check sharpness, noise, or small details with nearly instant 100% zooming
  • Convert color images to black-and-white with precision
  • Brush on exposure, tints, gradients and other effects precisely
  • Fast, high-quality printing
  • Easily create HTML or Flash Web galleries with live preview in the program
  • Use the simple controls in Lightroom to create and play elegant slide shows, and include background music
  • Lightroom is the perfect complement to Adobe Photoshop. Use Lightroom to import, manage, adjust, and present large volumes of digital photographs, and use Photoshop to more thoroughly refine individual images.

I have assembled a collection of Lightroom learning resources including video and other tutorials, tips, support information and news. I also listed a couple of excellent books for learning Lightroom. The top section is specifically for Lightroom 2.

Lightroom 2 overview of new features by Computer Darkroom Editing Images in CS4 and Lr
Save time in Lr 2 and Photoshop CS4 Making Corrections in the Develop Module
Post-crop vignettes by Martin Evening What's New in Lr 2? videos
Auto Masking by Martin Evening Applying Color Correctons in Lr 2
Folders and Hard Drives New Adjustment Brush How-to
Super Vignette Adjustment Brush video tutorial
Lightroom Support Center with videos Lr2 Tips
List of free Lr Presets Quite a collection Lr Brush presets Free!
Official Adobe Lightroom site Lightroom Killer Tips
Lightroom News latest news Lightroom Journal News, add-ons
Lightroom Learning Center Information and video tutorials Free Lr Web Gallery add-ons
Inside Lightroom tutorials and resources; free Lr presets (nice!) Lr 1.1 Keyboard shortcuts Computer Darkroom
Lightroom training at Lynda.com Some videos are free Lightroom Tips and Tricks
Free Lightroom Presets from OnOne Software and Jack Davis Lightroom Support Center at Adobe
Luminous Landscape Lr tutorial DVD 4.5 hrs. for $14.95 Lightroom User Forum Lots of Q & A
Lightroom keyboard shortcuts pdf Lightroom Blog
Five Ways to Speed up Lightroom Lightroom and Photoshop Color Management

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

Lightroom is an excellent tool for converting raw images and for organizing and sorting your images into Catalogs and collections with the ability to add keywords and search easily by keyword or date. You can also use it edit tiff and jpeg images, create slide shows and web galleries.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book for Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby

The most complete and concise Lightroom "how-to" book for digital photographers of all skill levels.

In The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book for Digital Photographers, Scott walks readers through the basics of Lightroom use, leading them to a brilliantly devised and super efficient digital photography workflow that dramatically improves productivity and allows photographers to spend less time processing photos and more time shooting them.

If you're one of those people who learns best by actually doing the projects yourself without all the complicated technical explanations and confusing jargon, and if you really want to start using Lightroom today to unlock the productivity secrets of "The new digital photography workflow,"---there is no faster, more "straight-to-the-point" or more fun way to learn than this groundbreaking new book, and you are absolutely going to love it!

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers by Martin Evening

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book contains 624 pages of comprehensive and detailed coverage of all aspects of Lightroom. In this book you’ll learn how to:

• Work efficiently with images shot in the raw or JPEG format
• Import photographs with ease and sort them according to your workflow
• Create and manage a personal image library
• Apply tonal adjustments to multiple images quickly
• Integrate Photoshop Lightroom with Adobe Photoshop
• Export images for print or Web as digital contact sheets or personal
portfolios

This book is very comprehensive and some may prefer it or the "quicker, shorter book" by Scott Kelby, listed above.

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