Lightroom is Adobe's breakthrough photo management application. Currently in public beta, Lightroom is designed specifically for serious photographers who want to quickly organize, process, and output their images in a powerful, friendly environment. Lightroom's workflow modules—Library, Develop, Slideshow, and Print—move captured images from upload to print in just minutes. RAW shooters will appreciate Lightroom's ability to quickly process those files, making RAW photography as simple as shooting JPEGs.
Here at Inside Lightroom you'll learn how to quickly master this application with the help of downloadable tutorials, podcasts, and weblog posts. Soon you'll find that you're focusing more on taking pictures rather than endlessly wrangling with them on your computer.
Start today by downloading the free public beta of Lightroom (Mac only now, Windows soon to come), install it on your computer, then explore the wealth of knowledge available to you on this site. Lightroom will change digital photography. Be a part of it now.
The team of Adventure photographers arrive in Iceland on July 28. This is an Adventure both in the sense of location photography and RAW workflow. Each shooter will be using Adobe Lightroom on a laptop in the field to process…
Derrick Story
Lightroom can process files from hundreds of digital cameras. This is a real plus for photographers who enjoy using older models as well as the latest and greatest. For example, I just posted an article on Raw Photography with…
Derrick Story
I just downloaded Adobe Lightroom Public Beta 3 and have been playing with some of its new features. This is a substantial upgrade from Beta 2, including a new module: Web. That's where I started experimenting. The Web templates…
Derrick Story
I just stumbled on two very nice Lightroom tutorials by George Mann that you may want read. The first one, Basic Color White Balance Corrections, shows you examples of "cloudy," "daylight," "shade," etc. applied to an image. Great way…
Derrick Story
By default, Lightroom frames your viewing area with two side panels, a top module picker, and a filmstrip on the bottom. This is a good starting place to work because you have all of your tools readily accessible. But…
Derrick Story
By now, you've probably heard that Adobe's new Lightroom application simplifies your photography workflow, especially if you shoot Raw. In this seven-minute podcast, O'Reilly editor and photographer Derrick Story interviews Julieanne, and they discuss how Lightroom could change photography as we know it.
Lightroom is Adobe's new photo workflow application. It provides an upload-to-output solution in one attractive interface that's filled with features designed specifically for serious photographers. O'Reilly author Ken Milburn introduces you to this breakthrough application and provides a 22-page "Getting Started" PDF that you can download today.