Chapter 1: GETTING STARTED: Foundations for Success
Welcome to Lightroom 4
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a full-featured software program for digital image management and processing, designed for professional and serious amateur photographers alike. As the official Adobe press release explains, Lightroom enables photographers to “import, manage, enhance and showcase” all their photos and videos. Lightroom 4.0 is a major upgrade and is recommended for all previous users as well as those just getting started with Lightroom.
Lightroom’s integrated approach to handling the entire digital photography workflow offers photographers significant advantages over other individual programs. However, if you also want to use other software, Lightroom also integrates very well with other programs—you can use Lightroom as the hub of your image processing system and easily jump over to other software (including Photoshop) to perform specialized tasks as needed. That said, once you’ve mastered Lightroom, you may find you rarely—if ever—need to use other software to process the vast majority of your photos.
In this chapter I’ll introduce core Lightroom concepts and explain the screen interface. If you’re new to Lightroom, I strongly recommend you read this chapter before proceeding through the remainder ...
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