The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers

Introduction

Work on the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom program began toward the end of 2003 when a small group of Adobe people, headed by Mark Hamburg, met up at photographer Jeff Schewe’s studio in Chicago to discuss a new approach to raw image management and editing that would be built to meet the specific needs of all those photographers who were “going digital” and who needed a better way to work with their growing libraries of photographic captures. It was shortly after this that I was invited to join the early alpha test program and help thrash out what Lightroom (or Shadowland as it was known then and Photoshop Lightroom as it’s called now) should be. As we all discussed our various digital photography workflows it became increasingly obvious ...