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

A quickstart guide to Lightroom

Let’s start with a quick overview of how to use Lightroom. On the following pages I have provided an example of a complete workflow, showing how Lightroom can be used to process and manage photos that were taken on a typical location shoot (Figure 1.16). Of course, there are lots of ways you can integrate Lightroom into a photography workflow, so rather than try to introduce every feature that’s in the program, I thought it better to show you the way a photographer like myself uses Lightroom. The workflow described here provides a good introduction to what Lightroom does, how it can be used to speed up the way you work, and how best to integrate Lightroom with Photoshop.

Figure 1.16. On location in Scotland. ...