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

by Martin Evening
March 2012
Beginner to intermediate
704 pages
25h 38m
English
Adobe Press
Content preview from The Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 4 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers

2. Importing photos

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Photograph: © Rob Cadman 2011 Canon EOS 550D | 22 mm | 3200 ISO | f9 @ 1/60th

A guide to the various ways you can bring your photos into Lightroom

Lightroom is essentially a catalog management program and raw image processor combined into one. It is important to appreciate how Lightroom differs from browser programs such as Adobe Bridge, where you simply point Bridge at a folder to inspect the contents. The browser method is really suited for those times where you need the freedom to search everything that’s on your computer. The downside of this approach is that you first have to know where to look in order to find what you ...

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