The Digital Photographer’s Notebook: A Pro’s Guide to Adobe Photoshop CS3, Lightroom, and Bridge

Introduction

THE LAST TEN YEARS span both centuries and millenniums. It is completely appropriate that during this time of transition, photography has grown from it roots in film emulsions developed chemically to electronic capture and digital image processing. In less than a generation, the world of digital—zeros and ones—has moved photographic possibilities that were merely dreams in the eighties and early nineties to being almost commonplace.

Change is the herald, a clarion call of opportunity. The possibilities are truly astounding. A photographic project can be shot, edited, retouched, and uploaded to a server for delivery in hours instead of the weeks it took with traditional or even hybrid film/digital methods. Photographers today face ...