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The Adobe^® Lightroom^™ eBook for Digital Photographers

The best way to organize, correct, print, and show your digital images

Digital photography has made shooting photos more fun than ever, but the process of sorting, managing, editing, and printing those images had still been too time consuming, too complicated, and too much of a hassle. Then came Adobe Lightroom, the workflow application for professional photographers, and all that changed.

Award-winning, best-selling author Scott Kelby (Editor-in-Chief of Photoshop User magazine) shows you how to unlock the amazing power of Adobe Lightroom and really start using it like a pro. This isn't just a book of theory and technical jargon, this is a step-by-step, project-based book that will teach you not only exactly how it's all done, but the precise order it should be done in (it makes a big difference in both your efficiency and in the final print).

This is the book that will show you, in plain English, how to put Lightroom to use today in your everyday work. You'll learn:

• How a few extra steps on import can save hours later on.

• When it's okay to quick-edit photos, and when you need "the big guns."

• Essential shortcuts to speed your work and make you even faster!

• The easy way to process RAW photos, which controls you need to learn, and which ones you can usually ignore.

• How to quickly sort your images, get down to the "keepers" fast, and how to deal with the rest.

• How to manage your photo library so the photo you need is always just two clicks away.

• How to create your own custom slide shows with your studio's branding.

• How to create gallery prints, custom contact sheets, and your own custom templates to work faster and smarter than your competition.

• Plus dozens of little tips, tricks, insights, and workarounds to give you a serious competitive advantage.

If you're ready to start using Lightroom like a pro, there's no easier, faster, or more fun way than with the book you're holding right now. If you're one of those people who learn by doing, then this is definitely the book for you.

Scott Kelby is Editor-in-Chief of Photoshop User magazine, President of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, Training Director for the Adobe Photoshop Seminar Tour, and one of the leading seminar instructors in the country today. Scott is author of the best-selling books Photoshop Classic Effects, Photoshop Down&Dirty Tricks, and The Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital Photographers. His easygoing, plain-English style of teaching makes learning Photoshop and Lightroom fun. He trains thousands in his live seminars each year and knows firsthand which techniques are in hot demand, and now he shares them here in his latest book.