Chapter 2. Navigation Finding Your Way Around



Although Adobe Lightroom seems like just one application, it's actually more like four mini-applications in one. Well, they're not mini, because that makes them sound like they're small or don't have as many features, but that's certainly not the case, because some of Lightroom's modules are large and complex. Now, I don't mean large and complex like it's a bad thing. That's the good large and complex. It's more like a compliment. For example, if you were having dinner at a friend's house, and he or she brought out a delicious-looking appetizer, you might smile and say something like, "Hey, that seared yellowfish tuna with Asian cucumber salad looks very large and complex." See, it's a compliment. By the same token, Lightroom may sometimes seem large and complex (in a good way) because it has four different modules. Adobe uses the term "modules" because it sounds so mysterious. For example, "I wonder what's in that module? Could it be a radioactive isotope?" It could be, especially if this was an episode of Fox's 24, where virtually every object has a reasonable possibility of being radioactive. Another reason Adobe chose to use the technical-sounding word modules, rather than calling them regular everyday words that we all understand like "sections" or "areas," is because the term modules sounds more large and complex, and as we learned earlier, that's a compliment.



The Adobe Lightroom eBook for Digital Photographers
The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book for Digital Photographers
ISBN: B001FA0MWK
EAN: N/A
Year: 2006
Pages: 71
Authors: Scott Kelby

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