Even more space is devoted to image processing and how to make use of all the Develop module controls. The Lightroom catalog is a major feature of the program, which is why I have devoted more than 200 pages of the book to providing in-depth advice on how to work with the Library module, including how to import photos and manage your photos through the use of keywords and metadata. As always, I suggest you approach the book by reading it in chapter order, starting with Chapter 1: Introducing Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, which explains some of the fundamental principles behind Lightroom. As a result, not only has the book ended up being a lot bigger, but I have also had to rewrite almost everything that was in the original edition.
So many changes have taken place since version 1.0 was released. Mark Hamburg once joked that he must have failed in his mission to make Lightroom “unreasonably simple” if you needed a book as thick as mine in order to understand it! I have to confess, when I first started work on this project, I never imagined the book would end up being 744 pages in length.
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Newbies to Lightroom have found it easy to access and understand all the basics, while advanced professional users appreciate the background detail that’s provided. The feedback I have had for previous editions of this book has been encouraging. I also wanted to make sure space was given to explaining the background to some of the features. In writing this book, I have had in mind both amateur and professional photographers and have aimed to provide what I believe is the most detailed book there is on this subject. Basically, this book is intended to be the ultimate reference guide to Lightroom and designed to help you get the maximum benefit out of the program. The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC / Lightroom 6 Book represents the culmination of more than nine years’ work in which I have been involved with Lightroom. Lightroom underwent some pretty major changes in those early stages as the team tried out different workflow ideas, until eventually we ended up with the Lightroom program you see now. As we began to discuss our different digital photography workflows, it became increasingly obvious why we all needed a better way to manage and process our digital photos. What would it take to meet the specific needs of those photographers who were now starting to shoot digitally? More specifically, what would be the best way to help photographers manage their ever-growing libraries of images? It was shortly after this that I was invited to join an early group of alpha testers and help work out what sort of program Lightroom (or Shadowland, as it was known then) should become. Work on the Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® program began toward the end of 2003 when a small group of Adobe people, headed by Mark Hamburg, met up at photographer Jeff Schewe’s studio in Chicago to discuss a new approach to raw image editing and image management. Printed and bound in the United States of America No such use, or the use of any trade name, is intended to convey endorsement or other affiliation with this book. All other product names and services identified throughout this book are used in editorial fashion only and for the benefit of such companies with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Where those designations appear in this book, and Peachpit was aware of a trademark claim, the designations a ppear as requested by the owner of the trademark.
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