The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Manual

Photoshop Lightroom is a powerful and feature packed photo processor and image organiser designed to help photographers shoot, catalogue, edit, print and publish their images.

For many years, most professional photographers have used Adobe Photoshop for image editing, and indeed many still do, but over the past decade Photoshop has expanded its remit to include things like video editing, 3D texturing and text editing; these are feature that most photographers will never use.

While Photoshop remains the industry standard for general image editing and manipulation , Lightroom has been developed as a specialist alternative to Photoshop and designed specifically to meet the needs of professional and enthusiast photographers.

In this exhaustive guide we take you through every aspect of using the desktop focused Photoshop Lightroom, including processing, printing and publishing your finished photographs. Lightroom is a powerful app that can help you to get the best out your photos. Lightroom offers some impressive results from very little effort on the part of the user. The conversion from the before image to the after image took just a few minutes.