The Enthusiast’s Guide to Lightroom: 55 Photographic Principles You Need to Know teaches you how to get the most out of Adobe Lightroom, the most popular image-editing software on the market. Photographer and author Rafael "RC" Concepcion covers organizing, importing, developing, outputting, and sharing your images with Adobe Lightroom.

Chapters are divided into a series of numbered lessons, with each lesson providing what you need to get started on your journey to harnessing Lightroom's power in order to organize, process, and share your images. Lessons include:



Importing a Folder of Images into Lightroom
The Powerful Four—Exploring the Basic Panel
Clarity, Vibrance, and Saturation
Local Adjustments to Make Great Images Better
Creating Lightroom Presets
Setting Print Preferences
Finding Missing Files and Folders

Written in a friendly and approachable manner and illustrated with examples that drive home each lesson, The Enthusiast’s Guide to Lightroom is designed to be effective and efficient, friendly and fun. Read an entire chapter at once, or read just one topic at a time. With either approach, you’ll quickly learn a lot so you can confidently dive into Lightroom and create stunning images.

TABLE OF CONTENTS



Chapter 1: Get Organized
Chapter 2: Developing Your Image
Chapter 3: Next-Level Editing in Lightroom
Chapter 4: Sharing Your Images via the Slideshow Module
Chapter 5: Creating a Book in Lightroom
Chapter 6: Printing Images
Chapter 7: Forgotten Modules and Maintenance