Adobe Lightroom

[Darth Marty]

I have searched for a thread on this programme but cant find one, basically im only now starting to use this despite having it for a while, i used photoshop to do all my editing in the past but it seems lightroom can be used in many new ways.
Ideally im after all of your best practises/tips and tricks on using this.
Thanks and I look forward to hearing your advice.

[HankW]

Lightroom has worked out very well for me. I start and organize everything from within lightroom now. It's very easy to jump into photoshop for using the layers and such and then jump back into lightroom.

I started with the Book "lightroom 2 book for Digital Photographer" written by Scott Kelby. That was a great help in learning the program and getting organized with my photos using keywords and database organization. If you start out with a plan and stick to it you can't go wrong. It's amazing what lightroom can do and I very seldom have to go to PS anymore.

[RoyL]

Google for "lightroom tutorials" and you will find heaps of stuff, and most Lightroom sites users are like geek's - they eat, sleep, and breath it.

[jetskiin4evr]

I just got lightroom myself (less than 2 weeks ago) and have learned tons of stuff via itunes podcasts. They are free!

[AgBeard]

I rate LR2 - I started with LR1 beta & have used it since to both process RAW files & organise the jpegs from pre DSLR days. One feature I really like is the ability to make virtual copies; this enables me to compare 2 or 3 treatments of the same picture without taking up a lot of disk space. The none destructive edits are saved in the catalog database, it's only if you export all the versions that disk space becomes an issue. I find the ability to copy & paste the 'edits' to similar pictures in the same shoot saves a great deal of time.