I need to get to know Lightroom

I bought it a few weeks back when it was on sale, but haven’t really fiddled with it much. I need to!

Here is one of the shots taken last night processed in Adobe Lightroom and adding the B&W Creative – Creamtone preset. I kinda like it.

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There are lots of free plug-ins for Lightroom. Scott Kelby has a book on it that I use as reference, and Adobe has an active community more plugins and help) on-line. (Note, Lightroom 4 is coming out, and there is a new book that will be coming out from Scott. If you plan to upgrade to the new version you should wait for that book to be out).

However, I just go in there and play around. For specific things I use the on-line help (batch processing, etc), but mostly I push buttons to do stuff, then if I like it, I save it as a preset I can use again.

I would suggest membership to NAPP ($100/year last I checked). Their monthly magazine has “how-tos”, and their on-line resources have a lot of stuff.

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I go into most of my new computer programs kicking and screaming because of the learning curve I know I have to deal with. I had an early version of Lightroom on my computer for two years without doing anything with it. Then I upgraded and learned how to use it (at least some of what there is to learn about it). Now I couldn’t work without it. I have all my plug-ins attached to it and I absolutely love it. Good luck with it.

Like disperser said, a NAPP membership is a great value. They have photoshop and lightroom tutorials on their website, a monthly magazine, and lots of discounts for plug-ins.

Have fun.

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