Adobe Lightroom: A Complete Course and Compendium of Featuresis your guide to using Adobe Lightroom for importing, organizing, editing, and outputting your images. Whether youre keywording your most recent shoot, organizing your photo library, or developing and printing your best five-star images, Lightroom is the tool for youand this book will teach you what you need to know.First, with a complete Course that includes a set of projects and lessons created by photographer and author Jeff Carlson, you will learn the procedures needed to use Lightroom effectively and professionally. Dozens of lessons are included that can be applied to any number of photographs or situations you'll encounter in Lightroom. Through these step-by-step lessons, youll be exposed to all of Lightroom's features in practical contexts and its best practices for an optimal workflow.Then, for greater depth of knowledge and subsequent reference, youll use the Compendium to uncover more of the how and why of Lightroom. With each topic easyto access, you can find and explore all of Lightroom's key features and concepts in depth. With cross referencesbetween the Course andCompendium, the two parts of the book complement each other perfectly. Best of all, when the lessons in the Course are done, the Compendium will continue to serve for months and years to come.Learn step by step how to: Set up an ideal workspace in Lightroom Import and organize your images Develop your photographs with powerful global and sophisticated local adjustments Become incredibly efficient in your use of Lightroom, from creating and applying presets to using quick keyboard shortcuts to syncing changes across numerous images Output your work for any purpose And much more!TABLE OF CONTENTSTHE COURSEChapter 1: Orientation and WorkflowProject: Welcome to LightroomChapter 2: Library MasteryChapter 3: Crop and StraightenChapter 4: Edit Tones and ColorChapter 5: Mask and Adjust Specific AreasChapter 6: Share Online and ExportTHE COMPENDIUMChapter 1: The LibraryChapter 2: Adjustments and ColorChapter 3: Optics and GeometryChapter 4: RetouchingChapter 5: Special EnhancementsChapter 6: Output ModulesChapter 7: Extending LightroomChapter 8: Improving PerformanceAppendix: Keyboard ShortcutsIndex