"Inside Lightroom" Brimming with Virtual Swag

During the past year, digital photographers have watched new options emerge for their photo workflow. For the longest time, they had to cobble together applications to move their images through the phases of uploading, organizing, processing, output, and archiving, especially if they were Raw shooters who favored using Adobe's Camera Raw as their converter.

When Adobe announced Lightroom, photographers finally had an end-to-end solution that was designed specifically for them, and it included Camera Raw. No more hopping around from Bridge, Camera Raw to Photoshop. Everything now is organized within a beautifully designed package. Lightroom is in beta right now and will be evolving further before its final release later this year. What that means for us, is that there's lots to talk about and explore between now and then.

O'Reilly's Inside Lightroom site will help you learn the ins and outs of this breakthrough photo workflow application -- all through the beta phase... and beyond. You can start exploring right now by listening to an audio interview with published author Julianne Kost as she discusses Lightroom's positive impact for photographers.

Then, once you're ready to start working with the software itself, go the the Adobe Labs page and download the latest version of the public beta. To help you get comfortable quickly, also download our free 22-page "getting started" PDF by O'Reilly author, Ken Milburn, titled From Darkroom to Lightroom.

The Inside Lightroom web site will also feature a steady flow of blog posts by Lightroom experts and articles exploring all of its powerful features. We have a few surprises in store for you too.

Lightroom is going to change the way you work. And for many of us, it's about time.