With the advent of digital photography came the need for new tools. One staple is the image editing software Adobe Photoshop. As digital cameras became more sophisticated, and after the development of raw image capture, the need arose for a RAW converter such as Adobe Camera Raw.

As photographers made the permanent move to digital, there came a need for something to manage all the files they were generating. Simple image browsers such as Adobe Bridge did not have enough power. In 2005 Apple came out with Aperture as a solution. In 2006, Adobe's product, which had been code named Shadowland, was released as Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

Managing Your Photographic Workflow With Photoshop Lightroom is based on the 1.2 version of Lightroom. It is a little over 200 pages and divided into nine chapters, along with two appendices and an index.

Chapter 1, "The Photographic Workflow," first looks at a typical photographic workflow, describing the tasks and the steps that are regularly performed during the processing of images. The authors describe their own personal workflow and how you can adjust it to fit your own needs. Chapter 2, "Understanding Lightroom," explains how Lightroom is a new type of application with which you can perform RAW conversion, Digital Asset Management, and image presentation in various output forms, all in one program.

Chapter 3, "Image Management in the Library Module," describes Lightroom's default module and how you use it to select the images that you will work with in the other modules. Here you will learn how to import, rate, and select the images. Chapter 4, "Editing Images in the Develop Module," shows you that the next big step after selecting your images is to get the best out of them. To do this you will use Lightroom's core image and editing engine, the same one that powers Adobe Camera Raw 4.x.

The subject of Chapter 5, "The Slideshow Module," is one of the presentation possibilities for your images. There are two types of slide shows: the ad-hoc, and the standard presentation. Chapter 6, "Print," goes into that more traditional method of presentation, and while it is beyond the scope of the book to go into detail about how to create the perfect print, it does present a good overview of what is needed to produce a good print.