Well, it's a beta, and it seems the help files are the last thing
they're going to implement.
So spending a bunch of time at the web site is the best one can do at
this point.
Also the Fora are very useful and the video tutorials are a good start.
Quite a few of us have been playing with it for a year or so now, so
we might be able to help. Remember, Lightroom is intended to be a
combination image database and image processor. You are supposed to
keep everything there and go to Lightroom to export your adjusted
files when you need them in different versions for different uses -
email, slide show, printing, uploading to web, display as thumbnail
page.
So you have the opportunity to incorporate as much keywording and
captioning at the very beginning of the import as you can work up,
and once you have the keywording going along you will find that you
can click on a keyword and all the images with that word will appear
in the browser page or film strip.
And you have no particular need to adjust every single file you
download either, since if you do need the file years later it will
still be there waiting for adjustment.
Just recently I've concluded that the film strip is the most useful
beginning display mode for me. Using it allows me to keep a decently
full sized image in the big central window.
But right now, Lightroom is a terrible RAM and processor hog and I
can't run anything else, including RealAudio, when I'm trying to use
Lightroom.. This is not the Mac way, so I'm not totally committed to
Lightroom, but it's still quite attractive.
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