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To coincide with the announcement of the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.1 update, Lightroom-news, in conjunction with The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book, will be bringing you a complete guide to the new version of Lightroom as a series of eight feature stories. These will be published over the next two to three weeks starting with a guide to the general menu items in Lightroom 1.1.

You can watch out for the feature stories as they appear on Lightroom-news, but you can also check the Feature Stories list that appears in the masthead where there will be permanent links to the stories as they are published.

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book 1.1 update supplement
A compilation PDF of all the Lightroom 1.1 feature stories published on Lightroom-news will be available shortly as an update supplement for The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book and will also be announced here on Lightroom-news.

Feature story contents list
Here follows a brief summary of what to expect, more or less in the order that the feature stories will be published:

Lightroom 1.1: General menus
Exporting catalogs
Importing catalogs
A catalog export and import in action
Limitations when excluding negatives
Export/Import summary
Managing multiple catalogs
Catalog settings preferences
Catalog info
Relaunch and optimize
File handling settings
Metadata settings
Auto completion options
Metadata saving and Bridge behavior
Lightroom 1.1 and Camera Raw 4.1
Viewing Lightroom edits in Camera Raw
Viewing Camera Raw edits in Lightroom
Keeping the Lightroom edits in sync
Synchronizing Lightroom and Camera Raw 4.1
Importing from disk/device
Exporting keyword hierarchy
Filtering images
Select by rating/flag/color label
Help menu
Accessing the presets folder

Lightroom 1.1: Library menu
Subfolder filtering
Synchronize folder
Scan for metadata updates
Updating previews
Go to Folder in Library
Create Virtual copy shortcut
Removing and deleting photos
Painter tool
Metadata editing and target photos
Saving and reading metadata
Updating DNG files and previews

Lightroom 1.1: Library module
Find panel
Copy Name searches
Empty field searches
Count display in folders
Navigator view of Folders panel contents
New Metadata Browser options
Quick Develop panel
Keywording panel
Metadata panel
Metadata change tracking and status
New action arrows in the Metadata panel
Original filename display
Date representation and Capture time display options
Copyright status
Large caption metadata display
Location metadata display
Metadata panel data entry efficiency
Compare view displays
Toolbar interface changes
Numerically-sensitive sort orders
Breadcrumbs text in Filmstrip
Color label sorting
Inverted color label searches
Virtual Copy and Master copy searches

Lightroom 1.1: Sharpening and noise reduction
Sharpen preset settings
Evaluation at a 1:1 view
Luminance targeted sharpening
Sharpening effect sliders: Amount & Radius
Suppression sliders: Detail & Masking
Interpreting the grayscale previews
Noise Reduction compared with 1.0

Lightroom 1.1: Develop menus
Exporting and importing presets
Applying default develop settings
External Editing options
Create Virtual Copy shortcut
Saving Metadata
Removing and deleting photos
Match total exposures
Swap before and after settings
Preset folders
Progressive zooms
Tool overlay menu
Crop guide overlays
Crop guide orientation

Lightroom 1.1: Develop module
Clarity slider
White balance tool
Remove spots tools
Synchronized spotting
Remove red eye tool
Color panel: multiple color selections
Lens Correction panel Defringe commands
Reset Develop settings

Lightroom 1.1: Preferences
General preferences
Lightroom easter eggs
Catalog selection
Preset preferences
Default develop settings
Camera-linked settings
Exporting presets
Import preferences
Treat JPEGs as separate photos
DNG options
DNG JPEG previews
DNG preserve raw image
DNG compression
DNG embed original raw file
External editing preferences
Edit externally file naming
File handling preferences
Interface preferences
Panel end marks
Filmstrip preferences

Lightroom 1.1: Extras
Slideshow module and selections
Play menu
Print module print overlays
Web module and selections
Web module panel changes
Removing Lightroom modules

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The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book by Martin Evening is available from Peachpit, Amazon, Barnes & Noble and all usual bookstore outlets.

Martin Evening has worked on the development of Adobe Photoshop as an alpha tester from the program’s earliest beginnings. The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book describes all of Lightroom’s features in detail, with photographers in mind. Photographers who routinely work with raw (and even jpg & tiff) images will find Lightroom–and The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book–an indispensable tool in their digital darkroom.

Lightroom-news has a free PDF download of Chapter 1. (click here to download-4.6MB PDF).

Free Lightroom 1.1 PDF update

You can also download a free PDF update for the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom book. Go this link for the full instructions on how to access the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book 1.1 update.