Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 A

I am doing a video tutorial on Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 by Peachpit and am doing this series of blog posts on what I learn. Photoshop Lightroom is aimed at photographers who can upload their photos in a batch and has a five part toolbar which is Library, Develop, Slideshow, Publish & Web. The first one handles importing your photos, the second doing on your photos and the last 3 refer to how you output your photos. You can import photos directly into the develop part of the program which is a new feature. In slideshow you can add music to your presentations and can even import music from itunes and it can automatically edit the music to the length of your slideshow. You can export a photo as a pdf with in the library. When you import photos it shows you thumbnails of each one and you can find a photo by selecting things like the camera speed used and model of camera with in the library search feature. If you have a photo that is slightly blurred this program does an excellent job of sharpening it, just look under the develop at the relevant option. You can also blur a photo using the same dialogue box. This program is primarily for people who touch up their photos and alter the light levels. It doesn't have the more heavy duty features of Photoshop or even Photoshop Elements. For most photographers this is all they need. You can output a photo onto a web page and upload a batch of photos in one go and do a photo gallery. Just tick the appropriate box. You can also with in the publish page print photos on paper and colour the surrounding area. You may find that a bit ink intensive and expensive. Photoshop Lightroom 3 isn't the latest version of this program but runs quite happily under Windows Vista and you will if you install it you need to download a large update file from the internet.