Photoshop Lightroom 2 Adventure is a concept book. The point is to go out on location for two weeks and work with the latest version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software. The last adventure was to Iceland, this time it takes us to Tasmania. Keep in mind that this is not just the author on the adventure, but rather the author along with more than 20 of his friends and colleagues.

The point is though, to show you how to work with Lightroom 2, and perhaps more importantly, how others work with Lightroom. While most are professional photographers, there are also media personalities, and people tied in with Adobe Lightroom in one way or another. Photoshop Lightroom 2 Adventure is divided into 12 chapters and 384 pages.

Chapter 1, "The Lightroom Workspace Revealed," takes you on a tour around the Lightroom interface and explores all of the features that are Lightroom. Chapter 2, "Importing Images into Lightroom," explores the fact that images are not opened in Lightroom, as in other application, rather they are imported. When they are Lightroom creates a preview and a link to the full image. When you change something in the image, it does not change the image, but rather records the changes in a database.

Chapter 3, "Using the Library Module," is the next stop in using Lightroom. The Library module is used to edit descriptions, rate and sort your photos, and perform some basic file organization. Chapter 4, "The Develop Module," gets you into the heavy lifting of image processing in Lightroom. Here you will find not only the tried and true functionality of Lightroom, but the new features as well.

Chapter 5, "Develop Great-Looking Photos," continues in the Develop module to show you how to bring out the best in tonal qualities, white balance, and other aspects of your image. Chapter 6, "Color-Tuned Photos," shows how, in the Develop Module, you can adjust colors using Lightroom's color controls, as well as how to do a custom camera profile.

Chapter 7, "Black and White and Special Effects," shows how to create great Black and
White photographs from within Lightroom that will help you produce dramatic skies or brilliant foliage. Chapter 8, "Develop Recipes from Tasmania and Iceland," finishes up the Develop module by showing how to apply custom look and feel techniques to your images and showing how several of the Tasmanian, as well as the Icelandic team members did it.