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In 2006, twelve photographers and five Adobe employees traveled to Iceland for an adventure. The adventure was two-fold; photograph Iceland and field-test a beta of Adobe's new Lightroom software with the help of the five Adobe folks most of whom happened to be on Adobe's Lightroom team.

The cover blurbs speak glowingly of the beauty and wealth of the contents of the book. It's all true.

The subtitle is accurate. You can learn Lightroom from this book. It contains coherent explanations and copious screenshots.

The layout of the book is very well organized. When I went looking for things, I could find them.

What differentiates this book for others are the beautiful Iceland images and Chapter 8. That chapter is called “Develop Recipes from Iceland.” Each recipe shows the before and after images and the Develop Module setting that enabled the changes. Settings were used for tasks that they really weren't meant for.

I've been using Lightroom from beta 3 up to version 1.1 which this book is written to. I'd already learned most of the “inside the box” processes in Lightroom. But, this book showed quite a few “outside the box” processes.

I was so pleased with the book that as soon as I had finished it, I called another member of our user group who had just downloaded the trial copy of Lightroom the day before and offered him the book. I have nothing but glowing things to say about this book. It's rare when I'm this excited about a book.