

The catch, though, is that it doesn’t really edit your images, or actually manage anything either.

In a nutshell, Lightroom is a program that can manage and edit your images. It’s designed to help you through a few basic steps from opening up Lightroom for the first time, making two basic edits, and exporting (saving) a final version of your picture. I wrote this Beginner’s Guide to Lightroom to help you, and I wish I would have had something like this when I first got started. If you are new to Lightroom and don’t know where to start, or have thought about using it but feel overwhelmed, then please know I feel your pain, and know where you’re coming from.

At first I found it difficult to use and not really intuitive, but I soon found my way around and I was a Lightroom convert. But in the spring of 2014, when it was announced that Apple was no longer supporting Aperture, I decided to make the leap to Lightroom. I had tried Lightroom in the past, but always preferred using Apple’s Aperture photo editing program.
