Are you a photographer struggling to cope with the hundreds if not thousands of image files you are producing? Are you wondering how you can streamline your work-flow? How you can stop having to use five or six different programs to get your images from your camera to your client?

Well, you have come to the right place. My name is Ric Kasnoff, I am a Professional Photographer, Certified Trainer and Senior Director of Professional Imaging for Digital Railroad and the Digital Railroad Marketplace.

In this series Total Training for Photoshop Lightroom Essentials I will be introducing you to one of the most powerful new digital asset management and post-production tools on the market today. Adobe Lightroom, you will see how you can import append metadata, rename, create backups, process or enhance your images and even create slideshows, websites and beautiful high-quality prints all within one simple, elegant, yet very powerful application.

Now in this first chapter you can get an overview of the end-to-end process as I walk you through how I handle a typical shoot. Now don't worry, I promise you will have a chance to get your hands dirty during the other chapters, but for now, just sit back, relax, let me show you what you can do with Adobe Lightroom.