Reddit reviews Lightroom 3: Streamlining Your Digital Photography Process

There are endless videos available for learning LR, but I found going through a book presented in a rational order to be the most helpful. Nat Coalson's Lightroom 3 was well reviewed here and I found it very helpful. He has a LR 4 version out as well.

I learned lightroom from these two books:

http://www.amazon.com/Lightroom-Streamlining-Digital-Photography-Process/dp/047060705X/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1

http://www.amazon.com/Vision-Voice-Refining-Photoshop-Lightroom/dp/0321670094/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1310770515&sr=1-9


The first one give you all the nuts and bolts. It's so important to figure out how you want

• Set up catalogs
  
  
• Name your files
  
  
• Convert to DNG or not
  
  
  
• Other neat stuff
  
  
  The second book is more about the artistic side. (the author also has a great blog)
  
  
  Good luck!