Summary

Few things feel better as a photographer than holding tactile proof of your completed work. Making prints at home and having full control over what comes out of a printer is probably the closest we can get to looking at an image slowly appearing among the darkroom chemicals. What makes a huge difference is the level of control over the outcome. The guessing game when developing and making prints from negatives could be unbearable, not to mention the "close-to-impossible" trickery involved when working with color. With the help of Lightroom's Print module, we can have reliably predictable effects that produce rewarding results each time we press the Print button. As for the Book module, self-publishing anything beyond a black and white "zine" was never as attainable as it is through Lightroom. Even for those who feel repulsed by actually "designing" anything, Lightroom's Book module allows them to focus on photographs themselves and play...