An Introduction to the Develop Module

Here we are, in the area of Lightroom that is its very core, almost the defining part of it. Before Lightroom was developed by Adobe's software engineers, we photographers had to separately open each photograph and develop it, very often in Bridge or Photoshop. Many of us used other pieces of software, from free to open source, but they were often hard to use and quite unintuitive. I remember attending a photography trade show where someone from Adobe was introducing Lightroom to the gathered photographers. We all were in awe of the idea that we wouldn't need to open and save each photograph. Once we develop a photo, we can simply move on to the next one and then export the final results in multiple formats, even watermarked. What was a revolution in working with photography almost 15 years ago became a standard and is now used across the whole spectrum of photography software. I can't imagine working with photographs without the...