Procrastination is a wonderful thing. For year’s I’ve intended to purge my digital photo library of underexposed, noisy photographs. You probably have them too: mottled with greens and purples, you know there but for an extra F stop or so, you might have had a great photo. Anyway, only laziness and a certain sense of regret has kept me from getting rid of those flawed photos.

From digital cameras cometh digital photos – lots of them! Adobe’s Lightroom is an attempt to bring some automated control and streamlining to the mundane processes of digital developing and organization. Not intended as a replacement for Photoshop’s layered approach to digital editing, Lightroom is designed, not for the “heavily edited” masterpiece or mulit-image collage, but for the ordinary grind of getting pictures from the camera, organizing, adjusting, and then sharing them.