How to Books on Lightroom

I have just installed LR. I do not have any prior knowledge of Adobe PS. Can any body suggest and book(s) for LR.? I was using Microsoft Digital Editor & DiMAGE VIEWER for editing. The results were OK. However LS, as I understand, offers more tools and that is why I bought the software. Inow need a good "How To ...." book to use the programme.
Any suggestion?

In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] wrote: > Inow need a good "How To ...." book to use the programme. Martin Evening's "The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers" is great, if you can still get a copy: <a href=http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Photoshop-Lightroom-Book-Photographers/dp/03 21385438> Apparently it's out of print, since the release of the version 2 book is close. -- Cheers Martin

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