You can configure the Lightroom workspace to suit your particular tastes. Photo by Derrick Story from the Adobe Photoshop Iceland Adventure 2006.

The Lightroom workspace is extremely malleable. You can easily enlarge or shrink the various windows to suit your viewing and working preferences, whether you're on a laptop in the field or your cinema display in the studio. In this downloadable PDF excerpt from Photoshop Lightroom Aventure--Mastering Adobe's next-generation tool for digital photographers, Mikkel Aaland takes you on a short Lightroom tour of the workspace.

You'll learn handy tips such as: "Photoshop users are probably familiar with using the Tab key to hide tool palettes. Selecting the Tab key in Lightroom hides (or reveals) the side panels and is a quick way to maximize the image-viewing area."

Download the Organizing the Lightroom Workspace PDF

Colleen Wheeler is an editor and writer at O'Reilly Media, where she helps bring to life fabulous books on digital photography, Photoshop, and other graphically inspired subjects.

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