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Lightroom 3.6 Users Manual

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December 16, 2021
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I bought Lightroom v3.6 several years ago and am just now attempting to learn to use it. Is there a user's manual? If I had one, I must have misplaced it. A pdf copy would be great if it's available.

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Rob_Cullen

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This is the last Reference PDF I have seen, and saved, which was for Lightroom-Classic as of 2018. A lot of the info will still be applicable to v3.

https://helpx.adobe.com/content/dam/help/en/pdf/lightroom_reference.pdf

I deleted any earlier versions that I ever had.. 😞

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .

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mtnduAuthor

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Thanks.

Sean McCormack

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Don't have such a link, but here's a slightly older video that introduces 1.3 covers the basics. Import is prettier in V3, but the principles are the same.

https://video.tv.adobe.com/v/11915/

Sean McCormack. Author of 'Essential Development 3'. Magazine Writer. Former Official Fuji X-Photographer.

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mtnduAuthor

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Thanks. I'll check out the video.

Any other comments or ideas are greatly appreciated.

I did go through the Help tutorials for 3.6 but they just touch on use of the panels and not much else.

John Waller

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I suspect you'll only find detailed Help for the current version of Lightroom. So much has changed in the past 10 years in Lightroom and workflows are so different now.

Adobe stopped producing PDF manuals a couple of years ago in favour of online resources. So you may be looking for a needle in a haystack unless you strike lucky at a 2nd hand store or find a manual or detailed tutorials on an enthusiast's website.

Is it an option for you to use the current version of Lightroom?

John Waller

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I assume you're referring to Lightroom 3 released back in 2010? One of the predecessors of the app now known as Lightroom Classic?

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mtnduAuthor

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Right. I know I'm a procrastinator but am retired now and would like to learn the program.

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tmickow

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I'd think you'd be better off investing your time learning something more current than a 10+ year old piece of software, but...

For a manual/book, I would...

1) Check the documentation under the Help menu.

2) Do a search for Lightroom 3 books on the Internet. I'm sure you can find some dirt cheap used ones. Here's a link to The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Book for Digital Photographers on Amazon. There are multiple sellers that have used ones listed for <$2.

3) Check a local library, if you have one.

And for a series of video tutorials, have a look at Julieanne Kost's site - https://jkost.com/blog/lightroom-training-videos

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