Experts from the Lightroom community get you up and running easily with a series of tutorials created especially for beginners.

Leading photographers and instructors introduce you to Lightroom, and highlight new features and key techniques. There's something for new and experienced users alike.
by George Jardine
Learn the basics of the catalog model in Lightroom. Discover where Lightroom stores your previews and metadata, how it links to your source files, and how to use Lightroom with the browser-based workflow of Bridge.
by Julieanne Kost
In this in-depth video tutorial, you'll learn how Lightroom uses a database, or catalog, to keep track of image data. Julieanne Kost of Adobe shows you how to create a new catalog and set general and catalog-specific preferences.