The plan, in public.

Dedicated walkthrough of the Tone Curve panel - parametric and point curves, when to reach for the Curve instead of the Contrast slider.

Click any panel, slider, or button on a real screenshot of Lightroom Classic - the matching reference entry pops up as a contextual overlay. The whole point of the app, gated until the content base is deep enough to be useful.

Dedicated macOS user account + scripts that drive Lightroom Classic with keyboard shortcuts, capture viewport regions, and produce the screen maps used by Interactive Screen Mode. Resumable, idempotent, runs on Joe's main Mac.

When Adobe ships a new Lightroom release, a script pixel-diffs the new captures against the previous version's regions, flags changed regions, and uses Claude vision to propose updated SVG paths for the human to approve.

End of beta. £20 one-off lifetime access via Paddle Merchant of Record. Beta users grandfathered to free lifetime - never retroactively charged. Webhook signature verification, entitlement check on every gated route.

An on-screen avatar (Susan-style, like club-photo-judge) you can ask any Lightroom question. Pulls answers from the same content library, in plain English, in real time.

Self-test on the slider you've just learned. Useful for new photographers building their muscle memory.

Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese - dependent on user mix and translation budget.

Same approach for Adobe Camera Raw, which shares much of Lightroom's edit engine. Likely a v3 product or separate domain.

Optional opt-in digest highlighting one Lightroom technique each week. Triggers email infra investment.

Mac and Windows Lightroom UIs differ slightly. Mac is shipping; Windows would need a parallel set of screen maps captured separately.

Standard-stack scaffolding with HP brand styling, JSX whitespace check, full security header set, www-to-apex redirect, and Plausible analytics wired in.

Three-layer architecture for content. MDX entries with frontmatter, gray-matter loader, dynamic catch-all route, Tailwind Typography styling. Foundation for every reference entry.

Script that walks LRSBS1 + LRSBS2, matches numbered section headings against a manifest, generates MDX stubs with frontmatter. Skips existing files so polish work is never overwritten.

16 entries covering every slider in the Basic panel and every control in the Detail panel. Each entry has a lead, when-to-use, how-to-use, tip, watch-out, shortcuts, and related links.

Fraunces serif headings, Geist body, magazine-style italic-serif lede on every entry, refined Tip and Watch-out callouts, more breathing room, narrower reading column.

Every entry begins with "Find this in the [Module] module under the [Panel] panel, [location]." Sourced from a single panel-locations lookup so updates propagate to every entry.

Fuzzy-matching search across title, panel, module, and full body. Cmd-K from anywhere. Exact title matches always rank first, then prefix matches, then contains, then Fuse score. Index is a static JSON route built at compile time.

Module and Panel segments in the breadcrumb are clickable. /reference/develop shows everything in the Develop module grouped by panel; /reference/develop/basic shows just the Basic panel.

Take screenshot + Send feedback pill buttons fixed at bottom-centre of every page. html2canvas-pro for capture, multi-screenshot support up to 4, three multi-tick categories, file upload, capture-failure handling.

Colour Grading, Colour Mixer (HSL), Lens Corrections, Guided Upright, and the three Masking entries. All currently sit as seeded stubs; need full structure (When-to-use, How-to-use, Tip, Watch-out, Shortcuts, Related).

Grid view, Loupe view, Survey, Compare, Filmstrip, and a Library module overview. The book covers Library at a higher level than the seeded section structure can extract, so these need writing from scratch.

Optional sign-in via email-OTP (Brevo). Triggers full GDPR baseline (L027): Subject Access Request endpoint (admin), erasure with audit log, daily retention cron, refreshed privacy page. Beta-user grandfathering ready for Paddle flip via the betaGrandfathered field on User.

Tracks reference views, tutorial views, text searches, and AI questions. Anonymous via httpOnly session cookie set by the proxy; back-filled to the user on sign-in so reading history is preserved. Beacon-based so content pages stay statically rendered.

Admin-only surfaces for managing users and reading analytics. Overview tiles (totals + 7-day deltas), Users table with role + grandfathered toggles plus per-user SAR download and Erase actions, Analytics page with top reference entries / tutorial steps / text searches / AI questions over the last 30 days plus a daily-active-sessions sparkline.