Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby
Scott Kelby, author of the world’s #1 bestselling Photoshop book, The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers, brings his same award-winning, step-by-step, plain-English style, look and feel to The Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers.
As editor-in-chief of Photoshop User and president of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, he lives and breathes Adobe’s tools. As you explore Lightroom with him, you’ll find his enthusiasm infectious and his techniques essential.
Kelby focuses on maximizing productivity at every opportunity. You’ll learn how to automate file imports using Watched Folders; how to perform one-click sorting with Collections; even how to apply the same edit to hundreds of images. Everything is written from the position of the professional photographer (which is what Kelby first of all is).
That professional viewpoint is especially helpful in the book’s most detailed chapter, where Kelby explain the “serious” image adjustments you can do with Lightroom’s “Develop” module. (Stuff like: using tone curves to add contrast; split toning; adjusting individual colors; and overcoming the color problems inherent in some cameras.)
But this new book doesn’t just show you “which sliders do what” (every other book does that). This book takes you beyond that to reveal the secrets of the new digital photography workflow and he does it using three simple, yet bright techniques that make this just an incredible learning tool.
Throughout the book Scott shares his own personal settings and studio tested techniques he’s developed using Lightroom for his own photography workflow since well before Adobe released even the first Beta version. He knows what really works, what doesn’t, and he tells you flat out which tools to use, which to avoid, and why.
But what really sets this book apart from the rest, are the last two bonus chapters. This is where Scott visually answers his #1 “most-asked” Lightroom question, which is: “Exactly what order am I supposed to do things in, and where does Photoshop fit in?”
Scott teaches this in a manner we’ve never seen before in any book, by really showing every step of the complete process, from the initial shoot to the final prints. Both chapters start with an on-location photo shoot, including full details on the equipment, camera settings, and even the lighting techniques.
You’ll see it all as he takes the photos from each shoot all the way through the entire workflow process, to the final output of the 16×20″ prints for the client. Plus, because he incorporates Adobe Photoshop seamlessly right into this workflow, you’ll also learn some of his latest Photoshop techniques for portrait and landscape photography, which takes this book to a whole new level.
If you’re one of those people who learns best by actually doing the projects yourself; who learns best without all the complicated technical explanations and confusing jargon, and if you really want to start using Lightroom today to unlock the productivity secrets of “The new digital photography workflow, “there is no faster, more “straight-to-the-point” or more fun way to learn than this groundbreaking new book, and you are absolutely going to love it!
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