This book is about what the software can do for you.

Rob Sheppard understands that technology should benefit you, the photographer, helping you create more exciting images. That’s exactly what Photoshop Lightroom does. Aided by exquisite color photos and screen shots, Rob shows you how to improve your workflow and produce better photos with Lightroom. You’ll learn to use Lightroom in the only context that matters – how it can help you become a more productive photographer.

• Use Lightroom to streamline the process of importing, managing, developing, and presenting quantities of images
• Explore nondestructive image processing and color-managed printing
• Work with tone curve, adjust white balance, fine-tune vibrance and saturation, and easily correct color
• Create your own presets to use them based on adjustments you use regularly
• Organize and manage images in the Library and set up a customized syste
• Create great prints, show-stopping slideshows, and Web galleries that showcase your skills
• Make the most of Lightroom’s integration with Photoshop

Bring out detail in highlight and shadow areas using Recovery and Fill Light controls.

Effectively optimize existing colors using Split Toning in the Before and After View.

From the Back Cover
This book is not about the software.
This book about what the software can do for you.

Instructor and professional photographer Chris Orwig explains how browsing, organizing, and adjusting images in Photoshop Lightroom dynamically improves photo management, processing, and presentation. The training teaches photographers how to establish a more effective and creative workflow so they can focus on what it’s all about — the photo. Tutorials are accompanied by exercise files (full resolution raw files).

In the 5.5 hours of play time, I learned a lot and it’s definitely helped me to work my way through Lightroom a lot quicker and more efficiently. Even the basic F5, F6, F7 and F8 show/hide panel commands, that Chris repeats over and over, has the desired effect of planting those shortcuts in memory so you won’t forget them.

Lynda Weinman, CEO of lynda.com:

“I am really excited about teaching Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, as it’s a revolutionary tool that empowers photographers (including myself) to become more effective and creative. Lightroom not only helps me organize and access images, it expands my creative potential with its powerful RAW processing capabilities that are non-destructive to the original image. Since I started using LR, my workflow has become streamlined, which has helped me rediscover my passion for the essentials of photography,”

If you’ve been using Photoshop for years (as I have), you may be tempted to think you don’t need training, but believe me it’s worth the time. Lightroom is a absolutely different product from Photoshop and after the training you’ll really appreciate the functionality that Lightroom has to offer.

Anyone with an Internet connection can access Photoshop Lightroom Essential Training by subscribing to lynda.com’s Online Training Library.

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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