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Summary: Great Book
Comment: Great book, that explains Adobe Photoshop Lightroom in depth. Author gives a lot of useful hints and shortcuts, and provides an insight to a Pro's Workflow, while also giving basic tips about technique.
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Summary: An Excellent and Highly Usable Book
Comment: The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers
I'm an advanced-amateur digital photographer who has been working with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom since it came out as a beta last year. It's an incredibly rich program that has already had two updates that have enhanced its already-significant feature set. When Scott Kelby wrote The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers, he created 394 pages of step by step instructions covering all the program's tools, options and capabilities across its five distinct workflow modules. Now, with the free upgrade to Lightroom 1.1, Scott has added an additional 55 pages of new material that are available from the publisher's Web site for free download. In addition, many of the images used in the book are also available to be downloaded.
Scott Kelby has taken his usual approach in this book of talking with--rather than to--the reader. His always-quirky sense of humor helps when he has to describe some of the less-than-intuitive sequences necessary to adjust and greatly improve one's images. Scott's book is broken up into chapters that move through the recommended image workflow of Lightroom's four main operational modules: Library, Develop, Slide Show and Print. There are also chapters that cover all of Lightroom's preferences, getting images into Lightroom and using Lightroom with the Web.
Like all of Scott's books, this is a how-to-do-it book that offers his own take on how best to work with Lightroom, but leaves plenty of room for the reader to use his or her own creativity.
The book is far too exhaustive to go into detail here; but, I can say, as I did above, that I highly recommend it, and I am sure that, read from start to finish (which is not a requirement), the reader will come away with all the knowledge and skills needed to get the most from Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
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Summary: Lightroom book
Comment: Mr. Kelby writes a good book for a rookie to start learning a software package. Very informative, interesting and funny. Please keep writing books.
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Summary: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom explained
Comment: The book Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a gold mine of resources for Photoshop users. The author explains the software features of the same name in down-to-earth, everyday language, beginning without any assumptions as to how much experience one has had with the software. Since the Adobe software itself carries no printed documentation, such an illustrated approach greatly helps with the challenge of learning new program features and increasing one's adroitness with the graphic arts. The book's approach is a step-by-step method of learning each aspect of how to lay out photographs, large and small on the same photo paper, preview huge batches, print multiple photographs per page, as in a commercial venture, etc, forms but a small part of the text description. For me, this book was and is a big help extending as well as managing the world-class Adobe Photoshop CS3 software itself.
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Summary: Thorough intro to working with Lightroom
Comment: Since Lightroom is all about workflow, I like how Kelby frames this guide around the various steps you take, from setting up the workspace, to importing images, to editing, to printing and publishing. I would actually have liked to see even more sample workflows, like he does at the back of the book.
Others have noted the "goofy" humor of the book, and I have to say that it was a distraction for me, too. If you've got an uncle who thinks he's funny, and corners you at family gatherings, it's kind of like that. I found myself wishing Kelby had a more ruthless editor.
Ultimately, though, it's a useful book, and I'd recommend it to anyone who, like me, is new to Lightroom.
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