The Adobe PHOTOSHOP LIGHTROOM BOOK
by Martin Evening
Reviewed by Harry Eaton
Designed from the ground up with digital photographers in mind, Photoshop Lightroom offers powerful editing features in a streamlined interface that lets photographers import, sort, and organize images. TheAdobe Photoshop Lightroom Book was also written with photographers in mind. Martin Evening describes Photoshop Lightroom’s features in detail from a photographer’s perspective. He’s also been working with Photoshop Lightroom from the beginning, monitoring the product’s development and providing feedback on the public beta. As a result, Martin knows the software inside and out, from image selection to image editing to image management. In this book you’ll learn how to:
Work efficiently with images shot in the raw format
Import photographs with ease and sort them according to your workflow
Create and manage a personal image library
Apply tonal corrections to multiple images quickly
Integrate Photoshop Lightroom with Adobe Photoshop
Export images for print or Web as digital contact sheets or personal portfolios
Photographers will find Adobe Photoshop Lightroom—and The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book—indispensable tools in their digital darkroom.
This is a book aimed at both amateur as well as professional photographers. To give you an insight into Evening's depth of knowledge of Lightroom, he was one of those "insiders" who helped Adobe develop the product from the ground-up
"Introducing Adobe Photoshop Lightroom," shows you what Lightroom is and how it fits into the overall Photoshop world. He introduces the user interface and shows you how to install the program and gives you a primer on the basic features. You will learn how to import images and view the library as well working with the interface. You will also learn how to do some quick retouching, synchronizing, rating, and reviewing of images.
In Chapter 2 the author shows the different ways you can import images into Lightroom whether it's drag and drop, by file, or shooting tethered to the camera. He shows you how to organize the images as well as add information to the images during import
Chapter three, "Managing the Library," Lightroom’s ability to manage photos is what makes the program such an important product for photographers. Here he goes into each of the panels and shows you what they do and how to use them. You will learn how to use the different views. You will see how to rate and filter images using the filmstrip. Martin does a great job of showing you how to build up your library and keep it well ordered
In "Image Processing", He details the other must reason to own Lightroom. While you can still edit and manipulate photos in Photoshop, by doing this in Lightroom, you never have to edit a pixel of the original image. The changes occur only when you export the image from Lightroom.
Chapter five, "Printing," shows you how to prepare your image for printing.
"Presenting Your Work," will show you how to prepare your images for display on the web or as a slideshow from within Lightroom.
The appendix is where he goes into more detail about certain aspects of Lightroom, such as with templates, folders, thumbnails and the Lightroom RGB space.
If you own Adobe Photoshop Lightroom this book is a must have edition for your library.
Lightroom Book was also written with photographers in mind. Martin Evening describes Photoshop Lightroom’s features in detail from a photographer’s perspective. He’s also been working with Photoshop Lightroom from the beginning, monitoring the product’s development and providing feedback on the public beta. As a result, Martin knows the software inside and out, from image selection to image editing to image management. In this book you’ll learn how to:
