The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers

Average customer rating: 3.5

Not quite up to standard
Thorough But Hard to Read
The Adobe Lightroom Book
Effective and easy to use
Evening's book

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The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers
Martin Evening
Manufacturer: Adobe Press
Product Group: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0321385438

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The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book was written with photographers in mind. Best-selling author Martin Evening describes Photoshop Lightroom s features in detail from a photographer s perspective. As an established commercial and fashion photographer, Martin knows firsthand what photographers need for an efficient workflow. 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.

Customer Reviews:

Not quite up to standard.......2007-06-09

This book is not up to the standard of his books on Photoshop.

I quite often found myself thinking that if I didn't already know this or that from my previous experience with Lightroom I wouldn't have understood it after reading about it in the book. Example: "As you adjust the Fill Light, the clipping indicator will again hint at the ideal range of settings to use."
Which clipping indicator: Highlights ot shadows? How will an indicator that is a simple Yes/No indicator (Yes there is clipping or No there is not) hint at a RANGE of settings?

To be frank: I found the free Adobe getting started guide to be more useful. It even contains some aspects not covered in the book.

I've now also bought Scott Kelby's book Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers,The (Voices That Matter). So far that seems to be a better choice, I find the explanations more understandable and the book even includes some sample workflows.

Thorough But Hard to Read.......2007-05-18

Martin Evening's books are very thorough, and this is no exception. He goes through each aspect of Adobe Lightroom in great detail, so much so, that it takes great concentration to stay with it for any length of time. Like many others, I ordered this book because it was one of the first one's out; I've now ordered Scott Kelby's book and it will be interesting to compare them.

Aside from the content of the book there is one aspect of it makes it very difficult for me to use. This is the fact that all of the screen shot illustrations are so excruciatingly small that I must use a magnifying glass to examine them carefully, even under a very adequate light. This is not a criticism of Mr. Evening, but of his publisher, Adobe Press. As a book designer, I can say that trying to use illustrations that are not completely legible is bad practice.

The Adobe Lightroom Book.......2007-05-13

Nice layout but author assumes you know more about Lightroom than you probably do.
I would recommend Scott Kelby's book on Lightroom. He gives a no nonsense, step by step, process for learning the program.

Effective and easy to use.......2007-05-13

I've bought it because it was the first one to be released, but in the end I'm very happy with my choice. The book is very effective; it gives you all the informatons you need to speed up your work with Lightroom. It has lots of examples and it is stuffed with tips and all the shortcuts. I'll buy another book as soon as a translation in my mother tongue is available, probably the Scott Kelby's one, but honestly I don't think there is that much more that could help me than what I already found in Martin Evening's book.

Evening's book.......2007-05-04

Kind of surprised at the negative reviews of the book. I bought all three of the books out on the subject. Kelby's book is good but so annoying to read. Tim Grey's Lightroom Workflow maybe of interest to some who have not used light room but I found nothing of use in the book. Evening's book is by far the best of the lot. I must say that my copy is even getting a little dog eared. I pretty much liked his approach to every topic and found many usefull features in the program that I had overlooked. I would guess that some of the reviewers are completely new to the program and that is the reason for some of the low star reviews. I think you have to step back and consider what Lightroom does and what Photoshop does and change your mindset. I have used Lightroom ever since the beta program was realeased and consider it my primary image tool. Great program and a very good book.

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