Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Workflow: The Digital Photographer's Guide (Tim Grey Guides)

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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Workflow: The Digital Photographer's Guide (Tim Grey Guides)
Tim Grey
Manufacturer: Sybex
Product Group: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0470119195

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Book Description

For far too long, photographers have "made do" with software tools designed for a variety of users. Now at last there's a program specifically built to meet the needs of professional and serious amateur photographers, whether you're on Mac or Windows: Adobe Lightroom. And there's an expert ready to incorporate this great new program into photographic "best practices": Tim Grey!

In Lightroom Workflow, bestselling author Tim Grey brings his knowledge of digital imaging and pro photography to the latest Adobe offering. Tim breaks down the modules of Lightroom in the same workflow-based approach to photography that has been so popular through all his books and workshops. Readers will discover a natural flow for capturing, storing, sorting, and adjusting images, getting better results all while reducing time and effort.

Tim explains how Lightroom offers file import, cataloging, archiving, processing, presentation, and printing under one roof, and how you can take best advantage of just the functions that are most appropriate for your individual needs. You'll see why you should shoot Raw but also find out how to master Lightroom if you can't or don't choose to. And you'll learn how to finish your images to their best advantage, whether you print or you output for screen.

Featuring elegant example images from the portfolios of professional photographers, Lightroom Workflow shares real-world expertise on how to get better results while reducing time and effort.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent intro to using Lightroom.......2007-05-29

Most folks who've been around digital imaging for any length of time know Tim Grey. An engaging, energy-filled, computer whiz who used to teach for George Lepp at the Lepp Institute of Digital Imaging and then got hired by Microsoft to head their professional photo expansion effort, Tim has a rare talent for clear, insightful writing about complex subjects. He's parlayed that skill into a whole series of books, of which this is one of his latest, and it carries on the tradition of being very thorough and easy to read and understand.

The topic of this book is one of a new breed of image editing tools that takes a fundamentally different approach to working with digital photo files from the King Kong of the industry, Adobe Photoshop. While Photoshop still is the industry leader by far, it has several serious drawbacks, including expense, complexity, and a very steep learning curve.

Enter Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. The concept for this new tool is to provide a more user friendly, efficient end-to-end workflow within one program that includes editing, optimizing, cataloguing, and output, allowing the photographer to spend less time in front of the computer and more time actually taking pictures. There are competing programs from other companies with a similar goal - Apple's Aperture (strictly for Macs), and LightZone from Light Crafts (for both platforms), but only Lightroom has near-seamless cross compatibility with Adobe's other creative products.

Lightroom has strong promise. One of its leading attributes is that it works nondestructively. When you make editing changes to images you are not altering actual pixel values within the image file but only adding a set of instructions for changes you wish to make and shows those effects on the fly. This makes files much smaller than when you create multiple variations in Photoshop, many times with many layers resulting in huge files. Many of its tools are both clever and intuitive as well, speeding the way to a polished product in less time.

There are some limitations however. While image adjustments are well mechanized, there is no provision in this version of the program to apply them selectively to parts of the image. For this type of work the file must be exported to another editing program. Also, there is no means for working on more than one monitor. A favorite approach for many who use Photoshop is to use two displays with the image on one and the palettes for various adjustments on the other; can't do that at this point with Lightroom.

Will Lightroom catch on? Very likely, especially for those photographers who yearn for a tool that gives good, quick results that increase their productivity. And when the global adjustments available within Lightroom aren't enough, it's easy to export to another tool for that kind of work. In addition, the simple digital asset management capabilities may be enough for someone whose file storage and cataloguing needs aren't too great. Furthermore, this is version 1.0, and there is every expectation that the program will grow and improve as the new conceptual paradigm gains acceptance, particularly with serious competition from at least two other quadrants.

So, how valuable is Tim Grey's take on the subject? About as good as it gets, I'd say. Tim has a rare talent for clarity of expression that leaves little doubt about what's being described. Throughout his books he makes suggestions about settings and states his personal preferences so someone new to the program has a place to start, which is far preferable, in my view, to just describing all the choices and leaving one hanging without a clue where to begin. If you purchase Lightroom, or are even just considering doing so, you should also acquire this book. It will save hours and hours of figuring it all out on your own and give you a running start toward becoming an expert with one of the best new editing programs.

Tim Grey's Lightroom book.......2007-05-24

Tim's effort is a noteworthy in clarity of writing style. Realistic workflow approach and sequencing in this book makes Lightroom's use far more understandable. Tech-writing of technical subject-matter always is a difficult job. Tim does it exceptionally well. Oddly, Tim's book... is the very material that - should - be included within Adobe's $300 product under the "Help" menu. User tips picked up from the book make it a worthwhile purchase. LR itself... the jury is still out on that issue. Noteworthy features, but quirky Raw conversions and exposure values and color balance readings. A product that attempts to be the proverbial "Swiss Army Knife" with the inclusion of many many functions... the number count tends to overload the user, even get in the way.

Great visual guide.......2007-05-17

There are so many Lightroom books available but I waited for Tim's because of his writing style. He's a technical guy who can also make us "visual" people understand.

Lightroom Workflow.......2007-05-13

A great book! Easy to read and helps make sense of Adobes new product. Tim Grey is one of the most knowledgeable experts on Lightroom and other
Adobe products for photographers. This bood will be an ongoing source of reference as I work in Lightroom. I would highly recommend it to anyone starting in Lightroom.

lacking in in information.......2007-05-13

Very lacking in information. I like Tim Grey but this was a waste of money.

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