Adobe Photoshop has been the mainstay of photographers for over a decade and will continue to have its place there for years to come. In creating Lightroom, Adobe has given photographers a more focused tool to fit their specific needs.
Commercial and fashion photographer and best selling author Martin Evening's goal is to explain, in easy-to-understand terms, how to use Adobe Lightroom. 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
The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book is laid out into six chapters and an appendix. chapter one, "Introducing Adobe Photoshop Lighroom," shows you what Lightroom is and how it fits into the overall Photoshop world. He introduces the user interface in a crisp, clear manner. He shows you how to install the program and gives you a quick start to setting up some of the basic features. You will learn how to import images and view the library as well as get a handle on working with the interface. You will also learn how to do some quick retouching, synchronizing, rating, and reviewing of images.
Chapter two, "Importing," starts to get into the detail of the book. Here, 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
In chapter three, "Managing the Library," Evening gets into one of the aspects—it's ability to manage photos—that makes Lightroom such an important product for photographers. It is easy to manage a couple hundred photos, but what about when you have a couple thousand or tens of thousands? Starting early, you will be able to manage your images smartly. 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 Loupe View, Grid View, as well as Survey View. You will see how to rate images and how to filter images using the filmstrip. Overall, he does a great job of showing you how to build up your library and keep it well ordered
Chapter four, "Image Processing", is the meaty part of this book. Consuming over 33% of this book, Evening lays out in detail 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 apply when you export the image out of Lightroom.
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