Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2: Visual QuickStart Guide |  | Author: Nolan Hester
Publisher: Peachpit Press
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Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 6.9 x 0.5
ISBN: 0321554205
Dewey Decimal Number: 778
EAN: 9780321554208
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Publication Date: November 22, 2008
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Product Description
This book uses simple step-by-step instructions, loads of screen shots, and an array of time-saving tips and tricks, serving both as the quickest route to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 mastery for new users, and a handy reference for more experienced digital photographers.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 features numerous new features and enhancements including the ability to enhance specific areas of a photo, edit JPG, TIFF, and more than 190 camera raw file formats non-destructively, print more efficiently, and sharpen smartly.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2: Visual QuickStart Guide is the definitive task-based tutorial for digital photographers needing a jump-start on the complete range of features available in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2. Master this workflow application quickly and completely by working from beginning to end or just skip to the task you need right now. It’s all covered, everything from importing, organizing and processing images, to managing and showcasing your images—whether it’s one shot or an entire shoot.
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Lightweight, but thorough introduction to Lightroom 2 November 22, 2009
Jerry Saperstein (Evanston, IL USA)
The Visual Quickstart Guide series has a pretty consistent record for being the books to turn to when you need a fast introduction to the basics of using a given program - and this title is not at all a disappointment.
This is not a treatise on Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2. Rather it is an introduction that gets you off and running on using the program, which as a beginner is generally all you want to do.
Oddly enough I started with the original program that Adobe bought and rebranded as Lightroom. However they changed the feature set pretty extensively and I never really got into the first version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Now with the second release, I was totally lost as to what Lightroom 2 did - and wanted a painless reintroduction to the program and its expanded capabilities.
That's where "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2: Visual QuickStart Guide" comes in . Nolan Hester is a good writer. He begins at the beginning and walks you through the program and how to use it. Hester provides, in my estimation, just the right level of detail. There's plenty of handholding without his talking down to you and enough detail to use a function, but not so much as to be boring or confusing.
Personally, I found this book to be precisely the introduction to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2: Visual QuickStart Guide I needed, neither too lightweight nor too heavy.
Jerry
Covers Lightroom's editing AND organizing features January 2, 2009
Nolan Hester (Los Angeles, CA USA)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Most other Lightroom books spend all their time focusing on Lightroom's terrific editing features but fail to highlight the other half of its power: an amazing database that automatically tracks every photo among your thousands of snaps. My book details how to use your camera's metadata (date, exposure, lens, etc) plus category tags that you create to quickly organize those photos. Because what good is a great photo if you can't find it?
Of course, the book also highlights how to quickly edit a photo's exposure, cropping, and colors--without bogging down in every single thing you might (but probably would never) want to do to a photo. Focus, focus, focus: that's what this Lightroom book offers that others do not. (I'm the author, so call me biased, but it's no snap judgement.) Take a look at some sample content here:
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