Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Classroom in a Book |  | Author: Adobe Creative Team
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Edition: 1 Pap/Cdr
Pages: 384
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0321555600
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.6
EAN: 9780321555601
ASIN: 0321555600
Publication Date: September 4, 2008
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Product Description
The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2. Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book offers what no other book or training program does - an official training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.
The lessons in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Classroom in a Book cover the basics of learning Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Adobe’s toolbox for professional photographer's, which provides one easy application for managing, adjusting, and presenting large volumes of digital photographs. Countless tips and techniques, extra-credit exercises, and mini-tutorials help you become more productive and adept using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Follow the book from start to finish, or choose only those lessons that interest you.
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 Straight-forward exposition on using Lightroom 2 March 1, 2010
Jerry Saperstein (Evanston, IL USA)
This is a very straight-forward exposition on using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2. There is no humor of the Scott Kelby variety, which many will find a blessing. Illustrations are plentiful and the instructions are stupefyingly clear. Overall, the treatment is thorough, but not advanced.
This book is intended to be used a teaching text. Just do step A, then B and so on. Go through it from start to finish and you will be more than passably competent and comfortable with using Lightroom 2. The approach is somewhat on the dull side, but it gets the job done.
Jerry
 Very difficult to follow instructions July 31, 2009
William J. Powers
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I wish I could rate this book higher because the concept behind it is excellent. Unfortunately, the most important aspect of the book: How to use it with an enclosed CD is ridiculous.
Lesson 1 that begins on p. 22 is so poorly written as to be useless. This book was not edited, and it was clearly not written for the average (not pro/not Point and Shooter) DSLR photographer. Compare the narrative sections of the book with the instructive aspects (that are more important)and the latter stand out as being written by a tech-wiz that simply doesn't know how to write.
The narrative portion of the book is good, but Adobe simply has to train a few more people than Philip Andrews and Scott Kelby that can write well--this book should be an embarrassment to Photoshop.
Bill Powers
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Classroom in a Book July 26, 2009
Rachelle Fullam
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a good book for learning Lightroom- a must have for older students or people who have a hard time learning how to use intensive programs like the Adobe software. The pictures are clear and instructions and examples are given for almost every command in the program. I would not really recommend this book to someone who is familiar with Lightroom as a good portion of this book is explaining the basic features. However, for someone who prefers instruction in a program as opposed to screwing around and figuring it out this book is a great way to go.
 Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classroom in a Book November 15, 2008
Marlon Ceballos (Bogotá, Colombia)
12 out of 17 found this review helpful
Like all the books in the Classroom in a Book series, this is a very good option for people who do not have a lot of experience with Lightroom. This book is divided into 10 lessons organized by each of the processes through which passes a picture in a digital workflow that requires a photographer; this type of organization allows people who have some experience with the program can select the lessons want to focus on which to improve their skills.
Thanks to the CD that comes with the book, learning Lightroom becomes a 100% practical process because each lesson has its own set of images that correspond to those which have been used in the explanation of the book.
The explanation method is based on modular steps to ensure easy follow of the exercises and easily identify if we made any mistakes. In addition, to the end of each lesson will find questions with answers that help us to identify doubts that could be requiring a review of the lesson.
After reading this book you will have the sensation of having an instructor at her side. It's difficult to find a Lightroom book easier to read and understand that this.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classroom in a Book is definitely the guide recommended for people who are just beginning to learn the program or for those who know him independently but want to lay the foundations for their knowledge. When you finish reading this book will be ready to follow other more advanced books which you can understand without any problem.
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Como todos los libros de la serie Classroom in a Book, se trata de una muy buena opción para personas que no tengan mayor experiencia con Lightroom. Este libro está dividido en 10 lecciones organizadas por cada uno de los procesos por los cuales pasa una imagen en un flujo de trabajo digital que requiere un fotógrafo; este tipo de organización permite que las personas que tengan alguna experiencia con el programa puedan definir las lecciones en las cuales quieren enfocarse para mejorar sus habilidades.
Gracias al CD que viene con el libro, el aprendizaje de Lightroom se convierte en un proceso 100% práctico pues cada lección tiene su propio conjunto de imágenes que corresponden a las mismas que han sido usadas en las explicaciones del libro.
El método de explicación es basado en pasos modulares que aseguran poder seguir con facilidad los ejercicios e identificar sin problema si hemos cometido algún error. Además al final de cada lección encontraremos preguntas de repaso con sus respectivas respuestas las cuales nos ayudan a identificar dudas que han podido quedar y que requieran un repaso de la lección.
Después de leer este libro usted tendrá la sensación de haber tenido un instructor a su lado. Dificilmente encontrará un libro de Lightroom más facil de leer y entender que este.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classroom in a Book es definitivamente la guía recomendada para personas que apenas empiezan a conocer el programa o para quienes aprendieron a conocerlo de manera autónoma pero desean fundamentar su conocimiento. Cuando usted termine de leer este libro estará listo para seguir con otros libros más avanzados los cuales entenderá sin problema.
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Marlon Ceballos
Colombia Adobe User Group Manager
Must Have November 11, 2008
R. Lumm (Toledo, OH)
4 out of 19 found this review helpful
This classroom in a book is a must have for any one using Adobe Lightroom 2.....
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