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 Quick and readable reference May 1, 2009
David E. Thomas (Los Angeles area)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book was a "must-buy" for me because it made it so easy to lookup and learn about specific features of Lightroom 2. I liked and used Scott Kelby's Lightroom 1 book, but I always felt innundated with too much information. Orwig's book is a KISS book....Keep It Simple for the Student. When I am working in Lightroom and I need to learn more about a feature or process I can quickly look it up and read the one or two pages of concise information that I need to know. Sometimes when I am away from my computer and have time to kill I'll thumb through the book to refresh my memory on a procedure or look for procedures I don't know.
I would have given it 5 stars but it omitted any reference to the "keyword stamper tool"; a serious omission for such a useful function.
One more Adode Lightroom book. But probably the better one of the lot. April 26, 2009
W. Webb (SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
With an endless sea of offerings in Amazon for books about Adobe's Lightroom, it was not easy to select one that was worth its salt.
I am very glad that I choose this one, it may seem a bit simple, and non technical, but it gets many important points across in a simple listing of 100 things to know about the software, and it lists them in the natural order of your actual workflow.
The book is broken down in chapters that cover each and every module inside Lightroom, from file management and organizing, which can become a bit of a nightmare, when you are trying to sort from thousands of photos, to the techniques of retouching and adjusting lighting in certain areas of the photo.
Lightroom is an extremely powerful program and I only use it for my hobbie, but by reading the book and learning about some of the more technical features and capabilities of the software I have radically been able to change photographs that I would have considered trashing into the recycle.
The book also covers some of the final steps and outputing the already photos to print, web, etc., and it does in a very informative way, allowing you to maximize the quality of the work you have done to enhance the photographs.
I was gladly surprised to see how easy it is to create an online gallery with a few clicks of a button, and have the software even upload it to an FTP and post online.
If you are new to this software, this book will absolutely help you navigate the software with certain ease.
In the other hand, if you have used this software before and still don't master it, this book will guide you into certain not well know procedures and tricks to enhance the images captured by the camera.
The Book also strongly emphasizes on the fact that Lightroom works in a nondestructive way, this meaning, that all your original photos are untouched by the software, virtual changes are done within the program, and once you are happy with one, five, ten variations of the original, you can save them all, or output them to print, web, etc.
I have really enjoyed reading through the pages of this book enhancing my
knowledge on the use of this brilliant little program by Adobe.
 Good book... bad illustrations March 29, 2009
Bill Vanoss
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Good book: This book is very concise and well written. It gave me enough information to be up and running with Photoshop Lightroom 2. It was most helpful open, next to the monitor as I worked in Lightroom.
Bad illustrations: Cheap, dark, muddled gray photos. For example, item #51 regarding white balance is illustrated with one 2x2 dark, gray photo. Likewise, item #59 attempts to illustrate changing hue, saturation and luminance with dark, poor quality, gray photos. I wonder if the Chris Orwig knew Adobe would choose the cheap printing route when he wrote this for them? At times it sounds like he is stuggling to make up in text what is missing in the illustrations. When I buy a book with the Adobe trade mark on it I expect high quality "color" screen shots and photos, not muddled gray.
Great Book for this program March 24, 2009
Curtis E. Roberts Jr. (Houston, TX)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I found the book well organized. It moves from getting started with the program through more advanced techniques effectively. The instructions are clear and concise with excellent screen shots depicting the steps in each section.
 Worthless to me March 20, 2009
Vondo
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
If you are expecting a cook-book, something that shows you how to do 100 things not covered in a manual, you will be very disappointed. This is basically a very thin manual of Lightroom broken up into 100 so-called tips or techniques.
None of them are how-to recipes. For instance, one of the "tips" is how much RAM and hard-drive space your computer should have to run Lightroom. That's printed on the box.
But even as a manual, I wouldn't recommend this. The book is in black and white! This is crazy for a book showing you how to manipulate photographs. There is a "tip" explaining the noise reduction sliders and he has two postage stamp sized pictures of before and after. Both are just a uniform gray.
Save your money. But something like the excellent Lightroom for Digital Photographers by Scott Kelly which is worth ten times what this book is.
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