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Author: Nat Coalson
ISBN : 1118645219
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Manage your images with Lightroom and this beautifully illustrated guide
Image management can soak up huge amounts of a photographer's time, but help is on hand. This complete guides teaches you how to use Adobe Lightroom 5 to import, manage, edit, and showcase large quantities of images with impressive results. The authors, both professional photographers and Lightroom experts, walk you through step by step, demonstrating real-world techniques as well as a variety of practical tips, tricks, and shortcuts that save you time. Streamline image management tasks like a pro, and get back to doing what you love — taking photographs.
- Teaches you digital imaging fundamentals, as well as specific skills you need to master Adobe's Lightroom 5 digital photography workflow software
- Explores capturing, importing, editing, processing, and presenting digital photos
- Explains real-world, professional-level techniques through easy-to-follow instructions and beautiful, full-color examples
- Frees you to focus on your creative photography abilities by helping you develop strong technical skills
Learn not only the "how" of editing and handling photographs with Lightroom 5, but the "why" as well, with Lightroom 5: Streamlining Your Digital Photography Process.
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- Paperback: 512 pages
- Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (July 29, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1118645219
- ISBN-13: 978-1118645215
- Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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I seem to remember that the 1.0 version of Lightroom was really simple, with many fewer options than Photoshop. Even though it's still a lot easier to learn and use than Photoshop, the number of sliders, buttons and panels has increased tremendously, although generally that's been to meet the needs of photographers to control the post-processing of digital images.
Besides chapters on the main Lightroom modules of Library, Develop, Map, Book, Slideshow, Print and Web, this book has separate chapters on Getting Started, Import, Export and Catalog. Each chapter begins with a brief look at what's new since the last major version of Lightroom, and a brief overview of the function's workflow. (The "what's new" can prove extremely useful for one familiar with Lightroom, even though it may require flipping back-and forth between the index and the explanation. Lightroom has matured enough that it is time for publishers to consider putting out a short book or pamphlet for new versions dealing with just the new functions.) Next the author tells you what each of the panels, buttons and sliders for a function do. They don't miss a step. This is a great refresher for somebody who may be using Lightroom, but not utilizing every possible function. It can also be a good reference for someone who doesn't remember the in and outs of a particular tool. Unfortunately, the book is less useful for a total beginner.
The images shown in the book can be downloaded from a website. But even with the available images, and even if the reader followed along with the book at the computer, as the authors recommend, the book would still not be very useful to a beginner.
Lightroom is both a digital asset management tool that uses an underlying database and an image processing or editing tool and this combination of capabilities makes the learning curve steeper than with a single purpose application like Photoshop or InDesign. It is also easier to create a situation where after hours of importing files into libraries and creating collections to find that the result is not at all efficient for finding a particular image when needed.
I first bought Scott Kelby's book on Lightroom 5 and after a few days going through it I found so many gaps and such a cursory coverage of the digital asset managment aspects that I went in search for another book. Fortunately I found Robert Sylvan's update of Nat Coalson's book on Lightroom. Is it perfect? Of course not though part of the difficulty in working through the material is that Lightroom itself does not have an intuitive workflow process. Each user needs to develop the process for themselves and Robert provides a great deal of useful information on how to do this.
I would have greatly appreciated having available a work flow chart as it is very difficult to follow the multiple threads (regarding importing and filenaming and adding keywords and meta data - which includes keywords, and loading them into libraries and creating collections. There are some things that are easier to understand in a flow chart or similar graphic than from reading pages of text located at multiple places in the book.
I can work through that though as the information is actually there unlike with Scott Kelby's book on Lightroom 5.