Lightroom Transformations: Realizing your vision with Adobe Lightroom plus Photoshop

by Martin Evening

Photographer and digital imaging expert Martin Evening's guiding philosophy when editing images is to ask, “What is the point? Does what I am doing enhance the picture, or is it just artifice for artifice’s sake?” In Lightroom Transformations, Martin applies this approach to a broad collection of images, showing you how to turn ordinary-looking photos into hero shots—without using fancy montage techniques or wacky effects. By giving each image his own interpretation and explaining the rationale behind the choices he makes, he shows how you can do the same when processing your photos.

 

Focusing primarily on techniques using Lightroom and Camera Raw—but also with Photoshop—Martin demonstrates how to manipulate the tones and composition of images to create photographs that correspond to your personal photographic vision. Filled with before-and-after shots with detailed explanations of how to go from an ordinary image to an extraordinary one, the book illustrates what you can achieve using Lightroom or Photoshop as a creative tool to enhance the natural beauty that lies within your images.

Helps you pre-visualize the end result you would like for your photos, and provides easy-to-follow steps for simple edits to polish almost any image Includes tips on shooting technique to improve your images in-camera Demonstrates how to recompose existing shots to illustrate how a photograph could have been shot and composed better Includes short videos that demonstrate some of the techniques discussed in the book

Genres: Photography

266 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 22, 2016

About the author

Inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame in 2008, Martin Evening is an internationally renowned photographer. Working principally on studio-based beauty photography, Martin uses Photoshop to retouch or manipulate to some degree nearly every image he produces.

Reviews

[Paul Taylor · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have some of Martin Evening’s other books regarding how to use the Lightroom software. Those books are excellent. This book takes a more holistic approach and explains how to achieve certain objectives from using the camera settings, via manipulation in Lightroom, to printing and publishing. Photoshop is also more than mentioned, this is great if you have Photoshop but a bit of a timewaster / filler if you don’t (which I don’t, I want to get the best out of my photos not image manipulate with special effects etc. … I speed read those sections). Martin Evening understands the technology behind the software and inside the camera, how the camera sensor works etc. I’m very interested in these aspects as it helped me understand what’s happening ‘under the hood’. This is an excellent book and I picked up some good tips, but I don’t think it was as good as the authors software specific instruction manuals. I don’t hesitate in giving this 5 stars though, even though chunks of this book (Photoshop and printing) weren’t really relevant to what I do. Mr Evening is a master at technical publications in this area, he understands the camera, photography, and editing software. I will keep buying his books.

[Rick Decorie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am keeping this book by my computer should I have questions when using Lightroom. A lot of good information can be found in this easy to read book. It has examples of everything you could possibly do in Lightrooom. It also goes into Photoshop as well, but on a limited basis. If you are new to Lightroom, or you just want to refresh your memory on some things, this is the book you need.