Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Book, The: The Complete Guide for Photographers

by Martin Evening

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom was designed from the ground up with digital photographers in mind, offering powerful editing features in a streamlined interface that lets photographers import, sort, and organize images. This completely updated bestseller, The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Book, was also written with photographers in mind. Author Martin Evening describes features in Lightroom 3 in detail from a photographer’s perspective. As an established commercial and fashion photographer, Martin knows firsthand what photographers need for an efficient workflow. He has also been working with Lightroom from the beginning, monitoring the product’s development and providing valued feedback to Adobe. As a result, Martin knows the software inside and out, from image selection to image editing to image management. In this book you’ll learn how to:

• Work efficiently with images shot in the raw or JPEG format
• Import photographs with ease and sort them according to your workflow
• Create and manage a personal image library
• Apply tonal adjustments to multiple images quickly
• Integrate Lightroom with Adobe Photoshop
• Export images for print or Web as digital contact sheets or personal portfolios
• Make the most of new features in Lightroom 3, such as automatic lens correction and improved noise reduction

Photographers will find Lightroom 3—and The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Book—indispensable tools in their digital darkrooms.

“With Martin’s expert guidance, you’ll soon find that you have precisely the tools you need to turn your concentration back where it belongs—on making better pictures!”
—George Jardine, Lightroom instructor

“As a photographer himself, Martin Evening knows what tools photographers need to realize their creative vision. In this book, he shows not only how Adobe Photoshop Lightroom works but also why it will become an essential part of any photographer’s workflow.”
—Greg Gorman, photographer

Genres: Photography, Reference, Nonfiction

673 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 8, 2010

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

[Terri · Rating 5 out of 5]

There is so much information for me to learn here that I really need to own it if I want to take post production work seriously. Having it out for three weeks from the library simply doesn't give you enough time.
In saying that, after trialling Photoshop/Lightroom I am not convinced these editing programs are worth buying. Plenty of free photo editing programs that do the basics if you don't want to edit your images too much. And I don't think I want to edit my images heavily.
If you do buy the programs however, I would say this book is a must own (if it works with the Lightroom Version you have).

[Natalie · Rating 5 out of 5]

More of a why as compared to Scott Kelby's "do what I say.". Excellent reference.

[CD · Rating 4 out of 5]

The must have starting point for using Adobe Lightroom 3.

Stunning photography from Martin Evening illustrates the book and his ongoing use of this software.

If there is a weakness, it is that this is more of an encyclopedic rather than a manual type of book. Evening, the author, shows ways to do things and how it works rather than a step by step procedure for many parts of this application. The nature of the design of Adobe Lightroom encourages this and other works that dictate to the user and reader the 'right' way fail and in many cases can't even copy the right information of this and Adobe documentation about how to make Lightroom operate well.

A must have for any user, casual to professional of the Lightroom interface. For either Apple or Windows users. Both variations are well covered.

[Creative Wool Media]

Very detailed with lots of photos (as expected).

[Taryn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Solid book - just knew 'too much' going into it to get a ton out of it.

[Jonathan Carlaw · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rating is provisional, as I'm still working through it - there is a LOT of info in this one!