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The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers [Paperback]

Martin Evening
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30 Jun 2013 0321934407 978-0321934406 1
 

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. In this completely updated bestseller, author Martin Evening describes features in Lightroom 5 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 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 and image management. In this book he’ll teach you how to:

 

  • Work efficiently with images shot in raw or JPEG formats
  • Import photographs with ease and sort them according to your workflow
  • Create and manage a personal image and video library
  • Quickly apply tonal adjustments to multiple images
  • 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 5, such as extended spot
  • removal, Upright™ corrections, and Smart Previews

 

Photographers will find Lightroom 5—and The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5

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, digital photography consultant

 

“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


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  • Paperback: 736 pages
  • Publisher: Adobe; 1 edition (30 Jun 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0321934407
  • ISBN-13: 978-0321934406
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 18.5 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 84,285 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Martin Evening is a UK-based advertising and fashion photographer and noted expert in both photography and digital imaging. In addition to being a bestselling author, Martin is sought after for speaking and lecturing and was inducted into the NAPP Photoshop Hall of Fame. He also works with the Photoshop and Lightroom engineering teams, consulting on new feature development and alpha and beta testing. He is one of the founding members of PixelGenius, a software design company producing automated production and creative plug-ins for Photoshop.


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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book does what it says on the tin. The title is "The Complete Guide " so difficult to justify criticism of the author for being "completist" as one of the reviews does. If you want a book to tell you how to quickly achieve particular effects then go for Scott Kelby (which I also own) or to web tutorials but if you want a reference guide to lightroom that goes well beyond the manual and help's you to understand what each control does "under the hood" and the potential that each has, then this is the book. Put another way if you want to create standard effects in a routine workflow without particularly caring how you are achieving them (nothing wrong with that) then this isn't the book but if you want a "complete guide" rather than set of workflows then this is the best book out there.
As to there being no point to this book because lightroom is a simple application, that just show a lack of understanding of lightroom which has evolved over the years into a complex piece of software capable of myriad effects. I have both LR and PS and back in the days of LR1 and 2 I used to find I would make a least some edits in PS on about 90% of images but as LR has evolved that number has steadily fallen and now I probably open less than 10% of images in PS. Is LR as complex as photoshop? Of course not but that doesn't mean there is no need for the book. If you want to exploit the full potential of LR rather than just slavishly follow effects created by others like Kelby or Kost then this book is what you want.
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48 of 52 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars A white elephant 24 July 2013
By M. Bhangal TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE VOICE
Format:Paperback
In a previous version of this book, the author tells of Mark Hamberg joking that Adobe must have 'failed in its mission to make Lightroom unreasonably simple if you need a book as thick as this one to understand it'.

Unfortunately, I don't think that it is Hamberg (one of the lead people in the development of Lightroom) that has failed.

The trouble is twofold: Evening is (1) a completist, and (2) he doesn't know how to prioritise the things that are important vs. the things that are peripheral. So you end up with a big book that goes through absolutely everything in fine detail, but actually tells you very little about real workflows. Put another way, Evening is more concerned about describing Lightroom than telling you how to actually use it.

If you want to learn Lightroom, steer well clear as this book will simply confuse you. It will make you believe that Lightroom is a complex application. My advice: Google 'learn lightroom adobe tv', and stick to learning only the library and develop module to start off with. They are the only two you will use 90% of the time. (NB - Adobe haven't updated the videos for Lightroom 5 as of this writing, but the lightroom 4 videos are fine for learning).

If you know Lightroom well and want a reference book, then you are probably confusing Lightroom with Photoshop. I have it on good authority that Lightroom is designed to be unreasonably simple and you don't need a reference book for it. What you might need is a concise book of common techniques (which this book isn't), and the Lightroom help pages for when you get stuck, but I have a feeling that Googling 'Julieanne Kost lightroom 5' will get you closer to what you want, and it is free and far quicker.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Lightroom 5 3 Feb 2014
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
well having bought Lightroom 5 after loading it I found it was like a mine field , so I bought this book to use in tandem. the language is not too technical I am a bit of a numpty with computer, but found this book very useful and was well laid out great buy
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Regret buying it. 24 Aug 2013
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I'm a great fan of Martin Evening's books. My problem with this is that I bought the Kindle digital version, which is not that easy to navigate through, book mark or view. Having bought other Evening's books on Photoshop and Lightroom 4 as hard back books, I'm sure the actual hard back book is up to the usual excellent standard.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Very comprehensive 31 Jan 2014
Format:Paperback
This is the third edition of Martin Evening's guide to Lightroom that I have bought. Each time there is a major upgrade to Lightroom I buy the the latest edition which comes out commendably quickly after the release of the software. The guide is very comprehensive & largely rewritten with each version. I can thoroughly recommend the book to all serious users of Lightroom
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Not Recommended as a E Book 13 Sep 2013
By Henry
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is very difficult to use as an ebook and especially not suitable for reading on a small screen or phone
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As ever Martin Evening covers every base with yet another fantastic, easy to follow in depth book on the latest version of Lightroom
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