Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for the Professional Photographer: The Ultimate Guide for Wedding, Portrait, Sports, Fine Art, Fashion and Photojournalism Photographers

By David Huss and David Plotkin

Delve into the ultimate guide for professional photographers Harness the power and flexibility of the latest version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, version 1.1, with this expert guide. Professional photographers David Huss and David Plotkin show you how to work smarter, faster, and more creatively with their personal tips, tricks, and techniques that you can incorporate into your own workflow. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.1 is a powerful tool that you can integrate into your existing workflow to increase your productivity and improve the overall quality of your work. With this ultimate resource by your side, you'll learn how to: .Organize, adjust, process, output, and share digital pictures like the top professionals .Personalize Lightroom with a custom Identity plate .Seamlessly transition between Lightroom and your favorite photo editor .Quickly view and compare multiple shots, pairing selections down to your best work .Correct images, adjust white balance, and fine-tune tone, balance, and exposure, crop and undo-all without altering your originals! .Automate your workflow by applying image adjustments to multiple photos .Output proof and contact sheets .Develop, print and display your digital pictures for friends and clients, all the while saving valuable time .Create slide shows and web postings .And much more... As you move from traditional separate image editing applications to this next generation software that was designed specifically for photographers, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.1 for the Professional Photographer unveils insider secrets and expert advice in this highly visual guide. David Huss is a professional photographer and author who has written more than 30 books. His work has been translated into eight languages. David Plotkin is a technical editor, photographer, and software writer who has written five books and numerous articles.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 024052067X
• ISBN13: 9780240520674
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Focal Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

This Lightroom book makes your photographic work LIGHT

This book is excellent for everyone who wants to use adobe Lightroom to handle his digital photographs. It is very detailed with plenty of examples. A necessity for every Lightroom user.

Outstanding straight-shooter workflow guide for high-volume photographers

Adobe's 'Lightroom' (now in version 1.3) was designed from the ground up for digital photographers. Non-destructive color management and deep retrieval capability are its hallmarks, from importing photos into a catalog database to finished product export for printing, retouching or slide shows. I've dabbled with the software for over a year (from beta testing forward) and should have had a pretty solid handle on it by now ... that is, until Huss & Plotkin chastened me. I've gained a wealth of new tricks, and plucked many a pearl, from this book (for instance, I had dismissed 'Impromptu Slideshow' as a mere gimmick - now I know better). Consider a few caveats before entering 'Lightroom' (LR): first, it performs better with native RAW files ("digital negatives") than with ubiquitous camera-processed compressed JPEGs -- new users ought to have a measure of comfort (easily gained in Photoshop Elements) with RAW processing and Adobe's inscrutable keyboard shortcuts. Although LR is quite intuitive, and its manual unusually instructive, first users might well appreciate easy-flowing introductory hand-holding (see later), rather than plunging head-first into Huss' roll-up-your-sleeves approach. Moreover, as evident from the mixed reviews, the Publisher misjudged in tagging this book for a 'beginning' audience. It is squarely aimed at high-volume users who want to minimize computer interaction and maximize productivity ('workflow'). Although illustrated with Windows screen shots, Mac users need not feel slighted. Omission of a section on 'Sharpening' (not even referenced in the index) is puzzling at first - until one realizes that wedding photographers would rather blur than sharpen the bride's crows feet. That niggle aside, this is a solid, well-rounded and comprehensive workshop on swiftly getting up to speed with LR - hard work, to be sure, but well worth the effort. Refreshing are the authors' unvarnished comments: LR isn't (yet) the best or fastest DAM (Digital Asset Management; fancy term for photo album) around, but it's sure the most versatile; they have little use for subjective star ratings (more suitable for rating movies); Windows Vista gets a thumbs down, the authors reinstalled their stabler and faster Windows-XP/SP2. [The latest LR version (1.3) corrected many Vista and Leopard OS issues; judged by user forum reports, problems with Apple's Leopard OS have dwindled, but sluggish performance and scarcity of hardware drivers remain a major hurdle for Vista users.] Readers new, or fairly new, to LR might look to a bit more of the basics before tackling this daunting topic. Forget the pretty pictures, the 'gee-whiz isn't that easy', or the stale hee-haw jokes books - there just isn't a primrose path to Adobe products (and that includes Elements). I recommend Martin Evening's "The Lightroom Book" [make sure to update it with the free version 1.1 supplement] as an excellent starter as well as comprehensive reference, with polished text