The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter)
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The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter) Details
About the Author Scott Kelby is the world’s #1 best-selling author of books on photography, as well as Editor and Publisher of Photoshop User magazine, and President of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP). He’s the co-host of the highly acclaimed webcast The Grid (the weekly photography talk show), and teaches digital photo and imaging workshops around the world. Scott is an award winning author of more than 50 books, including The Adobe Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers, The Digital Photography Book (parts 1, 2, 3 & 4), Light It, Shoot It, Retouch It, and Professional Portrait Retouching Techniques for Photographers Using Photoshop. Read more
Reviews
This is really 3.5 stars. I got Lightroom 5 several weeks ago - first Lightroom product; wanted a physical product I could refer to while trying to figure it out. This fits the bill and has indeed helped me learn some of the techniques and tweaks that are possible with the program. The explanations are clear; the instructions mostly spot on. My problem with it is that there is a LOT of flipping back and forth in the book. For instance, you can be on (say) page 40 and on step 2 of what Kelby is trying to describe. He then says, go back to xx page, or go forward to xx page. And, in the first three or four chapters, this happens every page or so. Fortunately, I have tons of post-it-notes and spent a bit of time writing on them and using them as bookmarks. But, by chapter 6, I had so many little notes sticking up from the book, it became hard to follow. All that said, it is an instructional book and if you read it, it could likely make this part of your workflow easier. Perhaps in his next iteration, Kelby could come up with a way to understand not all of us started with Lightroom 1 or 2 and make some page flipping less needed.
