The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter)
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About the Author Scott is Editor, Publisher, and co-founder of Photoshop User magazine, co-host of The Lightroom Show, and co-host of The Grid, the weekly, live talk show for photographers, and Executive Producer of the top-rated weekly show Photoshop User TV. He is President and CEO of KelbyOne, an online training and education firm dedicated to teaching Lightroom, Photoshop, and photography, based outside Tampa, Florida. Scott is a photographer, designer, and award-winning author of more than 60 books, including Photoshop for Lightroom Users, Professional Portrait Retouching Techniques for Photographers Using Photoshop, Light It, Shoot It, Retouch It: Learn Step by Step How to Go from Empty Studio to Finished Image, The Adobe Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers, and The Digital Photography Book, parts 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5. For the past five years, Scott has been honored with the distinction of being the world’s #1 best-selling author of photography technique books. His book, The Digital Photography Book, part 1, is now the best-selling book on digital photography in history. And, he recently received the HIPA Award for his contributions to photography education worldwide. His books have been translated into dozens of different languages, including Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Korean, Polish, Taiwanese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Arabic, Swedish, Turkish, Hebrew, and Portuguese, among others, and he is a recipient of the prestigious ASP International Award, presented annually by the American Society of Photographers for “…contributions in a special or significant way to the ideals of Professional Photography as an art and a science.” Scott is Training Director for the official Adobe Photoshop Seminar Tour and Conference Technical Chair for the Photoshop World Conference & Expo. He’s a frequent speaker at conferences and trade shows around the world, is featured in a series of online learning courses at KelbyOne.com, and has been training Photoshop users and photographers since 1993. For more information on Scott, visit him at:His daily blog: http://scottkelby.comTwitter: @scottkelbyFacebook: www.facebook.com/skelbyGoogle+: Scottgplus.com Read more
Reviews
Like the rising of the sun, I can't imagine the release of a new version of Lightroom without Peachpit releasing several books explaining the software. This is one of the best of the beginner's books (with perhaps something for more experienced users) about Lightroom 6. (Lightroom CC is the Rental Version of Lightroom 6)If you've never used Lightroom before, this volume does a fine job introducing it. Lightroom includes various modules that do things like catalog images, manipulate the data to make more attractive pictures, and output those images in a variety of forms from images for the internet, prints, web pages and even books. The author follows the process in the same order as a photographer using the software would from taking the image files into the program to outputting them to a variety of media. The author provides several pages for each functions, and provides step-by-step instructions on how to use the function with commentary on the outside of the page and screen captures closer to the gutter. Images are available to download from the publisher's website so that you can follow along step by step. There is no skimping on the instruction so you won't have any surprises.For example, tonality is one of the key steps in post processing images and the author provides enough detail so that you will not only be able to follow his instructions for dealing with the sample images, but also to understand how the process works. Kelby has been providing post-processing instruction for many years in many books and the process he uses is time-tested, Moreover, he is willing to tell you when a particular function is weak or impractical which can be a lot of help. At the beginning of every chapter he tries to provide a humorous introduction, which some people may find sophomoric, but these flights are short.For long-time users of Lightroom, there are a few new functions, and Lightroom is so user friendly that the operation of some of the new functions, like panoramas and HDR, will be intuitive and not require explanation, so that those long-time users might think they don't need this kind of introduction. I've been using Lightroom since the first version and I thought I was accomplished. Imagine my surprise (and embarrassment) on reading the text to discover that Lightroom contained several facilities which could have made my post-processing life easier if I had picked up on them.Most Lightroom 6 books haven't even hit the market yet, but I feel confident in saying that a new user who starts his or her Lightroom life with this book won't be disappointed. Experienced users may also find something they didn't know in this book.
