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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book The Complete Guide for Photographers
Adobe Press |August 10, 2008 | 624 pages | PDF | 57MB | ISBN-10:0-321-55561-9 | ISBN-13: 978-0-321-55561-8

While Adobe Photoshop has long been their choice for editing digital photographs, many photographers want a more focused tool. That?s where Adobe Photoshop Lightroom comes in. Designed from the ground up with digital photographers in mind, Photoshop Lightroom offers powerful editing features in a streamlined interface that lets photographers import, sort, and organize images. This completely updated and expanded bestseller, The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book, was also written with photographers in mind.

Author Martin Evening describes features in Photoshop Lightroom 2 in detail from a photographer?s perspective. As an established commercial and fashion photographer, Martin knows first-hand what photographers need for an efficient workflow. He has also been working with Lightroom from the beginning, monitoring the product?s development and providing feedback on the public beta. As a result, Martin knows the software inside and out, from image selection to image editing to image management.

The book structure has been organized to match a typical Lightroom workflow. The introductory chapter provides an overview of all the main Lightroom features, showing how Lightroom 2 was used on a studio photo shoot that was specially shot to illustrate the book. The following chapters cover all the essentials, such as importing photos, working with the Library module, and managing the catalog database. The biggest section of the book is devoted to working with the Develop module and provides some unique insights into working with new features such as the localized adjustment tools. There is also a whole chapter devoted to image sharpening and another on integrating Lightroom and Photoshop, where you will learn how to devise the best workflow methods for working between these two programs. This is followed by a chapter on printing and a presentation chapter on the Slideshow and Web modules. Lastly, there are two appendix chapters. One offers a complete overview of the Lightroom 2 preference settings, while the other provides some in-depth explanations and background reading on how the Lightroom program works.

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