Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.1 for the Professional Pho...

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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.

*The most comprehensive guide available on Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, fully up-to-date with all of the new features of version 1.1
*Learn how to integrate this powerful software into your own workflow to maximize your productivity
*Written by two industry experts and packed with inspiring images to show you what you can achieve with Lightroom 1.1 and this handy guide by your side!
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #685651 in Books
* Published on: 2007-10-22
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 208 pages

Editorial Reviews

Review
"...Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.1 for the Professional Photographer might be the ideal bit of pre-reading for those considering a costly Lightroom purchase: providing a basic overview of how to get started using Lightroom to its full potential, this book provides a great entry point for more serious photographers looking to test out what Adobe's latest has to offer." -- David Rasnake, DigitalCameraReview.com, Feb 2008

About the Author
David Plotkin is a software writer (he has written 5 books and numerous articles), technical editor and photographer
Customer Reviews

Mac users take note2
I'm so annoyed, I had the buy the book and read the introduction in order to find that the authors have focused on the PC platform rather than on the Mac. There is nothing on the cover, nor in the presentation blurb to indicate this. The authors state that they are 'hard core Windows users' which has sadly marginalised a respectable number of Mac readers, (unless, like me, they bought the book unknowingly.)

This Lightroom book makes your photographic work LIGHT5
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.

Not Enough Information2
The tag in the title of this book "for the Professional Photographer" might create the implication that it contains advanced techniques in the use of Lightroom image processing software. However, what the authors present is a rather straightforward introduction to Lightroom. The book contains chapters on importing digital images into Lightroom and organizing them with the library module, adjusting them in the development module, and outputting them as slideshows, prints or websites. Unfortunately, rather then provide advanced techniques, the book often fails to mention rather fundamental techniques.

Typical is the discussion of comparing images to select the best one. The authors indicate that two selected photos can be compared on the monitor screen using the "C" key as a shortcut. To compare more than two pictures they suggest typing the shortcut key "N". When this shortcut is used, all of the multiple photos are displayed simultaneously and, as the mouse cursor is rolled over pictures, a small x appears in a corner of the picture which may be clicked to delete the picture from the pool. This works, but if there are a large number of pictures to be compared the images may be too small to be useful. When more than two pictures are selected, most experienced Lightroom users would type the letter "C" which would allow comparison of two larger images at a time with the deleted competitor being replaced by the next selection. (In the same discussion they suggest that when only one picture is selected, using the "C" key allows a comparison of a single photo's before and after adjustments. In actuality, the key that does that is the "Y" key.)

In a similar vein, the authors suggest that in creating a collection, which is a sort of special file of photographs, one should highlight the collection name and then drag a thumbnail of the image to be added to the highlighted collection name. Actually, it's not necessary to highlight the collection name to drag an image into the collection. It doesn't hurt to highlight the collection name, but it just adds an unnecessary step to the process.

When the authors discuss keywords, they don't mention parent-child relations or the ability to export and import keyword lists into Lightroom, and when they mention catalog backups they don't point out that the location for backups can be changed, which one certainly would want to consider if a backup is made to protect from drive failure.

Although the book purports to cover the changes made to Lightroom in version 1.1 there is no mention of the vastly improved sharpening facility that that upgrade provided. There is also no mention of the integration of Lightroom with other software, like Adobe Photoshop.

These topics may be covered by the not always user-friendly on-line help for Lightroom, but it would certainly make it easier for a new user, to whom most of the instruction seems to be aimed, if the authors dealt with such topics.

Readers interested in learning more about using all of Lightroom's capabilities would be better served by reading Scott Kelby's "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers,The (Voices That Matter)" (even if its corny humor is a bit off-putting, and even though the reader will have to find the 1.1 supplement on the internet), and users seeking a deeper understanding of Lightroom may want to read Rob Sheppard's "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for Digital Photographers Only)" or Gulbins and Steinmueller's "Managing Your Photographic Workflow with Photoshop Lightroom".