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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques
Author: Chris Orwig
Publisher: Adobe Press
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 10 reviews
Sales Rank: 44435

Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 248
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.9 x 0.6

ISBN: 0321526376
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.696
EAN: 9780321526373
ASIN: 0321526376

Publication Date: August 21, 2008
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Product Description
Build your Lightroom expertise, one technique at a time. Why sort through piles of unrelated documentation when you can focus on the essential techniques? In Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 How-Tos, author Chris Orwig brings you the best techniques to quickly organize and correct your digital images using this powerful program created specifically for photographers. Complete with illustrations and practical tips, these bite-sized lessons from Chris’s experience as a photographer and instructor provide just the information you need. Here you can explore the program at your own pace, spending less time at your computer and more time behind the lens taking great pictures.

Coverage includes

• Customizing the Interface
• Understanding File Formats
• Finding Images with Text, Refine, and Metadata Filters
• Using Presets in Quick Develop
• Correcting White Balance
• Applying Settings to Other Images
• Changing Hue, Saturation, and Luminance
• Dodging and Burning with the Adjustment Brush
• Customizing Web Galleries




Customer Reviews:   Read 5 more reviews...

3 out of 5 stars Adobe lightroom--how to   December 30, 2008
E. Stubbs (Newark, DE, USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful

The jury is still out on this one. No decision made on whether it has help me or not. Not sure if I am impressed with it. I have never used Lightroom before so this is a first time 'HOW TO' book for me. I am still reading it and so I haven't given up on it, yet.


4 out of 5 stars Very good but could be better   December 14, 2008
Phil White (Lake Havasu City, AZ)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I am literate with Photoshop and Illustrator but found a steep learning curve learning Lightroom. I read and studied Kelby's book "the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom book for digital photographers" and found it lacked essential basic information (like what is a catalog and how that differs from files)though it did cover many subjects. This book "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques" by Chris Orwig answered 99% of my questions succinctly. It gave me a working, bread and butter, knowledge of how the program works, what it does that other programs don't, and why and how I should use it.
Now the negatives, only one. Lousy print quality. The examples are to small to see without a magnifying glass and everything is in black and white.
Would I recommend? Unequivocal Yes. Read it first and if you still have questions then buy Kelby's book. At least you'll have a foundation to use to start learning from Kelby....



3 out of 5 stars Adobe? Really?   November 15, 2008
Richard A. Selby
6 out of 7 found this review helpful

First the good, this book is very concise and to the point. I use the index to locate what I'm looking for and viola', a nice description that's to the point without a load of fill and fluff. I like this very much.

The bad: Ahhh... Black and white photos, are you kidding? When I buy a book with the Adobe trade mark on it I expect high quality "color" screen shots and photos, not Black and White. I didn't research this enough to know it was B&W, that's my fault.

I would have given this 2.5 stars if it were possible, the writing/instruction is good, the image design really needs to be reworked with sharper color images.



5 out of 5 stars Invaluable for computer and photography libraries for all levels of user   November 10, 2008
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

Build Lightroom expertise the easy way, with a step-by-step coverage of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2. Everything is covered, from the basics of understanding file formats and applying images to other settings to changing appearances, applying saved settings to other images, and covering to grayscale or reducing redeye. Chris Orwig is a professional photographer and teacher, so his tips come from an expert and make this invaluable for computer and photography libraries for all levels of user.


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