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The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers
by Martin Evening
from Adobe Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• friendly and comprehensive
  Lightroom seems friendly enough to "learn by doing", but this book taught me a number of techniques and explained details that I had missed. From the ins-and-outs of input and output sharpening, print color-management, and even efficient methods for working through the development sliders, I couldn't ask for more.

• Excellent guide to LR2
  Evening's guide to LR2 is an excellent piece of work. It is well written and illustrated, clearly organized, comprehensive, and accessible to a wide range of readers. It will be valuable for all levels of LR users.
  There are two aspects of Evening's book that I particularly like. First, he puts LR2 in a richer photographic context by including useful short discussions of topics like color management, capture and output sharpening, raw vs. jpg formats, and exposure. He goes beyond the recipe approach,... more info

• First Across the Finish Line
  Adobe began shipping its new Lightroom 2.0 (LR2) software at the end of July. A week later this book was available. It made me think that Martin Evening is really a team of writers, each working on a chapter of this book, or even some smaller portion, and that the publisher, Peachpit, must have incurred huge overtime costs. (Actually, the software was available in beta form for a long time, and authors had final copies of the software before it was delivered to the public.) There are enough changes in... more info

• Great book, it'll really revise your workflow
  After being a digital enthusiast for years and eventually getting into professional photography while still doing a good bit of freelance I have grown accustomed to using programs like Photoshop for image manipulation and even such things as a batch of images needing a slight bit of "punch" to them. Lightroom does all this and more.
  I have to admit after seeing it when it first came out I didnt give it a second look. But with the latest release (2.0) and this book I have really begun to realize what I... more info

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