Photoshop for Lightroom Users Author: Scott Kelby | Language: English | ISBN:
0321968700 | Format: PDF
Photoshop for Lightroom Users Description
Anyone who uses Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for image management, editing, and workflow knows it is great software, and it has only gotten better with each new version. But there comes a time in every Lightroom user’s life when they want to do something…and they just can’t do it. While Lightroom covers the vast majority of a photographer’s needs–many say it covers roughly 80% of a professional imaging workflow–it just can’t do everything a shooter needs to put the final touches on a great image.
Scott Kelby, the #1 bestselling author of photography books, wrote Photoshop for Lightroom Users exactly for those Lightroom users who have recognized that they need Photoshop for the other 20% of their workflow, which will take their images to the next level. There is already a substantial audience for this book, and of course Adobe’s brand-new offering of a Lightroom and Photoshop Creative Cloud bundle for $9.99/month will certainly help grow this Lightroom-and-Photoshop audience very quickly in the coming months.
These users don’t need to know everything about Photoshop. They just need to know the essentials edits, techniques, retouching tutorials, and tweaks that they can’t perform in Lightroom, but which will take their images up a notch. Scott covers everything from compositing to adding text over an image to retouching to creating a book cover to advanced sharpening techniques. With Photoshop for Lightroom Users, readers will learn all they need to know in order to fold Photoshop into their imaging workflow with Lightroom.
- Series: Digital Photography Courses
- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (December 29, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0321968700
- ISBN-13: 978-0321968708
- Product Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (not to be confused with just "Adobe Photoshop") is a great piece of software that allows photographers not just to catalog their work, or turn it into all kinds of media, but to process their raw files to adjust color and tonality to make their photographs look like their vision. The interface is a lot easier to use then its big brother Photoshop but there are things that are harder to do in Lightroom, like make local adjustments to a part of the image, or that can't be done at all, like join images to make a panorama. That's why a lot of photographers use both pieces of software to process their images.
Scott Kelby's "Photoshop for Lightroom Users" looks just like the knowledge store to allow Lightroom users to learn how to use the senior software to do those things Lightroom can't do. The book starts with a very quick walk-through of Photoshop tools like selections, layers and cloning. There is a chapter on moving images back and forth between Lightroom and Photoshop and some of the Photoshop tools that are not available in Lightroom like panorama creation and high dynamic range processing. Additional chapters show how to retouch portraits, create composites, apply special effects and sharpen images. There is even a chapter explaining effects that you don't have to go into Photoshop to achieve.
Kelby's tutorials are masterful, taking you step by illustrated step to achieve a result, and there is even a website with the images used in the tutorials that can be downloaded to follow the tutorial on your own computer. I learned how to more effectively use a few tools that I thought I had mastered.
The big however is that the instructions are inadequate if you are a beginner who wants to learn how to use Photoshop.
"Photoshop for Lightroom Users" by Scott Kelby is another extremely useful guide for Lightroom users written by proven expert.
As a longtime fan of amateur photography that I consider my favorite hobby, some time ago I discovered Lightroom application that has proven as an excellent choice for managing collections of images and various modifications in terms of their improving.
That was also the reason why I heard about Scott Kelby due to his books "Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers" that I began to regularly follow with each new version of the application due to author's great knowledge and rich experience that he nicely presented in his guides.
In this edition, Kelby decided to address other known application for image processing - Photoshop, that is probably the most commonly associated with various modifications that can be made with any photo.
Of course, in order to completely present such complex application as the Photoshop that would require lot of space, so the author has made an excellent choice to limit his guide on those Photoshop options and features that will be most beneficial to Lightroom users.
But that doesn't mean that he covered only basic options, just the opposite, because in some areas the author has gone deep into Photoshop functions, offering very useful information that will facilitate image processing in combined usage of these two applications.
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