This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.

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

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 20 Ratings

Very Helpful - 2009-06-23
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This book really helped me in getting further with photoshop. I was totally overwhelmed when I looked for a book to read and a friend recommended this one. When I read through it, it was very user friendly with pictures and examples of how to do things (although color would have been nice). Now I feel much more competent and comfortable with lightroom. I really appreciate Chris Orwig's inspiration- he made this topic so full of life for me, whereas other books tend to be dry and boring.

Quick and readable reference - 2009-05-01
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This book was a "must-buy" for me because it made it so easy to lookup and learn about specific features of Lightroom 2. I liked and used Scott Kelby's Lightroom 1 book, but I always felt innundated with too much information. Orwig's book is a KISS book....Keep It Simple for the Student. When I am working in Lightroom and I need to learn more about a feature or process I can quickly look it up and read the one or two pages of concise information that I need to know. Sometimes when I am away from my computer and have time to kill I'll thumb through the book to refresh my memory on a procedure or look for procedures I don't know.

I would have given it 5 stars but it omitted any reference to the "keyword stamper tool"; a serious omission for such a useful function.

One more Adode Lightroom book. But probably the better one of the lot. - 2009-04-26
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With an endless sea of offerings in Amazon for books about Adobe's Lightroom, it was not easy to select one that was worth its salt.

I am very glad that I choose this one, it may seem a bit simple, and non technical, but it gets many important points across in a simple listing of 100 things to know about the software, and it lists them in the natural order of your actual workflow.

The book is broken down in chapters that cover each and every module inside Lightroom, from file management and organizing, which can become a bit of a nightmare, when you are trying to sort from thousands of photos, to the techniques of retouching and adjusting lighting in certain areas of the photo.
Lightroom is an extremely powerful program and I only use it for my hobbie, but by reading the book and learning about some of the more technical features and capabilities of the software I have radically been able to change photographs that I would have considered trashing into the recycle.

The book also covers some of the final steps and outputing the already photos to print, web, etc., and it does in a very informative way, allowing you to maximize the quality of the work you have done to enhance the photographs.
I was gladly surprised to see how easy it is to create an online gallery with a few clicks of a button, and have the software even upload it to an FTP and post online.

If you are new to this software, this book will absolutely help you navigate the software with certain ease.
In the other hand, if you have used this software before and still don't master it, this book will guide you into certain not well know procedures and tricks to enhance the images captured by the camera.

The Book also strongly emphasizes on the fact that Lightroom works in a nondestructive way, this meaning, that all your original photos are untouched by the software, virtual changes are done within the program, and once you are happy with one, five, ten variations of the original, you can save them all, or output them to print, web, etc.

I have really enjoyed reading through the pages of this book enhancing my
knowledge on the use of this brilliant little program by Adobe.

Lousy - the manual does the same as the book - 2009-10-11
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I bouth this and The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers.

The other book is much better. It's actually a book with usefull information. This one is just a different way of organizing and repeating the information that is in the manual. It just explains the menus and funcions but does a lousy job at describing the effects and when to use each one, to what extent. If you read the original manual you will end up with the same info. I actuall have the impression there are parts of the book wich are copied from the adobe manual.

This book is not worth the money, get The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers instead.

Spectacularly useless, tiny poor b/w images. Beware! - 2009-10-08
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The idea as such was possibly quite good: Provide a plethora of quick examples of how to achieve specific tasks in Lightroom. Execution is not to be recommended. Foremost, the book is in black and white. How in heaven should a reader understand fine adjustment of white balance and color from that?? Numerous fuzzy images are of a size of a post stamp, and to make things even worse, the print itself is of a questionable quality. One especially bizarre example caught my eye instantly: Curious to see if authors discuss some interesting details of noise reduction sliders, such as luminance versus color, I looked up their tip. They just tell to compare at 100% magnification, what is obvious from the manual anyways, and show two postage stamp sized pictures of "before and after," both looking identical uniform gray! I could go on and enumerate here several more of such "before and after" worthless smeared gray rectangles with meaningless "chunks of something."

Of all the books about photography which I have seen so far, this one gets the "most worthless" gold award. You have been warned.

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