This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.

While Adobe Photoshop has long been their choice for editing digital photographs, many photographers want a more focused tool. That’s where Adobe Photoshop Lightroom comes in. Designed from the ground up with digital photographers in mind, Photoshop Lightroom offers powerful editing features in a streamlined interface that lets photographers import, sort, and organize images. This completely updated and expanded bestseller, The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book, was also written with photographers in mind. Author Martin Evening describes features in Photoshop Lightroom 2 in detail from a photographer’s perspective. As an established commercial and fashion photographer, Martin knows first-hand what photographers need for an efficient workflow. He has also been working with Lightroom from the beginning, monitoring the product’s development and providing feedback on the public beta. As a result, Martin knows the software inside and out, from image selection to image editing to image management.

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book contains 624 pages of comprehensive and detailed coverage of all aspects of Lightroom. In this book you’ll learn how to:

• Work efficiently with images shot in the raw or JPEG format
• Import photographs with ease and sort them according to your workflow
• Create and manage a personal image library
• Apply tonal adjustments to multiple images quickly
• Integrate Photoshop Lightroom with Adobe Photoshop
• Export images for print or Web as digital contact sheets or personal
portfolios

The book structure has been organized to match a typical Lightroom workflow. The introductory chapter provides an overview of all the main Lightroom features, showing how Lightroom 2 was used on a studio photo shoot that was specially shot to illustrate the book. The following chapters cover all the essentials, such as importing photos, working with the Library module, and managing the catalog database. The biggest section of the book is devoted to working with the Develop module and provides some unique insights into working with new features such as the localized adjustment tools. There is also a whole chapter devoted to image sharpening and another on integrating Lightroom and Photoshop, where you will learn how to devise the best workflow methods for working between these two programs. This is followed by a chapter on printing and a presentation chapter on the Slideshow and Web modules. Lastly, there are two appendix chapters. One offers a complete overview of the Lightroom 2 preference settings, while the other provides some in-depth explanations and background reading on how the Lightroom program works.

The book is richly illustrated, mostly using the author’s own photographs, and one of the nice features of this book is the way enlarged panel views are used throughout, making it easier for readers to follow the settings used in the various step-by-step examples. There are also lots of tips that will help you take your Lightroom techniques to an advanced level.

If you are looking for the most comprehensive coverage of Lightroom, written by an author who is closely involved with the development of the program, this is the book to get.

About the Author
Martin Evening is a London-based advertising and fashion photographer and noted expert in both photography and digital imaging. In addition to being a bestselling author, Martin is sought after for speaking and lecturing. He also works with the Photoshop and Lightroom engineering teams, consulting on new feature development and alpha and beta testing. He is one of the founding members of PixelGenius, a software design company producing automated production and creative plug-ins for Photoshop.

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 38 Ratings

The best book if you really want to understand LR - 2009-07-26
Reviewer Rating:
I looked extensively at Kelby's book at a Barnes & Noble, I bought Coalson's book from Amazon based on the glowing 5 star reviews and returned it. As soon as I opened Evening's book I knew it was for me. Just the two Appendices have more technical detail than either book mentioned above combined.

If you want to go beyond the help files, if you have a technical bent, and if you want clearly explained text and not just bullet points or recipes then you will enjoy this book.

Lightroom 2 Guide is Fantastic - 2009-09-22
Reviewer Rating:
I have found this book is all I need to learn Lightroom 2 along with my classroom time. It's written in a very practical way and from a photographer's viewpoint of how the workflow should be done. I would have been lost without this book. Martin Evening is an excellent writer, photographer and instructor. Buy this book! You won't regret it.

Great Book - 2009-09-18
Reviewer Rating:
This book is very well written great layout, Author has very good grasp of the software, doesn't get bogged down, very simply spoken and great images to go along with the topic

Good complete source of info - 2009-10-11
Reviewer Rating:
Great book for Lightroom. Goes beyond the simple software usage and actually explains effects and when to use them.
Way much better than the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques which is lousy.

Worth the money.

A Beginner book - 2009-07-25
Reviewer Rating:
I bought this book after reading its intoduction and users reviews, and I expected to get a book which would take me to the next level in operating LR2 software.
however, the book is a pure "basic" book with no really drill down into the software operation details
it is totally a waste of money for those who can operate the software quite freely, or for those who can watch Youtube
for beginner, it is a nice book

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