Photoshop for Lightroom Users (Digital Photography Courses)
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Photoshop for Lightroom Users (Digital Photography Courses) Details
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.
Reviews
I have always found Scott Kelby's books to pretty good; well written and to the point. I use them more for references than a real manual; when I get stumped I open the book and find the answer. This book does not disappoint, it is exactly what the title says it is - Photoshop for Lightroom users!I have used Photoshop since it's infancy but as it got more and more complicated I just stuck with what I knew. When Lightroom came out I realized that it would do most of what I needed, only going to Photoshop when I just had to. As Lightroom got better and better with each edition (BTW, buy Kelby's Lightroom book, it's great!) and Photoshop got more and more complex I avoided it. When Adobe started the Creative Cloud Photographer bundle I figured since I was paying for Photoshop I may as well learn more about it. I have several Photoshop books, including Kelby's, but they were as intimidating as the program itself already was. So . . . Scott Kelby cleverly put out this book about the same time, an answer to my prayers. It shows me what I need to know and leaves out a lot of the graphic design stuff that a photographer like me just doesn't care about.I teach photography and editing classes at the local art center with Lightroom. I used to cringe when people would ask me Photoshop questions but since I now have the e-book version of this on my iPad I always have it with me, I can look up answers quickly. The students think I am so smart and pay big bucks to take these night classes in Lightroom editing. They could save a lot of money by just ordering this and the Lightroom book, it's all the reference most folks would ever need.Keep shooting!