- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media (Oct 22 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0596521014
- ISBN-13: 978-0596521011
- Product Dimensions: 25.3 x 20.5 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #256,162 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
Product Description
This beautifully illustrated and eminently practical book offers a complete tour of Lightroom 2, the integrated digital photography workflow application that allows serious photographers to import, select, develop and showcase large volumes of digital images. Augmented by photos and case studies from a demanding road test in Tasmania, award-winning photographer Mikkel Aaland explains how Lightroom can improve the way you work.
After watching -- and often helping -- Adobe create Lightroom entirely from the ground up, Aaland (author of Photoshop CS3 RAW) decided to try it out in the field. He organized a group of top-notch photographers for a trek to Tasmania, the exotic island south of mainland Australia, where the only studio was Lightroom on a laptop. In Photoshop Lightroom 2 Adventure, Aaland uses hands-on knowledge from the trip to demonstrate how Lightroom can help you create the best possible image under any conditions.
This unique tutorial walks you step-by-step through Lightroom's:
- Library module for uploading, sorting, tagging, ranking and adding keywords to your images
- Develop module with Adobe Camera RAW for complete non-destructive color and tonal adjustments
- Slideshow module, where you select and size images, and export the show to HTML, Flash, or PDF formats
- Print module, which includes several templates for printing contact sheets or full images
- Web module, where you can create Flash or HTML web galleries
With many gorgeous examples shot in the exotic wilds of Tasmania, this book lets you see the results for yourself. Mikkel Aaland's trademark ability to teach complicated topics on digital imaging with straightforward, easy-to-follow text makes this book a valuable learning tool for anyone serious about digital photography.
About the Author
Mikkel Aaland is an award winning photographer and author of 12 books on digital photography, including Photoshop RAW (now in its second edition) and the first Lightroom Adventure (Iceland) edition. Mikkel is a prominent figure in the Lightroom community and with the adventure concept has established a strong place on Adobe's radar for this product. He's presented on Lightroom for Adobe at Photokina and Photo Plus Expo, and he taught the Lightroom 2-day seminar at this year's Macworld.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A pleasure to read,
By J. Kew "Vancouver-Indesign User Group" (Vancouver, British Columbia Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Photoshop Lightroom 2 Adventure: Mastering Adobe's Next-Generation Tool for Digital Photographers (Paperback)
Photoshop Lightroom 2 Adventure: Mastering Adobe's Next-Generation Tool for Digital Photographers by Mikkel Aaland.
This is a different style of book from what you normally find in project based books. While it has it's fair share of screen shots as you would expect, it's also beautifully illustrated with some amazing photography from a wide array of professional photographers. The landscape of the photos is from a Tasmanian photo trek. Mikkel Aaland takes you on a fabulous journey through Lightroom as you experience not only his photographic skill but also his Lightroom workflow. This is one of the better Lightroom books available. The beginning of the book introduces you to the 18 photographers and 5 Adobe Lightroom Developers that Mikkel on this trip. Everyday for 10 days they would shoot, then every night for those 10 days they would spend their evenings processing the days worth of shots thru Lightroom 2. The end result is this fabulous book.
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4.4 out of 5 stars (12 customer reviews) 17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Book,
By Pablo Serrano - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Photoshop Lightroom 2 Adventure: Mastering Adobe's Next-Generation Tool for Digital Photographers (Paperback)
I bought Scott Kelby's Lightroom book and I wasn't very happy with it because I think it is not very thorough. Not satisfied with Kelby's book, I bought Lightroom2Adventure and this book is way more thorough and very well organized. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn LR.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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Learn a lot while being inspired!,
By Catherine Hall - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Photoshop Lightroom 2 Adventure: Mastering Adobe's Next-Generation Tool for Digital Photographers (Paperback)
This book does what all photography software books should do. It is clear, well organized, concise, easy to comprehend and is loaded with phenomenal imagery. A must have for both new and advanced LR users.
23 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good, but not great,
By Robert J. Rockefeller - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Photoshop Lightroom 2 Adventure: Mastering Adobe's Next-Generation Tool for Digital Photographers (Paperback)
I'm a recent Lightroom 2.1 convert and have Scott Kelby's Lightroom 2 book. This book was a purchase intended to learn more about the actual use of the program, as opposed to how all the buttons work, and in that I was disappointed. The Lightroom 2 Adventure provides good basic instruction on how the Lightroom features work, but not nearly as much about why you'd use them as I was hoping.
So I'm still looking for a "Lightroom 2 in Practice" sort of book. |
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