Product Description

Take your digital photography to the next level by learning how to use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 with Photoshop Lightroom 2 for Dummies! From how to install Lightroom and navigate the Lightroom interface to playing with advanced options like creating slideshows and sharing photos with friends and family, this easy–to–understand guide will walk you through every step.

You’ll find out all about the Lightroom modules and their functions while understanding the role of the Lightroom catalog, how to care for it, and work with its functions. You will learn everything about working with digital photographs, from distinguishing among various file formats to managing and importing photos. You’ll find out how to view, find, organize and develop photos in the library and utilize the digital darkroom. You’ll even find out how to work with external editors. After reading this book, you will know how to:

• Install and get started with Lightroom
• Recognize the role and function of the Lightroom catalog
• Manage and save files
• View, find, organize, and develop photos in the library
• Unleash your creativity with photo editing options
• Share and export files to share them with friends and family
• Create copies, slideshows, and web galleries

Complete with lists of ten resources, ten common problems and solutions, and ten favorite tips and tricks, Photoshop Lightroom 2 For Dummies is your one–stop guide to setting up, working with, and making the most of Photoshop Lightroom for all your digital photography needs.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15417 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

From the Back Cover
The secrets of Lightroom explained in plain English!

Whether you′re new to Lightroom or just want to get the most out of it, you′ve come to the right place. Discover how Lightroom′s five modules work together to improve your workflow, so you can manage data for batch processing, streamline the fine–tuning, and produce eye–popping images, prints, Web galleries, and slideshows with less hassle.

• Manage with modules — organize with Library, edit with Develop, create presentations with Slideshow, use Print for a color–managed workflow, and put images online with Web

• Save time — leverage the power of Lightroom′s database to manage and process images with a single tool

• Maximize the Catalog — customize and optimize Lightroom′s database nerve center

• Streamline — create file name templates for batch renaming and embed information with metadata templates

• Clean it up — customize the interface to clear away clutter and make your workspace look just the way you want

Open the book and find:

• Solutions for setting up and managing your workflow

• Steps for automatically renaming files and adding metadata when importing

• Time–saving tips using the Quick Develop panel

• How to make adjustments and fix common problems without altering the original image data

• What the Grid, Loupe, Compare, and Survey views offer

• How simple it is to generate sophisticated online Web galleries and slide shows

About the Author
Rob Sylvan is a trainer, instructional designer, writer, Web developer, and photographer. He is a Help Desk Specialist for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals and he′s the Site Director for iStockphoto.com. Rob writes the Lightroom–focused "Under the Loupe" column for Photoshop User magazine.

Customer Reviews

The best beginners' guide
This book is by far the best beginners guide to Lightroom 2. What it lacks in details of sophisticated processing techniques, it more than makes up for in easy-to-follow steps for getting to grips with this highly complex program for the first time.
When presented with an application as initially baffling as Lightroom 2, it is easy to get totally overwhelmed by the enormous number of options there are at every stage of every process. By taking a do-this-don't-do-that approach, this book enables one to start using Lightroom almost instantly.
This approach is so much better than other books which start by considering all the options in detail, leaving the reader in total confusion as what is best to do. I found this book an excellent prelude to exploring Scott Kelby's detailed book, which fills out the techniques learnt initially in the Dummies book.

Dont leave home without it!
If you are a newcomer to Lightroom, this is essential.

Lightroom is a way of working not just another piece of software. Like other Photoshop products, there are numerous 'hidden' features that you will not find without reading the book. Generally I can find my way around a piece of software without a manual, but not with Lightroom. The organisation and understanding of the Catalogue is essential. Without this book I would have been so frustrated, I think I would have given up.

It is well written, and easy to follow.

A very worthwhile buy
I'm about 2/3 of the way through. It's very clear and very good. I like the chatty style. I can't think of anything to criticise about it - the pictures are also good. I'd just be stuck if I didn't have it as there is no guide within Lightroom when you buy it (or at least both versions I bought from Amazon didn't have a guide book - I returned one thinking this was an error - what a bizarre customer care policy Adobe has?!). So this is a very worthwhile purchase.