The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers 1st Edition

It's introduction to Lightroom and explains the basics features, how to use it in your photographic workflow, and some advanced techniques in digital photo processing. I also have the essentially redundant books from Adobe Press and Scott Kelby. I prefer this book's writing style, its features chosen to explore in detail, and the overall results from its recommended system to develop photos.However, if you have Mr. Evening's earlier books for Lightroom 1, 2, 3, or 4 you really don't need this book. The changes in Lightroom between versions are mostly minor improvements with a new feature or two thrown it to get you to upgrade. If you have a good understanding of the product from an earlier book, learning the changes from the next Lightroom release from Adobe marketing or web tutorials is a quicker and cheaper way to go. I bought versions 1 through 5 because I'm just that way. Having read them all I now know I didn't need to.Having a copy is essential. Having multiple is an unnecessary extravagance. The is the best of the books between Martrin Evening, Scott Kelby, and Adobe Press.

Martin Evening writes the most comprehensive books on Photoshop, and now, Lightroom. The most difficult aspects of both of these software packages is their complexity; many features, deep menus, and multiple paths for your workflow. In addition the user interface can be intimidating as many so-called hot keys or keyboard shortcuts are 'overloaded' with alternate actions if the Shift, Control or Alt keys (or 'chords' of these) are depressed. Martin's books lead you through all the features in Lightroom, and is very comprehensive. It is NOT an 'Introduction' or 'ABC' approach; the book is big and heavy... but will remain a complete reference to Lightroom for years.The book does provide step-by-step recipes for accomplishing many common tasks so you do get some excellent guidance, but by no means is this a 'book of recipes'. The recipe books are typically very useful if they cover the tasks you need, but do not provide the underlying reasons for doing things in their specific way.

This was a tedious but necessary read for me. Light room is not intuitive and it almost seems like they (Adobe) are taking you somewhere you don't want to go. For me at any rate.I thought that it was just another program to modify my photo files from digital cameras but you are really signing on to a system or a way of life if you will that will have you wedded with Adobe forever .( not liking that). Having said that if after reading this book and using light room you might want to revisit every digital photo you have ever taken and reprocess them. Yep I hate it and love it but you need this book or some other book to learn what to do as Light room it is not at all intuitive. I have Martin Evening's Photoshop book and this is the same high quality detail intensive nothing left out kind of book. It would appear that Martin is a Photoshop insider and it may be that this allows him a view that other authors may not have. So it is all here in some 700 pages Well illustrated some photo how to pages go on for 3 or 4 pages so the 700 number is just a total and you will breeze through pages that show screen shots with what Mr. Martin has done during those screen shots. Highly recomended.

This book really helped me to use Lightroom. I had for years tried to get into it but unsuccessfully. This book has an amazing index and great photos to show exactly where to click. I was so happy with this author that I ordered his book on Photoshop CC as well. These books are the ones to used. Nobody should be without them.The writing style is excellent. The level of expected knowledge fits me exactly. I could not be happier.

The most detailed analysis and instructions for Light Room. However.. you must realize that Lite Room is for professionals who need a meta data filing system. Half the work of this program is organizimng your files. As an amateur, I have found Light Room to be possibly more than I need. The editing functions are excellent, but it all beigins with the filing system, and if you don't have thousands of shots organize, you may want to look for a simpler program, and not have to read this very thick book

This is a very detailed book and explains the program in great detail. The language within the book is very technical and requires a real understanding of the science of photography. But using the book and the detailed videos within the Lightroom program it is possible to understand and use Lightroom to enhance photos.

Great book. Explains most everything. Great reference to answer your questions. DO NOT JUMP AHEAD to the develop module without understanding the Import functions like I did or you might end up with a ****load of duplicate images on your hard drive. This book coupled with J Kost online tutors cant be beat

This is the second volume I have used (Lightroom 4) and is excellent value through Amazon. The book is written with an easy style that makes the reader want to try out each new component of the program immediately! Martin Evening knows what he is talking about and that shines through in his writing. It is easy to search the text for specific issues and solve a problem. The author is to be congratulated on this text.