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| Book: | Photoshop Lightroom Adventure | |
| Subject: | Photoshop Lightroom Adventure | |
| Date: | 2008-04-02 21:58:03 | |
| From: | Clara Howard | |
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The book is about mastering Lightroom, Adobe’s next-generation tool for digital photographers. It is written by Mikkel Aaland with easy-to-follow text and many illustrations, including double-page photo spreads. The book was written after 12 professional photographers and five Adobe Lightroom team members made a trip to Iceland together. Each photographer has taken one of their pictures and illustrates a certain feature of the program that they used to enhance their photos. The first part of the book is about importing organizing and stacking your photos. After getting used to the work space and the tool bars I really began to enjoy the new format. They have a section on using “quick develop” using your own presets. A great feature is the white balance setting. It works on JPEG and TIFF files but is much more effective on RAW files. This feature enhanced my photos a lot. I went back and reworked a lot of my pictures that were in my computer and was very pleased with the results. I was very impressed with cropping in the Develop Module. No more guesswork in hoping that it is correct. The noise reduction feature is great. Once you find the best setting for your camera, you can save the setting to use in the future and it will help you work faster. The sharpening tool gives you so much control with the sliders. I found that to be a great and most helpful feature. The feature that was my favorite was the Tone Curve Advanced Control. It is set so when you click on the curve a bubble appears; you cannot drag it to the point of where it gets distorted. I used this a lot on some of my old pictures of the Grand Canyon and was able to bring out the colors that were hidden because of the light and shadows in the canyon. There is a chapter on black and white conversion, when to use color tinting, grayscale, and other special effects. There is a whole section on exporting your pictures to show to friends and family or over the internet. The slideshow module has many features, including a template browser, you can add text, music and you can even export it as a PDF slideshow, or a QuickTime slideshow. The last chapter talks about the print module. It shows you how to add text, frames and many other features. I have only mentioned a few of the many features that Lightroom has and how the book covers them all in great detail with illustrations. I downloaded the trial version and now am purchasing the program. This is a great book that is well worth the money to get you started using Lightroom and gets a jump start at learning the shortcuts and features. |
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