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Managing Your Photographic Workflow with Photoshop Lightroom Review"Managing Your Photographic Workflow with Photoshop Lightroom" ought to be on most photographers' short list of books to read about Adobe's newest image processing software.
The book resembles many of the other books on Lightroom in that it leads you through the five parts of Lightroom, including cataloging, adjusting the image, creating a slide show, printing and creating a web site. It shows you what the sliders do and how to manipulate an image to improve it and send it to a useful output. What makes this different is the audience at which it aims.
The book is not aimed at the novice who has to be taken through the process step by step, like Scott Kelby's "The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers, (Voices That Matter)" (and for those who might have been put off by Kelby's sophomoric sense of humor, it's deadly serious, without a single joke.) Instead it's aimed at people who have some experience with image processing programs, like Photoshop. When the authors discuss curves they don't tell you the benefits of tonal adjustment or what a curve is. Instead they tell you how Lightroom's targeted adjustment tool, which is something other software doesn't offer, can ease the job of adjusting curves. On the other hand, sometimes the authors are just a little too spare. They don't even mention the range sliders in tonal curves.
When Lightroom offers several different approaches to a task the authors tell you what their preference is, which can be quite useful. On the other hand I sometimes disagreed with them. For example, they advocate applying keywords to images on import. My own experience is that the list of keywords that pops up when you start to type on the import menu is much too sensitive so that it's easy to select a wrong keyword, which one then has to undo. I much prefer dragging my images to the keyword tags. Moreover, the authors didn't mention the importance of parent-child keywording or the ability of Lightroom to export and import keyword lists.
Where they really shine is in revealing a few of the hidden Lightroom capabilities. For example, there is a good discussion of editing Lightroom presets in a text editor. The authors also tell you how to set up presets so that they can be accessed by multiple catalogs.
The authors didn't spend a lot of time talking about the importance of a folder system because they recognize that Lightroom's method of recovering files by keywords, metadata and so forth reduces the importance of filing organization.
This book covers Lightroom versions to 1.2. With regard to the latest features, like the improved sharpening facility, they are discussed here. I just wish authors would devote a little more attention to the values of input sharpening, as advocated by the late Bruce Fraser. This is still uncharted Lightroom territory.
This is a book for the individual who already has some familiarity with Lightroom and is not looking to learn the fundamentals, but instead needs to look at the software's capability to take processing to a higher level. Inevitably that means reviewing some familiar material but it is worth it.
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