IThe book has a step-by-step 100 chapters on the five modules of Lightroom — Library, Develop, Slideshow, Print and Web. Each chapter is at least two facing pages but seldom larger than five pages.
For those not aware of Lightroom as opposed to Photoshop, Lightroom is intended for working photographers or at the very least prolific amateurs. While Photoshop allows you to control almost every aspect of an image using multiple layers of control it would appear Lightroom allows you to control the tones in a scene using brush-on effects. That is not to say the two programs can’t achieve the same results, but there is a huge difference between the file size. Lightroom takes the original image file and then adds a package of instructions that work to produce a finished image. This combination of instructions is much smaller than the completely reworked image Photoshop produces.
Than those settings in Lightroom can be applied to any other image. Just for an example in Lightroom a wedding photographer can adjust colour temperature, sharpness and tone scale for a wedding group and then apply those settings to the entire shoot.
Having read the book, but never tried the actual program, I would still feel better if someone who has used the program could weigh-in as to how wonderful Lightroom is. From this book I would think it is better and faster using Lightroom than trying to apply Photoshop to hundred’s of images.
My only small complaint about the book is the total lack of colour, particularly in the illustrations of the control panels. There simply isn’t enough tone to read the wording on the screen shots.
For those not aware of Lightroom as opposed to Photoshop, Lightroom is intended for working photographers or at the very least prolific amateurs. While Photoshop allows you to control almost every aspect of an image using multiple layers of control it would appear Lightroom allows you to control the tones in a scene using brush-on effects. That is not to say the two programs can’t achieve the same results, but there is a huge difference between the file size. Lightroom takes the original image file and then adds a package of instructions that work to produce a finished image. This combination of instructions is much smaller than the completely reworked image Photoshop produces.
Than those settings in Lightroom can be applied to any other image. Just for an example in Lightroom a wedding photographer can adjust colour temperature, sharpness and tone scale for a wedding group and then apply those settings to the entire shoot.
Having read the book, but never tried the actual program, I would still feel better if someone who has used the program could weigh-in as to how wonderful Lightroom is. From this book I would think it is better and faster using Lightroom than trying to apply Photoshop to hundred’s of images.
My only small complaint about the book is the total lack of colour, particularly in the illustrations of the control panels. There simply isn’t enough tone to read the wording on the screen shots.
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