Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2: Visual QuickStart Guide [Paperback]

Nolan Hester (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 22, 2008 | ISBN-10: 0321554205 | ISBN-13: 978-0321554208 | Edition: 1

This book uses simple step-by-step instructions, loads of screen shots, and an array of time-saving tips and tricks, serving both as the quickest route to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 mastery for new users, and a handy reference for more experienced digital photographers.
 
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 features numerous new features and enhancements including the ability to enhance specific areas of a photo, edit JPG, TIFF, and more than 190 camera raw file formats non-destructively, print more efficiently, and sharpen smartly.
 
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2: Visual QuickStart Guide is the definitive task-based tutorial for digital photographers needing a jump-start on the complete range of features available in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2. Master this workflow application quickly and completely by working from beginning to end or just skip to the task you need right now. It’s all covered, everything from importing, organizing and processing images, to managing and showcasing your images—whether it’s one shot or an entire shoot.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (November 22, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321554205
• ISBN-13: 978-0321554208
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,197,218 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Nolan Hester's latest book is Photoshop Lightroom 3: Visual QuickStart Guide (ISBN: 0-321-71310-9). Follow the book's blog at: http://lightroom.waywest.net

Nolan has written more than two dozen books for Peachpit Press, focusing on digital photography and Web site creation. He's also has worked as a darkroom technician, ad studio assistant, and photojournalist. His photos have appeared online and in print for a variety of outlets, including ZesterDaily.com, Alaska magazine, and The Los Angeles Times travel section.

His landscape, travel, and Web photography have inspired many of the timesaving tips and techniques found in his Lightroom 3 VQS. Like every photographer, Nolan truly believes he'll eventually find the perfect camera bag.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lightweight, but thorough introduction to Lightroom 2, November 21, 2009

By 

Jerry Saperstein (Evanston, IL USA) - See all my reviews
(HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)    (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (VINE VOICE)   

This review is from: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2: Visual QuickStart Guide (Paperback)

The Visual Quickstart Guide series has a pretty consistent record for being the books to turn to when you need a fast introduction to the basics of using a given program - and this title is not at all a disappointment.

This is not a treatise on Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2. Rather it is an introduction that gets you off and running on using the program, which as a beginner is generally all you want to do.

Oddly enough I started with the original program that Adobe bought and rebranded as Lightroom. However they changed the feature set pretty extensively and I never really got into the first version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Now with the second release, I was totally lost as to what Lightroom 2 did - and wanted a painless reintroduction to the program and its expanded capabilities.

That's where "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2: Visual QuickStart Guide" comes in . Nolan Hester is a good writer. He begins at the beginning and walks you through the program and how to use it. Hester provides, in my estimation, just the right level of detail. There's plenty of handholding without his talking down to you and enough detail to use a function, but not so much as to be boring or confusing.

Personally, I found this book to be precisely the introduction to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2: Visual QuickStart Guide I needed, neither too lightweight nor too heavy.

Jerry

4.0 out of 5 stars It worked for me ---, December 26, 2009

By 

C. Nelson (Cañon City, CO USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2: Visual QuickStart Guide (Paperback)

The style of this writer is rather brief, but Lightroom's learning curve isn't as steep as that for Photoshop, so this book does the job pretty well. The illustrations are relevant to the text and my only criticism is that I wish they were rendered a bit larger on the page for easier reading of the illustrated menu texts and graphics. Still, with the help of this book I am now using Lightroom 2 productively. Furthermore, the book continues to be helpful as a reference for applying some of the more intricate features of the software.