Photoshop Lightroom Essential Training [DVD-ROM]

Chris Orwig (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 28, 2007

Photoshop Lightroom is a powerful new photographic workflow application designed to help photographers expand their creative potential. Photoshop Lightroom Essential Training is all about using this revolutionary new tool to its full potential. One of the main challenges of photography is dealing with the sheer volume of images that result from each shoot. In Photoshop Lightroom Essential Training , instructor and professional photographer Chris Orwig explains how browsing, organizing, and adjusting images in Photoshop Lightroom dynamically improves photo management, processing, and presentation. The training empowers photographers to establish a more effective and creative workflow so they can focus on what it s all about, the photo! Exercise files (full resolution raw files) accompany the tutorials.

Topics Include:

• Understanding the core features and workflows of Photoshop Lightroom
• Organizing, rating, filtering, and managing a robust image database
• Processing raw images
• Using essential time-saving shortcuts
• Using Lightroom and Photoshop effectively
• Designing slideshow presentations
• Printing and layout techniques
• Creating and publishing effective web galleries
• Streamlining the photographic workflow

Duration: 6.5 hours
On 1 DVD-ROM

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Each lynda.com CD/DVD course offers hours of training movies that you watch on your computer. The movies are recorded in pixel-perfect quality, and include the authors' narration and movements as they teach the subject matter. Courses include the same project files that the instructors use, so you can follow along at your own pace. lynda.com tutorials are great for visual learners and people who like to learn by doing. Topics include software applications, workflow optimization, tips and techniques, and much more. Play, fast-forward, and rewind for easy learning.

About the Author

Chris Orwig is a faculty member of Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, CA. He is a professional freelance photographer, interactive designer, educator, and consultant. Included among his clients are companies such as Disney, Nissan, Activision, and J-Records. Yet, more important to him than his client list is his passion for photography. Chris describes this passion with the words of the great photographer Marc Riboud, "Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second."

Product Details

• DVD-ROM
• Publisher: lynda.com, Inc. (February 28, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1596713151
• ISBN-13: 978-1596713154
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,762,992 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Chris Orwig is a visual artist who brings passion to all that he does. He is a pro photographer, interactive designer, author, speaker and on the faculty of the world-renowned Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California. Apart from his professional endeavors, Chris enjoys getting out in the great outdoors any way he can - from mountain biking, cycling, camping, surfing, kayaking, snow camping, backpacking, running, etc. He currently lives in SB with his three favorite girls - his wife and (very cute) daughters!

For more inspiration visit:
- http://www.chrisorwig.com - portfolio
- http://www.chrisorwig.com/flipside - blog
- http://www.visual-poet.com - book companion site
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsUXSRuV61o - TEDx presentation

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars hard to review a training dvd that is so buggy, January 10, 2008

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Kevin Sparks - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Photoshop Lightroom Essential Training (DVD-ROM)

First off, the disk comes in a normal dvd case with a folded card that gives the chapters and times they last, thats it, no instructions, nothing else other than a brag page for the author on the back.

I tried to watch the dvd the first time, only to have it crash at the end of the first chapter. I downloaded the newest quicktime, and hoped that would help. I started the disk again, and it crashed at the end of the chapter again. This is where the real problems begin with this disk, I was looking for an interactive tutorial, what I got was a disk that is anything but interactive. You can't pause or fast forward, just start a chapter and watch. This makes it very hard to follow along with lightroom open and do any of the things talked about in the disk.

I can't say how good the training is, since somewhere around chapter 5 the end of chapter crashes finally got to be too much and I quit trying to even watch any more of it.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Chris Orwig is an awesome teacher!, March 13, 2010

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Aba "Aba" (DC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Photoshop Lightroom Essential Training (DVD-ROM)

I'm sorry about that people whose disk didn't work properly, but Chris Orwig is an awesome teacher, all his training in [...] is spectacular, he makes everything easy to understand and gives very interesting pro-tricks.
The [...] tutorial might seem a little pricey but when you compared that price to the price of some other in-person classes, in a local college or academy, it is totally worth it and you will get a really, really good training.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars WORTHLESS, June 12, 2009

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Norman Clark (Lake Ann, MI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Photoshop Lightroom Essential Training (DVD-ROM)

THE SPEECH ON THIS DVD IS SO FAST IT CAN NOT BE UNDERSTOOD. YOU CAN SPEED IT UP EVEN FASTER BUT YOU CAN NOT SLOW IT DOWN. THE WHOLE THING IS WORTHLESS.

UPDATED: JUNE 25

THE AUTHOR "Chris Orwig" HAS NOT RESPONDED. Lynda.com OFFERED SOME "FREE" ON LINE TRAINING FOR 3 MONTHS WITH SOME OF THEIR "OTHER PROGRAMS?" MAYBE THE THEY THINK I WOULD BUY SOMETHING ELSE? HA! BLOW ANOTHER $100 BUCKS...?