While Adobe Photoshop has long been their choice for editing digital photographs, many
photographers want a more focused tool. That.s where Adobe Photoshop Lightroom comes in.
Designed from the ground up with digital photographers in mind, Photoshop Lightroom
offers powerful editing features in a streamlined interface that lets photographers
import, sort, and organize images. This completely updated and expanded bestseller,
The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book, was also written with photographers in mind.
Author Martin Evening describes features in Photoshop Lightroom 2 in detail from
a photographer.s perspective. As an established commercial and fashion photographer,
Martin knows first-hand what photographers need for an efficient workflow. He has also
been working with Lightroom from the beginning, monitoring the product.s development
and providing feedback on the public beta. As a result, Martin knows the software inside
and out, from image selection to image editing to image management.

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book contains 624 pages of comprehensive and detailed
coverage of all aspects of Lightroom.

In this book you.ll learn how to:

* Work efficiently with images shot in the raw or JPEG format
* Import photographs with ease and sort them according to your workflow
* Create and manage a personal image library
* Apply tonal adjustments to multiple images quickly
* Integrate Photoshop Lightroom with Adobe Photoshop
* Export images for print or Web as digital contact sheets or personal
portfolios

The book structure has been organized to match a typical Lightroom workflow.
The introductory chapter provides an overview of all the main Lightroom features,
showing how Lightroom 2 was used on a studio photo shoot that was specially shot to
illustrate the book. The following chapters cover all the essentials, such as importing
photos, working with the Library module, and managing the catalog database. The biggest
section of the book is devoted to working with the Develop module and provides some
unique insights into working with new features such as the localized adjustment tools.
There is also a whole chapter devoted to image sharpening and another on integrating
Lightroom and Photoshop, where you will learn how to devise the best workflow methods
for working between these two programs. This is followed by a chapter on printing and
a presentation chapter on the Slideshow and Web modules. Lastly, there are two appendix
chapters. One offers a complete overview of the Lightroom 2 preference settings, while
the other provides some in-depth explanations and background reading on how the Lightroom
program works.

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