Adobe Photoshop Lightroom was designed from the ground up with digital photographers in mind, offering powerful editing features in a streamlined interface that lets photographers import, sort, ...
^Evening, Martin (2014). The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers, Pearson P T R. BiggerBooks. ISBN 9780321819598 (revised Nov 2023)
Martin Evening consistently and continually produces excellent guides to the Adobe Photoshop family of products. This one on Lightroom 4 is no exception. Although Scott Kelby's books are indispensable as well, Evening's go beyond the "how" to the "how" and "why."The book covers all of all the modules of Lightroom from Library to Print. In includes the two new ones with LR4, Map and Book. If you plan to delve into these two new modules, then Evening's assistance in these areas is reason enough to buy thi..
As is usually the case, Martin Evening and his publisher are the first to put out a new book about an Adobe image processing software product. This book came out on the same day as Lightroom 4.The order of the book follows the way most folks would use Lightroom. There is an introduction to the program and all its functions, followed by chapters on importing photos; the library module; develop module image editing; the fine art of black and white; sharpening and noise reduction; exporting from Lightroom; pri..
I bought Martin Evening's excellent book "The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers" for the same reason I bought is last manual for Lightroom 3: Martin is a great photographer who knows what photographers need in a software package, and he knows how to write about both photography and software.I have used Lightroom since version 1, and even with years of experience using the program on a daily basis, I find that I really value Martin's book as a great quick-reference guide ..
