Photoshop Lightroom Adventure: Mastering Adobe's
next-generation tool for digital photographers
Reviewed by Robert Pritchett
MacVoices Interview with Mikkal Aaland
Introduction
Adobe released Lightroom 1.2 costs $300 USD - http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/ and focuses attention on image collection and organization, nondestructive file
editing, slideshows, print and automatic gallery creation and uploading to
websites.
One year ago, Mikkell Aaland began working on his Photoshop
Lightroom Adventure book with photographs
from a team of photographers in Iceland and it is generic enough that what was
good in 1.0 is still valid in 1.2.
On first glance, this book comes across as a coffee table
book on photography. It is full-color, and looks like something we would read
in National Geographic. However, to
really appreciate it, you will need a copy of Adobe’s Lightroom and have
knowledge of photography, because this book was meant for folks who are
professionals.
On Reading
There is plenty of eye-candy, but the “instructional” parts
of the book seem to be a bit rushed and somewhat superficial and this not one
of Mikkel’s best technical books.
Conclusion
If you like eye candy and look at “show-me” pictures more
than text, then get this book. If you want to dig deeper into Photoshop
Lightroom, you might want to go online for tutorials.
Recommendation
I enjoy pictures, but the balance is slanted too far towards
examples and not enough on technique – unless you need help with color
management.
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