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 enlarge | Author: Tim Grey
Publisher: Sybex
Category: Book
List Price: $39.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 289386
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 207
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 0470119195
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.69
EAN: 9780470119198
ASIN: 0470119195
Publication Date: April 16, 2007
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 Lightroom Workflow May 13, 2007
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
A great book! Easy to read and helps make sense of Adobes new product. Tim Grey is one of the most knowledgeable experts on Lightroom and other
Adobe products for photographers. This bood will be an ongoing source of reference as I work in Lightroom. I would highly recommend it to anyone starting in Lightroom.
 lacking in in information May 12, 2007
4 out of 16 found this review helpful
Very lacking in information. I like Tim Grey but this was a waste of money.
Tim does it again May 12, 2007
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I belong to Tim's daily email blog actually a question and answer one which led me to this book. The book is actually fantastic and reveals some of the inner most secrets of Lightroom by Adobe. A must read for those interested in digital photography.
 Kind of basic, should have been in the box May 1, 2007
29 out of 31 found this review helpful
This rather disappointing 200-page book reads like the manuals of old that used to come in the box. The author methodically describes every step of using Lightroom, going through every preference menu, viewing option, menu bar and so forth. While it's nice to get a comprehensive guide to the program's various nooks and crannies, there's very little real advice about using Lightroom to best effect.
A great example is the export feature. Because Lightroom is a non-destructive editor, as you make adjustments to your photo it's just storing a list of changes to the actual file in its database. Only when you export a picture are the changes combined with the original pixels to create a new file. There are several possible format choices, each with a handful of critical settings, in Lightroom's export feature. This book lists them all with a few half-sentence, off-the-cuff recommendations ("I suggest using JPEG for basic image review and TIFF when the images will need to be Printed"). There's virtually no discussion of the many other settings or the implications of choosing one or another.
Filling the Gap April 27, 2007
37 out of 37 found this review helpful
Lightroom is here and the blizzard of Lightroom books is upon us.
Lightroom is Adobe's new software for digital photographers which offers a built-from-the ground-up approach to enable photographers to turn their images into prints, slide shows or web graphics. While the program itself is not without flaws, the interface is much more intuitive then Photoshop, and allows somewhat faster handling of files.
Grey's book takes the reader through all of the steps a photographer would use from importing his or her pictures from a camera into a computer to printing the pictures or creating a website using Lightroom.
He describes what each of the buttons and functions provided by the software does, in the order that the average photographer would use them. His writing is concise and what he describes is for the most part clear. A photographer who picks up this book and follows it while processing pictures will have little trouble creating satisfactory output. The book certainly makes using the software more clear than the rather thin instruction manual that comes with Lightroom.
On the other hand, nothing that Grey tells you will help you create a great photograph. The book is aimed purely at the technique that it is necessary to use to create output, and little about the art. One of the great things about image processing software is that it can allow you to create not just images but art; to convert zeros and ones into the photographer's vision. You won't find that here, but maybe that's asking too much of this work.
I can complain about some of the shortfalls of the description of technique. For example, one of the great advantages of Lightroom is that it is a powerful asset management tool (although not as good as some standalone products). It has a well designed scheme for creating keywords that allows for easy recovery of images that I hope Adobe will eventually incorporate into the Bridge portion of Photoshop. It includes so-called parent-child relationships. But this powerful tool is hardly described. Similarly, Grey points out that the software allows for the creation of either HTML or Flash web galleries. I would have liked to know the advantages and disadvantages of each.
The Lightroom interface uses a combination of light grey and dark grey on many of its menus. That works on a monitor but the printed screen captures of the interface are often almost impossible to distinguish. While I commend the publisher for getting this book to the public so quickly, in the rush several typos seem to have slipped in.
Many photographers have been hungry for more information on the use of Lightroom. Grey's book is one of the first detailed explanations. It's useful, but hopefully even better volumes will follow.
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