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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Classroom in a Book

  • By . Adobe Creative Team
  • Published Aug 25, 2008 by Adobe Press. Part of the Classroom in a Book series.
    • Copyright 2009
    • Dimensions: 7-3/8 X 9-1/8
    • Pages: 384
    • Edition: 1st
    • Book
    • ISBN-10: 0-321-55560-0
    • ISBN-13: 978-0-321-55560-1
    • eBook (Watermarked)
    • ISBN-10: 0-321-60548-9
    • ISBN-13: 978-0-321-60548-1

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The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2. Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book offers what no other book or training program does - an official training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated,  developed with the support of Adobe product experts.

The lessons in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Classroom in a Book cover the basics of learning Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Adobe’s toolbox for professional photographer's, which provides one easy application for managing, adjusting, and presenting large volumes of digital photographs. Countless tips and techniques, extra-credit exercises, and mini-tutorials help you become more productive and adept using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Follow the book from start to finish, or choose only those lessons that interest you.



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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Structured Walkthrough of the Software, September 29, 2008
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This review is from: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Classroom in a Book (Paperback)
"Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Classroom in a Book" is Adobe's "official" training for Lightroom 2. That doesn't make it necessarily better or more enjoyable a course presentation, but it does give you some assurance that the contents are accurate. Actually, I'm not entirely sure whether Adobe publishes this book, or PeachPit publishes it using Adobe's imprimatur (I think the latter). In any event, you can get a feel for the writing and the instructional flow from the samples on PeachPit's web site for this title (look on the "extras" tab), which is helpful as Amazon doesn't have a "Look Inside" for this title.

The contents of the book include:

Getting Started
1. A Quick Tour of Photoshop Lightroom
2. Introducing the Workspace
3. Importing
4. Reviewing
5. Organizing and Selecting
6. Developing and Editing
7. Creating Slideshows
8. Printing Images
9. Publishing your Photos on the Web
10. Creating Backups and... Read more
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Classroom in a Book, July 25, 2009
This review is from: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Classroom in a Book (Paperback)
This is a good book for learning Lightroom- a must have for older students or people who have a hard time learning how to use intensive programs like the Adobe software. The pictures are clear and instructions and examples are given for almost every command in the program. I would not really recommend this book to someone who is familiar with Lightroom as a good portion of this book is explaining the basic features. However, for someone who prefers instruction in a program as opposed to screwing around and figuring it out this book is a great way to go.
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15 of 20 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classroom in a Book, November 15, 2008
This review is from: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Classroom in a Book (Paperback)
Like all the books in the Classroom in a Book series, this is a very good option for people who do not have a lot of experience with Lightroom. This book is divided into 10 lessons organized by each of the processes through which passes a picture in a digital workflow that requires a photographer; this type of organization allows people who have some experience with the program can select the lessons want to focus on which to improve their skills.

Thanks to the CD that comes with the book, learning Lightroom becomes a 100% practical process because each lesson has its own set of images that correspond to those which have been used in the explanation of the book.

The explanation method is based on modular steps to ensure easy follow of the exercises and easily identify if we made any mistakes. In addition, to the end of each lesson will find questions with answers that help us to identify doubts that could be requiring a review of the lesson.

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Reviewing Images in Lightroom 2

Table of Contents

Getting Started
1. A Quick Tour of Photoshop Lightroom
2. Introducing the Workspace
3. Importing
4. Reviewing
5. Organizing and Selecting
6. Developing and Editing
7. Creating Slideshows
8. Printing Images
9. Publishing your Photos on the Web
10. Creating Backups and Exporting Photos
Index

 
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