Lightroom Transformations: Realizing your vision with Adobe Lightroom plus Photoshop

Filled with before-and-after shots with detailed explanations of how to go from an ordinary image to an extraordinary one, the book illustrates what you can achieve using Lightroom or Photoshop as a creative tool to enhance the natural beauty that lies within your images.Helps you pre-visualize the end result you would like for your photos, and provides easy-to-follow steps for simple edits to polish almost any imageIncludes tips on shooting technique to improve your images in-cameraDemonstrates how to recompose existing shots to illustrate how a photograph could have been shot and composed betterIncludes short videos that demonstrate some of the techniques discussed in the book. By giving each image his own interpretation and explaining the rationale behind the choices he makes, he shows how you can do the same when processing your photos. Focusing primarily on techniques using Lightroom and Camera Raw—but also with Photoshop—Ma

Conrad J. Obregon said Adventures in Lightroom. Lightroom instruction books aimed at beginners usually explain how the sliders change an image, but seldom try to explain how moving the sliders can make art, or at least artful works. Perhaps that's appropriate since learning what the sliders do is a task in itself, without having to think of art.In this book, Martin Evening goes to the next step, which is to take a number of images, and show you how he has used the various Lightroom controls on them to make them more artful. Along the way, he offers additional advic. Simply the best worth 10 stars! I've owned and read a number of books on Photoshop over the past 10 years. Many of these were simple introductions to the Photoshop interface. Many were 'cook books' that provided step-by-step instructions for a few special tasks, like retouching or color balancing. Only a few really covered Photoshop in a comprehensive way or in the way a professional photographer would need. And by this, I mean approaches that covered all steps from moving images off the camera/memory card, archiving and backup, and non-destructive . "Requires Latest Version Of Lightroom For Many Of It's Techniques" according to Bookstore Willie. I have found Martin Evening's books on Lightroom to stand head and shoulders above the rest as mightbe predicted by the fact that he was part of the team that developed the program. So when I ran across this book it was with great anticipation that I placed my order. Alas, after having completed a quick read I've realized that until I update to the latest version of Lightroom I won't really be able to utilize many of the techniques advanced in this book. Lightroom Requires Latest Version Of Lightroom For Many Of It's Techniques I have found Martin Evening's books on Lightroom to stand head and shoulders above the rest as mightbe predicted by the fact that he was part of the team that developed the program. So when I ran across this book it was with great anticipation that I placed my order. Alas, after having completed a quick read I've realized that until I update to the latest version of Lightroom I won't really be able to utilize many of the techniques advanced in this book. Lightroom 3, the version I am using, simply lacks the horsepower. , the version I am using, simply lacks the horsepower