The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers

by Martin Evening

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, and organize images. In this completely updated bestseller, author Martin Evening describes features in Lightroom 5 in detail from a photographer’s perspective. As an established commercial and fashion photographer, Martin knows firsthand what photographers need for an efficient workflow. He has been working with Lightroom from the beginning, monitoring the product’s development and providing valued feedback to Adobe. As a result, Martin knows the software inside and out, from image selection to image editing and image management. In this book he’ll teach you how Photographers will find Lightroom 5—and The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Book—indispensable tools in their digital darkrooms. “With Martin’s expert guidance, you’ll soon find that you have precisely the tools you need to turn your concentration back where it belongs—on making better pictures!” —George Jardine, digital photography consultant “As a photographer himself, Martin Evening knows what tools photographers need to realize their creative vision. In this book, he shows not only how Adobe Photoshop Lightroom works but also why it will become an essential part of any photographer’s workflow.” —Greg Gorman, photographer

Genres: Photography

713 pages, Paperback

First published June 13, 2013

About the author

Inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame in 2008, Martin Evening is an internationally renowned photographer. Working principally on studio-based beauty photography, Martin uses Photoshop to retouch or manipulate to some degree nearly every image he produces.

Reviews

[Brian Page]

It is difficult to separate my appreciation of Adobe Lightroom from my complete admiration of this book. Lightroom is AMAZING; and I could never have come close to learning so much about it without a careful perusal of Martin Evening’s guide. I am in awe of both Lightroom and the degree to which the author has revealed its subtlety.

My only advice is to go through the entire book, beginning to end while trying out the various options; and to not do too much at a sitting. Let the learning soak in. Otherwise it is just overwhelming. That may seem like trivial & exaggerated advice but Lightroom is so full-featured that even for someone who has used it happily for a few months I found that I, in fact, hardly knew it at all. The other tiny bit of advice is to keep a list of favorite keyboard shortcuts that you come across in your reading. There are way too many keyboard shortcuts (at least for me to remember) such that the all-inclusive lists available in various references are essentially useless. It’s better, in my opinion, to simply learn the twenty or so that I’ll actually use in my workflow.