Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 - The Missing FAQ: Real Answers to Real Questions Asked by Lightroom Users

by Victoria Bampton

When you have a Lightroom question, where do you look? Do you trawl through thousands of web pages looking for the information you need? Perhaps post on a forum and wait hours for anyone to reply? Maybe try to figure out the Help files? From now on, you look right here! This is the reference book that should have shipped with Lightroom. Adobe Lightroom 3 - The Missing FAQ is a compilation of the most frequently asked questions, presented in question and answer format so that you can easily find the answers you're looking for. Whether you're a new user who likes to dive straight into new software and figure it out as you go along, a more experienced user wanting to learn how to get the best out of Lightroom, or you've just got a burning question you'd like answered, this book is for you. These are real-world answers to real questions asked by real Lightroom users. It not only covers how to do things, but also why they work the way they do. Lightroom may have a mind of its own... but now you can learn how it thinks. The story behind the book... and a FREE bonus!
The Adobe Lightroom - The Missing FAQ series was originally intended to be a searchable eBook, however once the book was released to the public, a demand arose for a paperback version too. While some books have a PDF supplement, this book is the other way round - the colour PDF eBook is designed to be the primary book, and this black & white paperback is the supplement. Anyone purchasing the paperback version is invited to contact the author via her website to download the main PDF and other eBook versions, worth £14.95 (approx. $25 US*), absolutely FREE .

Genres: Photography

500 pages, Paperback

First published July 7, 2010

Reviews

[Ron · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are good reasons why techie books of a reference nature are not frequently reviewed.

First, often they are not read straight through but are instead kept on a shelf and referred to only as needed. Second, even the best ones are boring, boring, boring. To cap things off, the real value of such tomes often isn't known until you are stuck trying to figure out how to salvage piles of data that has gone who knows where, always at midnight (or later)in a montage of blue screens and curse words.

I chose to read this book straight through to the end. It merits going through several times and will be on my reference shelf. For those who recall Walt Disney comics, I suspect it will be my own Junior Woodchuck Guide and will pull me out of not a few digital cliffhangers.

It's my first experience with the FAQ format of presenting information. I can't say that I really like it, but intuitively I would judge that when that dreaded midnight trauma hits, I'll find Bampton's efforts to set the reader straight will pull me through. She conveys her material with a sense of caring and competence that gets through to the reader. More to the point, it's apparent that she knows her stuff and wants her readers to succeed at making Lightroom do its best by them.

[Erin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Simple explanations. Not in color. Good for the beginner who is just starting to use Lightroom. A lot if it is devoted to downloading, organizing, and exporting photos. But I was looking for more technical editing info which this book does not really cover.