Adobe Lightroom - (Course and Compendium) by Jeff Carlson (Paperback)

About the Book

"Adobe Lightroom: A Complete Course and Compendium of Features is your guide to using Adobe Lightroom for importing, organizing, editing, and outputting your images. Whether you're keywording your most recent shoot, organizing your photo library, or developing and printing your best five-star images, Lightroom is the tool for you--and this book will teach you what you need to know. First, with a complete Course that includes a set of projects and lessons created by photographer and author Jeff Carlson, you will learn the procedures needed to use Lightroom effectively and professionally. Dozens of lessons are included that can be applied to any number of photographs or situations you'll encounter in Lightroom. Through these step-by-step lessons, you'll be exposed to all of Lightroom's features in practical contexts and its best practices for an optimal workflow. Then, for greater depth of knowledge and subsequent reference, you'll use the Compendium to uncover more of the "how" and "why" of Lightroom. With each topic easy to access, you can find and explore all of Lightroom's key features and concepts in depth. With cross references between the Course and Compendium, the two parts of the book complement each other perfectly. Best of all, when the lessons in the Course are done, the Compendium will continue to serve for months and years to come. Learn step by step how to: Set up an ideal workspace in Lightroom; Import and organize your images; Develop your photographs with powerful global and sophisticated local adjustments; Become incredibly efficient in your use of Lightroom, from creating and applying presets to using quick keyboard shortcuts to syncing changes across numerous images; Output your work for any purpose; And much more!"--

Book Synopsis

Adobe Lightroom: A Complete Course and Compendium of Features is your guide to using Adobe Lightroom for importing, organizing, editing, and outputting your images. Whether you're keywording your most recent shoot, organizing your photo library, or developing and printing your best five-star images, Lightroom is the tool for you--and this book will teach you what you need to know.

First, with a complete Course that includes a set of projects and lessons created by photographer and author Jeff Carlson, you will learn the procedures needed to use Lightroom effectively and professionally. Dozens of lessons are included that can be applied to any number of photographs or situations you'll encounter in Lightroom. Through these step-by-step lessons, you'll be exposed to all of Lightroom's features in practical contexts and its best practices for an optimal workflow. This book uses Lightroom Classic as the basis of its exploration, but also includes must-have knowledge applicable to all current versions of Lightroom.

Then, for greater depth of knowledge and subsequent reference, you'll use the Compendium to uncover more of the "how" and "why" of Lightroom. With each topic easy to access, you can find and explore all of Lightroom's key features and concepts in depth. With cross references between the Course and Compendium, the two parts of the book complement each other perfectly. Best of all, when the lessons in the Course are done, the Compendium will continue to serve for months and years to come.

Learn step by step how to:

- Set up an ideal workspace in Lightroom

- Import and organize your images

- Develop your photographs with powerful global and sophisticated local adjustments

- Become incredibly efficient in your use of Lightroom, from creating and applying presets to using quick keyboard shortcuts to syncing changes across numerous images

- Output your work for any purpose

- And much more!

About the Author

Author and photographer Jeff Carlson writes for publications such as DPReview and CreativePro, and is a contributing editor at TidBITS. He is the author of numerous books, including Adobe Lightroom: a Complete Course and Compendium of Features, The Photographer's Guide to Luminar AI, Take Control of Your Digital Photos, Take Control of Your Digital Storage, and Take Control of Apple Watch. He also co-hosts the podcasts PhotoActive and Photocombobulate, and leads photography workshops in the Pacific Northwest. He believes there's never enough coffee, and does his best to test that theory.