Teach Yourself Lightroom 2014.pdf

I
nterest in Lightroom has surged since Adobe
launched its subscription-based Photoshop CC
package last year, but as many new users are
finding out, the biggest appeal of Lightroom isn’t
its comparatively low price. In a nutshell, Lightroom offers
photographers a whole new way of working that combines
image cataloguing, raw processing and non-destructive editing
all in one elegant and easy-to-use package.
Lightroom incorporates the non-destructive editing tools
of Camera Raw, for instance, including dynamic range and tonal
adjustments, curves, sophisticated colour controls, localised
adjustments and more. And these tools are organised into a
simpler, more efficient and streamlined user interface, so
your photo-editing workflow is quicker and more intuitive
than that offered by Photoshop.
But of course, like with any sophisticated new software,
it will take a little tuition and practice to learn how to use
the application effectively, which is where this handbook
comes in. We start off with introductions to Lightroom’s
key organising and editing modules, Library and Develop,
then work our way through classic editing steps including
tone editing, colour correcting, noise and distortion
correcting, and more – everything, in fact, that any
photographer needs to know to get the best images.
We hope you enjoy learning with this guide. And because
you bought this book we’d also like to offer you a 40%
discount off our extended 50-part Teach yourself
Lightroom interactive DVD training course. To claim the
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course is also available as an interactive app for the iPad.
See page 120 for more on this.