The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter)

Extremely useful book for the beginning Lightroom user. I have used Photoshop for many years, and more recently began using Adobe Creative Cloud for Photographers, for the convenience, and that subscription also gave me access to Lightroom. So it was time to start using it! I have a very large archive, perhaps 100,000 images, of family and travel photos going back to the beginning of the last century, many of them scanned prints and slides, as well as more recent digital captures. This book is especially useful to think about your workflow going forward, but less attention is paid to situations of converting such an archive. Nevertheless, this book provides a simple workflow that is very likely to work for you and that largely works for me. So this book is not so much an exhaustive presentation of all the functionality and the use of every possible value of any setting or variable, but the emphasis is more on an easy and efficient workflow for most situations. I have only used the most basic functionality so far in the Lightroom Develop module, but Kelby gives a very easy to understand of this complex area, and especially if you have been using the advanced features of Photoshop you will intuitively grasp what is going on. I would have liked to see more on the creating of web albums and websites from Lightroom, as well as other Adobe and third party products for doing so. Kelby spends a lot of time on Lightroom mobile, and this is very valuable information, because much of this functionality is not readily apparent if you just open up the app and poke around. It would also be nice to see more about third-party LR presets to get a feel for what is available, especially develop presets.

Generally a very good instruction manual. All the same info is available by searching Adobe's online help, but it is much handier to have it all in print with an index. I am giving it 4 stars instead of five, because there were a few instances where the instructions were not complete or sufficient. For instance, the author gives directions for changing the order of the slides that are on the screen. (In lightroom, photos are on a grid with a border around them, that makes it look like the slides of prehistoric times) The author says to click on the slide and drag it where you want it. However, he fails to say that you must click on the center picture area, not the border. he also fails to say that you cannot click and drag to reorder photos if there is a sub-directory. This failure to properly give accurate instructions frustrated me for over an hour until I searched Adobe help online and got the correct information. There were a couple of other areas in the book where he similarly did not give enough information. I read the whole book, and he author is generally good at describing operations, but if you are stuck and his descriptions don't seem to work, I recommend Adobe help. I am not a newbie to photo retouching. I have been using Photoshop for 20 years (since before there was Lioghtroom).

Great condition for a used book,fast delivery,inexpensive price .Will buy again

I have been using Photoshop Elements to organize and edit photos for several years. I got Lightroom and had no idea where to start.A couple of online tutorials helped, and this book started out looking pretty good. It starts by telling us to set up folders on an external drive to store images. Then it demonstrates how to import images from a camera/card. Then it just says to stick the card into the computer and copy the images to the folders outside of Lightroom. A couple of dozen pages later, he mentions looking at your images in the Pictures folder. Uh-oh. Where are my images really?Others have mentioned the screen shots, which are full-screen images with some tiny control circled in red or displayed in some color. Closeups would be helpful. The chatty style I can take or leave.This morning, about 200 pages into the book, reading about Undo, it finally clicked with me is that I've had a conceptual major issue with Lightroom. In EVERY computer application I've used (including Elements and Photoshop), the rule has been "SAVE YOUR CHANGES". If you close an application, the prompt is "Close without saving?" If your computer crashes, you lose all of your changes. I've fiddled with some images in LR and looked for a way to 'close without saving', mystified that there's nothing obvious. What's wrong with me?To Google, and the title of this review. It turns out that there is no save option in Lightroom. Everything gets saved automatically. Completely the opposite of a computer user's experience. An upfront explanation would be enormously helpful. To be fair, he does talk about Virtual Images, and I do see those as a possibility for just messing around with an image and then throwing the results away.There is a lot of stuff in here,and I'm not sure how I'll proceed from here. But I do feel that there was a missed opportunity.

This is yet another book by Kelby that enables the user to find in the index what needs to be achieved and immediately discover how to do it - without having to find earlier pages to make sense of the method. This avoids the frustration of having to start at the first page and wade through much preamble to know how to do simple tasks. As one gains confidence in doing simple tasks the earlier pages become relevant and a firm basis for organising ones images becomes clear. This attribute separates the book from many others and makes it usable from day one by a complete novice.Lightroom is not yet able to do all that is possible in Photoshop. It is however very quick to use when one has acquired the skill to use it. Processing hundreds of images becomes a doddle with only a few needing to be transferred to Photoshop (at the click of a button) for minor adjustments or major to be achieved. Later where an image needs additions, removal or altering the appearance of individual images then Photoshop is the answer. I have been using Lightroom for ten years since its first issue. I have never regretted updating to each successive issue.

Scott Kelby has been around for many a year and is a master of words. Scott is what I would consider one of the best teachers of photography today. I have read many of his books and cover to cover his style keeps me interested with his simple descriptive and colourful step by step guides to using Lightroom. This book is without adoubt a must read book for anyone who is interested in mastering Lightroom CC.

I have recently bought Adobe Lightroom 6 and I really needed some guidance on getting to grips with this software. After reading the really good reviews on this book I decided to purchase it. The book takes you from the very beginning and and gradually takes you through all the stages on using this software. I can recommend this book to anyone wanting to use Lightroom 6 with some competence. It is easy reading, Onward and upwards you will be after following the very lucid instructions in this book.

This book is about twice as long as it needs to be owing to the excessively verbose style of the author who seems to struggle with getting to the point. Another half of the book I didn't need. Seems to cover the basics OK and helped me with a couple of issues with this tortuous software. Overpriced for a paperback. Worth looking at alternatives.

I purchased this Adobe Lightroom CC Book for Digital Photographers to teach me Lightroom, I had done a lot of research in to which book to purchase and being a complete novice this book by Scott Kelby was highly recommended by other reviewers and on online forums, after just a couple of days of reading and following the book, I think I've made the correct choice, time will tell.