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Puh-lease. If you want to be given 25 steps to every little step of the workflow, this is the book for you. And if you want to have an author keep telling you to export to Photoshop, this is your book. Save your money and buy the Adobe book and cut out at least 25 pages of attempted humor and references to exporting to Photoshop.
After reading his book I got smart and bought the one by Adobe. THAT's the book you want to read and learn from. But his style leaves a lot to be desired. Very poor organization and thought process.Don't get me wrong, this man knows Adobe software upside down and backwards.
If he was paid to write about Lightroom, then why does he spend half the book talking about Photoshop. And often times, the illustrations from a discussion is on the NEXT page, so you have to flip back and forth to figure out what he's talking about. If you want to read numerous attempts of humor, while trying to learn Lightroom, this is the book you want. What good are the illustrations if you don't know what is being discussed or what is going on.
They are printed very small, so you have no idea which adjustment is being discussed, let alone, where the cursor is pointing. You wonder what software he is talking about sometimes, there are so many references to Photoshop. He keeps you going in circles, constantly.And the illustrations are horrible, at best.
The layout is typically instructive with examples and screen shots of each step. I learned several new techniques to achieve effects in Photoshop and some good suggestions for my basic workflow. It will be on my shelves as a reference from now on. I own several books written by the Photoshop Boys because they are written to tell you specifically how to do certain things. There is a minimal amount of theory (I like to know something about "why" things happen) and a lot of step-by-step "how to".
A great book for step by step instructions on getting to know Lightroom - as long as you can cope with the 'wordiness' of the book & Scott Kelby's attempt at humour.
It made me LOVE a program that I simply just liked.I don't mind Kelby's humor, I think some folks are too easily annoyed by such things. This book taught me so many tips and now I fly through Lightroom like a pro. I think this book is a must for the Lightroom user and I give it A++++. Of all the books I have read so far that pertain to photography and post-processing - I got more out of this book than all the others combined. I was a little frustrated trying to do a few things in Lightroom, particularly with Workflow.
Not 14 or 15 I would imagine.Someone as knowledgeable and expert as you doesn't need this rubbish, or don't you have enough self-esteem to write straight text without covering it up with this "Oh, you don't like it. Oh.Yes.You have to wade through knee-deep garbage to get to the good stuff.Scott spends so much time on his puerile, infantile humor and then, pages patting himself on the back when he imagines the reader rolling around laughing at his "humor", there are pages and pages wasted on absolute garbage humor.I won't be surprised if one of these days he packages a fart cushion or plastic turd or something similarly juvenile with his books.Scott, how old are you. Never mind, I'm not serious, Its just a joke."This is the last Scott Kelby book I buy unless he cleans up his act.There are many, many others who feel the same way - just read the reviews of Kelby books. I have a bunch of Scott Kelby books - which means I respect his knowledge and the fact that you can actually get stuff done by reading his books.Is this book useful. Yes.Will it annoy and irritate you endlessly.
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