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well done and great help for someone not familiar with the photoshop programs of lightroom.
Despite his jokes I am looking for more of his books. I will say that some of his jokes can be corny, annoying, and sometimes confusing.but overall he keeps it light and interesting. So far, I am only 4 chapters in but the book reads well and is very detailed. The accompanying pictures help with his explanations, thus, making it a very quick and informative read.
He helps to remove a lot of the mystery in programs such as Lightroom.I found once I had the book I started to use Lightroom more often and more effectively.I recommend this book to all of my friends who have got themselves a copy of Lightroom. Scott Kelbys writing style is very easy to read, he writes as if he was a friend showing you how to do something and in this book he's a friend who's also an expert in Adobe Lightroom.
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".
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