Lessons in DSLR Workflow with Lightroom and Photoshop | 
 enlarge | Author: Jerry Courvoisier
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Category: Book
List Price: $44.99
Buy New: $18.43
You Save: $26.56 (59%)
New (57) Used (11) from $18.43
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 201822
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 032155423X
Dewey Decimal Number: 775
EAN: 9780321554239
ASIN: 032155423X
Publication Date: August 28, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new!
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
You’ve captured great images with your DSLR, now what? Jerry Courvoisier provides an easy-to-follow road map for importing, organizing, and editing your images using the best features of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 and Adobe Photoshop CS3. The combined power of using both programsaautomation with Lightroom and specialized processing in Photoshopaoffers a complete and flexible solution for serious hobbyists and pro photographers alike. In this accessible and beautifully illustrated guide, learn about:
- The essential DSLR gear, with suggested computer and laptop configurations, digital darkroom and color management setups, and best capture formats for your style of shooting.
- General preferences and display options to customize and enhance your workflow.
- The Lightroom 2 modules to effectively organize, process, and catalog your images.
- Integration with Photoshop CS3, including making panoramas and high dynamic range (HDR) images.
- Advanced Photoshop CS3 techniques to create stunning results: converting images to black and white, painting with light, selective focus, diffusion effects, layer masking, and special blending modes.
Loaded with tips and techniques from a seasoned photographer, including a pre-shoot checklist for camera settings, Courvoisier delivers a digital workflow system that allows you to spend less time at your computer and more time behind the camera capturing great images.
“Jerry Courvoisier is, plain and simple, one of the best teachers of digital workflow and image management working today. He demystifies the digital world for both the beginner and the advanced user. For anyone shooting digital pictures, this book simply has to be on your shelf.”
aJoe McNally, photographer and author of The Moment It Clicks
|
| Customer Reviews:
 LESSONS IN DSLR WORKFLOW WITH LIGHTROOM AND PHOTOSHOP November 15, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
La extension del nombre de este libro no refleja necesariamente la extension de su contenido; solo con ver sus 241 paginas nos podemos imaginar que Lessons in DSLR workflow with Lightroom and Photoshop no pretende ser una guia completa de del manejo de camaras DSLR ni de Lightroom y mucho menos de Photoshop, sin embargo es un muy buen recurso para entender un flujo de trabajo fotografico digital de la vida real el cual incluye la correcta configuracion de la camara, el paso de las imagenes al computador, la organizacion, ajustes (en Lightroom y Photoshop) y finalmente la salida de las imagenes.
Definitivamente lo que diferencia este libro de muchos otros que existen sobre esta aplicacion es el enfasis que se hace en el uso de Photoshop como una herramienta que complementa a Lightroom ya a este tema particular se le dedica una gran parte de su contenido.
Este libro esta convenientemente dividido en cuatro partes:
* Gear: Contiene una explicacion de las camaras DSLR, la diferencia entre los formatos JPG y RAW y finalmentes temas referentes al computador.
* Streamlining your workflow with Lightroom: Contiene los conceptos basicos de Lightroom y el flujo de trabajo que desarrolla. En esta parte se trabaja principalmete con el panel Library.
* Image processing with Lightroom's develop module: Esta parte muestra los diferentes ajustes que se pueden hacer el el modulo de revelado (develop) de Lightroom.
* Adobe Photoshop - The Digital Darkroom: Esta ultima parte esta dedicada a las tareas de efectos y retoques mas comunes que se hacen Photoshop complementando las tareas de Lightroom.
Aunque este libro pudo ser mas extenso para explicar de manera mas profunda cada uno de sus temas, estos pueden ser ampliados y complementados con la ayuda del programa. Definitivamente recomendado para quienes desean complementar el trabajo de Lightroom con Photoshop.
Marlon Ceballos
Colombia Adobe User Group Manager
 About Process September 4, 2008
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Workflow, for digital photography, is the sequence of tasks from preparing one's camera, through capturing, downloading, processing, outputting, cataloging and archiving images. Workflow is concerned with an effective sequence of steps rather then the techniques, like moving sliders for particular effects.
Like most photography books, this book starts with a description of the equipment involved in the process, including cameras and computers. The second part deals with the workflow through Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0 ("LR2"). The third part looks with more particularity at the Develop module of LR2 and the fourth part with the integration of LR2 and Photoshop. In all cases, the book deals with the second iteration of Lightroom, including the new tools found in LR2.
The author writes clearly and the illustrations are good, although as usual for most books, the screen saves are a little small for those with poor eyesight. Using the book to review my own LR2 workflow I found that there were several tools available in the now feature-rich software that could ease my use.
One of the major problems of writing about workflow is drawing the boundaries between workflow and technique. I suspect that a volume devoted to just workflow would be about 20 pages long. This is particularly true in the case of LR2, where, with the exception of the new Local Adjustments toolbar, the entire software is laid out in a linear workflow fashion. Inevitably authors slip into technique. Courvoisier does this with the regard to the new Development Module, and to a certain extent with regard to Photoshop integration, although as to the latter, he delves into the matter further and more usefully then any other author I've read to date.
Unfortunately, his technique descriptions are not only outside of the idea of workflow, but also lack the details necessary to make really effective use of LR2. For that I would recommend the reader look at "The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers" by Martin Evening, or one of the other LR2 books which are scheduled for release. Occasionally tools important to the workflow concept are not even discussed. For example, there is no mention of parent-child keywords, the use of which can significantly effect workflow.
When it comes to the Photoshop section, Courvoisier serves a highly useful function in calling attention to the many aspects of Photoshop that can be initiated from within LR2. Similarly his pointing out the uses of multiple catalogs is innovative, even though he only suggests methods that create different catalogs for different subjects. His concept of round-tripping could be expanded even further. For example, I do my raw processing in one catalog, but keep another for managing my finished TIFF pictures, and still another just to test that files that I save to DVD are indeed intact. (Call me compulsive, or read "The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers (O'Reilly Digital Studio)"!)
This is probably not a book for beginners to learn about LR2, although they may benefit from it after reading an LR2 primer. Intermediate and advanced LR2 users will find it useful to use to review their own workflow and improve their efficiency.
|
|
|
