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

click here for more details, find new or used items	Scott Kelby Our price £17.39 (£28.99) New from £13.79 Used from £10.13 Pages: 416 (Paperback) ISBN: 0321492161 Pub: New Riders Pub date: 2007-04-18 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2940

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Waste of Money (4/4 people found this helpful)

I am a great fan of Scott Kelly's books and I have had many of them over the years, but this book is quite honestly now a waste of money. I purchased it at the same time as Lightroom itself during February 2008 and hoped that it would help me to understand Lightroom. But this book covers Lightroom 1.0 and though the publisher has provided updates for Lightroom 1.1 we are now on Lightroom 1.3 and soon to be Lightroom 1.4.1. Since Lightroom 1.0 there have been vast changes to this software making this book very different to what we have today. I'm not blaming Scott Kelly for this at all, it is just that things have moved along so swiftly since Lightroom's initial release in 2007. So if you are getting involved with Lightroom don't waste your money on this book because you will be very disappointed.

Covers the subject well, but rather too much of Scott Kelby. Printed on cheap paper (3/3 people found this helpful)

As a straightforward instruction book, it goes through all of the steps in logical order - 1, 2, 3, ... etc. However, comparatively little explanation of of "Why?" so that the book is presented in a rather over-mechanical way, to my mind.
That said, it is very useful but what makes it difficult to take is Scott Kelby's bluff, hale and hearty manner. Frankly he gets in the way of this book. I have a sense that Scott feels that you the reader wants to get to know him. I certainly don't. I paid money to get to know Lightroom. If it was at a party, I would pretend to notice someone I knew elsewhere and politely walk away. The only solution here is to look for a different book.
I was also very surprised and disappointed to find that the book is publish on very poor quality paper - very much the same stuff that is used for weekly women's magazines. This is fine for a magazine but not for a book which one would expect to use regularly as a reference guide. I really don't expect that this book is capable of taking the wear and tear.
In conclusion, I would suggest finding a book by a different author and from a publisher who is interested in a better quality product.

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers (5/10 people found this helpful)

The content of the book is very thorough infact too much so.
Scott Kelby takes you through his way of doing things in great detail.
Unfortunately the book is very poorly structured for example there is a section titled "best ways to veiw your photos" there are then 27 steps to follow over 15 pages in order to complete this none of which have a title so very difficult to refer back to the section you want, beacuse of this it is probably the most unhelpful book I have ever bought.
If you want to use Lightroom by numbers you will love this book.
If you want to find out how to use lightroom through understanding the programme and how it can be used by you then I would not recomend this book.

Good Value (6/7 people found this helpful)

This is an exceptionally helpfull book for the new user, but is also a very god day-to-day reference manual. Worth every penny!!!

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers (6/8 people found this helpful)

By far this is the best book on Lighroom. Kelby has designed a step-by-step course that will take you through the procedures and techniques required to get the best out of this application. The fact that Kelby is a photographer helps a great deal. His upbeat approach is very easy to read and follow. You also must visit his site which complements the book.

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