There's also "The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers" by Scott Kelby. I have that and the Martin Evening book.
Tina Manley on one of my other lists also had this to offer: > For those who have had questions about Adobe's Lightroom, I can > highly recommend Michael Clark's eBook "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. > I also have Martin Evenings' "The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book." > > The difference is that Martin Evenings' book is very, very thorough > and covers every way to do everything. It is 336 pages long. I'm > on Chapter Two and will finish it someday. I'm sure I'll learn a > lot, but I wanted something to help me jump right in. > > Michael Clark's eBook is an outline of his workflow with > Lightroom. He takes you through, step by step, and tells you how > he does each step and why. He doesn't go into other ways of > working or all of the mechanics behind the program. He does tell > you reasons that he has chosen to work the way he does. It all > makes good sense. His book is 96 pages long and I finished it in > one night. I have changed several steps in my workflow and found > out quite a few things that the program will do that I didn't know > about. > > I hope this helps. I'm not connected with either publication - > just looking for help! > > http://www.michaelclarkphoto.com/workflow.html G On May 8, 2007, at 7:51 PM, Stan Halpin wrote: > After working with Lightroom for a couple of days, and trying > unsuccessfully to find answers in the Help system, I knew I had to > buy a good book to help me into the depths of the program. (No > offense to Godfrey, our own on-line Help system for LR, but I did > really want my own book to read.) > > Some web search revealed zero, nada, nothing, zip. But two books due > for release "in May." So I ordered from Amazon, they arrived today. > > 1. The Adobe Photoshhop Lightroom Book by Martin Evening, published > by Adobe Press. (Remember when computer programs came with books like > this? They were called Users' Manuals...) > > 2. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom: for digital photographers Only, by Rob > Sheppard, published by Wiley. > > After a very cursory look through the two, I would say that the > Evening book is more like a well done referrence manual, and the > Sheppard book is more like an instruction manual. Both have pretty > pictures and good graphics. > > Now excuse me, I have some reading to do... > > stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
