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# Fast-track mastering workflow Comprehensive Lightroom 5 guide Hands-on editing & organizing The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Book for Digital Photographers

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## Summary

> 📸 Elevate your photography game with Lightroom mastery!

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## Key Features

- • **Unlock Hidden Features:** Discover secret tips and advanced tricks for Lightroom 5
- • **Boost Your Photo Workflow:** Learn efficient importing, organizing, and editing shortcuts
- • **Clear, Witty, and Practical:** Engaging writing style that makes complex concepts stick
- • **Master Lightroom Like a Pro:** Covers beginner to expert techniques seamlessly
- • **Practice with Real Examples:** Includes downloadable files to sharpen your skills

## Overview

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Book for Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby is a highly rated, versatile guide that empowers both beginners and seasoned users to optimize their photo editing and management workflow. It offers clear, practical instructions, advanced tips, and downloadable practice files, making Lightroom 5’s powerful features accessible and easy to master.

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Review: For Beginner and Expert Alike - I scoured most of the other reviews and couldn't find the answer to what seems like an important question: what skill level is this book aimed at? I've been working with Lightroom daily since the first release and I figured it would tell me stuff I already knew. Reading the reviews, I also expected it to be loaded with forced, unfunny humor. Neither turned out to be true. This book accomplishes the unusual feat of being helpful to beginners and experts alike. Lightroom is a powerful program, and powerful programs have lots of details and multiple ways of doing things. This book is more than a how-to guide. The rudiments are covered, but they're covered quickly, like in a sentence or two. The rest of each section tells you why and how to do things that go well beyond the basics. I wish I'd read it years ago. It would have saved me a lot of time. Reading this book as someone who knows Lightroom is like visiting a big city where you know the street system and freeways and suddenly you meet a local who shows you all the secret passageways and shortcuts that make getting around so much more effective and fun. I didn't go two pages without learning something useful I didn't know. Now, a lot of fuddy-duddy reviews here complain about Kelby's writing style and particularly his humor. He warns you up front that he indulges in a freeform passage at the beginning of each chapter that doesn't relate directly to the curriculum but is just there for comic relief. He even suggests that if you don't think he's funny you should skip these intros. They're harmless. Some are funny. They're really no more distracting than having illustrations at the beginning of the chapters. But judging from some of the reviews here you'd think the guy couldn't go two sentences without cutting up. It's just not true. Kelby's writing is conversational and direct. Many pages go by with no humor at all. Most of the book is useful information imparted painlessly and efficiently. So there it is: I hope I answered the question other reviews didn't about who the book is addressed to. It's equally suited to beginners and experts--no small feat. Most software instruction guides are simplified versions of the user's manual with bigger font sizes and color illustrations. Not this one; it teaches the basics and digs deeper simultaneously. I also hope I helped to debunk the rap that Kelby is obtrusively comedic. He's not. He's witty, clear, and describes complex things so you don't forget them the next time you sit at your computer. I can pretty much promise that you'll get more out of Lightroom, and gain a greater appreciation for it, after you read this book.
Review: Might be one man's opinion, but it's a darn good one - It's important to know that Lightroom is as much about managing your pictures as it is about developing them. It's kind of like going through old shoeboxes of prints and negatives. Some people label everything and others just stuff the boxes and spend hours trying to find that one pic that they're desperately looking for. Of course the program is so good at editing pics, that going over to photoshop is only required for extreme things these days. Anyways, Kelby's book is a fantastic starting guide, so good that I am in the process of re-importing all of my pictures taken over the past several years. I wouldn't say that I'm a complete random shoebox guy, but my folder labels don't do my pics justice. The first several chapters deal solely with importing and getting things set up to make your life easier, and it's mentioned that this is the way Mr. Kelby does it, hence the good opinion line. These chapters will amaze those thinking "why does everyone always say that LR is such a great program?" as they plod through attempting to learn on their own. It's all about workflow. Then it hops into chapters about developing pics, printing, etc. Developing in LR is pretty easy once you start to learn shortcuts and exactly what all those little sliders do. There are downloadable examples that you can use to practice right with the book. Everything is laid out in a way that no knowledge of the program is assumed, so anyone can work right through something. Now I did download the kindle edition for my iPad. I'm on the fence as to whether I really like instruction books in the e-format. With a book like this, you'll be looking to flip back and forth a good bit, so you have to make good use of bookmarks. I may have preferred a printed copy for that reason, but it's not that bad to deal with. What I should really be doing is taking notes.

## Features

- Used Book in Good Condition

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #2,636,557 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #270 in Adobe Photoshop #639 in Photography (Books) #2,418 in Digital Photography (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 889 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ For Beginner and Expert Alike
*by G***O on November 21, 2013*

I scoured most of the other reviews and couldn't find the answer to what seems like an important question: what skill level is this book aimed at? I've been working with Lightroom daily since the first release and I figured it would tell me stuff I already knew. Reading the reviews, I also expected it to be loaded with forced, unfunny humor. Neither turned out to be true. This book accomplishes the unusual feat of being helpful to beginners and experts alike. Lightroom is a powerful program, and powerful programs have lots of details and multiple ways of doing things. This book is more than a how-to guide. The rudiments are covered, but they're covered quickly, like in a sentence or two. The rest of each section tells you why and how to do things that go well beyond the basics. I wish I'd read it years ago. It would have saved me a lot of time. Reading this book as someone who knows Lightroom is like visiting a big city where you know the street system and freeways and suddenly you meet a local who shows you all the secret passageways and shortcuts that make getting around so much more effective and fun. I didn't go two pages without learning something useful I didn't know. Now, a lot of fuddy-duddy reviews here complain about Kelby's writing style and particularly his humor. He warns you up front that he indulges in a freeform passage at the beginning of each chapter that doesn't relate directly to the curriculum but is just there for comic relief. He even suggests that if you don't think he's funny you should skip these intros. They're harmless. Some are funny. They're really no more distracting than having illustrations at the beginning of the chapters. But judging from some of the reviews here you'd think the guy couldn't go two sentences without cutting up. It's just not true. Kelby's writing is conversational and direct. Many pages go by with no humor at all. Most of the book is useful information imparted painlessly and efficiently. So there it is: I hope I answered the question other reviews didn't about who the book is addressed to. It's equally suited to beginners and experts--no small feat. Most software instruction guides are simplified versions of the user's manual with bigger font sizes and color illustrations. Not this one; it teaches the basics and digs deeper simultaneously. I also hope I helped to debunk the rap that Kelby is obtrusively comedic. He's not. He's witty, clear, and describes complex things so you don't forget them the next time you sit at your computer. I can pretty much promise that you'll get more out of Lightroom, and gain a greater appreciation for it, after you read this book.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Might be one man's opinion, but it's a darn good one
*by S***R on November 1, 2013*

It's important to know that Lightroom is as much about managing your pictures as it is about developing them. It's kind of like going through old shoeboxes of prints and negatives. Some people label everything and others just stuff the boxes and spend hours trying to find that one pic that they're desperately looking for. Of course the program is so good at editing pics, that going over to photoshop is only required for extreme things these days. Anyways, Kelby's book is a fantastic starting guide, so good that I am in the process of re-importing all of my pictures taken over the past several years. I wouldn't say that I'm a complete random shoebox guy, but my folder labels don't do my pics justice. The first several chapters deal solely with importing and getting things set up to make your life easier, and it's mentioned that this is the way Mr. Kelby does it, hence the good opinion line. These chapters will amaze those thinking "why does everyone always say that LR is such a great program?" as they plod through attempting to learn on their own. It's all about workflow. Then it hops into chapters about developing pics, printing, etc. Developing in LR is pretty easy once you start to learn shortcuts and exactly what all those little sliders do. There are downloadable examples that you can use to practice right with the book. Everything is laid out in a way that no knowledge of the program is assumed, so anyone can work right through something. Now I did download the kindle edition for my iPad. I'm on the fence as to whether I really like instruction books in the e-format. With a book like this, you'll be looking to flip back and forth a good bit, so you have to make good use of bookmarks. I may have preferred a printed copy for that reason, but it's not that bad to deal with. What I should really be doing is taking notes.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Breezy, easy-to-read approach makes Scott Kelby's Photoshop books the best choice for new users.
*by D***R on December 29, 2014*

Scott Kelby's books offer a breezy, easy-to-read approach that helps make the subject more approachable. He doesn't try to cover every aspect of Photoshop, so he avoids being intimidating. The fact is that Photoshop is an extremely rich and complex program. It offers tools that the typical photographer will never need or use. It is not intuitive to use, so the new Photoshop user is likely to become frustrated very quickly - like learning to drive on an 18-wheeler. Scott helps the reader ease into Photoshop and learn to be productive using it. I have read quite a few Photoshop books, and I can say with confidence that, while not the most comprehensive books on the topic, Scott's books are by far the most useful and user-friendly.

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