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Retouching On A Laptop: How to Retouch a Portrait in 15 minutes (Retouching Essentials)
This three DVD set teaches you the skills and techniques essential for using Photoshop CS3 to master the art of digital portrait retouching. Accentuate and perfect each shot by learning how to brighten and enhance features, how to create flawless but believable skin texture, and how to improve overall tone, color and detail to make Hollywood-quality portraits.
Building upon skills learned from Vincent Versace’s Welcome to Oz: Following the RBG Road, Believing is Seeing refines your artistic prowess by providing the perfect balance of practical instruction and creative inspiration. Believing is Seeing is designed to further develop your proficiency, help you express your creativity, and let any idea imaginable flow fluidly through Photoshop.
Each lesson provides you with the skills and knowledge to turn your ideas into reality, teaching you to make informed decisions at every step in the process – from the time you shoot an image all the way through digital processing and output. Each image is dissected and rebuilt, step-by-step, so you understand how and why each decision is being made. Full-resolution 16-bit source files and original 100ppi Photoshop files are included with every lesson. immersing you in both the workflow and the creative process.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is the primary software-of-choice for today’s digital photographer. As a new tool, using Lightroom requires mastering new skills—not always an easy task. Compounding the challenge, many photographers don’t have fundamental knowledge of digital image processing. Lightroom 2: Streamlining your Digital Photography Process offers you the digital imaging fundamentals and the Lightroom-specific skills you need to quickly learn and retain a mastery of Lightroom.
Written and designed by a professional photographer, designer, fine art printmaker and instructor, this book is designed to simplify and accelerate the learning process and is unique in both content and presentation. Nat Coalson is an Adobe Certified Expert in Lightroom and Photoshop, and has taught photography and imaging classes and workshops for many years. The approach taken by Lightroom 2: Streamlining your Digital Photography Process is based on over 20 years of professional experience in photography, printing, and imaging, and the methods of instruction were developed through the author’s work with students and clients.
At 400 pages, this book clearly explains how to use all of Lightroom’s controls, and much more. Beginning with the original image capture, all the way through importing, editing, processing and presenting photos, the text also explains fundamental imaging concepts every modern photographer needs to know. Not just the “how” but also the “why”. Not just recipes, but core skills you will use again and again. And by developing stronger technical skills, you will be able to focus more on creative expression.
The content of Lightroom 2: Streamlining your Digital Photography Process also demonstrates a simple, practical workflow. You will learn real-world, professional-level production techniques through straightforward examples and easy-to-follow instructions.
The book is divided into nine chapters:
Chapter 1. Digital Imaging Foundations: resolution, bit depth, color spaces, etc.
Chapter 2. Digital Photography Workflow: step-by-step outline of the processing pipeline
Chapter 3. The Lightroom Workspace: modules, panels, tools, view modes, etc.
Chapter 4. Digital Image Capture: benefits of raw, using histograms, critical exposure settings, capturing the most possible data, etc.
Chapter 5. Import Photos into Lightroom: creating efficient file systems, automation and batch processing, using presets, etc.
Chapter 6. Organize your Photos in Library: identifying selects, using filters and collections, working with metadata, keywording strategies, etc.
Chapter 7. Process your Photos in Develop: evaluating the photo, adjusting global tone, contrast and color; local adjustment brushes and graduated filters, retouching, etc.
Chapter 8. Export Images from Lightroom: choosing the right file formats, post-processing actions, using export plug-ins, etc.
Chapter 9. Presenting your Work: working in the Slideshow, Print and Web modules
Each chapter describes in detail specific aspects of the Lightroom workflow and includes step-by-step sequences that summarize the topics presented. Throughout the book, you will learn and integrate concepts quickly and easily through numerous shortcuts, tips, reminders and warnings. Lightroom 2: Streamlining your Digital Photography Process includes over 300 color figures, including screenshots and illustrations, plus dozens of the author’s own photographs.
In addition, Appendices provide a reference sheet for the most useful shortcuts, a comprehensive list of additional online Lightroom resources and a guide to optimizing Lightroom performance.
Lightroom 2: Streamlining your Digital Photography Process gives you a complete mastery of Lightroom and the digital photography workflow, as well as a solid foundation in digital imaging. As a result, you will be able to produce the best possible photographs with the least possible effort.
Foreword by renowned landscape photographer William Neill.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Excellent LR2 Guide
I’ve been using LightRoom since switching from Aperture two years ago. LightRoom is, without question, a better, more powerful and feature-rich application BUT, not being a “computer geek”, I never felt that I was able to get the maximum benefit from it. Coalson’s book has been a huge help for me. The book’s content, lay-out and approach are all designed to quickly improve one’s ability to optimize LightRoom. The writing style, explanations, step-by-step instructions and guidance are clear, easy-to-follow and comprehensive. And you don’t need to be a “geek” to get it! I now keep Coalson’s book on my desk for every editing session and find it continues to be a very useful tool. My satisfaction with LightRoom has improved dramatically as I am now faster, more productive and a better image editor.
4 Stars Lightroom 2: Streamlining your Digital Photography Process
If you are seeking an introductory text to Lightroom 2, this is an ideal purchase. The author knows his subject.
Having mastered the basics of LR2, you will find more than sufficient information throughout the book to take you to more complex workflows (if you wish).
I bought this book upon purchasing LR2 (still use CS4) and it served my purposes admirably.
Definitely worth considering.
4 Stars Great so far
I’ve only made it through part of the book (about half), but I’ve already learned so much. Very easy to read, and the author lets you decide how to set up your workflow, instead of saying “do this, now do this”. Instead, he says “do it this way, OR do it this way, OR do it that way”. I can’t believe a product like Lightroom doesn’t come with some kind of manual, but I guess the silver lining is that we get to spend more money finding the guide book that suits us best. Hopefully, you find the right one for you the first time. I will say that other reviews of this book assisted me in making this one the first I bought. I’m about 99.9% sure this will be the ONLY book. I leave a little room there since I haven’t made it all the way through the book. Read all the reviews, as most folks have detailed the book far better than I can, and then decide if that’s the way you learn. For me, it’s been a good investment!
5 Stars Takes users “to the next level”
I saw Nat speak at a Denver photo club and enjoyed his teaching very much. I have used Lightroom for about 2 years now and I just read the book. Much of it was review for me, but it would be helpful for a new user. The book helped me with a number of advanced functions (gradient filters, brush applications). The book also helped me understand data management and backup methods to make my workflow more secure and streamlined. This is now my “must have” guidebook for lightroom 2.
5 Stars Your Best Guide to Lightroom!
Adobe Lightroom is not difficult to learn to use, but if yu want to learn to use it most effectively, you need this book. It’s an ideal guide to digital asset management, workflow improvement, and using all the features of Lightroom to help you organize and improve your images. Highly recommended.
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This lesson continues what we started last week in our tutorial for correcting white balance in Adobe Lightroom. It’s not necessary to read it for this lesson, but the techniques are similar given Lightroom and Camera Raw share the same engine. To quickly recap, correcting white balance is where image correction and improvement should logically begin, thus I figured it’d be a great place to start workflow tutorials. Fortunately Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) make it pretty easy to do, bu
