30/08/08

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

CHRIS ORWIG
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques
Adobe Press, August 2008, 248 p. $25 (Paperback)
Build your Lightroom expertise, one technique at a time. Why sort through piles of unrelated documentation when you can focus on the essential techniques? In Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 How-Tos, author Chris Orwig brings you the best techniques to quickly organize and correct your digital images using this powerful program created specifically for photographers. Complete with illustrations and practical tips, these bite-sized lessons from author’s experience as a photographer and instructor provide just the information you need. Here you can explore the program at your own pace, spending less time at your computer and more time behind the lens taking great pictures. Coverage includes:
  • Customizing the Interface
  • Understanding File Formats
  • Finding Images with Text, Refine, and Metadata Filters
  • Using Presets in Quick Develop
  • Correcting White Balance
  • Applying Settings to Other Images
  • Changing Hue, Saturation, and Luminance
  • Dodging and Burning with the Adjustment Brush
  • Customizing Web Galleries
Chris Orwig is a professional photographer, teacher, and author. He is a member of the faculty at the prestigious Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California, and is a popular conference speaker. A regular contributor to Photoshop User and Layers magazines, he also creates training videos. Chris Orwig brings his unique perspective, creativity, and passion to all that he does. As a photographer, he subscribes to Marc Riboud’s observation that “Photography is about savoring life at 1/100th of a second.” Find inspiration and see his work at http://www.chrisorwig.com/.