Customer Reviews
Fantastic Lightroom tutorial - By: I. MCCAIN, 07 Jun 2008 
I have been using Lightroom for several months now, but felt I was missing out on its full potential. I needed someone who knows what they are talking about to take me through it step-by-step & show me all the features & how to use them to improve workflow efficiency & end product quality. Scott Kelby has done that for me with this book. I happen to like his jokey style, so reading the book & using it with Lightroom was like having a pal who was talking me through it. The book is broken down into relevant sections covering the Lightroom modules, & it is easy to go back & find a particular feature to go over it again if you want to. It is packed with high quality photos illustrating the techniques & with screenshots of the software. Certainly I was missing many of the useful features of Lightroom, but now I feel much more confident & productive. The workflow sections for wedding & landscape shotsin the last two chapters bring it all together & show how to use itin real life situations. I also have Scott's CS3 book, & this too is excellent. Allin all, I would highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn the full potential of Lightroom.
Waste of Money - By: letsgetitright, 23 Mar 2008 
I am a great fan of Scott Kelly's books & 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 & hoped that it would help me to understand Lightroom. But this book covers Lightroom 1.0 & though the publisher has provided updates for Lightroom 1.1 we are now on Lightroom 1.3 & 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 releasein 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 - By: Marc Gander, 07 Mar 2008 
As a straightforward instruction book, it goes through all of the stepsin logical order - 1, 2, 3, ... etc. However, comparatively little explanation of of "Why?" so that the book is presentedin 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 & hearty manner. Frankly he getsin 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 & politely walk away. The only solution here is to look for a different book.
I was also very surprised & 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 & tear.
In conclusion, I would suggest finding a book by a different author & from a publisher who is interestedin a better quality product.
The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers - By: E. Palmer, 19 Sep 2007 The content of the book is very thorough infact too much so.
Scott Kelby takes you through his way of doing thingsin 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 pagesin 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 & how it can be used by you then I would not recomend this book.
The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers - By: Tony Murray, 05 Sep 2007 By far this is the best book on Lighroom. Kelby has designed a step-by-step course that will take you through the procedures & 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 & follow. You also must visit his site which complements the book.
