Lightroom Tutorials or Books?

sherijohnson

I just got my hands on Lightroom 2.

What is the best way to learn your way around in there? it's all new to me, though I have been using adobe bridge and found that to be very intuitive.

I appreciate any resources you might guide me to.

Art Scott

I am really liking Scott Kelby's "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 for Photographers"......a straight forward work thru of lightroom.....reciepe book style...........bought off Amazon for a discount

arodney

sherijohnson wrote:

I just got my hands on Lightroom 2.

What is the best way to learn your way around in there? it's all new to me, though I have been using adobe bridge and found that to be very intuitive.

I appreciate any resources you might guide me to.

This is a great video download (and very affordable):

http://store.luminous-landscape.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=25&products_id=203

There's some excellent info from Adobe's lovely Julieanne Kost here:

http://www.jkost.com/lightroom.html

Pittspilot

sherijohnson wrote:

I just got my hands on Lightroom 2.

What is the best way to learn your way around in there? it's all new to me, though I have been using adobe bridge and found that to be very intuitive.

I appreciate any resources you might guide me to.

I like Martin Evening's book for in-depth information.

sherijohnson

Art Scott wrote:

I am really liking Scott Kelby's "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 for Photographers"......a straight forward work thru of lightroom.....reciepe book style...........bought off Amazon for a discount

I looked this up, it sounds perfect and he is a highly acclaimed photography author. Thank you.

sara505

sherijohnson wrote:

I looked this up, it sounds perfect and he is a highly acclaimed photography author. Thank you.

I toggle between Scott's book and Photoshop Lightroom2 Adventure by Mikkel Aaland and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 How-Tos; 100 essential techniques.

There's a lot to absorb, a lot to learn. I find it all comes little by little, as I need the info. Too much to learn at once.

LR2 is great - after stumbling along with DPP for the past year, LR2 seems truly wondrous and miraculous to me. I had problems with crashing for a while, but for some un-known reason, this seems to have stopped.

moggi1964

Pittspilot wrote:

I like Martin Evening's book for in-depth information.

I would second that suggestion. Excellent book that has an incredible breadth and will be a great tool as you become more experienced.

DJ-S1

I like Killer Tips as another resource as well.

sherijohnson

Art Scott wrote:

I am really liking Scott Kelby's "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 for Photographers"......a straight forward work thru of lightroom.....reciepe book style...........bought off Amazon for a discount

Well I didn't do the amazon thing.... I bought the book today @ Barnes & Noble so I could start reading it today. It is great. I got to preview a few other books while at the store, but this one showed the most promise in my opinion.

Thank you!!!!!!!!

Shootin1st

Enjoy the book. His back up daily (at a minimum) advice has already saved me once....

Terrence

Kelby's books are quite good. I found the Luminous Landscape tutorial mentioned earlier to be best for me. I like the "seeing it in action" way of learning more than reading. Especially helpful was seeing their workflow and rationale in action.

I follow these blogs to for tips and tidbits:

http://blogs.oreilly.com/lightroom/
http://lightroomsecrets.com/
http://lightroom-news.com/
http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/

Google "lightroom presets" for tons of pre-cooked recipes worth playing with. Must have plug-ins are LR2/Mogrify and the SmugMug export.

arodney

Terrence wrote:

I found the Luminous Landscape tutorial mentioned earlier to be best for me. I like the "seeing it in action" way of learning more than reading. Especially helpful was seeing their workflow and rationale in action.

I agree. I find I get "more" out of the time spent viewing the video's although I've collected many books too which I find are great for reference. But to get a grand overview, the video's (and the LL one is many hours), is the best start for me.

jhelms

Glad I saw this post - I had a bit of a learning curve too trying to get up to speed with LR2.

Something that has helped me is subscribing to all/any Lightroom related podcasts that I could find on itunes.

Andy

http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/

Elaine

I've enjoyed these on-line video tutorials:

Michael Tapes (these are for version 1.0, but they are free and give a decent overview)

Lynda.com tutorials by Chris Orwig (I had a free month to use here, as it came with the purchase of CS3 last fall.)

pathfinder

arodney wrote:

This is a great video download (and very affordable):

http://store.luminous-landscape.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=25&products_id=203

There's some excellent info from Adobe's lovely Julieanne Kost here:

http://www.jkost.com/lightroom.html

Jeff and Michael's video about Lightroom 2 is very helpful and entertaining as well. I think this is a great introduction for folk who have not ever used Lightroom previously. I recommend it heartily!