Susie Posted October 15, 2013 Share #1 Posted October 15, 2013 Advertisement (gone after registration) Sorry if this has been done to death, but can I have a recomendation for a basic book on how to use Lightroom 4. It needs to be a book: I don't have a Kindle. A couple of months ago I bought an M9, having used film Leicas for nearly 30 years. All I need to know is how to turn the RAW data into a reasonable picture. Any printing will be done by a lab. I have very limited computer skills. I have a Dell laptop and a laser printer! That's all, so you see where I'm coming from! Thanks in advance, Susie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sanyasi Posted October 15, 2013 Share #2 Posted October 15, 2013 Martin Evening's LR book is the way to go. Straightforward and not to chatty. It is how I learned LR. One suggestion: LR is very inexpensive tool. If you are going to invest the time to learn it, do so on the newest version--5. Just an opinion. However you do it, good luck. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
k-hawinkler Posted October 15, 2013 Share #3 Posted October 15, 2013 Sorry if this has been done to death, but can I have a recomendation for a basic book on how to use Lightroom 4. It needs to be a book: I don't have a Kindle. A couple of months ago I bought an M9, having used film Leicas for nearly 30 years. All I need to know is how to turn the RAW data into a reasonable picture. Any printing will be done by a lab. I have very limited computer skills. I have a Dell laptop and a laser printer! That's all, so you see where I'm coming from! Thanks in advance, Susie From Victoria Bampton, quote: "Free Beginner's eBook Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 - Quick Start Guide is a 76 page PDF eBook which just covers the basics of Lightroom. The aim is to help new users get started and avoid the most frequent problems. I'd love to see the day when no one appears on the forums saying they've accidentally deleted all of their photos! It's a free download with no catch, so please help me spread the word!" http://www.lightroomqueen.com/downloads/quickstart/lightroom5-quickstart.pdf Good luck. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted October 19, 2013 Share #4 Posted October 19, 2013 http://tinyurl.com/mne8h88 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wda Posted October 19, 2013 Share #5 Posted October 19, 2013 Susie, don't ignore Adobe's website tutorials. Select the area of interest and slowly work through them all, if you wish. They are free, accessible, repeatable and very useful for beginners. If cost is not an issue, I also commend you to upgrade your LR4 to LR5. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ecar Posted October 24, 2013 Share #6 Posted October 24, 2013 Susie, Evening's book is good. And a web search will provide additional resources. As a side note, whilst I fully appreciate that the low-tech way has its benefits, may I suggest you also invest in a decent monitor. I'm afraid that, no matter how good the book is or how much your LR skills improve or how skillful the lab is, the results will not live up to your expectations if you only rely on your laptop monitor for making/assessing adjustments... This is more important (and, unfortunately, more expensive) IMHO than upgrading from LR4 to LR5. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob_w Posted November 6, 2013 Share #7 Posted November 6, 2013 Advertisement (gone after registration) Another vote here for Victoria Bampton (the Lightroom Queen as she calls herself). I tried Scott Kelby and Martin Evening. Both books were in turn donated to the local thrift shop. The former is too joky and the latter is truly exhaustive. I like her book Lightroom 5 – The Missing FAQ because it is structured in terms of questions you might want answered as you work with different features. You can download the e-book version which is 622 pages long and incredibly cheap rather than buy the published version. I like that I have it on my computer for immediate search and reference when I am actually working with LR. Bampton also supports purchasers with a good website, blog, links to add-ons and regularly updated info and versions. When LR6 comes along you can expect to acquire the e-book version for a small marginal cost. You can't go wrong really. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest malland Posted November 6, 2013 Share #8 Posted November 6, 2013 Susie, as other's have suggested there is a huge advantage in using LR5: in my view the new Radial Filter in LR5 is a huge improvement if your interested in selective dodging and burning. The spot removal is also hugely improved: look at these videos. As for learning Lightroom, I would start with video tutorials by Laura Shoe and Julieanne Kost that you can find through a google search and forego trying to ready exhaustive and exhausting books like that by Martin Evening that so many people swear by. I have one and have never used it. —Mitch/Bangkok Looking for Baudelaire [WIP] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Albertson Posted November 13, 2013 Share #9 Posted November 13, 2013 Martin Evening's book is good, but Jeff Schewe's "The Digital Negative: Raw Image Processing in Lightroom, Camera Raw, and Photoshop" is also good if you're new to this stuff (as I am). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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