Photoshop CC and Lightroom: A Photographer's Handbook Paperback – September 20, 2014

I bought this book in the Kindle version,using it primarily on the iPad. Having used Photoshop since CS2 my motivations centered around learning interaction techniques for the new CC versions of PS and Lightroom with emphasis on Lightroom Mobile.The book was disappointing in supporting my goals. Kindle document presentation differs when using iPad vs desktop; also is very different from the printed version with no page numbers (only location numbers), no index, or easy access to Table of Contents is a very frustrating barrier to use as a working reference.Preliminaries e.g. Theory, application settings & preferences.are extensive, recognized by the author's "give it a read,even if you're beginning to get tired of it" advice. Ironically I found these sections to be the most interesting of the book,with in depth coverage of the foundations of digital photography.Sometimes,as noted in several examples below, he tells you to be sure to do something but forgets to tell you how.e.g. Loc966 "ACR preferences are accessible...from Photoshop ". To find them is a bit of a trick requiring a return to Edit>preferences>camera raw. Another example in the section Performance: issues to consider include whether graphics card supports OpenGL or OpenCL. Click on Advanced Settings to see. No explanation of what to look for or how to interpret what you see. Loc 974.My needs in understanding th new Mobile Lightroom were never met because the subject is barely covered; when it is, it is not current. An example is the lack of discussion on "syncing" Mobile with Desktop Lightroom. Syncing is a major advantage of the Adobe systems as they have evolved and works wonderfully to enable access via your mobile application. This book is not the place to discover how to use the new upgrades. Ultimately I learned what I was seeking by using Adobe tutorials after which it was easy to see what the Laskevitch book omitted.Overall this is a shallow treatment of a deep subject with the exception of the early sections on theory which are very well done.

I would use this book more for a complete self study course rather than a reference book you use when you forget some fine point in PS that you need to do.

This is very good book for the introduction on photoshop CCand Lightroom. There are steps to use Adobe photoshop softwares.There examples to help understand the image process of photo.

Forget it and learn on you own. Written by someone who knows the program rather than someone who is teaching the program. I'm sure there are other books out there to accomplish what I want; just not this one. And the search goes on.

too complicated for this beginner,

liked the book so much I'm taking a photo class.

Good reference manual.

There's no doubt that two of the most popular image processing programs are Photoshop (PS) and Lightroom (LR). Photoshop has even entered the language as a verb. Beginners interested in learning post-processing (where post means after image capture) would find it nice if they could learn about both packages at once with no extra effort. This book seems to be aimed at doing that.Experienced users know that besides the main PS program, PS contains two integrated and yet stand alone products, a browser called Bridge and a method of converting images from a camera format generically called RAW, which contains all the image data a camera can see, into an image that a human can see and manipulate called Adobe Camera Raw (ACR). Experienced users also know that while the interface between the users looks different, ACR and the Develop Module of LR have the same controls.Some of the functions in main PS program, ACR and LR look the same and work the same (with minor differences) while others look different but have a similar effect. The curves function that controls tonality is fairly similar in main PS, ACR and LR. Tonality can be controlled in PS with the levels function but in ACR and LR with the basic function.Recognizing the similarities, the author has organized this book for beginners by similar function, like sharpening, or printing. He identifies the program being discussed by markers in the margin. He covers much of the gamut from intake to output for each program. I have suggested in the past that this can be confusing for a beginner, but Laskevitch has countered that a reader, who is not interested, can easily skip from section to section covering just the software that the reader is interested in. That may be so, but then the reader would have purchased half a book that that the reader didn't need, and might even have a hard time selecting just the relevant content.Lightroom is designed for photographers and offers the easiest interface for adjusting photographs. However, there are many more advanced techniques that require Photoshop to accomplish (although there is little discussion by the author of transferring an image back and forth). However, most beginners will want to start with one piece of software and master it before moving on. Most experienced users agree the Lightroom is a good place to start, and even Laskevitch seems to acknowledge that, although his PS explanations seem far more detailed than his LR explorations. Given the fact that the author seems to scant LR explanations, most beginners would be better off reading a LR book dedicated to just that program.Aside from the problems of the book's pedagogical approach, while the book explains how to use many of the panels and buttons in the programs, it offers little guidance as to when that might be appropriate. There are no real tutorials and no web-site from which to download images.Perhaps because so many of the pages must cover so much software, many of the details are not included. For example, in the printing chapter the author tells you how to set up an image for soft-proofing (a method of showing how the image will differ from the monitor in printing) in PS, but nothing about what can be done to make the soft-proofed image closer to one's vision. There is no mention of gamut warning, which tells the photographer what colors in the monitor image can't be printed. The LR section on printing doesn't even mention the soft-proofing function.There are enough problems in learning to post-process. One doesn't need to buy another one with a difficult book.

Very useful book at very reasonable price.

Fairly good explanations, I would say not for raw beginners.

Covers the subject but a bit of a novel not really suitable as a quick reference which is what I wanted

Ok, but rather wordy, the creative cloud free tutorial app is better

good