Photoshop for Lightroom Users (Voices That Matter)

I have always found Scott Kelby's books to pretty good; well written and to the point. I use them more for references than a real manual; when I get stumped I open the book and find the answer. This book does not disappoint, it is exactly what the title says it is - Photoshop for Lightroom users!I have used Photoshop since it's infancy but as it got more and more complicated I just stuck with what I knew. When Lightroom came out I realized that it would do most of what I needed, only going to Photoshop when I just had to. As Lightroom got better and better with each edition (BTW, buy Kelby's Lightroom book, it's great!) and Photoshop got more and more complex I avoided it. When Adobe started the Creative Cloud Photographer bundle I figured since I was paying for Photoshop I may as well learn more about it. I have several Photoshop books, including Kelby's, but they were as intimidating as the program itself already was. So . . . Scott Kelby cleverly put out this book about the same time, an answer to my prayers. It shows me what I need to know and leaves out a lot of the graphic design stuff that a photographer like me just doesn't care about.I teach photography and editing classes at the local art center with Lightroom. I used to cringe when people would ask me Photoshop questions but since I now have the e-book version of this on my iPad I always have it with me, I can look up answers quickly. The students think I am so smart and pay big bucks to take these night classes in Lightroom editing. They could save a lot of money by just ordering this and the Lightroom book, it's all the reference most folks would ever need.Keep shooting!

I agree with many of the comments already posted. This is a tutorial and Scott Kelby provides a website where one can download the sample files he uses. Download and go through the steps. I learned Lightroom 3 and Lightroom 4 via Kelby's manuals and this follows the same process. I have Kelby's Adobe Lightroom 5 Book and his Adobe Photoshop CS6 Book, but have not worked through all of the tutorials. I purchased the Lightroom 5 upgrade the month it was released and immediately began using based on experience with Lightroom 3 and 4 plus watching several Adobe webinars on the improvements in Lightroom 5. Most of the Adobe Photoshop books ignore Lightroom and my great wish has been for an instruction document that approached Photoshop from the perspective of the experienced Lightroom user. This is hard work! Read the entire book and then go back and do the exercises. There was one place where I did not follow what Kelby was saying, but after reading the next chapter I understood what was not getting through my thick head. One of the things I really appreciated was his writing that the needed icon was the "third from the right" or "fourth from the top."The next time I have a specific project, I will first review the two pages in his book that are similar to my project and save a lot of time and agony. I keep all of my books within easy reach and often flip to and review what Kelby said.Final comment: Watch the plethora of videos on the Internet but this feeds me the information at a speed I find most helpful as it gives me the actual keystrokes.

As a long time purchaser Kelby products and follower of Scott, I have been hoping for just this book. For those of us who need to know "Just the Basics" this book hits the SPOT. I have suggested it to all of my photog friends who are afraid of Photoshop!This book covers:1. The basics "Tools" available in Photoshop and how they work. Specifically the tools that are important to Photographers. Including essential Keyboard Shortcuts, Navigation and other techniques.2. How to do a "Round Trip" with your image file from Lightroom to Photoshop and back to Lightroom again. Which is very important for library and catalog management.3. Making Pano's and HDR pictures as well as using Smart Objects.4. Critical Basic "Re-Touching" techniques to clean up your pictures. Including Facial Symmetry, Eyebrow Control, Improving "Eyes", Skin softening and cleaning, Teeth whitening. All the most important pieces of "Airbrushing" a portrait.5. Blending and Combining Images. Including adding a logo or putting a picture inside a picture.6. Creating effects like Tilt Shift, High Contrast, Reflections, replacing Sky (Clouds), Typography Effects.7. How to Sharpen images, the right way (we all need this!)8. Other "Problem" areas we all need to know how to fix.This is a purchase you will not regret and is a quick and easy FAST read. I burned through it quickly to see what it had to offer, and I Can't wait to dive into my library of images and apply these techniques. This is the book we have all be waiting for!Way to go Scott!P.S. The kindle version is absolutely useable on a iPad or Kindle for the computer. I know some times that can be a problem!

This is a really good book by an amazing author. If you are a DSLR photographer you are probably going to be using Lightroom as your main postproduction tool. However, there are a few things that you can’t do in lightroom that you need photoshop for and this book covers all of those items. I really cannot recommend this more highly. It’s very easy to follow and really does cover the topics very well indeed. Scott is a photograph and he knows how to write his books for other photographers.

This book does, brilliantly, exactly what it says on the tin: if you're a photographer who's familiar with Lightroom but curious about and/or intimidated by Photoshop, Kelby gives you exactly what you need, in a straightforward, easy-to-follow manner. Layers, masks, adjustment layers, smart objects: Photoshop concepts are introduced by showing them in use rather than trying to explain them, which just works. (The same goes for the photographic techniques involved.) By not pretending to comprehensiveness, the book cuts through Photoshop's notoriously labyrinthine interface; it avoids lengthy preliminaries in favour of immediate, and immediately useful, results.This isn't a complete course in Photoshop, even for photographers. But it will get you over the hump.

Typical Kelby style book. Answers those previously unanswered queriies with worked examples. This is not heavy going either, and gives just enough information to get your project complete. Most of the content is lifted from other Kelby books but he's filtered it down to the important stuff us LR users want to know.

This is a great book which highlights a few key techniques in photoshop. It also gives detail of when you can actually bypass photoshop altogether and stay in lightroom. It's thin compared to Kelby's other books, but is cheaper and more focussed.

An excellent book on how best to integrate Lightroom and Photoshop which are a very powerful combination The book is very readable and I leart a lot - Highly recommended