Photoshop for Lightroom Users (Digital Photography Courses) by Scott Kelby (2013-12-29) Paperback – 1756

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.

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.

I have used Lightroom (LR) for years and I recently subscribed to the subscription model. This gave me Photoshop (PS) as well as LR and I wanted to find out how to use PS in conjunction with LR. I have had books by Scott Kelby in the past and I was surprised to read negative reviews of this book. Different people have different levels of experience but for me this book is ideal. It covers the essentials that I want to do in PS, as I will only be using it occasionally to do things I can't do in LR. The accompanying video showing how to set up the PS screen for use with photographs was particularly helpful. In summary I am very pleased with this book and it has exceeded my expectations.

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.

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.

Love anything that helps me with photoshop and lightroom...boy is it complicated at times!!!

Recommended

Well written book of sensible length and size, can be read in bed. Best bit is the final chapter which tells you what you don't need Photoshop for: which is most things if you are a photographer. If you thought you were good on Lightroom this book might also teach you a thing or two.