Lesa Snider - Adobe Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC for Photographers Classroom in a Book

Mahesh Balasubramanian

Classroom in a Book

The official training workbook from Adobe

Lesa Snider

Adobe Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC for Photographers Classroom in a Book

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Its a great time to be a photographer. Cameras are powerful and (somewhat) affordable, and theres a plethora of image management and editing software. This is great news in some respects, but confusing in others.

As a subscriber to Adobe Lightroom CC and Adobe Photoshop CC, you hold heaps of photo management and manipulation power in your hands. Although these two powerhouses share some common ground, theyre vastly different programs. Each one was designed for specific tasks, and they were built to work together seamlessly to speed your workflowits surprisingly simple to fling images back and forth between the two. Your biggest challenge now is to figure out which program to use when.

Happily, you hold the answer in your hands in the form of this book. Once you learn why, when, and how to move between the two programs, youll spend far less time in front of your computer and more time behind your camera.

Before we dive headfirst into using Lightroom and Photoshop together, there are some important things to know that this covers. In other words, dont skip it.

The only way to achieve photographic workflow mastery is to understand exactly how Lightroom and Photoshop work, as well as what sort of real-world tasks each program excels at. This book is packed with exercise files that enable you to follow along, so its important to know how to download and access those files. And finally, so that you dont have to intermingle the exercise files into your working Lightroom catalog, the section teaches you how to create a nice, safe space for you to play with and learn this books files.

So grab your favorite beverage and buckle in! Youre in for a lot of fun.