Martin Evening - Lightroom Transformations Realizing your vision with Adobe Lightroom plus Photoshop

Realizing your vision with LightroomPlus Photoshop

Martin Evening

Lightroom Transformations:
Realizing your vision with Adobe Lightroomplus Photoshop
Martin Evening

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Copyright 2016 by Martin Evening

Acquisitions Editor: Valerie Witte
Developmental and Copy Editor: Peggy Nauts
Production Editor: Tracey Croom
Proofreader: Patricia J. Pane
Composition: Martin Evening
Indexer: James Minkin
Cover Design: Mimi Heft
Interior Design: Mimi Heft, with Martin Evening
Cover Image: Martin Evening

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ISBN-13: 9780134398280
ISBN-10: 0134398289

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Printed and bound in the United States of America

My first encounter with digital imaging was in the late 80s, when I had one of my photographs retouched by a Quantel Paintbox system operator. I was instantly hooked. A few years later, with the arrival of Photoshop, it became possible to retouch photographs on a home computer, and I remember telling my partner at the time that I really needed to get my own Photoshop system. And what exactly do you need this Photoshop thing for? she asked. It was a good question. Why exactly did I need Photoshop? Very few photographers I knew of were using it. None of my clients were requesting digital image manipulation. Occasionally on advertising jobs, photographs were retouched digitally, but this was always carried out by an agency-sourced operator and never the photographers themselves.

Even so, after a few years I had saved up enough money to acquire my first image-editing workstation running Photoshop. Once I had gotten over the usual excitement of swapping heads and skies and playing with the special effects filters, I settled down to a serious study of how to use Photoshop, and later Lightroom, as a digital darkroom tool. These days, youd be hard put to find a professional photographer who never uses image-editing software. The type of Photoshop and Lightroom editing work I do now with my own photographs leans more toward an understated style of retouching, and it is not obvious that the photographs have been manipulated. For me, it is more about knowing how to configure the camera settings to capture the best possible raw file and then understanding how to best use the tools in Lightroom and Photoshop to perfect the image. In this book I share these skills and show how you can unleash the full potential of your photographs.

I would like to thank my acquisitions editor, Valerie Witte, who did a fabulous job guiding me through this project from the early planning to the final proof stages. Many thanks to my developmental and copy editor, Peggy Nauts; proofreader, Patricia J. Pane; and project editor, Tracey Croom, who all helped me look good. And thank you also to Mimi Heft for the design work and to James Minkin, who did the indexing.

I am grateful to the following photographers, who allowed me to use their photographs in the book: Ansell Cizic, Angela Di Martino, Chris Ducker, Chris Evans, Richard Eyers, Guy Pilkington, Eric Richmond, and Farid Sani. And I also wish to thank key members of the Lightroom team: Joshua Bury, Kelly Castro, Eric Chan, Tom Hogarty, Thomas Knoll, Max Wendt, Simon Chen, Julie Kmoch, Julieanne Kost, Sharad Mangalick, Becky Sowada, Jeff Tranberry, Benjamin Warde, and Ben Zibble.

Lastly, I would like to thank my wife, Camilla, and daughter, Angelica, for their patience while I was busy researching and writing this book.

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