In the second half of this two-part interview, Martin Evening offers advice to users and gives a sneak peak of the second edition of his best-selling book The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers. In part one, Martin discusses his work and the role Lightroom plays in it.
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Martin Evening has worked in the field of fashion photography for nearly 20 years. Serving primarily commercial clients, Martin uses digital cameras and imaging software in the studio during live photo shoots. With his camera connected to his computer, he can look at the monitor to [...]
Lightroom is often referred to as a “metadata editor,” meaning that the work you do in Lightroom isn’t applied to the pixels in the source photo, but rather is saved as a set of metadata instructions (inside the catalog file) that are only applied to copies of the source photo during any type [...]
With all the marvelous things Photoshop Lightroom does, one thing it really doesn’t do is professional-level image sharpening. That’s something for which we still have to jump over to Adobe Photoshop. However, if you don’t mind spending just a few minutes in Photoshop now, you can make this process almost fully automated [...]
Adobe Photoshop CS5
Tethered shooting with Lightroom offers several advantages:
As a photographer, you can quickly evaluate a photo on your computer screen much better than you can on the small screen on the back of the camera.
You can check lighting, exposure, and the sharpness of the photo much more easily on the computer than [...]