![]() ![]() This helped me get to know my way around Lightroom and it worked well for me. The best way I found to work with Doug’s presentations was to have my trial version of Lightroom open so I could pause Doug and produce the same effect he had been talking about on one of my own images. My confidence in how to achieve improvements quickly and efficiently was growing as was my enthusiasm to do so but I wasn’t even half way through yet! (There is currently a Seasonal offer on but it may have expired by the time you read this). Even at this stage I felt that it was already worth the full asking price of $108 (£66) (€79). The beauty about this sort of presentation is that after such a full on learning curve you can pause to make a cup of tea or do something else until you feel ready to learn more.īy the time I had got to the end of the Development Section I had been shown how to manipulate my images in any way whatsoever, should I want or need to. By the end of this 17 minute section I had had a whole new world opened up to me. Fortunately Doug was there to walk me through it and enlighten me about Sharpening, Radius, Detail and Masking followed by very useful guidance on how to reduce noise both colour and luminance. Fortunately Doug’s calm presentation is paced just right to give you information you can remember without overload.Īs a Photoshop user I’m fairly comfortable working with colour correction and enhancement but I still learnt a lot of new stuff watching the explanation of the multiple slider settings but it was in the Capture and Creative Sharpening that this app really shone out because it has always been a bit of a dark art to me and I have never really taken time to study it. Having learnt how to set up your files and scheduled a simple virtually foolproof back up system and imported your first batch of images it’s time to move on to the ‘Development’ stage where Lightroom offers you the most amazing array of controls which, if Doug wasn’t with you, could be way over the top. I’m sure there’s a way of syncing them but I like Doug’s suggestion because it makes me feel more in control. At present the photo libraries on my desktop and laptop are not the same because I use the laptop while travelling and desktop while at home. The second good start was just a few minutes into Doug’s presentation when he encouraged me to consider using an external hard drive so that I could easily switch from my desktop to my laptop and still have access to my complete library. For instance once you have imported your images it is actually quite difficult to find the original files because they are kept in a folder which you can only open if you know how to! Lightroom and I got off to a very good start when Doug told me that I can store my images where I want them and Lightroom only refers to them rather than imprisons them. Up until now I have used iPhoto mainly and Aperture occasionally and was looking at alternatives because they have an annoying and an increasingly Apple attitude of having to do it their way. It’s available as a digital download and the iBook format works on desktops, laptops and most usefully, iPads so long flight times can now be spent learning rather than playing Solitaire □ ![]() ![]() Starting to use a heavyweight programme such as Adobe Lightroom can be a daunting task especially when there are no printed manuals any more so, as a Lightroom virgin I was delighted to be offered a review copy of Doug and Lorenza Sloss’s “Lightroom 4/5 for the Underwater Photographer’. UWP MAGAZINE REVIEW – Issue 76 by PETER ROWLANDS ![]()
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