LightRoom...HELP!

[canon23]

Hi all. I just had a friend built me a new pc & had Lr4 & PS installed. However I have never used them before and would like ur help in directing me to some good, helpful sites with tutorials or lessons for beginners. Recommendations on good books r welcomed too. Please lend some assistance. Your help is much appreciated. Thx!

 

[bdunbar79]

I have Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Classroom in a Book and The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers by Martin Evening. Both are fantastic.

 

[Albi86]

Martin Evening is great, but a complete beginner should maybe start from Scott Kelby

 

[bdunbar79]

Martin Evening is great, but a complete beginner should maybe start from Scott Kelby

True.

 

[pknight]

The Adobe site has many video tutorials on using both PS and LR. They also have public forums for users with questions. And they are all free.

 

[Mt Spokane Photography]

Adobe is the best starting place, and its free.
http://tv.adobe.com/show/getting-started-with-adobe-photoshop-lightroom-4/
You will want to get one of the Martin Evening, Victoria Brampton, or other books to have for reference and to help solve issues that come up from time to time.
Its really important to at least view the tutorials before trying to start, or you may get very frustrated. Understanding how the database works is critical.

 

[jrsforums]

George Jardine's Library and Develop tutorial are the best and most instructive that I have seen.
http://mulita.com/blog/

BTW...I have looked at the AdobeTv video, have Evening's book, and own and looked at the Luminous
Landscape tutorials. George's is still, by far, better.

John

 

[Merlin_AZ]

http://www.thedigitalphotographyconnection.com/PFDP.php?accesscheck=%2FPFDP2.php
http://www.msjphotography.com/
http://lightroomkillertips.com/

Here are a few places I've learned a lot from.

 

[RLPhoto]

Import your RAWs in the library tab.

Develop in the develop tab.

Right click and export your RAWs as any file you'd like.

Simple enough?

 

[bdunbar79]

Import your RAWs in the library tab.

Develop in the develop tab.

Right click and export your RAWs as any file you'd like.

Simple enough?

And that's helpful how? I'm pretty sure there's more to the "develop" part unless I've been doing something completely wrong all these years.

 

[RLPhoto]

Import your RAWs in the library tab.

Develop in the develop tab.

Right click and export your RAWs as any file you'd like.

Simple enough?

And that's helpful how? I'm pretty sure there's more to the "develop" part unless I've been doing something completely wrong all these years.

I'm absolute that you would know that it is that simple. Import, develop and export? What else? Make a cup of coffee tab?

 

[bdunbar79]

Import your RAWs in the library tab.

Develop in the develop tab.

Right click and export your RAWs as any file you'd like.

Simple enough?

And that's helpful how? I'm pretty sure there's more to the "develop" part unless I've been doing something completely wrong all these years.

I'm absolute that you would know that it is that simple. Import, develop and export? What else? Make a cup of coffee tab?

You're right. Just hit the develop button and out pops a perfect photo. So simple.

 

[RLPhoto]

Import your RAWs in the library tab.

Develop in the develop tab.

Right click and export your RAWs as any file you'd like.

Simple enough?

And that's helpful how? I'm pretty sure there's more to the "develop" part unless I've been doing something completely wrong all these years.

I'm absolute that you would know that it is that simple. Import, develop and export? What else? Make a cup of coffee tab?

You're right. Just hit the develop button and out pops a perfect photo. So simple.

I don't question a persons developing methods. Lightroom works in import, develop, and export. Yes, its that simple.

 

[bdunbar79]

Wow.

 

[canon23]

Thank you all for your much helpful references and inputs!!! I started clicking on some of your recommended links and read the reviews for the recommended authors on Lr 4...I find them very helpful and am confident they will be more than enough for me to start my path to learning Lr 4 as a beginner. I'm so excited! Thanks again...I really do appreciate all the helpful hands!

 

[nonac]

When I first got Lightroom and Photoshop, I bought several books including Kelby's and Ewings. However, I learned more from a DVD tutorial I bought. It is a series titled "Learn by Video" and is available for LE and PS. Kelbys book just tells you what to do for which you don't learn much from that. With the DVD it allows you to do a split screen and actually practice what they are teaching you as you watch it. Much, much better than any book I have bought.

 

[Jettatore]

Lynda.com has training videos for both, and are most probably 100x better than anything that has been mentioned here so far unless you absolutely need the afk convenience of a book. If you can't afford Lynda, then just go on youtube and do searches there for each software (plus words like, learn, training, tutorial) the free stuff on youtube can be quite good and you can just as easily make do with it.

 

[dturano]

If lr4 perfected the coffee tab from beta I'm switching from aperture

 

[RC]

A couple more that I like:

Adobe's Julieanne Kost's excellent videos
http://tv.adobe.com/show/adobe-evangelists-julieanne-kost/

Scott Kelby's book "The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Book for Digital Photographers"
http://www.amazon.com/Photoshop-Lightroom-Digital-Photographers-Voices/dp/0321819586/ref=sr_1_sc_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1340550255&sr=8-3-spell&keywords=scott+kerby+lightroom

 

[pdirestajr]

+1 for Lynda.com

A great resource with tons of content. Even a handy app so you can watch tuts on the can! Haha.