Customer Reviews
Very Comprehensive - By: Labrador Lover, 31 Oct 2008 
Nice to find a book that strips away the jargon & really lets you get into the gut of the program. Highly recommended
The wrong approach for me - By: I. BARRETT, 30 Sep 2008 
Having bought & enjoyed the Scott Kelby Lightroom 1 book I thought, variety being the spice of life, that for Lightroom 2 I would buy the Martin Evening book.
Having seen the Evening LR1 bookin shops I was surprised to see that the pagesin the LR2 book are smaller but to compensate the book is about 50% thicker. For me this has a handling disadvantage but more importantly the screen shots have to be smaller. This means that with many examples I struggle to see what the screen shot is trying to convey. Indeed the text on many of the screenshots is unreadable.
There is also a big differencein styles & approaches between the two authors. Evening tells you at length what every module, button & slider is for. Kelby tells you how to use Lightroom.
So If you want a reference book then this is the book for you. If you want a book that tells you when & how to use the controls to improve your photos then buy Kelby's books. My preference is for the latter.
Note: Although the Evening book purports to offer free online access to the electronic version you will find when you sign up to the offer that access is only free for the first 45 days. Not recommended.
The Best Book on Digital Capture Processing & Workflow - By: Art + Commerce, 18 Sep 2008 A fantastic book for Anyone, from serious enthusiasts to Semi-Pro's, or Old Pro's looking to finally go digital & leave the Titanic that Traditional Analogue photography has finally become.
Out of all the books I have checked out, this is the one. It's engaging, transparent, & fun, allowing the reader to dipin & out, or studyin depth. It teaches seamlessly.
Buy It!
Just the job - By: Mr. S. Crook, 14 Sep 2008 After a short preamble describing the whys & wherefores of LR the book quickly down to business with importing photos into LR, then on to catloging, correcting & printing following the usual photographers workflow. There's a short (but useful) section on geotagging photos, which actually has little to do with LR2 (at the moment), but it's becoming an important part of a photographers workflow.
It's an approach that works well & Evenings style is both informative & relaxed, but he never strays too far from the business at hand & isn't 'chatty'. The book is printed on good quality paper so the sample photographs & screen prints are clear & clearly illustrate the processes being described. They are almost all there for a purpose, & not just as eye candy.
It's a book you can both use as a reference & sit & readin a spare moment. If you're new to LR & looking for something to get you up & running, then this will be just the job & will probably still be usefulin 6 or 12 months time when you're experienced with the UI. If you're an experienced user of LR v1, then it's probably not as useful as it'll be covering V1 features you're familiar with, but there's a lot of new stuffin LR v2 & I doubt you'll find it better described elsewhere.
