Comments on: Photoshop as a sandwich filling for Lightroom

By: BAlbrecht

BAlbrecht — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:46:31 +0000

Excellent suggestion, Martin.
I recently had an image that I had converted to black and white in LR and my client subsequently wanted to use it in a composite. The moment I dropped it into the composite image I realized it would not work as a black and white image, only in color. Unfortunately, I had done my retouching in Photoshop *after* the BnW conversion in LR and was forced to redo all the work on the color version. Learned my lesson on that one; if only I had read your article a couple of weeks ago!
I love the intuitiveness and speed of the sliders in LR for mods like desaturation, and your workflow seems to be the ticket to applying more sophisticated retouching to images while preserving the tones achieved in LR. I can’t wait to experiment more with this interesting workflow idea.

Bruce

By: Martin Evening

Martin Evening — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:34:05 +0000

When planning the Lightroom 2 book, it was soon apparent that we would need to expand the page count in order to cover all the features in the depth required. There were cost implications linked to this decision, because more pages meant higher production costs. As a result, the cover price had to be increased slightly, but it was hoped that as long as the book was popular, discounts would still make the book competitive on price with other books.

Adding a DVD would have made the production costs even higher and I don’t think myself or the publishers would have been comfortable raising the cover price any further than we had to this time around. There is also the fact that there are the Luminous Landscape video tutorials out there plus Lightroom Killer tips. I would say that my book has its own niche as ‘the bible’ on Lightroom, but with lots of practical examples of professional use and studio shot photographs specially shot to illustrate the book. At present, I think the market is well served with the range of instructors and writers out there and I think Lightroom enthusiasts will get good value by purchasing several different books plus the LL video tutorials.

Having said that, I do take on board your valid points and will bring this up with the publisher as a suggestion for future editions. The big problem now is how to revise the next edition without creating a bloated book? DVD content might provide the answer.

Martin

By: georgewa

georgewa — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:22:33 +0000

Martin,

Thank you for the very nice articles and new LR 2.0 book. The book just arrived and I’m beginning to wade thru it.

You spoiled me with your CS3 book which included a cd with excellent video tutorials that were short, sweet and to the point! But you didn’t have a similar disk with the LR 2.0 book. That absence made me very disappointed !

You may not want to compete with some of your friends at L-L, but a cd with video tutorials on LR 2.0 by someone of your caliber is sorely needed. I am wading thru the lengthy L-L LR 2.0 video, but your perspective on video is sorely missed.

Any chance you could make a LR 2.0 video tutorial to accompany your book that book owners could purchase at a discount? Thank you.

Walter