Tony Northrup’s Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Video Book: Training for Photographers

With this video book, you ll learn how to instantly find any picture in your library, fix common photography problems, clean up your images, add pop to boring pictures, retouch portraits, make gorgeous prints, create photo books, and even edit your home videos.

Tony goes beyond teaching you how to use Lightroom. Tony shows you why and when to use each feature to create stunning, natural photos. When Lightroom isn t the best tool, Tony suggests better alternatives.

Combining the benefits of video training and book learning, this video book gives you over 12 hours of video and dozens of free presets and raw images to practice with. If you learn better with video, watch the video training and refer to the book for quick reference. If you prefer reading, the book is concise and practical, and each chapter links to relevant videos when you want to understand a topic more deeply or see it used in the real world.

Tony covers every aspect of Lightroom in-depth, but structures his teaching so that both beginner and advanced photographers can learn as efficiently as possible. If you just want a quick start, you can watch the first video or read the first chapter and you’ll be organizing and editing your pictures in less than an hour. If you want to know more about a specific feature, switch to that video or jump to that chapter in the ebook. If you want to know everything about Lightroom, watch the videos and read the book from start to finish.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Lightroom Quick Start
Chapter 2: Basic Adjustments
Chapter 3: Organizing Your Pictures
Chapter 4: Collections and Folders
Chapter 5: Cropping, Rotating, and Removing Spots
Chapter 6: Filters and Adjustment Brushes
Chapter 7: The Tone Curve Panel
Chapter 8: Color, Split Toning, and Effects
Chapter 9: Black and White
Chapter 10: Sharpening and Noise Reduction
Chapter 11: Lens Corrections and Camera Calibration
Chapter 12: Presets, History, Snapshots, and Before & After
Chapter 13: Customizing Lightroom
Chapter 14: Changing Preferences
Chapter 15: Importing, Exporting, and Watermarking Pictures
Chapter 16: Tethering
Chapter 17: Playing and Editing Videos
Chapter 18: The Map Module
Chapter 19: Making Photo Books
Chapter 20: Slideshows and Time Lapses
Chapter 21: Printing Photos and Creating Custom Layouts
Chapter 22: The Web Module
Chapter 23: Backups, Catalogs, and Previews
Chapter 24: Tips & Tricks
Chapter 25: Free Plugins and Tools