Photoshop for Lightroom Users

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is truly an awesome program, and the primary editing tool for so many photographers today. But, at some point, you realize that there are things you need to do to your images that Lightroom just cant do. It could be anything from pro-level portrait retouching, to blending two or more images together, to incredible special effects, to removing distracting things in your image, to adding beautiful type to your images, and, wellthere are just lots of incredible things you could doif you just knew Photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop iswellits Photoshopthis huge, amazing, Swiss Army knife of a program with 70+ tools, and more than a hundred filters. So, compared to Lightroom it seems really complicated, and it could be, but youve got a secret weapon: Scott Kelby. Hes the same guy who wrote the worlds #1 best-selling book on Lightroom, hes Editor and Publisher of Photoshop User magazine and Lightroom Magazine, and hes here to teach you just the most important, most useful parts of Photoshopjust the stuff that Lightroom cant already do. Once you learn these techniques (all covered in this short, quick, easy-to-use, plain-English guide), it opens a whole new world of productivity and creativity. 

Heres what youll learn:

• Scott tells you flat-out which tools to use, which techniques work best, which ones to avoid, and why. You only really need about 20% of what Photoshop can do, and that 20% is all covered right in this book.

• The most important layer techniques, and learning layers is like being handed the keys to the candy storethis is where the fun begins, and youll be amazed at what youll be able to do, so quickly and easily. 

• Scotts favorite (and most useful) portrait retouching techniques; his favorite special effects for landscape, travel, and people photos; plus which filters are awesome (and which ones waste your time). 

• Also, youll learn how to mask hair and create super-realistic composites (youll be amazed when you learn how easy this is), plus how to take advantage of all the latest Photoshop technology, how to leverage the latest features (so youre doing things the easy way), and a bunch of todays most popular techniques (the same commercial looks youre seeing in hot demand), so youll be using Photoshop like a shark in no time. 

If youve been saying to yourself, Ya know, I really should learn Photoshop, youre holding the absolute best book to get you there, coming from the guy who literally wrote the book on Lightroom. He knows how to help you make the most of using these two powerful tools together to take your images (and your fun) to the next level. You are going to love being a Photoshop shark!