My Latest eBook: Landscapes in Lightroom 5

Landscapes in Lightroom 5: The Essential Step-by-Step Guide

PDF ebook with video tutorials
87 double-page spreads
14.95

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Here it is! My latest ebook, Landscapes in Lightroom 5: The Essential Step-by-Step Guide, is now available.

I’m really excited about this new ebook, because I’ve been able to incorporate features that make this more of a hands-on learning experience. First, you can download the original Raw files used as examples in the ebook, and then follow along with each step yourself – just as if you were attending one of my workshops.

Second, when you purchase the ebook you get exclusive access to eight videos demonstrating different aspects of Lightroom’s Develop Module, like using the Adjustment Brush, Spot Removal Tool, and Point Curve, advanced retouching in Lightroom, and much more. It’s great to read about a tool or technique; it’s even better to watch a demonstration, and then try it yourself on the same image.

Of course the center of all this is the PDF ebook. All the material is brand new, including the examples, where I take you step-by-step through processing six images in Lightroom. You’ll get to see my workflow in action, with a variety of images – high contrast, low contrast, color, and black and white. You’ll learn many specific techniques and tips, but perhaps more importantly, you’ll gain insight into the decision-making process that so many photographers struggle with. How much contrast is enough? How far can you push the saturation without making the image look garish or fake? What’s the right white balance?

And there’s much more. The first section of the ebook is devoted to understanding the Develop Module, and especially the big changes that happened with the introduction of the 2012 process in Lightroom 4. There are many things going on under the hood that haven’t been talked about much (not even by Adobe, for some reason) like the automatic highlight recovery, and how all the Basic Panel Tone Controls are image-adaptive – that is, they auto-adjust their behavior based on image content.

Here’s just a partial list of things you’ll find in the ebook:

Understanding the 2012 Process
An in-depth look at the Basic Panel Tone Controls
Image-adaptive behavior: how Lightroom’s tone controls auto-adjust their behavior internally based on image content.
New features in Lightroom 5, including the Advanced Healing Brush, Visualize Spots mode, and Smart Previews
Default settings: where should you start?
Establishing a workflow
Adjusting white balance
Using the Adjustment Brush and Graduated Filter
Using the Target Mode in the HSL Panel
Straightening leaning trees
Handling high-contrast scenes
Converting images to black and white
Using curves
Using the spot removal tool
Advanced retouching in Lightroom
Integrating Lightroom with Photoshop
Using targeted curves with layer masks in Photoshop

And if you’re still using Lightroom 4, everything in this ebook still applies. In the instances where I use tools that are new to Lightroom 5, I also explain how to do the same thing in Lightroom 4.

And that goes for ACR too! All the tools in Adobe Camera Raw are essentially identical to Lightroom's Develop Module – they're just laid out differently, and sometimes work slightly differently. But everything I talk about in this book can be done in Adobe Camera Raw 7.0 or later.

The normal list price for this ebook and video package is $14.95, but for a limited time you can get 20% off by using the code LR520 at checkout. The code expires at midnight Pacific time on Sunday, August 4th.

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Thanks for all your support, and I hope you like the new ebook!

— Michael Frye

Michael Frye is a professional photographer specializing in landscapes and nature. He is the author and photographer of The Photographer’s Guide to Yosemite, Yosemite Meditations, and Digital Landscape Photography: In the Footsteps of Ansel Adams and the Great Masters, plus the eBooks Light & Land: Landscapes in the Digital Darkroom, and Exposure for Outdoor Photography. He has written numerous magazine articles on the art and technique of photography, and his images have been published in over thirty countries around the world. Michael has lived either in or near Yosemite National Park since 1983, currently residing just outside the park in Mariposa, California.