The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Lightroom in conjunction with Adobe Photoshop. Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does–an official training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product experts. Adobe Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC for Photographers Classroom in a Book contains 9 lessons that cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the programs. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you. Purchasing this book includes valuable online extras. Follow the instructions in the book’s “Getting Started” section to unlock access to: <ul>
<li>Downloadable lesson files you need to work through the projects in the book </li> <li>Web Edition containing the complete text of the book, interactive quizzes, videos that walk you through the lessons step by step, and updated material covering new feature releases from Adobe</li> </ul> Using Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC together can dramatically speed your workflow and decrease editing time. This book teaches you exactly when to use each program and how to pass images back and forth between them at the highest possible quality. You'll learn how to import, organize, correct and add creative color effects in Lightroom using global and local editing tools, as well as how to merge multiple exposures and stitch panoramas. In Photoshop, you'll learn practical techniques for combining photos, pro-level retouching, creating precise selections, masking, turning a photo into a painting and pencil sketch, and adding creative blur effects. Back in Lightroom, you'll learn how to show off your masterpieces by exporting them en masse, sharing via social media, creating fine art-style signed print layouts, slideshows, photo book, and web gallery projects.

Adobe Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC for Photographers Classroom in a Book

Arts & Photography

Snider, Lesa

Photography & Video

Adobe Press

Photoshop is the world's most widely used photo-editing and graphics program. But with all its fantastic new features and options, the CS4 version can bewilder even the most seasoned professional. That's where Photoshop CS4: The Missing Manual comes in: packed with tips, tricks, and lots of practical advice, this visually rich four-color guidebook teaches you everything you need to know to edit photos and create beautiful documents in Photoshop. Whether you're an absolute beginner or a power user ready to try some advanced techniques, author and graphics pro Lesa Snider King offers crystal-clear, jargon-free instructions to help you take advantage of these powerful tools--not only how they work, but when you should use them. You'll quickly get up to speed on new CS4 features such as: Photoshop's completely revamped workspace Smoother image display and quick zoom, including the new pixel grid view New Masks and Adjustmen

Photoshop CS4: The Missing Manual

O'Reilly Media

Photoshop CS6 is truly amazing, but it can also be overwhelming if you’re just getting started. This book makes learning Photoshop a breeze by explaining things in a friendly, conversational style—without technical jargon. After a thorough introduction to the program, you’ll delve deep into Photoshop’s secrets with expert tips and practical advice you can use every day.
The important stuff you need to know:
<ul>
<li>
Learn your way around. Get a guided tour of Photoshop’s beautiful new workspace.</li>
<li>
Unlock the magic. Discover the most practical ways to use layers, channels, masks, paths, and other tools.</li>
<li>
Fine-tune your images. Learn techniques for cropping, retouching, and combining photos.</li>
<li>
Play with color. Drain, change, and add color; and create gorgeous black-and-whites and duotones.</li>
<li>
Be artistic. Create original illustrations and paintings, use text and filters effectively, and edit video clips.</li>
<li>
Share your work. Produce great-looking images for print and the Web.</li>
<li>
Work smarter and faster. Automate common chores and install plug-ins for complex tasks.</li>
</ul>

Photoshop Cs6: The Missing Manual

Photoshop CC is truly amazing, but it can also be overwhelming if you’re just getting started. This book makes learning Photoshop as easy as possible by explaining things in a friendly, conversational style—without technical jargon. After a thorough introduction to the program, you’ll delve deep into Photoshop’s secrets with expert tips and practical editing advice you can use every day.
The important stuff you need to know:
<ul>
<li>
Learn your way around. Take a tour of Photoshop’s workspace and learn how to customize it.</li>
<li>
Unlock the magic. Use layers, masks, and Smart Objects to safely edit your images.</li>
<li>
Perfect your photos. Learn techniques for cropping, color-correcting, retouching, and combining photos.</li>
<li>
Master color. Drain, change, and add color; create gorgeous black-and-whites, partial-color effects, and duotones.</li>
<li>
Be artistic. Create illustrations, paintings, and pro-level text; use filters effectively, edit video, and create 3D art.</li>
<li>
Share your work. Produce great-looking images for print, presentations, and the Web.</li>
<li>
Work smarter and faster. Automate common chores and install plug-ins for complex tasks.</li>
</ul>

Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual

You'd be hard-pressed to find a published image that hasn't spent some quality time in Adobe Photoshop. With new features such as Content-Aware Fill and Puppet Warp, Photoshop CS5 is more amazing -- and perhaps more bewildering -- than ever. That's where this full-color Missing Manual comes in. It covers Photoshop from a practical standpoint, with tips, tricks, and practical advice you can use every day to edit photos and create beautiful documents. 
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced pixel pusher ready to try advanced techniques, author and graphics pro Lesa Snider offers crystal-clear, jargon-free instructions to help you take advantage of these powerful tools -- not only how they work, but when you should use them. Describing the CS4 edition, bestselling Photoshop author Scott Kelby wrote, "Lesa did a great job on the book, and in my mind, it is the new Photoshop Bible." 
<ul>
<li>Learn your way around Photoshop's revamped workspace </li>
<li>Get up to speed on essential features such as layers and channels </li>
<li>Edit images by cropping, resizing, retouching, working with color, and more </li>
<li>Create paintings and illustrations, work with text, and explore filters </li>
<li>Prepare images for printing or the Web, and learn how to protect your images online </li>
<li>Work smarter and faster by automating tasks and installing plug-ins </li>
</ul>
 Written with the clarity, humor, and objective scrutiny, Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual is the friendly, thorough resource you need. Using Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop CS5 By Lesa Snider In Photoshop CS5, you have another option for filling selections called Content-Aware Fill. It works with the Fill command and the Spot Healing brush by comparing your selection or brushstroke to nearby pixels. Photoshop then fills the area so it blends seamlessly with the background. For example, you can follow these steps to break up a perfectly good boy band: 1. Open your image and duplicate the Background layer by pressing Ctrl+J. Since there’s no way to tell the Fill command to sample all layers (bummer!), it won’t work on an empty layer. 2. Use the selection tool of your choice to select the band member on the left. Because there’s a decent amount of contrast between the boy and the grassy meadow, the Magnetic Lasso tool does a great job. Grab it from the Tools panel by pressing Shift-L repeatedly until you see it appear. Mouse over to your image and click once to set a starting point, and then drag around the boy, clicking to add anchor points here and there. 3. Choose Edit &gt; Fill and, from the Use pop-up menu, choose Content Aware. As soon as you press OK, Photoshop fills your selection with pixels from the surrounding area. To fix the remaining outline of the deleted bandmate, just switch back to the Spot Healing Brush by pressing K (in the Options bar, make sure Content Aware is turned on). With a quick brushstroke here and there, you can clean up the final image quite nicely and it won’t take hours like it did in previous versions of the program. Until you can actually wish an object out of a photo, this new tool ought to suit you just fine.

Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual

With better ways to get your photos online and new options for creating printed projects, iPhoto '11 makes it easier than ever to transfer photos from a digital camera, organize them, and publish, print, or share them in maps—but there's still no printed manual for the program. Fortunately, David Pogue and Lesa Snider team up in this witty, authoritative book that should have been in the box.
<ul>
<li>
Organize your collection. Discover all of the options for grouping your pictures—by events, in albums, or based on who’s in the photo or where it was taken.</li> <li>
Sharpen your editing skills. Learn how to use iPhoto’s beefed-up editing options, including its Photoshop-like adjustments panel.</li> <li>
Share images online. Get your photos to everyone on your list by publishing them to Flickr, Facebook, and MobileMe.</li> <li>
Dive into creative projects. Have fun building slideshows (with music), gift books, calendars, and cards.</li> </ul>
5 Tips from the Author <ol>
<li>Flags are a great way to mark photos for deletion en masse (instead of deleting them one at a time). As soon as you import photos, take a spin through ’em and, when you find one you want to delete, click to select its thumbnail and then press Command - . (that’s the Command key plus the period key) to flag it. Alternatively, hover your cursor over photo’s thumbnail and then click the tiny gray flag that appears in its top right (it looks like a miniature pennant). Either way, you’ll see a tiny orange pennant appear at the thumbnail’s top left. Once you’re finished, click Flagged in your Source list, choose Select All to highlight all the flagged thumbnails, and then press the Delete key. When iPhoto asks if you’re sure you want to delete those photos, click OK and poof! iPhoto moves all those photos into its very own trash.</li>
 <li>Need to split an Event into two? Open the Event and click the thumbnail you want to mark the start of the new Event, and then press the S key. It’s as simple as that!</li>
 <li>Want to see the month and year your photos were taken as you’re scrolling through thumbnails in either Events or Photos view? You’re in luck! Choose iPhoto Preferences and turn on “Show informational overlays.” Now, next time you scroll through thumbnails, you’ll see the month and year appear in the middle of the viewing area. Sweet!</li>
 <li>Cruising around in Photos view can be a little overwhelming, especially when all of the Event names are expanded so you see thousands of thumbnails. The fix is to collapse all the Events en masse by Option-clicking the flippy triangle to the left of the Event’s name in the main photo-viewing area. That way you can expand them one at a time as you wish. (Option- clicking a collapsed flippy triangle will expand them all, too.)</li>
 <li>Smart Albums and Faces tags are the perfect way to quickly put together a slideshow for your next party. For example, if you’ve tagged friends and family using Faces, you can create a Smart Album by simply dragging someone’s picture from the Faces corkboard into an empty area in your Source list. If you want to add another person to that Smart Album, simply drag his image into the same Smart Album to create a self-populating album of just those two people.</li>
 
</ol>

iPhoto '11: The Missing Manual

Pogue, David

Apple’s new Photos app lets you do a whole lot more than simply store and edit pictures and videos on a Mac or iOS device. With this comprehensive guide, you’ll learn how to import, organize, and share your digital memories, as well as how to improve, print, and use your photos in creative projects. With Lesa Snider’s step-by-step instructions and expert advice, you’ll master Photos and tame your image library—and have fun along the way!
The important stuff you need to know:
<ul>
<li>
Migrate from iPhoto. Learn how to make a quick and smooth transition.</li>
<li>
Organize your collection with ease. Master the many ways to import, group, and categorize images—and set up iCloud Family Sharing.</li>
<li>
Find your photos quickly. Employ Photos’ powerful labeling, keyword and facial recognition features to optimize searches.</li>
<li>
Sharpen your editing skills. Skillfully use Photos’ impressive image- and video-editing tools on your Mac or iOS device.</li>
<li>
Access photos anywhere. Sync your library to all of your Apple devices so your photos travel with you wherever you go.</li>
<li>
Share them online. Show your shots to everyone on your list by using shared albums, creating web galleries, posting them on Facebook, and more.</li>
<li>
Dive into creative projects. Build pro-level slideshows to share with others, and create gorgeous gift books, calendars, and cards.</li>
</ul>

Photos for Mac and iOS: The Missing Manual

Photoshop CC is an outstanding image editor, but it can be pretty overwhelming. This book makes learning Photoshop as easy as possible by explaining the hows and whys in a friendly, conversational style. You’ll unlock Photoshop’s secrets, new goodies, and time-saving features, with expert tips and practical editing advice you can use every day.
The important stuff you need to know:
<li>
Learn your way around. Tour Photoshop’s workspace and learn how to customize it.</li>
<li>
Unleash the magic. Use selections, layers, masks, and smart objects to safely edit images; automate common chores with actions.</li>
<li>
Perfect your photos. Learn to crop, resize, color-correct, retouch, combine, and prepare photos for print or online use.</li>
<li>
Master color. Drain, change, and add color, and even create digital makeup, partial-color effects, and duotones.</li>
<li>
Be artistic. Use filters effectively, create illustrations, paintings, artistic typography, animations, and videos.</li>
<li>
Go 3D. Create and edit 3D objects and send them off to a 3D-printing service from inside Photoshop.</li>
<li>
Export web graphics. Use Generator to instantly export and resize images—just by using layer names.</li>

Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual: Covers 2014 release

This new edition covers iPhoto 9.5 for Mac and iPhoto 2.0 for iOS 7. (iPhoto is not available in iOS 8.)
Whether you’re on a Mac or iOS 7 device, iPhoto now makes it easier than ever to organize, edit, publish, print, and share your photos—but neither version of the program offers a manual to help you get going. Fortunately, David Pogue and Lesa Snider offer a clear and objective guide to iPhoto in this witty, authoritative book.
The important stuff you need to know
<li>
Organize your collection. Group your pictures by events, albums, people, or places.</li>
<li>
Sharpen your editing skills. Use all of iPhoto’s editing options, whether you’re on a Mac or on an iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch running iOS 7.</li>
<li>
Dive into new features. Learn about the enhanced mapping system, new slideshow themes, and streamlined printing.</li>
<li>
Compare your photos. View multiple shots side by side to determine which is best.</li>
<li>
Share your shots online. Post photos on iCloud or Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, and other social sites.</li>
<li>
Keep web journals. Create snazzy, customizable online scrapbook pages.</li>
<li>
Create projects. Have fun building slideshows, gift books, calendars, and cards.</li>

iPhoto: The Missing Manual: 2014 release, covers iPhoto 9.5 for Mac and 2.0 for iOS 7

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Snider, Lesa. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Snider, Lesa