Hey there and happy Monday. I just wanted to let you know that my new eBook is out (and my first eBook-only, not print, book). It’s called Landscape Photography Workflow Using Lightroom and Photoshop and is up for sale for $9.99 on Amazon and iBooks. The ebook actually came out at the end of last year, but there were some formatting issues where the font was too small on some devices (it was fine on the Kindle app on my iPad). But we’ve re-released it to the Amazon Kindle store and it’s also out on the iBooks store.
What’s the Book About?
It’s about my landscape photography workflow in both Lightroom and Photoshop (duh! I guess the titled kinda told you that) 🙂 I basically documented my entire workflow. And I did it for different types of photos. Each chapter walks you through a photo from start to finish. And each chapter covers a different type of landscape photo: sunrise, sunset, twilight/blue hour, waterfalls, beaches, cloudy days, etc…  In a nutshell, I start in Lightroom and then jump to Photoshop for any quick retouching, distraction cleanup or plug-in work.
Who’s the Book For?
I did write up front in the introduction to the book, that this is not a beginners book. I don’t teach Lightroom or Photoshop from scratch. I’m assuming you know how to get your photos in to Lightroom and can make your way around the Develop module. It’s not advanced either though. There’s no crazy settings or hidden techniques that a beginner wouldn’t be able to pick up right away. Just my workflow, in a non-beginner and non-advanced way 😉
Note: Oh and by the way, if you check out the book’s page on Amazon, you’ll notice there’s two one-star reviews (as of now, Monday Feb. 3rd). The first review was from some one that couldn’t change the font size in the book (and we’ve fixed that since then). But sadly, the other 1-star review is actually from some one who didn’t even buy the ebook. He was just upset that we took the book down so we could fix the formatting. He even said “I’m sure it’ll be good, but I can’t buy it…” 😉
So I hope you’ll check it out. It’s $9.99 so if you skip a couple cups of Starbucks this week you can make up for it 😉 I’ve already heard from a ton of you who have bought it that loved it, so please keep the feedback coming.
I love teaching and photography... In that order. I feel that enjoying photography, and photo editing can get WAY too complicated. So my personal mission (and favorite thing to do), is to create education that simplifies the process of taking great photos, and how to edit them to get the results you’ve always wanted.
I bought it and read it right away—and have gone back to it while processing pics for refreshers. My skies in landscape photos have never looked better-more detail, richer color. But that’s not all it’s helped. Thanks Matt,,,,what’s next?
Hi Matt – since in incorporates photoshop – was wondering if it would pertain to photoshop elements? I don’t use the full photoshop, just Lightroom and Elements. Thanks for any clarification.
It will mostly work with Elements. I really just go to Photoshop for cloning and healing to remove distractions so most things will work the same in Elements. Thanks 🙂
Is this only available for kindle and ithings? There are a lot of us out there that use other devices and Android. By skipping those people, you are losing an audience.
Bob
That’s why we published it for Kindle. Just about every device can get the free Kindle reader app. Here’s a link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000493771
Hey Matt,
I saw this on Scott’s blog this morning so I checked it on iTunes. Looked pretty good so …. I bought it! You always have something new and inspiring!
Dennis