In learning and teaching Lightroom, I have several books which do a decent job. However, most of them are in the style of cookbooks which have a very definite place in the library for my beginners.
The Resnik Spritzer book is different in that, to my thinking, it would not be the first book I would recommend to digital beginners. I would recommend the step-by-step Kelby book to get you up and running. After that, The Photoshop Lightroom Workbook will fill in the many gaps and vague uderstandings very nicely indeed.
In fact, the first three chapters are excellent particularly for their reasoned and clear explanation of the crucial difference in the linear way digital camera sensors capture and display luminosity levels, and the implications of that for the way one should expose in RAW. It is invaluable information.
Co-founders of D65.com, Resnik and Spritzer, are digital instructors to be watched because of their stated passion for becoming an industry standard for the dissemination of quality professional information regarding digital photography and post processing they intend bringing to the reading public.
If this book is any indication of the accessible depth of knowledge and quality information regarding Lightroom 2 practice they provide for working photographers and instructors, then D65 (their company) and these authors are ones I will be keeping a watchful eye out for.
You will find The Photoshop Lightroom Workbook by Seth Resnik and Jamie Spritzer quite unlike any other book on the market, covering as it does pre-capture, valuable advice on optimum file quality based on experience, and a valuable Q&A section at each chapter end which serves as a revision of the core concepts of that chapter.
Aimed (successfully) somewhere between the advanced enthusiast/amateur and the sub-geek, The Photoshop Lightroom Workbook stands head and shoulders above any other Lightroom book currently on the market.
That, in itself, is recommendation enough.
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