Evening again.

I made mention of Martin Evening’s fine photography and technical writing when I looked at his Lightroom 3 book a while back. Having just upgraded from Photoshop CS2 to CS5, I favorably commented on Richard Harrington’s book recently. It excels for its author’s clear language and an abundance of videos, even if the definition in those is sorely lacking.

Given my previous experience with Martin Evening’s work I went ahead and splashed out on his CS5 book. By contrast to Harrington’s it’s more print than video; the quality of the videos is simply outstanding and I only wish there were more. His video on masking and replacing the background in a subject is so well done that I tried it with a couple of my own snaps and the instructions worked perfectly first time. The chapters are color tabbed so that you can jump to what you want with ease, and taking this large work in bite sized chunks is, I find, the way to learn. It took a couple of decades to get PS to where it is to day, so no one is going to learn it overnight.

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I find I tend to watch the Harrington book videos on my TV whereas I tend to sit at the HackPro and work my way through the Evening examples. Like Harrington’s, the book comes with a DVD replete with pictures and videos.

Recommended. And I have to go back on what I wrote about the LR3 book; it’s far easier to use a paper copy than an iPad version. It’s just easier to look things up in a book.