{"id":25983,"date":"2019-11-12T18:18:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T23:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=25983"},"modified":"2019-11-12T18:25:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T23:25:37","slug":"the-best-basic-introductions-to-elements-photoshop-and-lightroom-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=25983","title":{"rendered":"The Best Basic Introductions to Elements, Photoshop, and Lightroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/161130-Kelby-EL-PS-LR-j7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13356\" title=\"161130-Kelby-EL-PS-LR-j7\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/161130-Kelby-EL-PS-LR-j7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/161130-Kelby-EL-PS-LR-j7.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/161130-Kelby-EL-PS-LR-j7-300x124.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/161130-Kelby-EL-PS-LR-j7-500x207.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>Scott Kelby has written some of the best, most readable introductions to Elements, Lightroom, and Photoshop. If you are new to this software, this is a great place to start.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Kelby&#8217;s book for the most recent version of Elements is <em>The Photoshop Elements 15 Book for Digital Photographers<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Adobe Photoshop CC Book for Digital Photographers (Voices that Matter)<\/em> by Scott Kelby is one of the best and most interesting introductions to Photoshop. Kelby covers the basic and intermediate information in a way that is fun, witty and informative.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter)<\/em> by Scott Kelby is one of the best and most interesting introductions to Lightroom (sound familiar?).<\/p>\n<p><strong> Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can buy all of these books (and more) in the <a href=\"https:\/\/store.jimdoty.com\/home\/photography-books\/digital-photography-books\/\">Digital Photography Books<\/a> section at my <a href=\"https:\/\/store.jimdoty.com\/\">photography store<\/a> with direct links to Amazon.com.<\/p>\n<p>If you are using Photoshop and\/or Lightroom, what do you read after Kelby if you want to step up to the best and most comprehensive books? I am glad you asked. Go here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=25987\">Lightroom and Photoshop: The Essential Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is one in a series of articles that will guide you to the best of all things photographic. The rest are here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=25634\">Buyer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Guide: Recommendations For The Best Photography Equipment, Software, Books, Magazines, DVDs, Online Photo Labs and More<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Kelby has written some of the best, most readable introductions to Elements, Lightroom, and Photoshop. If you are new to this software, this is a great place to start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-computing-and-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25991,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25983\/revisions\/25991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}