{"id":6630,"date":"2014-11-20T12:24:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T17:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=6630"},"modified":"2016-11-30T11:52:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T16:52:53","slug":"the-best-introductions-to-elements-photoshop-and-lightroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=6630","title":{"rendered":"The Best Basic Introductions to Elements, Photoshop, and Lightroom"},"content":{"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.\u00c2\u00a0 The book for the most recent version of Elements is <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/jimdotycom-20\/detail\/0133990087\"><em>The Photoshop Elements 13 Book for Digital Photographers<\/em><\/a>. Kelby&#8217;s books is also available for <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/jimdotycom-20\/detail\/0321947800\">Elements 12<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/jimdotycom-20\/detail\/032180824X\"><!--more--><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/jimdotycom-20\/detail\/0133900851\"><em>The Adobe Photoshop CC Book for Digital Photographers (Voices that Matter)<\/em><\/a> 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. There are a versions of this book for <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/jimdotycom-20\/detail\/0321823745\"><em>CS6<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/jimdotycom-20\/detail\/0321703561\"><em>CS5<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/jimdotycom-20\/detail\/0321934318\"><em>The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter)<\/em><\/a> by Scott Kelby is one of the best and most interesting introductions to Lightroom (sound familiar?). There is a version of this book for <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/jimdotycom-20\/detail\/0321819586\"><em>Lightroom 4<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you are using Photoshop and\/or Lightroom, what do you read next after Kelby? I am glad you asked. Go here:\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=9466\">Lightroom &amp; Photoshop: The Essential Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is one in a series of over 40 articles with &#8220;best of the best&#8221; recommendations for photographers. You can find the rest in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=6434\"><em>The Best of the Best: Recommendations For The Best Photo Gear, Books, Software, and Online Photo Labs<\/em><\/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.\u00c2\u00a0 The book for the most recent version of Elements is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=6630\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-computing-and-software","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6630","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=6630"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13268,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6630\/revisions\/13268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}