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I am very happy to announce that my digital workflow e-book, entitled A Professional Photographer’s Workflow: Using Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop (8th Edition), has been updated and revised. This new version is now the 8th update to the digital workflow e-book since it was first published way back in 2006! I have spent the last year working on this update of the book. It has been a long process with an incredible amount of work–especially since the e-book is 657 pages long! This e-book now includes an entirely new chapter on Storing and Backing up your images and also includes links to eleven (11) videos (a total of 2 hours 43 minutes of video content) where you can watch me work up seven images from start to finish in Lightroom Classic and Photoshop. There are also four individual videos that dive into the AI Super Resolution and Denoise tools, the Remove tool, the Lens Blur dialog, and all of the new AI Masking tools. The e-book still includes a Photoshop Action that you can load into your action palette and there is a ReadMe PDF document that comes with the book to show you exactly how to load that action.
This e-book is an in-depth, intensive workshop in book form. This e-book covers the main topics of a shooting workflow then moves into a raw processing workflow with Adobe Lightroom Classic CC and Photoshop CC. This book gets down to the nuts and bolts of a real-world, professional-caliber digital workflow. This e-book was completely revised and re-written over the last year, and presents a workflow that can be adapted by any photographer, professional or amateur.
I can honestly say that I have not seen any other book or video course on the market today that includes as much detailed and comprehensive information as this e-book does on a complete digital workflow from setting up the camera to backing up your images and everything in-between. I will boldly state right here and now that there is no other resource, be it a book, website or anything else, that has such a thorough and complete discussion on real-world color management issues as does this e-book.
A note here about the new price for the digital workflow e-book. The pricing for this e-book might seem a bit steep for some, and incredibly cheap for others. I have tried to strike a middle ground with the new price, offering a ridiculous amount of solid information for a fairly low price. I could have easily raised the price to $50 USD or even $99 USD. When you download the book, and see how dense it is, those higher prices don’t seem totaly off-base. I have seen quite a few YouTubers and less experienced photographers charging much, much more for their video lessons and courses that don’t offer anywhere near the level or amount of information provided in this e-book. Some are even charging up to $250 USD for their courses. Hence, when it came to the price, I figured somewhere in the $40 USD range was a solid price but not so expensive that the average photographer couldn’t afford it. I want this knowledge to be out there so that up and coming photographers can get reliable top-notch information on how to dial in their workflow. This book is not some sort of cash cow for me since I make the vast majority of my living photographing commercial assignments. It is in some ways a service to the photography community. With the above diatribe on pricing, I still want to make some money from all the effort put into this updated and revamped version of the book. Hence, the new price.
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The first version of this e-book was published way back in 2006, when Adobe Lightroom was first launched—after I created images on assignment for Adobe for the launch of that software. Adobe even listed the first few versions of this e-book on their website as a resource to learn how to use Lightroom. Over the last 20 years, I have updated the book every three to four years as my knowledge grew and as I added new chapters to the book to make it more comprehensive. This 8th edition is by far the most comprehensive version of the book that I have ever produced. In the five years since I last updated the digital workflow e-book, Adobe has added quite a few new features and all of those are discussed in this new version of the book.
Shown below is the opening spread of the new chapter, entitled Storing and Backing Up images, and a few other double page spread layouts form that new chapter. In previous editions of the e-book I had a section where I discussed backing up images but when I went to revise that section I felt like it needed a major upgrade. In the last few years I have done some online workshops specifically about backing up and storing images and content–and through those classes I massively expanded how and what I presented. In teaching those online workshops I also saw that there was a lot of demand for this information. There is a lot of confusion out there about the best ways to back up your data–and how to do it in a way that guarantees you won’t lose any images. Hence, the new chapter that goes deeper into all the ins and outs of backing up your images. This chapter is the most comprehensive material I have ever seen on the topic of backing up and storing your images. The list of topics covered in this new chapter include an overview of the risks (associated with backing up and hard drive failures), basic backup strategies, different types of hard drives, hard drive speeds, advanced backup strategies, RAID flavors, my hard drive recommendations and much, much more. There is also a detailed cost analysis section in this chapter that shows very clearly the actual costs of choosing one back up strategy versus another (i.e. a JBOD strategy versus a RAID back up strategy).
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Every chapter in the book has been updated and revised. Adobe has added a lot of new features and tools, including all of the new AI tools like Super Resolution, AI Denoise, the AI Remove tool, the Len Blur dialog, and the new AI Masking tools. All of these and more are now discussed in detail in the new version of the book. In addition, because some of these are hard to really go through in great detail in a book, I created individual videos that dive into each of these new tools so you can see exactly how they work and how I use them.
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Note that for those that purchased the digital workflow e-book in the last four months (as of the publishing date of this blog post), I have sent out a free copy of the newly updated e-book to you.
If you are looking to buy the book, you can find it here. Please note that you can use a credit card to purchase the book even if you do not have a PayPal account. Once you pay for the book make sure to leave the purchase page open and PayPal will redirect you to the download page.
