Andrew Gibson is a prolific photographer and writer. He currently has all three of his ebooks on mastering Lightroom on sale right now. You will find them on Photo Dough, but hurry as time is very limited.

Mastering Lightroom Book One: The Library Module – save 36% – buy it for only $7

“Learn how to use the Library Module to import, organise and search your images. This important task lays the foundation for all the work you do in Lightroom. Mastering the Library module ultimately saves you time, which you can spend either in the Develop module or with your camera. Either way, you end up with a streamlined workflow and more hours to be creative.”

Learn more about this ebook here.

Mastering Lightroom: Book Two – The Develop Module – save 36% – buy it for only $9

“Discover how to use the tools in the Develop module to get the most out of your Raw files. It builds on the lessons learnt in Mastering Lightroom: Book One – The Library Module and shows you how to use Lightroom’s powerful features to creatively process your images. You’ll be amazed how easy Lightroom is to use once you’re familiar with it and just how much it speeds up your workflow compared to other applications.”

Learn more about this ebook here.

Mastering Lightroom: Book Three – Black & White – save 43% – buy if for only $8

“A complete guide to using Lightroom to create powerful and extraordinary black and white images. This ebook teaches you first to see in black in white, then how to convert your photos to monochrome using all of Lightroom’s advanced tools. It also takes an in-depth look at the Silver Efex Pro, Perfect Black & White, Exposure 5, DxO FilmPack 4 and Black & White Effects plug-ins, explaining how to use each one. It finishes with three case studies showing how I converted colour images to black and white in Lightroom.”

Learn more about this ebook here.

I have bought and really loved Andrew's other books, Mastering Photography and Square. He has an uncanny ability to explain and instruct in a very simple manner. I look forward to diving into these Lightroom ebooks myself. For a grand total of $24, you can get started on using and may be even mastering Lightroom.

Will you join me?

All indications are you use either Photoshop or Lightroom. If you are editing one image at a time, they would both work, but I'll be you use Photoshop. But if being efficient is your goal, you will want to invest in Lightroom.

Like Photoshop, though, Lightroom is getting more and more complex to use. I have to admit I don't use all of its features, though I know I will be a whole lot more efficient if I did.

There are a few resources for you to learn how to use Lightroom to its fullest capacity:

Mastering Lightroom: The Library Module

This is an e-book by fine art photographer and author Andrew Gibson. You can buy Mastering Lightroom: The Library Module from Andrew's website, or here at PhotoDough.com for the next few days for $7. Andrew is well-known for his concise writing and clear teaching style. Learn more about Mastering Lightroom here.

Lightroom 5 Unmasked

Lightroom 5 Unmasked is an e-book by Piet Van den Eynde and distributed by Craft & Vision. It's 356 pages deep. If you are ready to go in for a deep dive, this might be the one you want to consider. If you are still using Lightroom 4, however, you may want to buy this e-book by Piet Van den Eynde instead. Also check out out other ebooks by Piet Van den Eynde here. Either version is $20 each. Both are well-researched, provide interesting case studies and are exquisitely designed with a wonderful array of visual examples.

Adobe Lightroom 5 The Missing FAQ

This tome by Victoria Bampton, an Adobe Community Professional & Certified Expert for Lightroom, is very well regarded in the industry because Victoria constantly finds ways to upgrade it and make it better as Adobe tinkers with the program. If you have a question about Lightroom, this is the go-to-guide for you. It's about $50 for both the e-book and paperback versions. I would get both if I were you. Also, get a flavor of her writing through this free Lightroom 5 Quick Start Guide.

There are obviously other fantastic resources available for learning Lightroom, but I wanted to get these three resources in front of you as they are likely to appeal to someone who wants to get their feet wet in Lightroom quickly.

If you are one of them and you buy any of these e-books, would you please come back here and tell me what you thought of them? Thank you!

Over the last couple of years, I've mentioned Alicia Caine's Served Up Fresh website a number of times. For business savvy portraits photographers visiting her site is kind of like going to Mecca. I am not talking about just her product offers. Read her blog!

While equating it to a religious experience may be taking it a bit too far, let me tell you that I believe her guides: Happy Place Business Plan, Easy as Pie Pricing, Piece of Cake Marketing and the retired LuxUndercover are all resources portrait photographers interested in succeeding should buy, read and re-read.

Look, while I am now be an affiliate of her's, I bought every one of those products and devoured them when they first came out. In fact, thanks to these foundational guide books, I now think of myself more as a portrait photographer than ever before. Part of what she does well in each of these workbooks is she gives you a chance to think about your business in a very different way. When light bulbs pop on constantly, it's easy to see the kind of value that's delivered within the pages of these guide books. The worksheets have nudged me along a very different path than I was going on before.

Alicia is offering a rare (and I do mean rare because of how high the discount is) and epic summer sale of her products, now through Wednesday, July 24th.

You can purchase Happy Place Business Plan for $74.50, Easy as Pie Pricing for $174.50, Piece of Cake Marketing for $174.50 and the MegaPack (Easy as Pie + Happy Place) is for $197.50.

These are are all 50% off! Plus, the first 25 100 people to use the coupon code “EPICSALE” gets you Alicia's bonus download of her retired ebook LuxUndercover (valued at $149). If you ever wanted to get your branding and customer service right for high end clients, this book is priceless.

The sale doesn't last forever and given that Alicia is hinting at a new site and new products in the Fall, these may just not be offered in the future. The sale ends July 24th.

As I've said above, I am an affiliate and make a small commission on each sale (helps support this website).

There are several phases of being a photographer. The obvious ones are beginner, amateur, professional and, perhaps at a stretch, “master.” You may disagree with that progression and that's fine. But I suspect you will agree with me when I say that at every level (yes, even if you self-proclaim yourself the Grand Poobah of photography), you are constantly learning.

Yes, that's right. Educating yourself never ever stops. It's what I find most exciting about photography. Every day, I am learning something new about the art and also ultimately about myself.

Several weeks back, I announced the 1st annual Tiffinbox Award winner. That photographer is David DuChemin, an author, blogger, teacher and foremost a visual explorer. I urge you to check out his blog and his books.

David is also the visionary behind Craft & Vision e-books for photographers of all stripes. Each of these books is $5. They are a fast read and are chalk-full of great tidbits of useful information that you don't just save in your head but are forced to go out and try out for yourself. To say that I have fallen in love with these e-books would actually be a bit of an understatement. They are exquisitely designed and of course contain some of the best photography I have seen. I eagerly wait for each new e-book because they are so remarkable.

Today, Craft & Vision is doing something different. They are actually giving away their latest e-book, 11 Ways You Can Improve Your Photography.

So, why is this 69-page e-book free? What's the catch, you wonder? There is none. Think of this book as a sampler. The authors of these chapters are representative of the breadth and depth of the topics you will find on the Craft & Vision website. The writing is lucid and engaging. The images are spectacular. If you are even remotely inclined to educate yourself or even elevate your photography, these e-books are a must. Being e-books, I carry them around on my iPad 2 and flip through them when I want a quick burst of inspiration.

I bet you are curious to know what those 11 ways are right? So here they are, in the order they appear in the free e-book (yeah, download it now):

1) Make Your Images More Dynamic by Piet Van Den Eynde
2) Tame Your Digital Exposures by David DuChemin
3) The Power Of The Print by Martin Bailey
4) Learn To Direct The Eye by Michael Frye
5) Understand The Stages by Alexandre Buisse
6) Create Projects And Collaborate by Andrew S. Gibson
7) Refine Your Composition by Nicole S. Young
8) The Power Of The Moment by Eli Reinholdtsen
9) Forget Lens Stereotypes by Piet Van Den Eynde
10) Slow Down And Learn To See by Stuart Sipahigil
11) Make Stronger Portraits by David DuChemin

Buy one or two, or better yet, buy them all (and save 20%). With the Christmas season around the corner, I don't think there is a better set of gifts than these e-books for the budding or experienced photographer in your life. I know I would appreciate it, if I was presented this incredible opportunity to learn from the very best in the industry.

Disclosure Of Material Connection

If you are anything like me, it's been ages since you read a real page turner. Busy photographers we all are but that doesn't mean we get to stop learning and perfecting our craft.

Photographer and author Ed Verosky is running a special Halloween SALE on all of his books.

If you have been on the fence about getting his books (see the big fat images below as well as in the sidebar of this blog), this is your chance to save 25%. But the sale ends October 31. So hurry!

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Thank you again for your support!
Seshu