First off, you shouldn't put off making photos because you're not ready to process them yet. Shooting is a different skill from processing. I often don't process what I'm shooting for a long long time!
Secondly, I find amongst my students that Lightroom is best learned from watching how others operate it, either in person or using video tutorials. Adobe offers, free of charge, a large number of good tutorials directly from their website. Download and install LR, go to the video tutorials and learn the basics. It's not hard. The more you do, the more you try with it, the faster you learn. Yes, you'll make mistakes. You'll want to reorganize things. Nothing prevents you from fixing stuff, from re-organizing your work later. Delaying getting started only delays learning. On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Eric Weir <eew...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > > The Kelbytrainging.com online courses and book have been recommended to me > previously. I've been putting off getting started with Lightroom till I've > gotten at least a bit of an education, especially about importing and > organizing. And I'm putting off doing much shooting until I've done that. Not > a good way to learn photography. > > So, if you needed to be frugal, and to chose one or the other, which would > you chose, the online courses or the book and CD? Or are both advised? > > Thanks, > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > eew...@bellsouth.net > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
