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I know you probably have already checked out several videos. Try these if you haven't already. Lightroom Tutorials by Julieanne Kost
Thanks, Jaca. Yeah, I actually have a very good instructional video on using LR, I think it's from Scott Kelby, I don't remember. I got all gungho back at the first of the year about learning it (I've had the program for very nearly two years now...), started the videos...and then got distracted by other things to do.
That's really the problem; I need to sit down and experiment and LEARN it when I'm not NEEDING it to get something done. But that just never seems to happen, so then when I need it and know it could be really useful--I also know it's not really setup yet and I don't have time then to learn how to do it. Going to have to be one of those things I just finally decide to make the time to learn. But I'm not used to finding software that I can't just learn intuitively.
I know the feeling. Every time I watch and learn something in PS, I don't use it enough (mostly because I don't have to having LR) so I lose it.
If you dive in now, you will wonder why you did not dive in earlier. In my very best opinion, LR is fantastic; probably more for file management than it is for processing. Many if not most will use it for 90% or more of what they need regularly before needing to open PS.
File management is definitely what I need, and that's the ONLY reason I persist in trying to learn LR. I have GOT to get some organization to this ridiculous digital pile of photos. Especially for work, where we are constantly needing "that picture of the trolley in front of the TN Theatre; you know, the one you took a few years ago" and then I've got to start hunting through folders, year by year, month by month, trying to find THAT photo. And wishing I knew how to use LR. And wishing I'd already entered keywords for the giant digital mountain of photos.