LightRoom5 Tutorials?

[ArtFreak]

I just bought LightRoom5! I am very excited to start using it, but find myself a bit overwhelmed with all of it's tools and effects. It had it's own little tutorial when I launched it for the first time but I would like to find something a little more in-depth to give me a feel for how it's really best used. If anyone has any tutorials that they found helpful, or think that I might find helpful please send them my way! I personally prefer video tutorials, I just learn better that way, but I would appreciate any other forms of help as well.

 

[KmH]

Open Lightroom 5. Press your keyboard's F1 key, or click on Help > Lightroom Help.
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The best LR 5, A-Z reference ! have found. It's like having 10,000 LR 5 tutorials all in order and all in one place. - The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers

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[ArtFreak]

Thank you!!

 

[Msteelio91]

Lightroom is great, and paired with Photoshop it's an amazing tool. If you've used any image editing software before you'll pick this up pretty quick. The user interface is a little different but I find it to be quite intuitive and well laid out.

 

[CdTSnap]

YouTube!!

 

[KmH]

The trouble with LR YouTube videos is that they are not all located in one place, there is no directory, and the videos are not organized in any kind of a coherent progression.

Which is where well written books like the ones I linked to really shine.

 

[JacaRanda]

I have found in my old age....actually because I have children; that not all people learn best in a coherent progression.

"I personally prefer video tutorials, I just learn better that way..."

The good thing is that there are non youtube videos that are also very well organized. However, you don't have to follow the layout; just bounce around as you see fit.

lightroom 5 | lynda.com search Depending on what you want, you may have to pay for a subscription. Well worth it in my opinion.

 

[KmH]

People that don't learn in a coherent progression wind up with huge gaps in their knowledge.

Those gaps are often manifested in situations like not knowing that step 8 has to be done to make step 14 work the way it's intended to.

 

[JacaRanda]

A little gap, a huge gap or the opportunity cost to learn something else instead of.......

It is possible to learn some things out of order but eventually fill in the gaps.


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[ArtFreak]

Thanks everyone! I enjoy having multiple forms of information available so that I can study and learn from each depending on my mood or whatever feels the most accessible to me at the time. I agree both that you definitely need some base knowledge to make sure you don't have any huge gaps in your understanding of a concept but also that being able to jump around to whatever interests you most at a particular time means you will enjoy it much more and be more likely to succeed without losing any of your passion for the subject. Plus, everybody learns differently. Thanks again for all of the resources!

 

[KmH]

There have been many studies conducted in the last 40 years or so, using what is generally accepted as the best study methods, that demonstrate that people do not learn differently.

Learning styles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Proponents of the use of learning styles in education recommend that teachers assess the learning styles of their students and adapt their classroom methods to best fit each student's learning style. Although there is ample evidence for differences in individual thinking and ways of processing various types of information, few studies have reliably tested the validity of using learning styles in education.[SUP][2][/SUP] Critics say there is no evidence that identifying an individual student's learning style produces better outcomes. There is evidence of empirical and pedagogical problems related to the use of learning tasks to "correspond to differences in a one-to-one fashion".[SUP][3][/SUP] Well-designed studies contradict the widespread "meshing hypothesis", that a student will learn best if taught in a method deemed appropriate for the student's learning style.[SUP][2][/SUP]