Godfrey, Thanks for the suggestions. I'll sniff around for those books.
I cram my photography (and a couple of other interests) in around the edges of a 60 hour work week. So, I get annoyed when things like poor interfaces, lousy documentation, and crappy printer profiles get in the way. While I'm nowhere near as savvy about computers as a lot of people on this list, I'm not an idiot either. I have spent a lot of time helping design and evaluate interfaces for clinical computing systems that are clear and intuitive. So, when something is unclear or doesn't work as it seems it should, I know that it probably isn't me that is the problem. Adobe has a lot of work to do. Rick --- Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark, > > Have a good time at the conference. > > ... > On Sep 29, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Rick Womer wrote: > > > Yes. Could they please clean up the UI in > Lightroom? > > For example, in the Library window, the thumbnails > > have little dots and little flags and little > > page-corner thingies, and one searches in vain for > > what those are or how to use them. I've figured > most > > of them out through trial-and-error, but that is a > > crummy way to learn complex software. > > You need to read a book... Every one of those things > has a meaning, > and they're all useful. I figured most out through > use, > incrementally, and it didn't seem that difficult to > me. > > > While they are at it, their documentation really, > really sucks. ... > > I agree in most ways, but Adobe supplies more "point > reference" type > help documentation rather than comprehensive, "read > it and > understand" learning materials. I personally didn't > have any > difficulty with the catalog/library organizational > stuff, but it > could certainly be more clearly spelled out > somewhere in the online > help documentation. > > The learning experience of the various online videos > is far more > useful with most clients I've been working with, who > are more > concerned with "how" than "why" in conceptual terms. > I particularly > like the videos that Michael Tapes did > (www.rawworkflow.com) and the > ones sold by Luminous Landscape. > > Books: Martin Evening's Lightroom book is excellent > for reference. > Scott Kelby's Lightroom book works well from a "this > is how I get > this thing done" perspective. Both of them have been > supplemented > with add-on modules to cover LR v1.1, which had a > number of new > features. > > Another one, "Photoshop Lightroom Adventure" by > Mikkel Aaland, is > also supposed to be excellent, but I haven't gotten > to it yet. > > Always another adventure... ;-) > > Godfrey > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search that gives answers, not web links. http://mobile.yahoo.com/mobileweb/onesearch?refer=1ONXIC -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
