These videos are great. I am a new convert to Lightroom 4 after being a diehard ACR user since the beginning. I am learning how to efficiently and intelligently use Lightroom. These videos are worth much more than the purchase price...and they are entertaining at the same time. Highly recommended.
I have the same opinion. My only quibble, and it's very small and may also be applied to Evening's book, is that I would have preferred more separation in the Develop module descriptions between process 2012 and process 2010. What I mean is that the process 2012 controls are very different from the earlier controls, and I would rather have had a "this is how they work" section followed by a "this is how they are different" discussion instead of doing comparisons while doing the explanations.
Tom Frerichs
MMM-MMM! Crow tastes so very good, but I'm sorry I now have to eat it.
I went back and viewed the LuLa videos again and realized that my comments about not having enough "separation" were in error. Oh, there were a few "in the past we used the black and fill light controls to...but now we use..." but not nearly as many my poor memory seemed to have recorded. And they were certainly very minor.
I do stand by my remarks on Martin Evening's book, though. A lot of his control descriptions start off with something like "The Contrast slider in Process 2012 operates in almost the same [way] as the Process 2003/2010 one."
I suppose I had conflated the two sources, for which I apologize. Well, I would if only I knew what conflated meant.
Anyhow, my biggest hurdle in learning LR4 has been my previous experience with Process 2010. I kept looking at a photo, then saying to myself, "I used to raise the blacks and kick up fill a bit to fix this, now...let's see...the 2012 equivalent is..." As Adams (Scott, not Ansel) would say: I was suffering a paradigm shift without a clutch. When I finally figured out that I should forget what I knew and start fresh, then everything began to work right.
