Quick start guide to Lightroom?

[donoreo]

I just got Lightroom 3.3. Aside from the 190 or so page PDF manual, and good quick start guides to using it?

[GeoffWessex]

I found one called 'Adobe Photoshop LR3 - Streamlining your digital photography process', by Nat Coalson, by Wiley Publishing - but I didn't see it on Amazon UK, so I'd say your best bet could be the Scott Kelby one..."LR3 Book for Digital Photographers".

[donoreo]

Pssst, I am a couple of hours away from you remember? I was hoping to not buy a book, just something to get me started. I do not find it intuitive to get started.

[littlebro]

Photo Radar forum/ Techniques/ search/ Lightroom at least three things..... tips for beginers, organise yopur photos, improve your photos in lr. Hope that helps, no doubt plenty on u tube.

[donoreo]

Originally Posted by littlebro

Photo Radar forum/ Techniques/ search/ Lightroom at least three things..... tips for beginers, organise yopur photos, improve your photos in lr. Hope that helps, no doubt plenty on u tube.

Odd when I searched here I did not find anything. I am also looking for something written, I do not like or learn well, from watching videos.

I went out to Chapters (large Canadian book store) this afternoon. The in store price was $20 more than the online price.

[GeoffWessex]

Oh, sorry.... I forgot - I haven't been on the Forum for a few weeks (holiday then illness).... forgot that you were my Ontario buddy!

I'd suggest YouTube could get you started, or maybe you have a college near you that teaches Lightroom in any of their short/evening courses, or a friend that's using it. I'm not actually getting on well with LR (which I got in December) because it runs so slowly on my computer - apparently version 3.3 is like that for everyone, unless they've got 'dual-core' and lots of RAM.

I got my book (the Nat Coalson one mentioned above) from Chapters but mainly because I got an educational discount, my Chapters card discount and also a $25 voucher for doing some judging last year. But you're right, Chapters is expensive.

[donoreo]

I have taken some of the Henry's courses before but their Lightroom course runs at 3:30 weekdays on the days it is offered (at least at the Toronto location). I will look around more, I had not thought of a course, good idea.

3.3 runs on on my Mini, it is a Core 2 Duo so not bad. I would like an upgrade as overall it is slowish, but LR is not slower than anything else.

[MattUK]

Happy to offer pointers if you need. I've recently taught myself LR3.3 64 Bit (runs fine on my quad core, but it's overclocked to 4GHz).

It's a fantastic app.

[GeoffWessex]

I have a strange feeling that the above post is spam.

[MattUK]

Mine?!