Comments on: Why Lightroom is Hard For You

By: Charlie Moss

Charlie Moss — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 10:57:28 +0000

This is great, thanks. It’s a common issue when trying to teach people.

By: callmebob

callmebob — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 20:57:39 +0000

In reply to Scott Kelby. so where are the next couple of months' seminars being held ?

By: Rob Sylvan

Rob Sylvan — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 19:31:00 +0000

In reply to Scott Kelby. #truth!

By: Scott Kelby

Scott Kelby — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 12:40:53 +0000

In reply to Wayne Burnett. That is exactly who I was addressing. Thank you, Wayne. :)

By: Scott Kelby

Scott Kelby — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 12:40:12 +0000

In reply to Yannis. I the class I reference in the post, the first thing I tell them is to store their photos on an external hard drive. :)

By: Scott Kelby

Scott Kelby — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 12:38:47 +0000

In reply to Alan. I teach Lightroom in my live seminars all over the country. This week I'll teach about 500 photographers at my live seminars and nearly ALL of their Lightroom questions will be about organization and the exact things I'm talking about in this post. Not a single one will be about making photos darker or lighter, or about finding things under the menus. It's great that you find it all very obvious, but it's not obvious to most users.

By: Wayne Burnett

Wayne Burnett — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 01:47:40 +0000

It’s obvious Mr. Kelby is addressing people other than the ones who complain and seem to have total familiarity with using Lightroom. The worse thing a new Lr user can do is start using it without setting anything up. Folders, copyright
metadata, understanding the diff between main modules, etc.
My biggest suggestion is to watch specific Lr tutorials on one monitor / tablet / phone pausing them when needed,
while performing the mirrored function in Lr. on computer’s monitor.
Mr. Kelby has helped many over the years, and what he mentions here seems like it could be similarly helpful to people who want to start out on a good foot.

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 15:25:31 +0000

Are you serious? People are struggling with Lightroom because of finding pictures? That’s ridiculous. What a clickbait puff piece.

That’s the equivalent of saying Microsoft Excel is hard to learn because you cannot find where all your models are. Ummm no. It’s hard to learn because there are a ton of features and finding them in the menus and learning nomenclature is difficult. Thanks for wasting my 5 min.

By: JPdJ

JPdJ — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 12:46:53 +0000

Agreed. And. We need to more explicitly discuss workflow from pre-envisioning to surrendering media for a specific type of use. Lightroom does the post part reasonably well. But I find planning, contracts and release to client could be much better.
I would then argue that “workflow with asset and release management” could be a separate app with a CRM notion.
I thought that LR and PS were developed for pros, but essentially the support is limited to some 1 FTE business.
I also feel that support for deep color management could be better. Across the workflow.
An aside to the asset management as it is today is the consideration we need to give to raw files, importing, renaming and culling, to side-car or to DNG, etc. Here, my doubt is if we still need to import. I appreciate non-destructive (why would you want anything else?) The catalogue with JPEG copies was just a way to facilitate non-destructive on a laptop en-route. Today, a 1 TB SSD is very affordable – no moving parts that can head bang crash your content – more reliable, faster and very small.
We can explain how LR works and why, and can take insights back to Adobe. Just adding bells & whistles, or fixing bad software engineering from the past is not enough for them to maintain market share.

By: Yannis

Yannis — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 12:11:02 +0000

Exactly what Keith Smith said! I have moved all my pictures out from My Pictures to my internal HDD, because the initial folder lives at my SSD.
Nice article though. My primary fear back in those newbie days was exactly what you just described.