I like Scott, I've met him once upon a time and he's a very energetic and enjoyable guy to talk with. But his writing style is WAY too chatty for me. Virtually unreadable.
Martin's book is a lot more to my liking. He presents information clearly and concisely. Lightroom is a huge subject to write about, with many many features. The good news is that you can use it in a simple manner and learn as much as you need to as your experience grows. There are just a few basics that you really need to understand at the start to get the most out of it. Godfrey On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 2:08 PM, George Sinos <[email protected]> wrote: > I think a better way to describe the Kelby book is "chatty". It's > roughly 1/2 the length of the Evening's book, but it's a very > conversational, step-by-step, style. Kelby doesn't always tell you > why to do something. The just tell you how. A lot of people find the > chapter introductions annoying. Every chapter has an into that Kelby > just writes to have fun. Most of the time they don't have a lot to do > with the chapter. You can skip the chapter intros and not miss > anything but storytelling. > > Evening is on the other end of the scale. He tells you how, buried in > the why. And very often gives you several different examples of how > you might do the same thing in different ways. > > I think of the Kelby's book as an instruction manual and Evening's > book as a service manual. > > I have both. If I just want to quickly figure out how to get something > done, or get an overview of features I'll pick the Kelby books (or > more likely watch their videos.) If I'm trying to make a decision on > something a little bigger, like figure out a process or method, I'll > read Evening's book. > > gs > > George Sinos > -------------------- > [email protected] > www.georgesphotos.net > plus.georgesinos.com > > > On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 3:44 PM, P. J. Alling > <[email protected]> wrote: >> If a 667 page book on a subject isn't wordy, how long is the wordy book? >> >> >> >> On 7/21/2012 3:42 PM, Christine Aguila wrote: >>> >>> Hi Everyone: >>> >>> The Martin Evening book arrived, and, of course, I've been reading it. >>> The book is very good, so highly recommend to others. At 667 pages (not >>> including index) it's comprehensive and clearly written. Scott Kellby's >>> books are too wordy; in fact, I wondered when reading his book if he was >>> just taping workshops, then transcribing his lecture/directions, then >>> publishing nearly as is. >>> >>> >>> I obviously focused on the Library module and learned a bunch, and hence >>> have created a workflow by which I can relink the master photo files from my >>> working external hard drive to the 8000 to the corresponding catalogue, so >>> with a little time and attention, I should get all the photo files linked >>> up. I've linked up quite a bit already: find in folder on dead drive, find >>> in Finder (Mac), go to working drive, find image etc. It turns out the >>> folder structures on the dead drive and the working drive are fairly >>> similar, with some exceptions, but Finder on Mac makes it easy to quickly >>> match up, so I'm good to go. >>> >>> Next step is to get a real workflow and hierarchal structure going. The >>> Evening book does a good job of presenting options, and I have the link >>> George Sinos posted, so I just need to think about this. >>> >>> >>> The feature I hadn't really used before was exporting a catalogue of >>> selected photos. Knowing now that I can export the metadata, previews, and >>> a copy of the master photo files in one catalogue, I think I will >>> incorporate this into my back up workflow when dealing with those extra >>> special keepers that I really want to keep safe. Obviously, we want to keep >>> all our keepers safe, but this feature, I think, will give added on site and >>> off site protection. >>> >>> >>> So, thanks everyone! Crying no longer in Chicago. >>> >>> Cheers, Christine >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Don't lose heart, they might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a >> lengthly search. >> >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- > 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. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
