Way back 7 years ago when I started photography and retouching I wanted to find a quick way to learn. I bought all the books; I could get my hands on to learn the basics of retouching, and it was quite a jungle.
A lot of books would cover very complicated informations before getting into the real «deal» or explain menus or software features without practical examples. Then I discovered video tutorials, and this was a life changer for me. I could really understand faster as I would follow someone step on creating a piece of art. The fact of being able to see the steps rather than explaining the steps made all the difference in the world for me !
I soon as I began to master Lightroom, I started teaching using video tutorials and got a lot of emails from photographer telling me how faster this way to read a book. Then Apple released the possibility of embedding video's content in a book, thus came to life this book project.
This book doesn't have many pages only 22, but has got 9 videos for a total of over 2 hours of Lightroom 4 learning. I have two rules that I try to follow when I teach a software :
1. No technical terms explained with technical words, but with simple English.
2. No theory, practical and visual examples only.
This is a new type of books, and I believe this will be a big part of education for the future.
The book covers all the modules of Lightroom 4
Import, Library, Develop, Map, Book, Slideshow, print web with a special emphasis on the retouching part which is one of great new features in Lightroom 4.
