Adobe Training Video

October 16, 2007 by David.

Included with the Adobe Master Collection package is a training DVD. I am blown away by both the quality and the quantity. There are many hours covering the many products included in the Master Collection. It is nicely “chunked down” to topics. There is a variety of presenters but nearly all do a stellar job of walking one through the topic.

In case that wasn’t enough, there is also a free month subscription to on-line training at Lynda.com. They go into a lot more depth and breadth than the single DVD from Adobe, and of course cover a lot more than just Adobe’s products. Between the two resources I got a great start on using the software. I’ll continue my Lynda.com subscription. After all, $25/month is like buying one book (or in some cases, half a book). The educators on the Adobe DVD are also on Lynda.com but are not duplicates so the two mesh well.

This beats going to a standard school hands down. Both college classes and business education (such as New Horizons) are way too slow for me. Both have to progress at the lowest common denominator and I find the majority of time is wasted on material I already know or is just moving WAY slower than it needs to.

Maybe my prior experience with video education was just a run of below standard material, but I am amazed at the concise usefulness of Adobe & Lynda’s videos. Since the training is so succinct, one can move at the pace he or she wants. The presenter just gets right to the point and lays it out. For material that is completely new to me, I replay short sections as I’m going along until I get it, but the end result is MUCH faster than sitting in a classroom setting.

These training videos have made me a believer and, furthermore, will allow me to get so much more out of the software. My biggest concern in ordering this suite was there would be so much to learn and going to a class of any type would take so long and cost so much I wouldn’t get nearly the use out of it that I could have. I’m not worried about that anymore! 

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