Software So Good You Can Feel It Through Your Eyes
Posted by brooks in Lightroom, User Experience on Dec 15th, 2008 | 2 commentsI’m deeply appreciative when I use software that continually simplifies complex tasks. Lightroom is one such application and deserves huge props for much of its user experience. This software gets me. I feel like I’m communing with it on a much deeper, but more natural level. When I use it the visual feedback provides so much context that I can literally feel my way around, as if I’m holding something physical in my hand. Here’s a short example:
That’s pretty powerful stuff. Now if only I could get the same experience when using a development IDE–I’m talking to you Eclipse; you big, nasty brute with a face only a mother nerd could love.
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I saw one of your videos on how to imbed flash using Kimili on WordPress. I am new to blogging and I want to share technical training videos via my blog.
I have purchased camtasia studio, have a web host (dreamhost), and was planning on using wordpress.
In your video you mentioned using links for higher resolution. I just want my video to look good. What would I need to do to emulate what you have done with the video in this site?
Thank you in advance
@Tim – wow, there’s a lot to cover there. ;-) I’ve been mulling over how to best answer this question–not sure I can do it in the blog comments. My particular setup is geared towards quick and dirty videos using Jing (sometimes I cheat and do post-production work in After Effects, etc.), but Camtasia should serve you well (not as quick and simple, but you can get higher quality vids out of it).
Let me see if I can come up with some videos that cover my workflow / tools. In the meantime I’ll point you at some links:
Camtasia Studio Learning Center
http://www.techsmith.com/learn/camtasia/default.asp
Camtasia user-to-user forums:
http://forums.techsmith.com/forumdisplay.php?f=4