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Do not read or watch tutorials. Use it, it is very easy.
I am a cosseted Mac user who loves to use computers by intuition and previous experience but these plug-ins completely bewildered and defeated me, Yes, they are very simple, once you know where they are and what they do.
Since I found the Lightroom tutorials I have gained a much more fluid and productive workflow. Sometimes I have taken days not to get the results I knew were there in an image.
The recent 'Levels' thing in Lightroom was a big step forward when I found that pressing the Option key while moving the black and white sliders give me exactly what I wanted to achieve the black and white points which previously I needed to take the images into Photoshop to make that adjustment.
Software is becoming so complex that it's no longer possible to achieve even basic stuff simply from menu commands. There are so many 'hidden' features which I know must be there but can't find.
Apart from the vastly better GUI the main reason I went with Mac back in '88 was that all commands were menu based, if it wasn't on the menu it didn't happen, the basic functions in all Mac software, no matter the creator, all had the same commands. Learn one program, you could more or less use them all. There were no 'hidden' commands, least non an ordinary user needed. That has changed.
Rich got me looking at tutorials and I have to say it's been a great help for me and saved me years of fumbling, wondering how to achieve a given process.
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Robert.