Scott Kelby is quite the entrepreneur. He turned a graphic arts business into a multi-million dollar per year enterprise, largely by working closely with Adobe to develop extensive training videos on nearly all aspects of photography and Adobe’s products all available at Kelby Training.
He also created the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, a professional organization of graphic designers and photographers where people share tips and effects that can be accomplished with Photoshop and its associated Creative Suite applications.
I initially purchased a few of the Kelby Training videos on DVD, which I loaned throughout my camera club for a couple of years. This was shortly after Photoshop CS4 was released, and the CS3 videos all went on sale for 1/2 price. But they convinced me that the video training would work for me, and that I had a tremendous amount still to learn. For a couple of years I used their online training videos. At $200 per year, it was about what I expected to pay for a 2 day seminar with no personal interaction. This gave me access to the hundreds of videos that Kelby Training offers, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Over those couple of years I learned a great deal about Photoshop, Camera Raw and Lightroom, as well as watching numerous photography oriented videos from people like Joe McNally, Frank Doorhof and Jay Maisel.
I have also read a number of Scott Kelby’s books, however I found them to be somewhat trivial for my taste. Everything that I have read by Scott is a cookbook photography methodology. That is, you are given a recipe of such and such a lens, at such aperture and exposure. If you have a reasonable grasp of exposure, depth of field and focus I believe that you will find them too basic as well.
But give the Kelby Training site a spin, I think that you will find at least something that piques your fancy.
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