Jenn and I really want your opinion! We have an extensive collection of tutorials on general digital scrapbooking, Photoshop, and Elements. And a lot of you like a tutorial you can print out and have next to you as you try the tutorial. But they really take a lot of time to properly assemble the screen shots, examples, etc and write it up.
We have been experimenting with video tutorials. (See one at the end of this post.) We like them as they are a great extension of our teaching philosophy we use in our classes – you get to learn visually by seeing and hearing us teach you a tip or technique. But you can’t really easily try the tutorial and follow along – you have to keep switching back and forth between the video tutorial and your program – and that’s a little annoying. Bu they are a lot less time to get one together, so we could possibly do a lot more of them for you.
So we would like your opinion – vote below and let us know. Feel free to leave a comment if you want to give an explanation or expand on your vote. And thanks for letting us know!
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April 27, 2010
That doesn’t help, does it? Videos are nice but I like to have written steps to check off. It’s a pain to pause a video and start it again.
Linda Vich
I prefer written tutorials that I can easily refer back to . . . I find video tuts cumbersome because I am an advanced user and quite often it takes a long time to view a video tut to see that it is a technique I already know rather than a different approach to doing something that I already do.
If a technique is particularly tricky, though, is when I would want to view a video. For instance, the PS CS5 videos showing the new tools and techniques that are available on the net now are very valuable!