Anyone every use the lynda.com online tutorials?

[judge]

If so, any comments/review of them? which one's did you use?

[rmoore]

I think they're great. I use them for Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign if I ever get stuck on anything.

I think of them as severance, as my company didn't change the password after they let me go.

[Bahr]

theyre incredibly helpful. a bit boring, but one doesnt really take tutorials for the entertainment value. used them to refine my CAD skills. i would recommend them.

[JustinHelton]

Yeah i use it as well...the tutorials tend to differ from one to another b/c of who is doing it. Some are more entertaining than others. But all in all very informative and worth it.

[judge]

Hey thanks all for your reviews. Very helpful.

[NIBOT]

awesome site, really a great deal for the low price. i dont see any point in spending the extra $ for a premium account where you get access to the files used in the videos, but i guess it probly depends on what type of software you are learning....

[printchesco]

Disagreeing from what Bahr said, I think that tutorials need to be fun and interesting to a certain degree in order to be effective. If a tutorial is boring, people would sooner click close than actually learn something, and that would defeat the purpose of the tutorial.

[Aaron Gein]

Holy crap. I just watched a few of the free Photoshop videos and have learned a few things that I had no idea about....there are tools that I use nearly every day that have expanded capabilities that I had no idea about. Mind = blown right now. I think I will be getting at least a couple months membership to this and taking it like a little mini-college course. Being completely self taught in Photoshop and Illustrator I knew there was a ton of stuff that I didn't know....but this has shown me that there are things that I thought I knew that I really dont know entirely.

[weaponsofmassdesign]

It's even better when you work somewhere that will pay for your account. The college I work at has a corporate account so I can learn some new things for my job and then go home and learn some new things for my other job.

[40ozGraphics]

I've used them for learning to set up servers and other tech stuff and for that they were very good. I have not used them for any of the Adobe creative suite though based on some of these comments, I may use some down time to check those out.