lynda.com often receives unsolicited e-mails from satisfied customers. Here are
a few recent comments.
Affordable education
I love your courses. I am a one-person small business and you make it affordable for me to get continuing education. Keep up with the good work!
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Excellent, empathetic teachers
Learning at lynda.com for me (a teacher, web developer, and author) is a very precious addition to all the other possibilities. My experience with James Williamson and Chris Orwig is learning with excellent, empathetic and didactical, outstanding teachers. I'm very impressed and enjoy this way to extend my knowledge.
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Easy to understand
Thank you for offering this kind of training, which is very easy to understand. For each subject, everyone can learn a technique and a tip. For example, I was interested in photo editing with a CS5 program, and I just selected the topic and learned from there. I personally like this program so much.
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Great job on audio course
I just wanted to say that Brian Lee White did a great job on Pro Tools Mixing and Mastering. I'm also really looking forward to the Melodyne tutorial that's coming up. Keep up the good work.
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First-rate instructors
I just wanted to tell you that I find lynda.com wonderful! I have referred lynda.com to many others and always receive positive feedback. There is no site, or for that matter, any other way period where the autodidact has such broad, extensive, and very high-quality instructional videos from which to choose. It would be impossible to purchase an equivalent collection of this high quality for anywhere close to $25/month. It would cost hundreds if they could even be located! I must specifically mention several of your contributors of special merit: Chris Orwig, Deke McClelland, Taz Tally, Jan Kabili. There are many other first-rate instructors/artists. Anyone wondering if they should join or not—the answer is an unqualified YES!
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Highly impressed
I am highly impressed with lynda.com and all of the training that is available. It is well organized and quite informative. I have taken other classes but none of them compare to the value and the knowledge I obtain here. So thank you all for the hard work you put into the training videos. I really appreciate it.
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Loving the new additions
I just love lynda.com for lifelong learning. What an awesome site. Thanks for keeping the price down. I am really enjoying the new professional development additions with Dave Crenshaw. They are a wonderful addition to the tech videos already here. Great job everybody.
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Best dollars I ever spent
I love you, Lynda .... you rock! Best few dollars I ever spent on getting smart. Woohoo!
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There’s hope for me
I just bought a Nikon D5100, and am clueless about how it works. I'm coming from a point-and-shoot camera, so it's quite challenging to say the least. However, your teaching video has been a godsend to me. I stumbled upon it while Googling the other day, and quickly bookmarked it. You are a very good teacher and you point out exactly how to do things and which buttons to press. Thank you so much. I have a hard time learning but this way I can pause the tape, take notes, then return to the teaching. I guess there is hope for me to finally understand this camera. YEAH!! Keep up the awesome work.
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Inspired and touched
Just had to tell you, I love you. Through your online training, I've gained so much knowledge in such a short time. I love to pair up my training videos with daily inspiration. I've just finished watching the documentary on Doyald Young, and was so inspired and touched. I just wanted to express my gratitude. I'm so thankful for lynda.com.
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Impressive new releases
As a longtime subscriber, I have noticed an impressive amount of new releases in recent months. Keep up the wonderful work and please allow Deke to slow down! I cannot believe how much he knows and how much passion he shows.
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My ace in the hole
I'm a freelance graphic designer who finds your video training indispensable. I work for a company that throws a diverse set of projects my way. Being a former QuarkXPress user, I've never had an Adobe InDesign project. I've always been able to cover-up my weakness by using Adobe Illustrator (an app that I thoroughly love). Well, last week I received the inevitable InDesign project. Instead of freaking-out, I knew I had an "ace-in-the-hole": lynda.com. I spent a weekend watching, and working along with, David Blatner's InDesign CS5 Essential Training. Three days later, I'm ready to send a spec-ready, PDF/X-4 to the commercial printer. And I can't say enough about Anne-Marie Concepción Acrobat X Essential Training. She set the table for every PDF print job that I send out. I'm pretty conservative when it comes to spending my hard-earned cash (OK, I'm a cheapskate), but there's no way in the conceivable future that I'll give-up my monthly lynda.com subscription. Keep those videos coming...
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Just the stuff I needed
Just want to let you know that iOS SDK Essential Training is a great, well-structured course. Simply awesome. I'm a veteran developer, now learning iOS. This is just the stuff I needed. Glad to have subscribed.
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Getting better all the time
lynda.com is getting better with more new courses as tech evolves, so I can't say anything that could be done better than what you guys are already doing.
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Like college—at home
lynda.com is one of the best educational sites on the Internet today. As a graphic designer, I have found the site very comprehensive, easy to navigate, and the video tutorials and presenters are great. I have learned so much about programs I already know, and programs new to me. It is like taking college classes without leaving home. I am still amazed at the variety and easy-to-follow videos. Great for total beginners and long-time veterans.
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Just the right amount
I have just joined and I am loving the pace of the lessons. Easily digestible and just the right amount of information in each lesson so you can remember what you have just learned. This site is going to help me get the job I have been looking for—I just know it!
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High hopes
I hope, with your help, I will be the best programmer in my country. Thanks.
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I’m hooked!
I wanted you to know I just got an annual membership! I studied Final Cut Pro 7 with Abba Shapiro for a month with the gift of a free membership from my son, Colin. Now I'm hooked! And I have also filmed, edited and exported my first Final Cut piece. Woot Woot!
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No more feelings of defeat!
My gratitude to you for this Abba Shapiro course is enormous! I am a 56-year-old film editor who began in the 1980s with 35mm flatbed editing—yes, real cut-and-splice! Real editing bins to hold the outtakes! I slogged through the miserable days of video editing, then edited on the "Snappy" home editing system, then the various versions of iMovie. FCP 7 was the first really intimidating system I encountered as my editor peers were younger and faster with everything. I tried books and a video course but was still confused. Then my son came home with a free trial for lynda.com through his tutoring job. I am totally hooked! I get it! I am editing again! No more feelings of defeat and feeling "too old for this"! Thank you!
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Pure wow
Just pure wow. Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
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Work at your own pace
Just finished watching the Food and Drink Photography tutorial. Really loved the content. The ability to watch and return to specific chapters to review certain parts is fantastic. I’m hoping you release more content on this topic in the future. The best part is how you’re able to work at your own pace.
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Couldn’t do it without you
You guys rock. Couldn't do it with out you. Keep up the amazing work you do.
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Queue is an excellent tool
Congratulations, lynda.com team! The queue is an excellent tool for organizing my lessons. Thank you.
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Can’t wait to watch
I am so excited to see a new course specifically about setting up a web host. I wish I had seen such a video a few years ago when I began to dabble with web hosting on not only my own web site, but my client's. I can't wait to watch your course as soon as I get some funds (work has been slow) and re-subscribe!
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Blinders removed
I am really enjoying the Java Essential videos. In the past, I have looked at Java as being some kind of hieroglyphic language, only understood by a race that died out centuries ago. It is so enlightening to have the blinders removed, and see the individual parts explained and how they relate to each other. The cost of your program is less than what most people will pay for cable TV. It is by far a better value, especially when compared to what online college classes cost. It is a bit sad that kids will spend hours online playing games when they could be taking your classes and preparing for a career.
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lynda.com is different
I am new to lynda.com. I was very skeptical of joining since I have tried video learning before and found it to be verbose and boring. But lynda.com is different. I have now taken about three courses and I just can't get enough. I can't thank you enough.
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Excellent value for my money
I am blown away by the thoroughness, quality of training content, and structure of the programs. In addition, the flow and functionality of the web site itself is very impressive. As a premiere subscriber, I feel I am getting excellent value for my money. I have recommended lynda.com to many of my fellow students.
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Lots of fun learning
This 59-year-old guy is having problems viewing all 1,000-plus videos you have during my one-month subscription. But I'm having lots of fun learning.
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More in-depth than school
I just wanna say your site is awesome. In one week for less than $25, I learned everything and more that I learned in an Illustrator class I took at the art institute that cost $2,000 and lasted three months. I refer you to a ton of art students because your training goes way more in-depth than most classes at my school, and you can pause and rewind it if you don't follow it the first time. Chris Orwig’s stuff is awesome. There are a lot of good teachers, but he is actually the reason I upgraded to the Premium membership with exercise files. I wanted to follow along with exactly what he was doing. Love you guys and haven't yet scratched the surface on all I want to watch.
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Better than college
The only negative comment I have is really for myself: I wish I had discovered you sooner. I am sorry I spent almost $10,000 at community college, because you are ever so much better!
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