Adobe SpeedGrade CC Classroom in a Book - 1st Edition by Adobe Creative Team | Learn Video Color Grading & Post-Production | Perfect for Filmmakers, Editors & Content Creators

Given how non-standard the interface is for SpeedGrade, you're simply not going to be able to poke around and get much of it to work, and many powerful features are buried within with zero hints (though the recent versions are getting better). This book does both a nice job introducing grading, but also walks you through SpeedGrade's interface and controls, which is essential. I'm psyched to have a powerful grading app included in my CC subscription, and this book unlocks it for me. (If you are on a budget and aren't already a subscriber to Adobe CC, take a look at the free "Lite" version of Davinci Resolve from Blackmagic. It's a very different interface, but a powerful tool, even in the free version.)But I bought this as a Kindle book. I was able to download all the sample/tutorial files with no problem. But I'm still not a fan of how books are converted for Kindle. The Adobe Classroom in a Book editions are all very nicely produced and graphically well-laid-out. It would be ideal if the Kindle version were simply like a PDF of the original pages. That said, this is not the worst Kindle-ified book out there, and I don't recall having a hard time reading any of the images or graphics, which can be a problem for some Kindle books. The Kindle edition is OK, but if I had to do it over, I'd go for the flammable, dead-tree version just for the better layout.