Adobe Creative Suite 3 Announced, Pre-Order Your Training Today!.
This time of year is often a busy time for us as we work with our valued partners to launch training products on the heels of new software releases. Following yesterday's Adobe Creative 3 announcement, we're proud to announce five new DVD-ROM based training series:
Pre-Order today
· Total Training for Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS3: Essentials
· Total Training for Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional: Essentials
· Total Training for Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 Extended: Essentials
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· Total Training for Adobe® InDesign® CS3: Essentials
· Total Training for Adobe® Illustrator® CS3: Essentials
Pre-order your copy today to be one of the first customers to get tutorials for Adobe's brand new software release. The training will begin shipping when the software ships.
Industry News
Photoshop World and NAB – meet us in person
We're on the road again with two shows coming up in April, Photoshop World and NAB. Stop by and meet us in person and take advantage of our show specials at these events.
We're headed to Boston for Photoshop World (www.photoshopworld.com)
This conference brings together photographers, designers, artists, educators, motion graphics designers, and Photoshop users of every kind for a three-day Photoshop love fest of training, learning, and fun.
When: April 4-6, 2007
Where: Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA
Booth: 302
NAB
The annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters is the essential destination for more than 100,000 electronic media executives, trendsetters and visionaries. This event brings together the entire spectrum of media - television and radio broadcast, audio and video production and latest technologies from all corners of the globe.
When: April 14-19
Where: Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV
Booth: SL2629
For a free pass to either Photoshop World or NAB, call our customer care team at 800-546-9587 for a one day pass, compliments of Total Training. We look forward to seeing you at these events.
Partner News
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Offer expires April 30, 2007
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Tip and Trick
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| Tip and Trick for Adobe Illustrator CS3, from Steve Samson presenter for Total Training for Adobe Illustrator CS3: Essentials |
Illustrator has a ton of keyboard shortcuts that cover just about every imaginable task, but here are some cool and useful ones that you might not discover on your own, that I've found helpful in working in Illustrator.
· Ctrl-tab (Windows) or Cmd-tilde (Mac OS) cycle you through all open documents. (This works in all Adobe Creative Suite applications, not just Illustrator).
· x toggles the focus between the object fill and object stroke, shift-x swaps the fill and stroke attributes, / applies no fill or no stroke (depending on which is the current focus) and d applies the default fill (white) and stroke (1-point black).
· In the Color palette, hold down the shift key as you drag a slider to move the other sliders relative to the slider you are dragging, changing just the tint of the color, instead of changing the color itself.
· Use ctrl-alt-shift-k on Windows or cmd-opt-shift-k on Mac OS to bring up the complete list of Illustrator keyboard shortcuts, edit existing shortcuts or create your own. You can export this list as a tab-delimited file for printing as a reference.
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Presenter's Corner
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We recently chatted with from Bill Jelen, presenter for Total Training for Microsoft Office Excel 2007: Advanced and known as "Mr. Excel". Here is what we learned about Bill. Bill's Bio |
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The Australian park service had just implemented a $16 million enterprise system and was having trouble getting the reports that they needed. Using a VBA macro, I was able to replace a 40 hour manual Excel process with a single button click and 40 seconds of processing time. |
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I love to hit old drive-in movie theatres. I have a collection of photographs of drive-ins that I have visited around the country. Most were built in the ‘50s when America's fascination with the automobile was rising. |
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I generally write my books while listening to Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run album blaring on the iPod. |
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· Pivot Tables are the most powerful feature in Excel and the most scary for people to use. Microsoft has made them easier in Excel 2007. Watch the training and give them a try again.
· The charting engine is Excel 2007 has been re-written. I show people how to choose the correct chart type for a certain task, and how to dive beyond the simplistic features on the ribbon.
· You can calculate anything with Excel, but most people only really use the SUM function. There are 350 other functions in Excel to help you calculate your house payment or which pizza is the best deal to order for the luncheon staff meeting. Learn how to use Excel functions to figure out when to play the lottery or when to go all-in in Texas Hold-em! |
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I had a job as a teaching assistant at Notre Dame. A couple of the professors were using MBA students as lab rats, to see if an interactive laserdisc was more effective at training people how to use a spreadsheet. I would grade what had to be the most difficult test ever given about spreadsheets. After a semester and a half of watching every MBA student miserably fail the test, I realized I knew the solution and launched this career. |
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