As an experiment, we are offering a limited number of personalized online training sessions with our trainer Jason Hoppe for only $99 a session.
Tuesday, March 10: One-on-One with Jason Hoppe.
This remote training takes advantage of the same software we use to provide our worldwide webinar training, and is open to anyone around the world with a speedy Internet connection.
We’re experimenting with a unique business model for our training: Free live webinars that are open to anyone worldwide. We make our money selling the downloads afterwards.
We captured an excellent recording of Jason’s Photoshop Week 1: Basics. If you missed out, you can download the full 1 hour recording, along with a 7 page PDF handout.
Purchase: Photoshop Wk 1 – Basics ($15)
Purchase: Photoshop Wk 2 – Layers ($15)
Purchase: Photoshop Wk 3 – Selection Basics ($15)
Purchase: Photoshop Wk 4 – Advanced Selections ($15)
Purchase: Photoshop Wk 5 – Layer Masks ($15)
Purchase: Photoshop Wk 6 – Pen Tool ($15)
Purchase: Photoshop Wk 7 – Brush Tools ($15)
Purchase: Photoshop Wk 8 – Retouching ($15)
Purchase: Photoshop Bonus – Color Management Theory ($15)
Purchase: Special: Pre-purchase all 10-Weeks ($60 Special. See Note Below)
Note: The discount price for the 10-Week download bundle will be creeping up by $5 each week for the remaining weeks of our course. So, next week it will be $60, and then $65 the week after.
The cost of each week’s download includes a 1-hour QuickTime movie of that week’s class, along with a PDF handout, and up to 1-hour of extra audience Q&A. We’re offering a special prepurchase discount of the full 10-weeks. You’ll be able to download the PDF handout on the day of class, and a recording of each completed class about 4 days later.
On February 26, CreativeTechs kicked off the first class of our free 10-week Photoshop Course. This 9 minute video provides an overview to that webinar format and details about the upcoming Photoshop classes.
This is a bit off-topic from our tips format. I’d like to put out a request to the more technical readers in our audience. Our lead enterprise engineer, Jordan Bojar, has been asked to pull together a book proposal based on his Make Mac Work blog.
If you have never visited, Make Mac Work is our sister blog covering IT issues facing Macs in Enterprise environments. If that sounds interesting, you can browse some of the essential articles in the blog archives:
» Portable Home Directories
» Master Open Directory
» Configure And Deploy NetInstall
» Manage Account Preferences
» Control Software Update
» Bind to Active Directory
If you are an IT professional who is responsible for supporting Macs in larger corporate networks, I’d recommend you bookmark this blog. And we’d appreciate any feedback or suggestions you might be willing share to help Jordan flesh out his book proposal.
Thanks.
We just sent out the webinar confirmation emails for Week 1 of our Free Photoshop Course. If you enrolled for this worldwide training experiment, that email should arrive in your inbox today.
If you have not enrolled yet, now is the time to do so. Sign-up here:
Free Photoshop CS4 Course Enrollment.
And yes, you can pass this offer along to friends, or even post it on your blog. Help spread the word. The first of 10 classes starts this Thursday.
I teach monthly online marketing seminars at our Seattle training partner Luminous Works. Last night I led a new class on Google AdWords & Online Advertising. There will be tips from that class coming up in future weeks, but I wanted to share a quote from an email I received this morning from one of last night’s attendees:
“Craig, This was a GREAT class. The informal and succinct presentation provided simple and manageable solutions to what for most is mind-numbingly complex material. Best of all, I can implement 90% of your recommendations myself. In short, a comprehensive class in very professional and comfortable surroundings… worth 10X the price! I would recommend the class for anyone — except my competitors!” – Alan Burke, Classic Nursery & Landscape Company
Before anyone asks, yes, one day we’ll offer these online marketing classes via our workshop/webinar format. Probably not for several months however. Read the Full Tip »
This morning Jason Hoppe led his Moving Faster in InDesign CS4 and CS3 workshop. My adrenaline is still pumping. It was a fantastic workshop. A total of 395 people attended from across the globe.
Hopefully, some participants from today’s workshop will leave comments on what this was like from their side.
I’m bummed. We use Screenflow to record this webinars. It is normally a great tool, but today’s event didn’t record properly, which means we don’t have a copy for download. So, we are going to run this webinar again next week so I can get a clean recording:
Free Webinar: Moving Faster in InDesign CS4 and CS3.
Don’t Miss Out! We’re offering a command performance Thursday, Feb 12th. It’s free. And this time we’re opening the doors for up to 1,000 participants. Please, help us put out the word!
Read the Full Tip »
We are looking for a local web developer to help with several upcoming projects over the next couple months, including updates to our main WordPress-based tips blog. We are looking for a web designer with experience in:
» Custom WordPress Themes
» Email Newsletter Templates
» Light E-Commerce Design
We need someone who is available for smaller projects.
Ideally, we’d prefer to work with a web designer in the greater Seattle area.
Know someone good? Are you someone good? I’d appreciate the lead.
PS. Email me directly at craig at creativetechs.com or connect with me via LinkedIn. I’ll share more details about our needs one-on-one.
Here is a short video describing how our new workshop/webinars work. A live audience of designers participate from our training room in Seattle. Web attendees participate at the same time through an easy webinar connection. Web participants type questions using the webinar interface — and the instructor answers live, just as he answers anyone in the room attending in person.
Click on the list of Upcoming Workshops a the top of our tips blog, or Suggest A Workshop you’d like to see in the coming months.
