CreativeTechs Tips

This is it folks! Jason Hoppe’s worldwide 10-Week Photoshop Course is complete. It has been a blast. We’ve really enjoyed meeting so many of you over the last many weeks together.

We have full downloadable recordings of the live course available for purchase. Which is great if you missed any of the weeks along the way. We’re going to keep the discounted $65 offer going for two more weeks:

Purchase: Special: Online Bundle of all 10-Weeks ($65 Special)

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 Wk 9 – Color Correction Pt1 ($15)
Purchase: Photoshop Wk 10 – Color Correction Pt2 ($15)
Purchase: Photoshop Bonus – Color Management Theory ($15)

Note: These bundles are for online access to the videos and PDFs (which you can also download to your personal computer for long-term access).

Includes Retouch Tuesday Recordings: We’ll be include in recordings of the next three Retouch Tuesday sessions in the full online purchase (sorry, we don’t have a good recording of our first Retouch Tuesday, but more great ones are coming!).

I’m starting work on a physical DVD set. We hope to have that available by the end of April. It looks like that is going to take more work than I originally anticipated. Once that DVD set is done, we’ll offer it at our cost to anyone who has already purchased the downloads. So anyone buying the downloads today still gets a better deal.

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.

Every image is different. Once you learn retouching fundamentals, there is still so much more to learn. Thus, we bring you Retouch Tuesday. We’re asking you to send in your real-life photos. We’ll pick a couple retouching challenges, and each Tuesday, we’ll invite a few couple participants from around the world to join Jason for a personalized live retouching session.

GoToWebinar Link: Retouch Tuesday

Send us your photos using Jason’s YouSendIt Dropbox. Include a description of the retouching you need to do on this image. Jason will work one-on-one with a couple lucky participants, while the rest of us get to watch and learn from the examples. This is an experiment, so let us know what you think.

To attend, make sure you are enrolled in our current 10-Week Photoshop Course. We’ll include a webinar link in the weekly email notifications we send to that list.

Enroll: Free 10-Week Photoshop Course

We’re scheduling these sessions 4 hours later in the day than our normal class time. Participants in Australia should be particularly happy about not having to wake up quite so early. Read on for scheduling times

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This is a full recording of a one-hour personalized retouching session between trainer Jason Hoppe and photographer Gary Gross of Dog Photography of New York. Gary kindly gave us permission to use this recording as an example of how our private 1-on-1 training works.

Jason is available for private 1-on-1 Photoshop training to anyone around the world. You bring your own photos, and spend an hour with Jason working on your specific challenges. Contact us for details, or to schedule a private session.

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The seventh week of our 10-week Photoshop course is the last class on fundamentals before Jason digs into the deeper topics of photo retouching and color correction. This class on brushes was a surprisingly fun workshop! Who knew there was so much ground to cover?

The live webinars are open to everyone worldwide (up to our 1,000 limit). And we sell the downloads afterwards for a small fee:

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.

The sixth week of our 10-week Photoshop course brings us two new downloads: Jason Hoppe’s class on drawing with the Adobe pen tool; And Steve Laskevitch’s talk on color management theory.

The live webinars are open to everyone worldwide (up to our 1,000 limit). And we sell the downloads afterwards for a small fee:

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.

Thank you to everyone who has joined us so far during our worldwide training experiment. Jason and I are having a blast with our 10-Week Photoshop Course. I’ve got a couple important conversations coming up in the next two weeks that may allow us to expand our ability to offer courses like this in the future!

I need a long, long, list of positive comments that I can show when attracting new instructors (think Flash!), talking with stock agencies about sponsorship, and trying to grow past our current 1,000-participant limit.

I think we are onto something very special here. But how do I describe this experience to someone who may have preconceived ideas about what online webinars are like? How is our approach different from the myriad of other training options already available for Adobe products?

I’m looking for your help. I need both quantity and quality of comments. Even if you’ve emailed me before, or commented on previous posts, please repeat those thoughts here.

Help us make a strong, bold case for more free courses!

The fifth week of our 10-week Photoshop course focused on the magic of Layer Masks. This is an important topic that we’ll be using a lot in our two color correction classes coming up in several weeks.

The live webinars are open to everyone worldwide (up to our 1,000 limit). And we sell the downloads afterwards for a small fee:

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.

The fourth week of our 10-week Photoshop course hit a few audio bumps during the live webcast. Happily, with the magic of video editing those few glitches have been removed from the recordings, and all is right with the world. This week focused on advanced selections, digging into Photoshop’s QuickMask mode, channels, another touch on the pen tool, and a quick look at the extract filter and the background eraser tool.

The live webinars are open to everyone worldwide (up to our 1,000 limit). And we sell the downloads afterwards for a small fee:

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 April 1st, we’ve enticed our friend and expert trainer Steve Laskevitch, founder of Luminous Works Training Center in Seattle, to lead a free, worldwide, 90-minute workshop on color management in Adobe Creative Suite (CS3 and CS4).

Sign-up: Free Color Management Course

This is not an April fools joke. At CreativeTechs, we’ve been experimenting with a free-training business model that lets us offer valuable education to a worldwide audience. If we can continue to attract large international audiences, we can attract some remarkable experts for you over the coming year.

But we need your help! We need 1,000 people signed-up to participate in order to make this special color-management workshop happen, so help spread the word.

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Here is a short tutorial showing how class participants can receive Jason Hoppe’s 10-Week Photoshop Course as a special iTunes podcast. This special iTunes podcast is available to participants who pre-purchase the full 10-week downloads for this course (which you can do below).

Pre-purchase all 10-Weeks ($50)