Photoshop "seminar" through Kelby Training Live

[pyonir]

Has anyone ever been to one of these before? I was given a ticket to the one here in Minneapolis as an early birthday present. I'm not a photoshop pro or anything...but I'm not a noob either. Just curious what to expect I guess...

http://kelbytraininglive.com/photoshop-down-dirty-tricks

From the site:

Three of the best graphic designers on the planet, Scott Kelby, Corey Barker and Dave Cross have joined forces to bring back one of the most successful seminar tours in history. They have created an amazing new tour packed full of the hottest, most-requested, eye-popping, jaw-dropping Photoshop effects, that look hard, but are easy (once you know the secrets). You’ll learn the very latest Photoshop tips, tricks, and advanced techniques that give you the design skills to stand-out in a competitive market, and take your photography and Photoshop creativity to a whole new level!

These five amazing classes reflect the latest trends in Photoshop special effects, photographic effects, and design tricks. But this isn’t a bunch of “bouncing text” and “exploding planet” type tutorials you find on the web; these are nothing but today’s real world techniques-the same ones used by leading photographers, designers, and special effect masters, and it’s all here in the only live workshop of its kind.

 

[troytime]

my wife is a napp member, and she's a big fan of kelby training.
she's DAMN good at photoshop - better than I am, and I'm pretty good at it myself.
I've seen some of the kelby training online and it seemed very worthwhile.

I think i'll register for the kelby live training in milwaukee - thanks for the heads up!

 

[pyonir]

I do have one of Kelby's books...and it's been very useful. The first class is something I've already learned from that book...lol. Hopefully there will be something useful in seeing it done there though.

If anything, I'll update the thread once I go (next Friday) and let you know how it went troytime.

 

[pyonir]

It was pretty good today. It's definitely geared more towards graphic artists and graphic design for web use more than for photographers. There really isn't much to do with photography at all unless you do product photography.

If anyone has any specific questions about it, I'll fill in what I can.

troytime: I'd advise you to bring your credit card...they have a couple vendors there but also most of Kelby's books and training videos/instructional DVDs for sale. If your wife goes or you want to become a NAPP member, you get some free stuff as well...at least they gave away a lot at this one if you did it. They were giving you two free DVDs and a free book of your choice if you signed up/renewed for a year. 3 DVDs if you renewed for two years.

 

[foghorn67]

It was pretty good today. It's definitely geared more towards graphic artists and graphic design for web use more than for photographers. There really isn't much to do with photography at all unless you do product photography.

If anyone has any specific questions about it, I'll fill in what I can.

troytime: I'd advise you to bring your credit card...they have a couple vendors there but also most of Kelby's books and training videos/instructional DVDs for sale. If your wife goes or you want to become a NAPP member, you get some free stuff as well...at least they gave away a lot at this one if you did it. They were giving you two free DVDs and a free book of your choice if you signed up/renewed for a year. 3 DVDs if you renewed for two years.

You confirmed my thoughts on this seminar. Thought it was like the Dirty Tricks book, which is more graphics design than photography. Would love to go to a 7 points system Kelby Seminar.

 

[pyonir]

Hopefully they bring one of their photography related tours to Minneapolis sometime this year. Nothing planned yet.

They put on their brochure for the Dirty Tricks tour that it would be good for photographers...they probably should have left that off of there. Everything else they listed fit. lol

Oh, and I'm glad I was already a Photoshop user and was familiar with it. If you didn't know much about the program it would have been extremely hard to follow (probably should be obvious).

 

[sswingle]

Just did the Photoshop CS4 Maximum Tour today, and it was very much worth going. Learned a lot of new things. It is geared more towards photography as well. Hardly touched on graphic design.