Adobe has announced its Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 Premium tour, a seminar series event for creative professionals, print service providers, and graphic and Web designers. Industry experts will demonstrate how to work with Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 Premium, the award-winning unified design environment that now includes the all-new Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional software and Dreamweaver 8, the industry-leading Web development tool. The tour covers Chicago, Toronto, Irvine, San Francisco, and New York. Attend this free seminar in a city near you and learn from industry experts how to: Read the rest of this entry »

BetterPhoto.com Offers “The Nikon D80 Camera” and “Eye to Eye: Capturing the Face”

BetterPhoto.com, the worldwide leader in online photography education, today announced the addition of two new 4-Week classes to the November course schedule. Like all BetterPhoto courses, these will be taught by published, professional photographers. Photo assignments are personally critiqued by the instructor, giving students immediate feedback on their photographic work. Classes begin November 1st. Read the rest of this entry »

IWA (International Webmasters Association), a professional trade association, is the industry’s recognized leader in providing educational and certification standards for Web professionals. IWA’s initiatives now support more than 100 official chapters representing over 22,000 individual members in 106 countries. IWA’s accomplishments include the industry’s first guidelines for ethical and professional standards, Web certification and education programs, specialized employment resources, and technical assistance to individuals and businesses. They currently offer over 40 online, instructor-led classes and 4 Web certificates in conjunction with HWG (HTML Writer’s Guild). The online courses are for both casual and professional interest in the areas of Web development and eCommerce, and a full lineup of 51 classes is about to begin. For more information go their Website Design Training site now.

New online Flash tutorial for beginners available for only $15 US

Meet the Flash is a new Flash-animated E-book designed to teach Flash beginners how to create a Flash movie. This book, recently released by Andrei (Andrew) Doubrovski, a professional photographic restoration artist and technician who previously released the “As Simple As Photoshop” study at home course for Adobe Photoshop users, created a simple and easy-to-use format. Doubrovski also is an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) in Photoshop CS.

Meet The Flash helps to speed up the learning process, as each lesson is packed with a movie clip that shows some practical usage of the lesson. The tutorials cover the program essentials used to create still graphics, animations, and text. Also, Meet The Flash offers several scripting tutorials that show how to add simple interactivity without actually learning ActionScript language. Read the rest of this entry »

lynda.com Announces Release of After Effects 7 and Flash 8 Integration 2.5 hours of training in top motion graphics applications…

lynda.com, the company that specializes in self-paced career and computer training in digital media and design, today introduced After Effects 7 and Flash 8 Integration. This video training course demonstrates how to combine professional motion graphics from Adobe After Effects 7 with interactive applications created in Adobe Flash 8. From discussing the differences between Flash and After Effects to showing how to seamlessly import and export vector animations from each application, instructor Lee Brimelow explains everything involved in using the two applications in unison. The tutorial covers working with third party plug-ins, exporting QuickTime from Flash, using the Audio Spectrum and Audio Waveform effects, and creating special effects in After Effects for use in Flash. Exercise files accompany the tutorial. Read the rest of this entry »

lynda.com, the company that specializes in self-paced career and computer training in digital media and design, today introduced Font Management…

October 16, 2006 — With literally thousands of fonts now available for download, it’s no wonder that nearly every designer needs a system for managing them. In “Font Management,” Ted LoCascio discusses various font types, where to download both free and for-purchase fonts online, and how to manually manage fonts on both the Mac and Windows platforms. He also profiles a number of third-party font management applications, including Suitcase, FontAgent Pro, Font Book, Font Reserve, and Linotype FontExplorer, and explains how to handle fonts for print output and electronic distribution. Read the rest of this entry »

The Youth Pride Center (YPC) has announced the grand opening of YPC Entertainment, a state-of-the-art multimedia and recording studio for Chicago’s LGBT youth under the age of 23. In conjunction with After School Matters and Benchmark Studio, the studio, 345 N. Loomis provides the many free services/classes ( in such subjects as photography, music recording/production and typography ) to LGBT youth every Thursday, beginning Oct. 5, 4-6:30 p.m. Youth are encouraged to sign up at the YPC, 637 S. Dearborn, to get free memberships. Memberships are required to get free studio time, however is not required to take classes and trainings.

The Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD) Chicago Chapter is offering a full-day event on Monday, 30 October 2006, to help designers think about the global impact of their work and to explore the possibility of changing the world. They invite you to look at the world through the eyes of designers from different disciplines whose work affects the masses. Then re-evaluate your own design process and methodology by looking at design through the eyes of those masses. Speakers include Bruce Mau, Elva Rubio, and Fred Dust. Visit the SEGD Website for more information.