Time and Money

[Richard Harrington]

which industry

[Jeff Kelley]

Sorry. That would help!

Were in Graphic design. We make Educational toys. We do everything from design the toys to packaging and instructions to catalogs.

Thanks very much!

[Richard Harrington]

I would strongly suggest contacting Jeff Rothberg at the Future Media Concepts office in New York. They do customized training onsite and have a money back guarantee.

The features you guys want are tough…. and knowing how to use them saves a ton of time

It’s like these… you can buy a caveman power tools… but if you don’t teach him how to use them…

I have done training for major companies… all of the “big” ones seem to get it. Why by a tool if you won’t show folks how to use it.

FMC can make the pitch and set up a custom program that matches their needs.

[Jeff Kelley]

Thanks but that’s not exactly what I’m looking for. Most of the folks I work with know CS pretty well. We upgraded to CS3 and we would like to get training on it since there are a lot of new features in Photoshop since CS. Personally I study PS on my own and am learning CS3 on my own but we have 14 others who could use trainin.

We have a great training place by us (Chicago) so that’s not a problem.

The problem is, we have to justify it. Not just way we want to learn it but how training will benifit the company.

I can say, Smart Objects are something we should know, but the money people will ask, yes, but what are the benifits to us? The art department seems to be getting along jst fine right now, why should we train? Remember, these guys can barely work their PDA, let alone understand photoshop.

So bottom line, if you know of a way for me to explain to my bosses how CS3 training could have them money, I could use it.

[Adolf Witzeling]

Hi ,
If you don’t mind, let me throw in my 2 cents worth.
If money does play a role, there’s some very reasonable training online available, that your whole art department certainly would benefit from.

I’m not sure if I can name any sites on this forum, but I have my design department signed up with a site, that costs $25 per month to watch step by step tutorials and training for pretty much any programm out there. You can also sign up for a year and you will also get all the files used in the training. The site is named after a lady, who foundet the site….dubbleudubbleudubbleudotLYNDAdotc.m ( you get the idea).

Invite your administartors to one of the sessions and they will see for themself, how many new features in CS3 will give your graphics a new fresh look in less time, than if you would keep working in CS.

Just one feature I want to mention is the 3d capability of Photoshop, where you can import 3d models and keep working in “3d” in PS.
It will give your graphics a fresh new look…..bring the 2-dimensional print design to a new
level..from blah to wow.

Oh, and the above site is not the only one out there, there are many excellent sites that provide training for very little money.

Your designers even could study at home , after work, when they have time, and then come to work and use their new learned “tricks”
take care and good luck convincing those burocrats that design ALWAYS should be a progressive medium.

Adi

[Mike Velte]

Dont know why we are pussyfootin’ around lyndadotcom. I find it an invaluable asset. Deke Mclelland does a bunch of the tuts and they are as entertaining as informative.
He has 1.5 hours on the new features of CS3.

[Richard Harrington]

There is a free podcast series on iTunes called Photoshop CS3 Sneak Peak

1.5 hours.. its free