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The Adobe Photoshop Seminar Tour
A couple weeks ago, I attended a session of the The Adobe Photoshop Seminar Tour (Tour 3) at the Javits Center. The content was well worth the hundred bucks and train fare into NYC. A couple of the tips even earned a round of applause from an otherwise quiet crowd. The workbook documents 99% of tips the moderator (Scott Kelby - Editor-in-chief of Photoshop User) demonstrated and he went out of his way to tell us when to write something down because it wasn't in the book. We got there late and our seats weren't great but we were still able to see everything Kelby did on one of the two projection screens they had set up on either side of the screen. Kelby's performance was energetic despite a bad cold and he made himself very available during the breaks for questions not covered in the seminar proper.
I only had two problems with the event. (1) They spent way too much time shilling Photoshop 7. I mean, come on, they're preaching to the choir here. I do have to say most of the material covered applied to both 6 and 7. (2) They make a big deal on the website about their "now famous Photoshop Goodies CD-ROM" that was supposed to be "packed with images used in the seminar, plus the coolest Photoshop actions and latest plug-ins". All I found on the disk were the images used in the seminar, some Quicktime movies of the tips we saw at the seminar and some software demos. I couldn't find a single action or plug-in or anything else of real use on the disk. Pretty lame.
These issues were relatively minor and in general it was well worth every penny of tuition and every minute spent out of the office.