Total
Training's Creating Web Graphics with Adobe Photoshop 6
Software
training for Adobe Photoshop
by
David Nagel
Executive
Producer
dnagel@digitalmedianet.com
Regular
readers of Digital Media Designer should be pretty familiar
by now with the work of Total Training. They supply us with
the bulk of our QuickTime-based video tutorials, which always
prove popular with our readers and are always loaded with handy
tidbits that you're not going to find in your manuals.
The hosts
of Total Training's educational pieces are some of the most
respected professionals in their fields, including Deke McClelland,
author of several standards on Photoshop, and Brian Maffitt,
recognized expert in all things editing and compositing. More
than these, they're also solid educators. When they share their
expertise with us, they're not just running down a list of topics
to cover; they're showing you how, in their careers, they've
solved the same problems you face when working with creative
software.
Of course,
watching snippets of these training pieces on our sites gives
you only a slight hint at what the Total Training experience
offers. The series for Photoshop 6, for example, comprises 18
hours of lessons spanning 12 VHS tapes. But if you're anything
like me, VHS is a bit of an inconvenience, particularly for
training pieces, which you need to pause and rewind often to
be able to follow along. Plus there's the problem of locating
a particular segment you want to view that might be somewhere
in the middle of the tape. While Total Training does provide
an index of the segments, you still have to fast forward to
get there, which takes time.
Well, of
course, Total Training realizes that some people prefer to watch
in a digital medium, so they're coming out with their series
on DVD as well. Their first DVD release is called Creating
Web Graphics with Adobe Photoshop 6. This is a completely
original piece that had not been previously published in VHS
form. It spans seven hours focused solely on creating and optimizing
graphics in Photoshop for the Web. It includes two DVDs and
one CD-ROM that contains the source material used in the tutorials,
so users can follow along.
Host Deke
McClelland walks you through the processes of creating,
editing and compressing graphics for the Web. Here Deke shows
the Save for Web feature of Adobe Photoshop 6.
