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CreativeTechs QuickTips #206

Week of June 30, 2008

Creative Tips: 101 Photoshop Tips in Five Minutes!

As we head towards America's July 4th holiday weekend, I was looking for something fun to lighten things up. Ah, yes. This should do nicely. Here is a five minute music video with the inimitable Deke McClelland singing (rapping? chanting?) out 101 Photoshop Tips in just over five minutes.

Enjoy yourself.

Full Tip: 101 Photoshop Tips in Five Minutes.

Source: It's been over two years since Deke released his first/last dekePod episode: How to use scanned money in Adobe Photoshop. Deke is promising new bi-weekly episodes of dekePod on his new dekeOnline blog. Here is to hoping it won't be another two years before the next episode.

Xtra Tip: Veer's Summer Activity Books for Creatives.

Each summer around this time, Veer publishes their annual Summer Activity Book for Creatives. Each workbook is 100 pages of full-color brain-teasing fun. Spend glorious summer hours playing designer-specific games, puzzles, and more.

PDFs of the last four editions:

Veer Activity Book 2007

Veer Activity Book 2006

Veer Activity Book 2005

Veer Activity Book 2004

Enjoy the upcoming extended weekend. See you next week!

Source: The July 2008 edition hasn't been released yet. Check in on Veer's terrific blog The Skinny for details on the newest summer activity book when it becomes available.

Seattle Training: Upcoming Font & Marketing Workshops.

Font Management in Mac OS X is one of our longest-running and most popular workshops. Fonts are such an important and perpetual issue for graphic designers that we are now running this workshop on the first Tuesday of every month. If you are a Seattle-area graphic designer struggling with getting control of your fonts, come join us Tuesday mornings or afternoons.

Tuesday, July 1 - Font Management in Mac OS X.
Tuesday, August 5 - Font Management in Mac OS X.
Tuesday, September 2 - Font Management in Mac OS X.

Secondly, our 3-part series on online marketing strategies has been getting rave reviews. In July we'll be finishing up with a terrific workshop on blogging techniques and strategies. If you missed the first two parts of the series, we're rerunning those in August and September.

Wednesday, July 30 - Blog Your Studio.
Wednesday, August 27 - Marketing with HTML Email Newsletters.
Wednesday, September 24 - Google for Graphic Designers .

You'll find our updated list of workshops by visiting creativetechs.com/miniworkshops

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