As a service for Seattle-area creative teams, we are offering a complimentary strategy session with Creativetechs’ lead consultant Craig Swanson. Take this opportunity to map out your creative team’s upgrade strategy for this complex series of upgrades.

Update: All the free sessions have been snatched up. If you missed out, drop us an email us at at training@creativetechs.com. If there is enough interest, we might add a couple more days to Jason’s schedule.

In February, Creativetechs welcomed Jason Hoppe into our growing support team. Jason provides high end production training, photo retouching, color correction, and other creative workflow management consulting.

Many of our clients aren’t yet used to calling Creativetechs when they need software training or production support. So to kick things off, we’re offering free training sessions for our Seattle-area membership clients:

Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign QuarkXPress

Adobe Acrobat Studio Color Management E-Pro Workflow (General) E-Pro for Microsoft Vendors

We’ve set aside 4 days through April, and have 16 11 7 5 4 only 2 no more open slots (sorry). We’ll come out to your office. You pick the 1-hour session of your choice. This offer is open for all current Creativetechs member clients.

Not a Creativetechs member client? You can still qualify for a free session — but there is a catch. Read on for full details.

Please excuse this short diversion from our normal weekly tip schedule. For those of us in the marketing and design community, many cartoons in this Brand Camp collection ring eerily true.

Creativetechs would like to welcome the newest member of our growing support team: Jason Hoppe.

This is just fun. Enter your own details and this little app builds an animated opening sequence, including animated logos for your own film company, distributor, and the characteristic crawling yellow text that opens each Star Wars episode. https://alienryderflex.com/crawl/ Warning: The current version of this application generates over 2,000 individual BMP files that need to […]

As part of a special week of font tips I’d like to mention an upcoming feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. Titled simply: Helvetica. Helvetica will begin screening at film festivals worldwide in early 2007, followed by limited cinema screenings and a DVD release. For now you can watch four […]

At Creativetechs one of our highest priorities is developing and maintaining safe, stable backup systems for creative teams.

As a service for Seattle-area creative teams, we are offering a complimentary 1-hour personalized backup strategy session with Creativetechs’ lead consultant Craig Swanson.

We’ve set aside 4 days in January, and have 16 9 open slots. If you manage a creative team, we encourage you to call and schedule a session. We’ll make sure it is a valuable use of your time.

Here is an inexpensive turntable that lets you easily record your old vinyl record collection to CD or MP3. The turntable comes bundled with Audacity, a recording application that works with both PCs and Macs. Although the turntable can work with any software that supports USB audio input (such as Apple’s GarageBand). Link: Ion iTTUSB […]