Want to get up to speed on the new versions of Adobe CS3? We’ll make it fast and easy for you: Seattle’s School of Visual Concepts (SVC) is hosting a series of half-day, hands-on workshops to help you get up and running quickly.

We know you are busy, so we’ve packed a lot of great stuff into these morning sessions. You’ll learn all the new CS3 features in a rapid, fun, environment. Each workshop is led by Creativetechs’ powerhouse production guru, Jason Hoppe:

• Making the Move to Adobe Photoshop CS3
• Making the Move to Adobe InDesign CS3
• Making the Move to Adobe Illustrator CS3

Each half-day workshop comes with a class binder, a visual guide to help you apply your learning back at the office, and CDs filled with sample files and resources. The cost is $150 per workshop, or $395 for all three.

The focus of these classes is to help graphic designers and production artists get up to speed with the new features in CS3, and get back to work.

This week’s creative tip is inspired by a question on how to create an interactive PDF for showing off before/after examples of Photoshop retouching projects.

The technique itself may apply to a limited number of people, but it is a fun way to introduce some of InDesign’s lesser known interactive features.

This tip includes a quick tutorial on how to build interactive rollovers into your next PDF. The tutorial includes a sample file you can download to try out yourself.

Adobe’s pen tool works pretty much the same across Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Yet, as important as this ubiquitous tool is, many people get confused with how to handle certain tasks, and the differences between the various pen symbols.

Adobe Pen Tool Cheatsheet.pdf

Creativetechs’ resident Adobe Certified Expert, Jason Hoppe, has put together a quick Adobe Pen Tool cheat-sheet to help keep some of the basic techniques straight. Download the PDF, and pass it along to a friend.