We love cheatsheets. Those handy quick-reference guides that keep all sorts of vital information right at your fingertips.
In fact, we’re dedicating one issue each month to provide a growing collection of creative and technical cheatsheets.
Photoshop Lasso Cheatsheet.pdf
This month’s creative cheatsheet covers the Photoshop Lasso tool. We’ve distilled the basic functions of this widely used tool into a concise format that fits on a standard 3×5 index card.
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:
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.
We’re taking a break from our regular technical tips this long weekend. Longtime readers of this newsletter know we like to collect papercraft PDF projects. If you find yourself looking for a creative project this summer, download these plans for a working 35mm paper camera.
dirkon_en.pdf
For everyone busily installing their new copies of Adobe CS3, we have a quick recommendation about Version Cue: Don’t install it.
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.
