Feb. 1, 2010
Join Adobe in a dynamic live presentation to REFRESH your understanding of the most recent initiatives in the areas of content creation, collaboration and distribution.
The Adobe team will showcase the recent announcements including the iPhone developments using the upcoming Flash Professional CS5 as well as showing you how you can build applications faster with Flash Catalyst, LiveCycle Mosaic ES2 and much more. You will also hear Adobe’s most recent announcements from Max 09 and be shown the latest software tools available from Adobe.
Perth - 11th February (full no more registrations being accepted)
Brisbane - 16th February
Auckland - 18th February
Sydney - 23rd February
Melbourne - 25th February
To register for Auckland https://events.adobe.co.uk/cgi-bin/event.cgi?eventid=9153&country=pa
To register for Brisbane, Melbourne or Sydney https://events.adobe.co.uk/cgi-bin/event.cgi?eventid=9155&country=pa
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Sep. 23, 2009
If you’re interested in starting your own blog check out my new Wordpress Unleashed training title…
I’m excited to announce the launch of my new title at infiniteskills.com. If you’re looking for a thorough training resource on Wordpress, this is it.
The WordPress Unleashed video course from Infinite Skills offers an innovative and easy guide for beginning bloggers.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 23, 2009 - A new training series designed to help WordPress newcomers launch and maintain their own blogs is available from Infinite Skills, a quality provider of e-learning and interactive media. With over four hours of hands-on guidance, the course covers a wide spectrum of common questions and useful techniques, with longtime instructor Neil Oliver providing helpful narration every step of the way. The innovative teaching format makes use of video screenshots of the WordPress dashboard and configuration screens so that learners are guided through the entire creative process.
Now in version 2.8.4, WordPress has been a popular blogging platform and content management system in use for over six years. With each new update to the software, stability improvements and user-friendly enhancements have made their way into the code, and many people are finding that there has never been a better time to start their own blog. While the default WordPress configuration is developed so that users can create basic posts with minimal effort, more complex and interactive sites often require a finer understanding of the way the system works.
The Infinite Skills WordPress training was created to break down the complicated and tedious work of setting up a customized blog into a series of easy steps. After addressing hosting options, the course dives right into the WordPress dashboard to familiarize beginners with the full suite of controls at their disposal and to point out often overlooked or misunderstood settings. Significant time is devoted to posting new content and managing previously published material, and hands-on guidance is provided in uploading multimedia content, managing categories and comments, adding multiple users to a single blog, using widgets and plugins and more.
The Infinite Skills video format is designed to take the best of classroom instruction–thoroughness, clarity and expert quality instruction–and combine it with the affordability and ease of use that digital media can offer. Users are also free to control the speed of the course and the order in which they view lessons in the series. These simple but effective innovations allow a course that is both comprehensive but suited for individualized needs.
The tutorial can be purchased as a hardcopy disc version compatible with both Mac and Windows computers or viewed in its entirety by special subscribers online. More information about the WordPress Unleashed Tutorial Video and Training DVD is available on the product’s web site, including free online samples of several lessons and a point by point list of subjects covered: http://www.infiniteskills.com/training/wordpress-unleashed.html
About Infinite Skills Inc
Harnessing a full library of titles developed by in-house experts and sourced from the best teachers in the world, Infinite Skills strives to become the definitive e-learning destination on the web through superior customer service and educational innovation.
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Sep. 16, 2009
Learn from the best and fight cancer at the same time. Please join us in fighting the fight…
This is your last chance to see CS4 live and in the flesh in 2009. Tips, Tricks and Techniques to help you get more from your software and help the fight against cancer all at the same time. Learn from Industry Experts how to become more proficient and get more from you suite. All of the time, marketing and facilities have been donated for this event.
When: Sept 30th, from 9.00am to 4.00pm
Where: Zenith Centre, Railway St, Chatswood NSW 2067
Agenda
Registration - 8.45am
9.00am – 10.00am - The Fast & The Furious with After Effects, Illustrator and Photoshop -
10.00am – 1.00pm - The Workflow Shoot out - InDesign, Photoshop, Flash & Illustrator 12 workflow techniques to get the best from your CS4
Part 1 10.00am – 11.00am Coffee break Part 2 11.20am - 1.00pm
Lunch break 1.00 - 1.30pm
1.30 - 2.15pm Wired for Sound - Become an audio aficionado with Soundbooth
2.15 - 4.00pm Flash Forward - Leverage the social power of Flash to stretch your brand
Tickets are $100 and are fully tax deductible as donation to the Cancer Council.
For more info click here
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Sep. 10, 2009
If your considering taking an Adobe Certified Expert Exam then you MUST check this out…
I recently came across a great resource for helping anyone prepare for an ACE exam. Checkout http://www.examaids.com/ these guys provide a simulated learning and testing application for each of the leading creative suite apps. This is as close as it get to taking the actual exam and I highly recommend it for anyone considering taking an exam.
Here are the links to the InDesign examaids: MAC: http://www.examaids.com/products/InDesign-CS4-ACE-Exam-Aid-for-Mac-OS.html and PC: http://www.examaids.com/products/InDesign-CS4-ACE-Exam-Aid-for-Windows.html
Posted by Neil Oliver in ACE Exams, News | No Comments
Jul. 27, 2009
Exclusive offer for today’s Adobe eSeminar guests
Thanks for joining me today! As promised here is the link to get 20% of my Photoshop Elements training title http://www.infiniteskills.com/e7.htm
You will be able to watch today’s eSeminar in a week or so at http://adobeeseminars.com.au/ondemand/view/photography
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Jul. 9, 2009
If you’re interested in learning Adobe Photoshop Elements 7, check out my new training title at infiniteskills.com
I’m excited to announce the launch of my new title at infiniteskills.com. If you’re looking for a thorough training guide to Adobe Photoshop Elements 7, this is it. You can check it out here.
Press Release
New Photoshop Elements 7 Tutorial - Training Video on CD
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 10, 2009 - New York, NY - Infinite Skills Inc, a trusted source in cost effective professional software training, has just launched an exciting Photoshop Elements 7 Tutorial Video. Available on CD or via streaming video online, this comprehensive course has been developed to help users who have purchased Elements and want to use the software to its fullest advantage. Beginning with a detailed tour of the main interface and Organizer and covering everything from white balance to whitening teeth, users get a hands-on introduction to this versatile and often misunderstood program.
Because it costs so much less than its more established cousin, Photoshop Elements is often thought of as a watered down version of Adobe Photoshop. That couldn’t be further from the truth. While the first versions of Elements had their limitations, Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 delivers on the promise of offering a repurposed Photoshop focusing on home use. It utilizes many of the same features that make PS the go-to tool for professional designers and photographers, but it makes them easier to use. Users can work with layers, replace colors and create gradients, for example, but they also get the added functionality that comes with Elements’ photo organizing and sharing tools. Your photos weren’t taken to just sit on a hard drive, and Elements gives you easy options for creating your own photobooks, calendars and collages in a series of steps.
Written and led by professional multimedia consultant Neil Oliver, the tutorial shows you how to get professional quality results from your own home with a program that costs a fraction of traditional industry software. There are plenty of manuals on the market that promise to make learning the software quick and easy, but they rely on text descriptions and static screenshots for their examples. These intuitive instructional videos show you how to get your results directly from the Elements interface, with realtime walkthroughs that appear exactly as they do on your own computer.
While the course is built with a beginning, middle and end, it also gives you the freedom to easily skip around and learn at your own pace. Lessons are divided into short, digestible segments based on the subject covered, and that makes it especially easy for more experienced users who just want to learn specific techniques or review. There are several project-oriented lessons that show you practical uses for Elements 7, such as patching together multiple shots for a panorama or optimizing images to be used on the web. With a diverse array of topics covered and an intuitive format, the tutorial video truly has something to offer everyone.
About Infinite Skills Inc
Harnessing a large library of titles developed in-house as well as resources from some of the best teachers in the world, Infinite Skills strives to become the definitive e-learning destination on the web.
Free demo lessons and more information on the Photoshop Elements 7 Tutorial on CD can be found on the infiniteskills.com
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Jul. 3, 2009
Always, always, always backup…
Not sure if you noticed, this site was down for about 4 hours. I started off this morning thinking, it’s about time I posted something on creativementor.com.au. Before I started my post, I noticed a new version of Wordpress was available for upgrade. Thinking nothing of it I clicked the upgrade button, didn’t I…
Turns out that wasn’t the best idea. The upgrade failed, whilst failing it deleted all the files on my database and the database itself. That’s about 18 months of posts gone. You could imagine the type of response…
Well I didn’t react as you might expect. It was more of a deer in the headlights reaction. I got up, went down the road and got a coffee, made a phone call and here we are. All restored.
It wasn’t by my own genius either, lucky my hosting company keeps a backup of the past three weeks.
Sorry for any inconvenience…
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Jun. 16, 2009
As promised…
Thanks for joining me today! Below you will find the links to the working files…
Dynamic SWF after interactivity was applied
PDF document explaining interactivity
You might also want to check out this link for more info on InDesign’s interacitve capabilitites from Adobe Support.
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Jun. 16, 2009
Take your design to the next level with InDesign’s powerful interactive capabilities…
Did you know InDesign can export to Flash and SWF? Did you know you can create interactive documents with movies, sound, buttons, rollovers, hyperlinks, bookmarks, page transitions and much more?
Check out my recent eSeminar on all thing interactive http://pacific.adobe.acrobat.com/p37436991/.
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Posted by Neil Oliver in Interactivity, News | No Comments
Apr. 14, 2009
Well all the hard work is over, I’ve taken all my ACE exams and am happy to report that I passed all three.
I was very impressed by the standard of the exams this time round. The content was relevant to new CS4 features, the questions were clear and made sense, the difficulty level of the questions were high, and the exams were consistant across the board. Overall it made for an exciting challenge.
Adobe has done a great job of improving the exams, we’re a thousand times ahead of the CS3 equivalent. Congratulations to all the people involved.
I don’t like to toot my own horn, though anyone who’s interested in my scores can see the screenshots below.
Im glad it’s over!
