I honestly am excited about the free Photoshop webinar 10 week class being offered by CreativeTechs. The next class is tomorrow. It runs 60 minutes but the Q&A 30 minute time following the webinar is actually productive too. Jason Hoppe (the trainer) is doing a good job. Make sure you sign up for Twitter if you don’t already have an account so you can join in the chatroom live during the course of the seminar. The audience is muted over the live broadcast.
CreativeTechs is pushing the goodies a little further. They have added a bonus class in Color Management, scheduled for April 1. Steve Laskevitch is the trainer. Color Management for the Adobe Creative Suite CS3 and CS4. Laskevitch is Adobe Certified.
on their blog for details.
I’m tired of seeing all these orange images of people all over facebook. It torques up my white balance radar. But those are not the peeps that need to learn this aspect of the biz. If you’re a designer or photographer, you should have the baseline knowledge at your disposal before you decide to tweak the daylights out of those pixels. When your client asks you to match a color that s/he is viewing on their monitor, you should be able to explain. Ditto for the color proof that they spit out of their inkjet. Do you know why an image looks different in Photoshop than your page layout application and how to fix it? How about viewing it in your web browser vs. Photoshop? *^&%^%^0-= hello color profiles! Devices and applications, oh my. Hmmm, I wonder why the Goe System (formerly Pantone) hasn’t shown up in my color palettes? Maybe all the designers decided not to spring for $349 for the new swatches.
Do I know how to color correct? Yes, I do but I’m still going to calibrate my monitor and show up. 
If I take away only one or two tips for the growing number of devices and software that I have, it’s worth it. Time = $.
