Michael Lekse, WebAssist’s VP of Sales and Marketing, and I took a few days to explore Photoshop World, held last week in Boston. We’ve had a very good response to our first piece of Photoshop-specific training and we were both looking forward to learn more about this community. Photoshop World is a high-class professional-grade show built on the shoulders of the 80,000 strong National Association of Photoshop Professionals organization by Kelby Media. A football theme pervaded the atmosphere and many a touchdown was scored, from the high-energy, informative keynote to the individual, jam-packed sessions.
Much buzz surrounded the new drawing tablet introduced by Wacom, the Intuos 4. When I was writing the Fireworks Bible series, I used a Wacom tablet—which, by comparison, is like saying when I was a toddler, I peeled out on a tricycle. The Intuos 4 is a sleek, high-productivity engine complete with iPod-like touch ring for zooming in and out or resizing brush size or density. You can program the touch ring or any of the other 6 – 8 express keys (the number varies with the size of the tablet) on an application by application basis; the defaults are well-chosen to get you started quickly. If you’re a tablet user, you’ve gotta check this out.
Conferences, for the most part, are about meeting folks with similar interests and exchanging ideas and knowledge. One of the people Michael and I spent some quality time talking with was Raphael Concepcion, better known as RC. RC is an expert in many of the Creative Suite tools and gave a great session for Photoshop user demystifying Dreamweaver. RC is also one of the hosts of Layers TV, which does a really good job of covering the Creative Suite spectrum and definitely worthwhile to tune in.
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