I had the pleasure of attending a one-day seminar for Adobe CS3 today. It had it's ups and downs, but was still pretty sweet. There were two sessions you could attend, a print or web session. I went to the web session but probably should have gone to some of the print sessions. The Dreamweaver session taught me absolutely nothing, but I must say it was a pretty good one hour intro to the program. Then I attended the Flash session which was pretty good, it was rather basic so I kinda knew most of the stuff being covered but it's still such a complex program I'll take all the help I can get.The third session covered Fireworks. This is the program that essentially replaced Image Ready when Adobe bought Macromedia. They showed us how to create a site starting in Photoshop, then moving it into Fireworks. I guess it's an alright method for doing a small simple site, but still gives some sloppy code. I think I'll stick to CSS.
The Photoshop session was probably my favorite. Our "teacher" was also a photographer, and a Nikon user at that, so he showed some pretty nice photography tricks. Really nothing I didn't already know, just really simple, slick ways to do it. One of the coolest things he showed us was how to take a 4x6 image and blow it up to a 30x45 (well at least that's as far as I got before I exhausted all the RAM on my MacBook Pro and the hard drive had to kick in) without distorting the image or losing any detail.
All in all, I feel like I know a lot more about the entire sweet and how it all works together, but still have a long way to go before becoming an ACE. It's back to the grind tomorrow...
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