LVS Online Adobe Illustrator Classes

Breaking News !! H-e-double hockey sticks has frozen over and I have written some new Illustrator material. I know the crowd does cheer and golf claps do raise to the low double digits but I guess the best way to do this is as good news / bad news.

So Good news

• I have written new Illustrator CS4 material and I will be starting a new CS4 class
• The NEW Intro to CS4 Class is ready to role and Registration is open now and Classes start on 10/28.
• the CS3 class will still be available to people that have not or don’t plan to upgrade to the CS4 version.

The bad news is that

• a number of the things that where going to into an advanced Illustrator class have been pulled out and combined with the current CS3 class to make a new Intro to CS4.
• So this means that the Advanced Illustrator class is still not done and is even less done now.
• While the CS3 class is still available it is moving into the Self Study area of LVS. This means that while the cost of the class has gone down. I don’t provided any help or witty, insightful commentary to the work. Its all up to you as the buyer to do the work then tell yourself what you did wrong.

For those that are wondering what has become of the advanced class in Illustrator. Well there is some of it done but then yours truly has had the oportunity to help out Bean Fairbanks, another teacher here at LVS Online; with running her Intro to Dreamweaver class and I’m helping out in the Advanced Dreamweaver class.

For those still interested, how would feel about a more video based class? A new function of the new version of Acrobat reader is that you can watch video clips that are embedded in the document. Quite similar to watching a video that you would find here on this site.

I have also been working on getting up to speed with the Illustrator CS4. As a quick review for people that might be curious about CS4. Let me point out that at first it sorta looks like a lesser upgrade then CS3 was to CS2 but it has a number of changes and while few the changes cause a ripple effect though out the program. Does this make it a new and different kind of application? the answer would be not really. If you are familiar with the CS3 program then you are still on pretty firm ground with CS4 but there are a number of bumps or potholes if you will in the road that can cause problems. So if you have taken my CS3 class, I can’t really say that you need to take CS4 but I do talk about new things like The Blob Tool and the big new thing Multiple Art Boards. If you haven’t taken my CS3 class. What is wrong with you? Do you not like America?