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Live Webinar – Improving the Design of Your Newspaper to Increase Readership & Revenue

70 Minutes! Bring two pens!

$99   $79

One of the consistent themes in the post-pandemic newspaper is improving design. Community newspapers are bucking the trend of metro papers and investing in growing readership, which in turn grows advertising revenue. A key element of growing readership is making the design of your paper more reader-friendly, drawing the reader rather than turning the reader away.

One of Kevin’s most requested services is improving the design and/or redesigning community newspapers. Join Kevin for this 70-minute session to learn ways to make your newspaper much more inviting to potential readers and advertisers.

In this session, Kevin will cover these topics and more:

  • New design styles vs. Old design styles
  • Clean is in! Creating cleaner pages
  • Using up-to-date fonts. Getting rid of outdated fonts
  • Creating styles for your new design
  • Photo and story placement on the page
  • Elements that carry from page to page
  • Proper (and improper) use of color on pages
  • AND MUCH MORE!

Bring two pens. You’ll need them!

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Live Webinar – Adobe InDesign: From ZERO to HERO!

90-minute Class for Everybody on September 26

If you can’t make it to the live session, register and a recording will be sent to you afterward.

$109   $89      90 Minutes

This is the class you’ve been waiting for! For new hires or for anyone who never got to attend a basic InDesign class and would like to learn so many tools that they’ve missed while learning it on their own.

In this fast-paced session, Kevin will take attendees through the very basics to advanced skills. Even beginners will walk away from this class an InDesign hero!

Kevin will cover more than can be listed in this area, but just a few of his topics will include:

  • Learning to use Multiple Methods of Creating and Placing Text
  • Taking control of the text before it even goes on the page
  • Tools to make designing ads and pages go faster
  • Working with Images and Shapes
  • Creating and using different types of styles (character, paragraph, object)
  • Placing and Editing Objects and Photos in InDesign
  • Creating and placing tables from Excel and other applications
  • Using and Creating Colors, Gradients and more
  • Using Scripts in InDesign
  • Using the Panels (Palettes) and Tools in the InDesign Toolbar
  • Creating PDF Files that Print well on Newsprint
  • Using the latest tools available in InDesign
  • AND MUCH MORE!

Bring two pens. You’ll need them!

 

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WEBINAR: Advanced InDesign for Designers and Editors – Scripts, Data Merge & Tables

Thursday, July 25

$89   $69      70 Minutes

If you can’t make it on July 25, go ahead and register. We’ll be glad to send a recording of the session to you.

There’s no better time to improve the InDesign skills of you and your staff. During this 60-minute session, Kevin Slimp – who has been teaching InDesign since it was first released – will be teaching skills to increase the speed of your productivity and quality of your design. A few of his topics include:
– Using InDesign scripts to speed your productivity
– Using scripts from other vendors in InDesign
– Creating tables
– Placing & formatting tables from various formats sent by others to you
– Using InDesign’s powerful Data Merge capabilities to import and merge data from Excel, Word and other database files
– and much more!
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from the guru himself … Come inside from the summer heat and enjoy 70 minutes of intense training with the Guru himself!

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Live Webinar – Mastering InDesign Tools, Including the Newest Tools in InDesign
70 minutes  •  $89 $69
Register today and save $20!
Kevin Slimp worked with the team at Adobe during the development of InDesign in the mid and late 1990s and was one of the first to teach the application immediately after it was released to the public. His first class was for a group of 99 newspaper designers in Phoenix, Arizona.
One thing that still surprises Kevin is that he still learns something new almost every day while using the popular application. In this session, Kevin plans to share insights into using many of InDesign tools that most users never learn to use, or have simply forgotten about. A few of many tools Kevin will discuss include:
  • Anchored Object Options
  • Text Frame Options
  • Various methods of creating clipping paths (cutouts)
  • Using Object Styles in place of Paragraph Styles (it’s true!)
  • Preflight Tool
  • Creating a Workspace
  • The correct way to setup Bulleted and Numbered Lists
  • The secret power of Find & Replace
  • Creating Print Presets
  • Newest Tools in InDesign 2024 and InDesign 2023 (There are several of them, and you’ll use them)
And much more! Learning to use these tool will save hours in your production workflow, and improve the quality of your layout at the same time. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from the guru himself, Kevin Slimp, on March 21. Bring two pens!
There’s so much to InDesign that most folks learn on their own and never get a grip on many of the basic tools that make the application so powerful. During this session, Kevin will look at many of the tools (in the toolbars, menus, and other places) that often get overlooked by InDesign users. Many of these tools can mean the difference between hours of work and minutes of work.
This session will be especially useful for veteran or novice InDesign users, with plenty of information to give everyone more InDesign tools for their arsenals.
Bring two pens. You’ll need them!
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Live Webinar – Adobe InDesign: From ZERO to HERO!

2 Hour Class for Everybody on November 30

If you can’t make it to the live session, register and a recording will be sent to you afterward.

$89   2 Hours  •  Wear a seatbelt!

This is the class you’ve been waiting for! For new hires or for anyone who never got to attend a basic InDesign class and would like to learn so many tools that they’ve missed while learning it on their own.

In this fast-paced session, Kevin will take attendees through the very basics to advanced skills. Even beginners will walk away from this class an InDesign hero!

Kevin will cover more than can be listed in this are, but just a few of his topics will include:

Learning to use Multiple Methods of Creating and Placing Text

Taking control of the text before it even goes on the page

  • Working with Images and Shapes
  • Creating and using different types of styles (character, paragraph, object)
  • Placing and Editing Objects and Photos in InDesign
  • Creating and placing tables from Excel and other applications
  • Using and Creating Colors, Gradients and more
  • Using Scripts in InDesign
  • Using the Panels (Palettes) and Tools in the InDesign Toolbar
  • Creating PDF Files that Print well on Newsprint
  • Using the latest tools available in InDesign
  • AND MUCH MORE!

Bring two pens. You’ll need them!

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Learning to use the brand new tools in Photoshop & InDesign!
If you can’t make the live webinar, register anyway. We will send the video to you!
A lot of new tools have been cropping up in Photoshop and InDesign, and you probably don’t know about them. Several of these tools are real time-savers and some even allow you to do things you never imagined in Photoshop. And master Photoshop & InDesign guru Kevin Slimp will be here to teach them to you.
These are just a few of the new Photoshop tools Kevin will discuss:
  • Generative Fill Tool
  • Generative Expand
  • “New” Quick Actions
  • “New” Remove Tool
  • Contextual Task Bar
  • AI Tools
These are just a few of the new InDesign tools Kevin will discuss:
  • Share and Review Documents
  • Extract from Image
  • Finding Similar Fonts within Image
  • Extracting Colors from Image
  • User Interface Scaling
and much more!
Don’t miss this chance to increase your productivity and learn several new features you will make a part of your regular toolkit.

 

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Advanced Photoshop & InDesign: A Powerful Combination

Designers, Editors and Publishers     September 15

If you can’t make it to the live event, go ahead and register. We’ll be glad to send you a recording of the session afterward.

60 Minutes  •  $69

Kevin Slimp taught his first Photoshop class for the Kentucky Press Association in 1995. When asked to teach the class, the organizer told Kevin to expect 15 to 20 attendees. When Kevin arrived in Lexington, Kentucky to teach the class, almost 200 newspaper publishers, editors, and designers were in attendance.

Kevin taught his first InDesign class in 1999, just a few days after the application became available. He had been involved in the development of the product as a beta tester for more than two years and taught a class of 98 newspaper designers in a hotel ballroom in Phoenix, Arizona.

In this session, Kevin will share some of the most valuable advanced tools in both InDesign and Photoshop. Unsurprisingly, InDesign and Photoshop were meant to be used together. What surprises some users is that tools are built into the applications to create a seamless workflow between the two.

Join Kevin on September 15 for his first-ever webinar on the topic of finding ways to make Photoshop and InDesign work even better together.

 

 

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2023 Version: Increase Revenue by Designing More Effective Advertising

Editors & Designers     June 22
If you can’t make it to the live event, go ahead and register. We’ll be glad to send a recording of the session to you afterwards.
70 Minutes  •  Bring Two Pens!
You asked for it, and now you have it! One of our most popular webinars in 2022 is updated with new information for 2023 in Kevin Slimp’s Creating More Effective Ads to Increase Ad Revenue. Kevin is back to help your newspaper improve its ad creation and increase revenue.

“I loved this class. Thank you so much!”

“This is really going to help our newspaper! Thank you”

Kevin will cover the things you need to know to “up” your ad creation, meaning more effective ads and happier advertisers. He’ll discuss issues your sales reps should discuss with customers about their ads. Kevin will look into technical and design skills your design staff needs to know.
This session is for both ad reps and designers and there’s plenty of information to keep everyone writing notes nonstop.

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Take a Staff Retreat with Kevin Slimp!
Order now. Watch at your staff’s convenience.

4 Classes. 4.5 hours of training for your staff!

In all, these videos include 4.5 hours of training for everyone on your staff.

Topics include:
  • Designing (and redesigning) better pages
  • Creating more effective ads to improve results and increase ad revenue
  • Writing better headlines and stories to increase readership
  • Advanced InDesign, including information Kevin has never taught before in his hundreds of InDesign classes

Don’t miss this chance to spend the day with the News Guru, Kevin Slimp. Your entire staff will benefit, and you will start seeing improvements and growth immediately.

You will receive links to these classes, so your staff can watch them at their convenience, or schedule a daylong office retreat with classes, lunch, breaks and brainstorming among your staff. It’s like having Kevin with you for the day!

Schedule a day of training for your staff. Here’s an example:
  • 9:00   Breakfast
  • 9:30   Designing Better Pages
  • 11:00  Creating More Effective Ads
  • 12:00  Lunch
  • 1:00    Writing Better Headlines & Stories
  • 2:30   Advanced InDesign
  • 4:00   Staff Brainstorming

After payment, please allow 24 hours to receive your video links from kevin@kevinslimp.com.

 

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Live Webinar – 90 Minutes of Affinity Training! Page & Ad Layout in Affinity Publisher (The Basics)

Everyone     February 17

$99

$69!

If you can’t make it to the live event, go ahead and register, and we’ll make sure you receive a link to a recording of the class.

The Affinity Suite of Design applications has really made headlines over the past few months. Hundreds of folks attended Kevin’s webinars earlier this year to familiarize publishers, editors and designers with Affinity Publisher.

Whether you’re already using the Affinity Suite, or are brand new to the application suite, this webinar is for you. Kevin will spend 90 minutes covering the basics of Affinity Publisher, as well as giving brief overviews of Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer. For those who don’t know:

  • Publisher is very similar to Adobe InDesign

  • Photo is similar to Adobe Photoshop

  • Designer is similar to Adobe Illustrator

If you’ve been looking for training to kickstart yourself or your staff and get going with Affinity Publisher, don’t miss this opportunity.

After this live event, you and your staff will be ready to begin designing ads and pages in the Affinity Suite.

Attendees will receive a detailed outline to go along with the class.