If you can’t make it to the live session, register and a recording will be sent to you afterwards.
$99 $79 3:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Central / 1:00 Mountain / 12:00 Pacific
Finally understand how color works and use the knowledge to greatly improve your photos!
Kevin Slimp has taught designers and photographers the ins and outs of Photoshop for more than 30 years. However, unless you’re fortunate enough to attend an all-day class, you’ve probably never taken a “deep dive” into understanding how all those color settings work and what they mean. During this session, Kevin will take his time and explain exactly what many of the settings and tools in Photoshop do and you will learn how to tweak settings to get the very best results on your printed page and website.
Yes, Kevin will take a few minutes to take you through the best steps to edit your photos … but he will go through those quickly. He will save the bulk of his time to showing exactly HOW they work and what all those settings mean.
Once you understand the capabilities of tools and settings like dot gain, color settings, mixing colors, the specifics of CMYK, color management, color profiles, sampler tools, and so much more.
This is the first intense color class Kevin has taught in years – and his first online. This is the type of class newspaper professionals used to travel to Knoxville, Tennessee (and spend thousands of dollars) to attend the Newspaper Institute, which Kevin directed for 20 years. A detailed outline will be provided.
Do not miss this opportunity. Start off 2026 with a bang by getting inside your color settings and making those photos pop off the page!
Bring two pens. You’ll need them.
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!
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!
70 Minutes! Bring two pens!
$89 $69
One of the consistent themes in the post-pandemic (we hope it’s almost “post) 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.
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!
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!
75 Minutes $69
A 75-minute class that can make a huge difference in the way readers look at your paper
One of the consistent themes in the post-pandemic (we hope it’s almost “post) 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.
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! 
