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February 2022
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…
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Live Webinar – Kevin Slimp: Writing better stories and headlines Editors, Reporters,Publishers, Designers June 9
60 Minutes Start attracting more readers right away! $79 $59 If you can't make it on June 9, go ahead and register. We'll be glad to send a recording of the session to you. Let's face it. More readers means more eyes. More eyes means more advertisers - and more advertisers means more pages for more stories. It's a crazy cycle! Kevin Slimp is wears a lot of hats in the newspaper world. Over the past couple of…
Find out more »August 2022
Live Webinar – Advanced Photoshop for Newspaper Editors, Photographers and Designers
90 minutes • $99 $69 Register today and save $30! No one knows more about photo editing and color correction for newspapers than Kevin Slimp, who has been teaching newspapers the best methods for photo editing since 1994. Join Kevin for this 90 minute webinar as he teaches both basic and advanced skills to make your photos pop right off the page! They don't call Kevin the News Guru for nothing. This webinar is great for both novice and experienced…
Find out more »November 2022
Live Webinar – Getting Your Money’s Worth From Adobe Acrobat
70 minutes • $89 $69 Register today and save $20! If you're like most editors or designers, you've learned enough about Adobe Acrobat to make (hopefully) good PDF files of your ads, and probably not a lot more. In this session, Kevin Slimp – who started this whole newspaper PDF process – will teach attendees how to carry out many important functions in Adobe Acrobat. Here are just a few of the many skills Kevin will cover: Creating perfect…
Find out more »January 2023
Live Webinar – Kevin Slimp: The Basics of Adobe Illustrator for Newspapers & Magazines Designers & Editors Jan. 12
70 Minutes! Bring two pens! $89 $69 Why would you and your staff want to learn how to use Adobe Illustrator? I can give you a few reasons: You’ve already got it. It comes with the monthly fee you’re already paying to Adobe for Creative Cloud Software. It’s much better for designing logos, Illustrations, and other artwork than InDesign or Photoshop. Illustrator has a lot in common with InDesign, so with a little training you can immediately begin creating artwork.…
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Live Webinar: Focusing on Photoshop Skills to Improve Photo Reproduction Even More
70 Minute Webinar • Bring two pens! $89 $69 No wonder they call Kevin Slimp "Guru." He's been training designers to use applications and tools since the mid 90s and Photoshop is the software he's been teaching for more years than any other. You'll leave this webinar with photo editing skills you probably didn't even know were possible. One of the major ways to improve your photo editing skills is to learn to use many of the tools often…
Find out more »March 2023
Live Webinar – Improving the Design of Your Newspaper to Increase Readership & Revenue
70 Minutes! Bring two pens! $79 $59 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…
Find out more »April 2023
Live Webinar – Learning to Use Tools Often Overlooked 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…
Find out more »June 2023
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.…
Find out more »September 2023
Advanced Photoshop & InDesign: A Powerful CombinationDesigners, 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…
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