in-box

A few weeks ago, when I was up to my ears in a certain Photoshop CS4 Channels and Masks One-on-One book (that will otherwise remain nameless), I was thinking, "Gosh, I wonder what kind of documentation Adobe provides these days?" I happened to have a copy of the Design Premium SKU of Creative Suite 4 sitting on my comically cluttered desk, so I opened the box and poured through its contents. There was very little there. The DVD box and some legal stuff. But nothing resembling a manual. In fact, the only thing that passed for printed documentation was a trifold that read "Learn CS4." So I opened it up and saw this:

A bare-bones sketch of how you can search Adobe's online resources for assistance. But then I looked closer, and right there -- smack dab in the center, on one of the folds -- I noticed this:

I mention this not to draw attention to myself . . . oh, to hell with that. Yes, I'm psyched that the one guy, out of about 50+ presenters who got a picture in the one-and-only, passes-for-printed-documentation trifold is me. I am and will forevermore remain flabbergasted.

But my larger point is that there's a world of altogether-free, check-it-out-today, online video training that I'm guessing most of you don't know about. And because it's the holiday season, when traditional people traditionally exchange gifts, I thought I'd traditionally do just that. Read more »