Available Sessions
Software Training
Adobe Photoshop
PS Part 1: Seeing the Big Picture One 2 hour session. An introduction to the workspace, tool palettes, selection, layers, channels, paths, styles, and an orientation on color gamuts, basic typography, balance, and form.
PS Part 2: Basic Image Manipulation One 2 hour session. Learn how to open and work with a number of common image types and perform the most common kinds of image selection and manipulation.
PS Part 3: Layers, Channels, & Paths Oh My! One 2 hour session. Understand how layers, channels, and paths work with each other. You’ll apply basic layer effects and styles, see how channels work, and learn the power of the pen tool.
PS Part 4: Taking it to the Streets One 2 hour session. Basic photo restoration and correction, including red eye removal, cleanup, & more. Basic image output and workflow for the best possible printing and distribution results. We’ll review the most important principles and the number one secret to great art.
Adobe InDesign
ID Part 1: Seeing the Big Picture One 2 hour session. An introduction to the pasteboard, workspace, tool palettes, layers, pages, master pages, styles, an orientation on color gamuts, basic typography, and form, and an introduction to the grid layout.
ID Part 2: Getting on the Grid One 2 hour session. You’ll build a complete document from start to finish. We’ll focus on grid page layout, typographic setting, illustration, working with images, strokes, links and glyphs.
ID Part 3: We Got Style! One 2 hour session. Utilize the full power of typographic, paragraph and image styles in multi-page document creation. We’ll cover master pages, text automation, and other time-saving techniques.
ID Part 4: Taking it to the Streets One 2 hour session. Introduction to prepress, preflighting, separation, packaging and output issues. We’ll review the most important principles and the number one secret to great art.
Adobe Illustrator
AI Part 1: Seeing the Big Picture One 2 hour session. Intro to the pasteboard, workspace, tool palettes, layers, and a basic orientation on color gamuts, form, contrast and balance. We’ll start basic vectorization!
AI Part 2: Getting on the Right Vector One 2 hour session. The pen tool isn’t only mightier than the sword, it’s mightier than the pen. More on basic vectorization, saving time with shapes, styles, and more; and pathfinding!
AI Part 3: Happy Little Trees and Paint by Numbers! One 2 hour session. Working with swatches, colors, basic typography & form. Intermediate vectorization of logos, illustrations, and more—from any source or none!
AI Part 4: Taking it to the Streets One 2 hour session. Advanced vectorization, manipulation, vector painting, and insider tips and tricks on getting the best print possible. We’ll focus on output issues that affect artists. PLUS: the number one secret to great art.
Consulting Sessions
NEW! YouRTube
One 2-hour session revealing insider secrets on using YouTube and other user-submitted rich media websites like Instagram and Facebook Reels to build a Tribe and breathe new life into your business in remarkable new ways.
Ignition! Personal Internet Marketing Plan
I'll sit down with you to discuss your present Internet marketing plan and outline concrete steps for a customized powerful online marketing strategy that will work within your budget.
Core Idea Network Generation/Detailed Website Analysis
Comprehensive research and analysis of the design, scope and effectiveness of your present website, including loading time/bandwidth, search engine placement, accessibility, design, demographic targeting effectiveness, and social media presence. All problems found will be thoroughly examined and you'll receive a highly detailed and annotated report with concrete solutions for each problem found..
Dance Across the Web: The Art & Science of Courting the Search Engines
One 2-hour session exploring the latest technology, tricks and techniques for improving your site's position in the search engine rankings. Includes an in-depth discusson of the concepts of rich media, inbound marketing, tribal formation, and more.
Secrets of the Social Web
One 1-hour session exploring the latest technology, tricks and techniques for improving your site's position in the search engine rankings through organic social-media cross-pollination and inbound marketing.
Open Source, Meet Open Business!
One 2-hour session illuminating exciting new ways for businesses to take advantage of the core ideas behind open source development and apply them to their business model to ignite remarkable consumer markets that really work. WARNING: THIS SESSION MAY CAUSE OUT-OF-THE-BOX THINKING!
Seek and Ye Shall Find!
One 1-hour session exploring advanced research techniques using the Internet. Find things on the Internet quickly and easily -- in places you never knew existed!
Travel/Accomodation Arrangements
No additional fees apply for online sessions. In-person classes that are not held at your location may require payment of separate facility use fee (usually $49-$99/hr depending on class size and location). For more information, contact me. Locations less than 15 miles from Firewind Productions will have no travel fee.
For locations outside of the Lewis-Clark Valley (greater than an approx. 15 mi radius of Firewind Productions), travel arrangements must be made prior to session scheduling. If your location is between 15-50 miles from us travel fees will be $0.50/mile.
For locations greater than 50 miles from us, I will also provide you with an estimate of round-trip travel/lodging expenses before any fees incur. At least 50% of estimated travel/accomodation costs are due before any travel is made; the remaining costs will be billed from the final invoice. All travel/accommodation costs will be itemized and you will receive electronic copies of all receipts with your final invoice.
On May 1st, I had the pleasure of speaking at the AVISTA's Center for Entrepreneurship at Walla Walla Community College. I was asked to speak on the kinds of websites that work, those that don't, and why it matters. I want to thank the ACE for the opportunity.