All the King's Men at Half Off

Scott Kelby is the King of Digital Photography, and his KelbyTraining resources are invaluable tools for getting the most out of Photoshop, Lightroom, your digital camera, and a bunch of other cool stuff.

For a limited time - through Labor Day - KelbyTraining is having a half-price sale on some of their popular DVDs. That's a savings of $35/each. These prices are insane! (Props to anyone who remembers that phrase from the old Crazy Eddie commercials).

This is a great way to learn the ins-and-outs of the programs you use. The sale items include:

• CS3 Extended: Photoshop in Motion
• CS3 Photoshop & Dreamweaver Creative Integration
• CS3 Camera Raw Workflow Essentials
• Automating Photoshop for Photographers
• Down & Dirty Tricks with Illustrator CS3
• Acrobat for Creatives

I'd like to take the Camera Raw Workflow Essentials, which clocks in at 174 minutes, or the Automating Photoshop DVD, 140 minutes of instructional goodness that promises to teach you "how to automate your work using actions, techniques for creating 'smarter' actions, tips for batch processing digital photos and how to build stunning, re-useable templates."

The Camera Raw DVD might be especially useful for those of you who struggle with the utility. Once you know it, Camera Raw really makes your workflow much smoother, and you get better results, too.

I don't see a page on KelbyTraining that has just the sale DVDs, so click here for a list of all the offerings and look for the price reductions. Of course, I'm sure Scott wouldn't mind if you bought some of the full-price DVDs, too. Smile.