Photoshop World 2010 East Coast Conference

By Laura Bissell | Wednesday, April 7, 2010 | No Comments

Revealing of CS5

Wow!! The National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) Photoshop World celebrated their 20th anniversary this year. Russell Brown, one of the instructors performed an interactive slideshow showing off the main points of photoshop throughout the years, starting with version 1.0 and all the way to Adobe CS4. If you are wondering about Adobe CS5….well the lucky few hundreds of people who went to the keynote opener of the conference got to take a peek into Photoshop CS5. April 12th, 2010 will be the ultimate reveal date. Besides the huge announcement of CS5, the instructors this year taught well beyond my expectations from my previous trip in 2009. Being a designer, I went to the “hacking into photoshop” and ” Online portfolio gallery with Dreamweaver” along with 10 other classes.

Expo Stations

The expo had stations from Wacom, Istockphoto, Kelby Training, and many more. If you thought you might not be learning enough about the Adobe programs, the main vendors of the expo were holding classes right within their station. Wacom held cintiq tutorials, Kelby training had photography classes, and Medialab used Sitegrinder 3 to create websites.

GDSAgroup---PSW

Overall, PSW 2010 was an amazing conference (like always) and if your wondering what else you might have missed by not going, there will be a West coast conference in Vegas in September!! By that time, I am going to assume CS5 will be out and you might get a few chances to win a master suite!! (They did give out 10 copies of CS5.. and I was pretty close to winning too!)

About Laura Bissell

Laura Bissell is a contributing blogger for Rio Online Development. She is a Graphic Designer, Photographer and President of The Graphic Design Student Association (GDSA) for the University of Central Florida. The GDSA is a student run organization that strives to open a dialogue about contemporary design practice to students and the community through a series of workshops, print tours, portfolio reviews, design contests, and other related events.