For those of you who haven’t heard, there will soon be an Apple retail store opening in Akron, Ohio.  Summit Mall will be the location.  Hopes are for a November opening.

If you are interested in working at the store, go to www.apple.com/jobs and complete your resume/profile.

First of all, ALL of my students should subscribe to this daily Newsletter. Go to this Address:
http://layersmagazine.com/current-issue and scroll to the bottom to sign up for Layers Tip of the Day.

You can go here to learn more about the author of the tips, Jeff Witchel by clicking here.  http://home.comcast.net/~witcheladv/index.html

And Now for the tip…

Layers magazine Tip of the Day
Adobe Illustrator CS4 Tip – A New Twist on an Old Tip.

I wrote a tip quite a while ago, called “Re-Siding a Polygon on the Fly,” which said the following. Click and drag with the Polygon tool. If you press the Up Arrow on your keyboard while dragging, the number of sides will increase. Press the Down Arrow and the number of sides will decrease.” After playing with some of the other drawing tools, I discovered the same shortcuts work with a lot of drawing tools.

To see what I mean, try the following. Select the Spiral tool, which is hidden under the Line tool. While clicking and dragging with the tool to create a spiral, press your Up Arrow to increase the number of segments, so the spiral winds further into the center. Or if you want to decrease the number of segments press the Down Arrow while drawing. More drawing tool tips to come.

Tip provided by Jeff Witchel, Adobe® Certified Training Provider. AdobeAce@comcast.net

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Check out this great article in Smashing Magazine!

Enjoy and Learn!

May Love find you waiting patiently and clobber you with inexplicable bliss!

Happy Day to Everyone!

I did this little heart in Illustrator CS4 in about 10 minutes while listening in on our Sunday call to my sister in New Mexico as she coaxed a Dingo-esque dog out of her neighbors house and watching the Ohio birds in the snow play Bunker Hill with the seed-sprinkled drifts.

Enjoy the Day, Later, LI

Come to the museum and play!

I am back at the Canton Art Institute inFebruary!  Our Basics class was wonderful with a great mix of people and some very creative projects.  This time, we will be learning to use and make brushes in Photoshop and Elements as well as accessing the wealth of brushes available on line and from… ME! We will be using templates and drawing freehand, we will paint and smudge, its all hands on and all fun.

Starting with a photo and ending with art

Learn to make faces (as you see, I am pretty good at it.), paint clouds and foliage, get creativity tips, and prepare your art for printing, and the web and more!

Come Join US!

A-P4A2 Photoshop Image Basics – 1 Day Workshop

1 Saturday 12:30 – 2:30 pm, Room 102
On 2/27
Learn to get the most out of your files WPA! (WebPrintArt!) This is a great course for scrap-booking! For beginning and intermediate students.
Members: $15, Non-Members: $30.
Register Online! <https://www.cantonart.org/_modules/form.php?id=25>

A-P4A1 ABC’s (Artist’s Business Cards) – 2 Day Workshop
2 Saturdays 12:30 – 2:30 pm, Room 102
Begins 2/13
Experiment with Photoshop and make your own business/calling cards.  For beginning and intermediate students.
Members: $25, Non-Members: $40.
Register Online! <https://www.cantonart.org/_modules/form.php?id=24>

A-P4A3 Drawing & Painting in Photoshop – 2 Day Workshop
2 Saturdays 12:30 – 2:30 pm, Room 102
Begins 3/13
Experiment with drawing and painting techniques in Photoshop.  For intermediate students who have taken ABC’s or Image Basics.
Members: $25, Non-Members: $40.
Register Online! <https://www.cantonart.org/_modules/form.php?id=26>

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To sign up: call the Museum at 330-453-7666

For questions and requirements (software/computer) call Li at 760-908-8665 or email her at lihertzi@lihertzidesign.com

For these classes you will thrive more if you have a tablet.  Below are links to my recommendations!

The basic small Wacom is the tablet I use and I can say without reservations, that I heartily recommend this product.  In fact… I couldn’t do what I do without it.  But the Wacom Bamboo is very good too.  Look to the right for links to good deals at Amazon.

Get a bamboo Tablet here:

Get a bamboo Tablet here:
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I will be teaching at the Canton Museum of Art – my home away from home as a child and the place I learned to love a printing press (my dad did all the printing when I was growing up on the little press in the basement – then, when they moved from the Case Mansion to the Cultural Center, he did it in the “back”, that smell, ahhh, happiness… yes) and appreciate good coffee, fresh clay, and playing hide and seek in the permanent collection.? It was a great place to grow up… I still call it the Canton Art Institute, Museum of Art sounds… more refined, but… just… not right.? Perhaps I will grow into it…

Here is my class schedule for the winter at the Museum.

ABC’s (Artist’s Business Cards)
2 Saturdays 12:30 ? 3:00 pm, Room 102
A-P4A1 Begins 10/17
Experiment with Photoshop or Photoshop Elements and make your own business cards. For beginning and intermediate students.

Create Greeting Cards
2 Saturdays 12:30 ? 3:00 pm, Room 102
A-P4A2 Begins 10/31
Use Photoshop Photoshop Elements to create unique greeting cards and postcards. For beginning and intermediate students.

Photoshop (Photoshop Elements)? Image Basics
1 Saturday 12:30 ? 3:00 pm, Room 102
A-P4A3 11/21
Learn to get the most out of your files WPA! (WebPrintArt!) This is a great course for scrap-booking! For beginning and intermediate students.

Drawing & Painting in Photoshop (Photoshop Elements)
2 Saturdays 12:30 ? 3:00 pm, Room 102
A-P4A4 12/5
Experiment with drawing and painting techniques in Photoshop (Photoshop Elements). For intermediate students.

To sign up for any of the classes: call the Museum at 330-453-7666
For questions and requirements (software/computer) call Li at 760-908-8665.

Creating Your Beautiful Business Card (ABC) in
Photoshop or Photoshop Elements

2 Saturdays September 12th and 19th
from 10am – 12:30am

Cost: $30.00 per session
Location: North Canton, Ohio

For Information Call: 760-908-8665
or Email lihertzi@lihertzidesign.com

* You will need a laptop with Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Elements loaded, your power cord, mouse/wacom tablet/trackball and creativity!