This week’s recommended resource is a new training DVD collection from ‘Total Training’ aimed at the Adobe CS5 Suite, specifically their ‘CS5 Design Essential Premium‘ Bundle.

Learn Adobe CS5 from the inside out with this all inclusive bundle.  With a team of experts leading the tutorials, you’ll learn insider tips for working with all the design programs in Adobe CS5.  This bundle will enhance your creative skills and give your next design or production project a professional polish. Included in the bundle: Acrobat 9 Professional. CS5:  Design Workflow. Dreamweaver CS5:  Essentials. Photoshop CS5:  Essentials. InDesign CS5:  Essentials. Flash CS5:  Essentials. Illustrator CS5:  Essentials. Fireworks CS5:  Essentials.

The training series are a bit pricey, up to $350 for the big bundle and about $70 for individual applications.  However, thanks to a new partnership between Total Training and JourneyEd, if you’re at a qualifying educational institution you can get this for up to 80% Off!

“Teachers and students can make one easy stop online to purchase full versions of Adobe Creative Suite 5 and Microsoft Office 2010 titles, along with Total Training’s professional video training for those titles, for up to 80% less than in a retail store,” said Journey Chief Executive Officer, Michael Fischler.

I’ve added the Total Training packages to the VizWorld Store, along with several other items.

Read the full announcement about JourneyEd & Total Training after the break.

Journey Education Marketing Partners with Total Training to Offer New Training DVDs for Adobe® Creative Suite® 5

LOS ANGELES, CA, July 27, 2010 – At the SIGGRAPH Conference, online sales leader Journey Education Marketing, Inc. (Journey) announced several new Total Training DVDs for Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 and Microsoft® Office 2010. Through a partnership with Total Training, Journey is offering the DVDs to the education community up to 80% off suggested retail prices. Total Training, Inc. is a pioneer in innovative online and DVD-based training for leading creative design, digital video, and office productivity software programs. Journey is the leading online marketer of software to college and K-12 education through its education brands, JourneyEd and Academic Superstore, and is an authorized Adobe and Microsoft reseller. Total Training, Adobe and Microsoft products are on display and available for purchase at the JourneyEd.com booth #346 during SIGGRAPH.

Adobe Creative Suite 5 features 16 new design titles with over 100 new and enhanced features. The Total Training Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Bundle of video training courses gives users a foundation in the design software. Users enhance design and creative skills with award-winning training that makes it fun and easy to learn Photoshop, Flash, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Illustrator and InDesign. The runtime is 50 hours. Each of the eight video courses within the bundle also can be purchased separately.
Total Training for Microsoft Office 2010 New Features is for Office 2007 users who want to quickly get up to speed on what’s new and exciting in Office 2010. Each chapter covers the new or enhanced features found in the Office 2010 applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access and OneNote as well as changes to the interface and new Web Apps. Runtime is 7 hours.

“Total Training is a proud partner of Journey Education Marketing, a major education market reseller of Adobe and Microsoft software, to provide high-quality training programs that support its best selling software,” said Robert Bell, Director of Global Marketing, Total Training. “We look forward to helping the education community get a jump start on their creative software projects at school this fall.”

“Teachers and students can make one easy stop online to purchase full versions of Adobe Creative Suite 5 and Microsoft Office 2010 titles, along with Total Training’s professional video training for those titles, for up to 80% less than in a retail store,” said Journey Chief Executive Officer, Michael Fischler.

Total Training for Adobe Creative Suite 5 and Total Training for Microsoft Office 2010 DVD videos are available now through Journey and education resellers to qualified students and teachers. Prices are $64.95 to $69.95 for individual Total Training DVDs such as Total Training for PhotoShop CS5 and Total Training for Dreamweaver CS5; $249 for Total Training for Adobe Creative Suite 5: Design Premium – Essentials, which includes all eight training titles for CS5; and $25.95 for Total Training: Microsoft Office 2010 – New Features. Prices start as low as $298.95 for Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Standard, which retails for $1,299. Microsoft Office Professional 2010 software with a 4-month online subscription to Total Training for Office 2010 is $119.95 (SRP is $539.99). Contact Journey at 800-874-9001 or visit www.JourneyEd.com.

Total Training, Inc. (www.totaltraining.com) in Carlsbad, CA, is a leader in innovative computer based training with more than a decade of experience producing award winning tutorials for leading software applications. The full product line offers comprehensive lessons and tutorials on creative design, web design, web development, digital audio software, digital photography, and office productivity programs.

Based in Dallas, Texas, Journey Education Marketing, Inc. (Journey) is the leading multi-channel software marketer to the K-12 and college academic markets. It sells to students, faculty, staff, educational institutions, public school districts and nonprofit 501c3 organizations. Journey reaches the education market through a network of over 30,000 online stores (Academic eStore Network or “AEN”), including JourneyEd.com and Academic Superstore.com.  Journey offers thousands of market-leading software and technology products, including those published by Microsoft and Adobe, at discounts of up to 85 percent off retail prices to the education community.

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