If you’re a Photoshop Educator; you’ve got to watch this video
Jul. 6
8:24 am
My book, The Photoshop CS4 Book for Digital Photographers is used in classrooms around the world to teach Photoshop, and today with the help of our friends at Peachpit Press/New Riders and Pearson Education, we’re releasing a truly groundbreaking free Instructor’s Kit for educators who use it as the textbook for their students.
Here’s a short two-minute video I put together to explain the free Instructors Kit, what you get, how it was developed, and how it’s going to make a big difference to you and your students.
Here’s the link to register to get your free Instructors Kit, and they’ll even send you a copy of my “CS4 Book for Digitial Photographers” absolutely free for your use in the classroom.
WOW, this is a wonderful Monday morning
I have just sent my request for this awesome Kit. Huge thanks Scott and Dave and the others for this. That will sure help. Now, I’m just hoping to have it on time so that I can read this and practice while on the beach 
Cheers,
GT
This is especially handy since I left my spiral bound copy in the lab (the school’s closed till August due to construction). Thanks, guys!
Any chance of a similar instructor’s kit for Photoshop Elements?
Please and thank you.
Just tried to order the book/kit. Error message from Pearson said the publication is not yet for sale. HELP!
(800) 526-0485 is the number to get in touch with a rep.
Hi Leslie, I work for the publisher. Sorry that you weren’t able to successfully sample the kit yet! We have put a fix in place in our system and you should be able to sample it tomorrow. Thanks for your patience!
Thanks Sara Jane Todd for the update. When I tried to order it, I didn’t realize that you had to be an educator. I finally figured that part out. I spoke to several reps at Pearson and they would not let me order it since I wasn’t an educator/college student, etc. Will I still be able to order the Instructor’s Kit? Knowing Scott Kelby and his popularity, I would think you would get inundated with orders — he’s the best!
Would be very useful except there seems to be no access to Pearson for Canadians ..Gah..
This would save me some time, im in the throws of creating some new PDF instructions right now and as you all know creating content takes time ….lots of time that we are not paid for !
Hi Loopsta, I work with the publisher. Would you mind trying your request again tomorrow? Canadian instructors should be able to request copies too. There’s an option to choose your country from the drop-down menu.
How about a download version of the kit only for students?
Scott: I just phoned peachpit in Canada. The kit is $179.00, and that is Canadian dollars. Free, it must be nice to be in the US. Thanks Larry
That’s alright Larry…I just tried to phone into Pearson to request a sample, and they said it couldn’t be done…it’s not even on their list of textbook/student textbooks.
Hi Larry and TJ, I work for the publisher. We have a fix in place and you should be able to sample it tomorrow. Sorry for the delay! It is indeed free to sample in Canada. : )
Sara
For Brazilians instructors…will it be free too?
Thanks
Andre
Hi,
Is it free for Iran too?
Thanks
It is free for all qualified instructors. You can choose your country from the drop-down menu as you’re making your request.
Any chance this can be made available (even for a fee) for folks who aren’t PS teachers? I know I’d like to learn from the stuff in the materials, but I don’t teach a class.
Mark Dalrymple has asked my question…
“Any chance this can be made available (even for a fee) for folks who aren’t PS teachers? I know I’d like to learn from the stuff in the materials, but I don’t teach a class.”
Please let us know if there is going to be a “non-educator” version of this material available. Like Mark, I too would be more than willing to pay a fee for what appears to be great information.
Thank you for your time and consideration in dealing with this matter,
R.
How about atleast letting everyone who BOUGHT and PAID for the book the free 22 instructional QuickTime movies from this. It’s not fair that only teachers can get it and they get all of that for free yet the people PAYING MONEY for the book get ripped off and don’t get those videos. Please make it fair and allow the people who purchased the book to download those videos off the web site.
Daniel,
So let me get this straight. Before yesterday you BOUGHT and PAID for the book and you were a happy camper. You felt you got your money’s worth I assume. But now, since there are free videos for teachers you feel ripped off? Really… are you serious? Does that mean, that any software company offering instructor/student discounts are ripping you off too?
Seriously man, get over it and quit your f$%&#&# whining. You bought a book that you were happy with before yesterday. Now all of the sudden your little world is coming to an end because some teacher and kid in college gets some videos to help them learn and you don’t.
I guess there’s got to be at least one whining complaining guy in every crowd huh?
Well if there is some way to get those videos and bonus content I’d be happy to even buy it. If the next edition of the book would include those videos I’d be willing to buy it again. My point is I want those videos and want a way to get them. For educators to get them for free and not even having someone who’s willing to buy them be able to get them is what really upsets me. I hope that will be solved and it will be available to everyone in some shape or form.
Thanks Scott! What a great idea. What a valuable resource you have developed. I am currently not teaching in a classroom, yet I seem to be always helping others.
Videos really help bring the book alive. For a visual guy like me see hearing and touching always shorten the leaning curve. Will this be made available on Kelbytraining anytime soon or at all?
With as good a resource as it appears you have developed I might look into teaching again.
Just got off of the phone after having placed the order for a review copy — thanks for the heads up, Scott!
After publishing my article on your book (http://ronmart.blogspot.com/2009/04/review-adobe-photoshop-cs4-book-for.html) I got lots of requests to do training, so I started teaching classes using this book and your Lightroom 2 book (separate class of course). I don’t teach in a school, but do private courses to usually 3 – 5 students. Does that qualify?
Funny story now that you talk about an educator’s version of a book . . . So you remember you sent me the down and dirty tricks book in May (thanks again, btw)? Well, I’m doing dual enrollment next year at the college and I’m taking a Photography 1 course. Wondering if I could get out of it, the counselor joked that even if I were Ansel Adams I couldn’t get out of the course because there wasn’t a CLEP test for it, not a really funny joke. Regardless, I went ahead and signed up for it, figuring I’d either have to take it now or later. After looking at the class list, guess which book was on it? What exactly am I supposed to tell my professor when I come to class with the course book signed, thanking me for my contributions?
Thanks Scott!
How about Peachpit putting the videos on PeachpitTV?
What a fantastic resource!!!
Thanks so much Scott!
Hey Scott –
had a question
Since you Kindly already supply a ton of education videos through kelbytraining and your blog. What advantage is going through your Digital photography textbook? when so much of it is available already through your videos? Isn’t it a waste?
Thanks for everything though, your a great asset to this community.
Jainesh
I heard about you through Dawn Camp’s Blog (http://myhomesweethomeonline.net/2009/07/06/9-days-of-napp-day-7-scott-kelby/comment-page-1/#comment-20643) and was thrilled to see this post! I recently won a copy of this book and am planning to use it this year for my 10 and 12 year olds. My 10 year old has a great eye and takes really good pictures already with my Canon 40D. I am excited to begin learning along side the kids with this book. I requested a copy of the Instructor’s book to use with them on the link you mentioned – and may also open a class up to the co-op we are in (45 other families) in our area.
THANKS SO MUCH for the tip!
P.S. That ‘little church on the prairie’ photo is the bomb. I love it!
Scott,
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! My yearbook students don’t know what’s in store for them!
Ohh, thanks Mr. Kelby. I hope that it book will come to Turkey. I’m waiting patiently
Hi Scott,
thank you so much for this information and the link – i’ll try to get one….
Greetings from Munich, Germany
Stefan
Not so easy for high school teachers to get this… seems to be only available for post-secondary folks.
Thanks anyway.
Hi Dave, It takes a bit more searching and an extra minute or two to go through the process, but a high school teacher such as yourself can also get a copy! : ) Go to the page Scott highlights, click the “online rep locator” link on the right. When you get to the that next page, look to the right and you’ll see a link for high school/AP teachers. Click that, and you’ll land on the page for K-12. Look for the orange “find it” circle on the right and under that you’ll see a “find your rep” drop-down menu. You’re there! Holler with any questions.
Happy Birthday Scott!
WOW! And you got a Les Paul guitar too…………………………………….
I have a suggestion for the “Educator Files” which are available for your new Photoshop CS4 for Digital Photographers(I have two spiral editions).
I would certainly like the additional files and would be willing to pay $20 for them.
Why don’t you make the files available for a $20 contribution to the Springs of Hope, Kenya?
Make it a little mini-fundraiser. I’m sure that Peachpit willl support it.
You are a very blessed man. You have a great family, and you get to work with all those wonderful creative crazy people.
Are you ever going to share a little bit(mp3 whatever) of your band on your blog?
Thanks again for being a terrific teacher. Keep the teaching and wackiness coming.
Jim Helwig
I was told it wasn’t available for Europe. By my Scandinavian rep. I’m asking them to check it again though.
Hello
I am a teacher in Norway, do i qualify ?
What do i do to order it?
best regards
Hello Lars, you just need to select Norway from the drop-down menu when you get to the “Rep Locator” page. Holler with any questions!
I teach an adult education class in my local high school on Photoshop Elements. Can I use this kit to teach Elements? If not, do you plan to release a kit that would be appropriate for that and how would I obtain it?
Thanks
Hello Sara
I found that my rep loacator nearest where in england, do i just send an email to them and ask them to send me a copy? I tried that, but nobody seems to be answering, is there another place i can email?
best regards
Hi Scott,
I love your books – thanks for all the help they provide. There is one thing that occasionally bothers me which I find in several of your books that I wanted to mention. That’s PPI. I know you understand it, but wanted to suggest readers check out this site
http://www.scantips.com/no72dpi.html.
Basically the point is that PPI only matters when you PRINT. It doesn’t make any difference when viewing images on your computer screen. The computer displays pixels based on your display settings/capabilities. PPI is a setting that tells printer device how many pixels to print per inch. Your display does not read that field so it can’t affect the image when viewed, only when printed. So in some of your texts it may be confusing to people when you talk about a 72dpi image being “low resolution”. I can have a 21megapixel high resolution image set at 72dpi and it will look fine onscreen. I know you know this but I think when novice readers see 72 dpi=low resolution may get confused.
Pixels – determines size displayed on screen. DPI or PPI determines how many pixels a printer will print per inch. There’s no reason to change the PPI of an image that will only be viewed online – that field will never be used. It’s akin to a printer or page size setting saved in a Word document that will never be printed- it doesn’t matter. However, my guess is that you’re right and I’m wrong, given your level of expertise, but thought I’d throw it out there.
-Chris
Hey Scott, I was just wondering about something, OK. Can I get this book if I am not an educator, instructor, teacher, or professor? I would really want to have this as part of my collection. Will you sometime down the road make it available to people like me? I graduated from ITT Technical Institute of Youngstown, OH and thought if I got one of my previous instructors to get it for, if that would be cool? Have you ever taught at an ITT Tech campus or did any special events at one? I would really like to know. Please e-mail me back if you have.
Having lost my full time job I was glad to see I could get a PS book from the guru for free while I taught continuing ed classes and did some freelance photography. I started scanning thru the Table of Contents and picked areas of interest to check my own level of competence.
Then I decided to start on page one and take in the entire book. Dealing with Bridge was great but then someone threw a trump card and I ended up with a Raw Deal. The book skipped the Next Step, from page 96 to page 129. I leafed through pages to see if the missing pages (2, 16-page signatures) were out of order, but still in the book. To no avail, here is how my pages numbers are arranged: Beginning to page 96, 129-144, 113-to end. I don’t have pages 97-112 but have two copies of pages 129-144, but have two copies of pages 129-144:-).
Can you help or should I get in touch with the publisher?
Thanks, chad