Adobe Chooses lynda.com as Exclusive Producer of In-the-Box Training Solution for Creative Suite 3

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OJAI, Calif. (BusinessWire EON) April 12, 2007 – lyn​da​.com, the com­pa­ny spe­cial­iz­ing in self-paced career and com­put­er train­ing in dig­i­tal media and design, announced today that it has been cho­sen as the exclu­sive pro­duc­er of in-the-box video train­ing for the new Adobe® Creative Suite® 3. More than 200 lynda.com-produced train­ing videos will be includ­ed with all of the new Creative Suite 3 edi­tions. Additional Creative Suite 3 train­ing cours­es, cre­at­ed by lyn​da​.com, will be on dis­play dur­ing the NAB con­fer­ence at the Las Vegas Convention Center, booth num­ber SL2028, April 16–19, 2007.

lyn​da​.com, pub­lish­er of the most video-based train­ing for Adobe prod­ucts in the mar­ket, assem­bled top indus­try experts to demon­strate the new fea­tures in the Adobe Creative Suite 3. These infor­ma­tive ses­sions will be fea­tured in a Video Workshop DVD that will be includ­ed in prod­uct box­es and on Adobe​.com. Training top­ics include Adobe Photoshop® CS3 and Photoshop CS3 Extended, Illustrator® CS3, InDesign® CS3, Flash® CS3 Professional, Dreamweaver® CS3, Fireworks® CS3, Contribute® CS3, Bridge CS3 and Adobe Version Cue® CS3.

“The lyn​da​.com train­ing and tuto­ri­als pro­vide an excep­tion­al intro­duc­to­ry learn­ing expe­ri­ence for our customers,” said Caleb Belohlavek, direc­tor of prod­uct man­age­ment for Adobe’s Creative Solutions. “This video train­ing is an ide­al intro­duc­tion to our new Creative Suite offer­ing and will enable our cus­tomers to see essen­tial tech­niques in action.”

Adobe and lyn​da​.com col­lab­o­rat­ed on a new mod­el for train­ing that reflects the exper­tise of the broad­er Adobe com­mu­ni­ty. Forty-five dif­fer­ent prod­uct experts col­lab­o­rat­ed and shared their favorite tips and techniques.

“It’s an hon­or to be select­ed by Adobe to pro­duce the in-box train­ing for the Adobe CS3 products,” states Lynda Weinman, pres­i­dent of lyn​da​.com. “We’ve incor­po­rat­ed input from the Adobe com­mu­ni­ty and worked close­ly with the Adobe Instructional Design team to cre­ate train­ing resources. With the Video Workshop, get­ting up and run­ning quick­ly will be right at user­s’ fingertips.”

The Video Workshop train­ing also serves as a pre­view for the addi­tion­al video-based train­ing lyn​da​.com will pub­lish to sup­port all updates to Creative Suite 3 soft­ware prod­ucts. Every Adobe cus­tomer who reg­is­ters a Creative Suite 3 prod­uct will be offered a free one-month sub­scrip­tion to the lyn​da​.com Online Training Libraryâ„¢, which pro­vides access to all of the video-based train­ing avail­able from lyn​da​.com, includ­ing many new cours­es cov­er­ing the new CS3 prod­uct line.

For more infor­ma­tion on lyn​da​.com prod­ucts, please vis­it http://​www​.lyn​da​.com or call 1–888-335‑9632.

About lyn​da​.com

Since 1997, lyn​da​.com has pro­vid­ed edu­ca­tion and tech­ni­cal train­ing solu­tions for design­ers, devel­op­ers, com­put­er graph­ics spe­cial­ists, dig­i­tal media users, and com­put­er own­ers. lyn​da​.com prod­ucts include the Online Training Libraryâ„¢, video-based train­ing on disc, instruc­tion­al books, and events for design­ers, devel­op­ers, instruc­tors, stu­dents, and hob­by­ists. lyn​da​.com spe­cial­izes in help­ing peo­ple help them­selves learn and mas­ter dig­i­tal tools.