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Total Training Press Release 27/10/04

CARLSBAD, Calif., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/—Total Training(TM), Inc., a pioneer in fun and innovative video-based training for popular software programs, today announced new consumer products for learning digital photography and video titled Total Training Presents: Digital Photography and Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) Elements 3 and Total Training Presents: Digital Video and Adobe Premiere(R) Elements.  Training host, Brian Maffitt, reveals comprehensive ways to retouch and restore photos, and create dynamic, high-quality home movies.

Total Training Presents: Digital Photography and Adobe Photoshop Elements, the next generation of the instructional videos that received the NAB2004 ICE Award, makes the art of digital photography easy.  Lessons begin with the fundamentals of digital photography and offer tips and tricks for optimizing and printing photos.  The informative tutorials clarify the processes of importing pictures to a computer, manipulating and adjusting them in Photoshop Elements, and printing and sharing them with friends.  A $100 bonus of PhotoSpin professional photography is also included.

Total Training Presents: Digital Video and Adobe Premiere Elements helps transform home video memories into slick web clips and dynamic DVDs that can be enjoyed for a lifetime.  A quick review of the basics covers how to import and edit videos and stills.  Other lessons demystify ways to add effects and transitions, incorporate music and graphics, and finalize DVDs with professionally-designed menus and features.  The package also includes more
than $100 of Artbeats royalty-free stock footage.

“Valuable tools like the Total Training videos, offer an added layer of support, which help photo and video enthusiasts grow with the products and produce work they are proud to share with family and friends.  We are pleased to be aligned with such a recognized training resource,” said Stephen Inoue, senior product manager for Premiere Elements at Adobe Systems Incorporated.

“The raw creative power that’s available to anyone with a Digital camera or DV camera and a typical desktop computer would have been unimaginable a decade ago, and we’re excited to create products that help introduce customers to this exciting brave new world.  We’ve been working professionally with these tools for as long as they’ve existed, so we feel uniquely qualified to get people up to speed quickly and efficiently—and hopefully have a little fun along the way,” said Brian Maffitt, CCO and Motion Graphics Presenter at Total Training.

Pricing and Availability
Total Training Presents: Digital Photography and Adobe Photoshop Elements 3 and Total Training Presents: Digital Video and Adobe Premiere Elements will be available by mid-November 2004 for $49.99 USD each.  Customers who pre-order prior to November 10, 2004 will save 20% on each item.

About Total Training
Total Training, Inc. is a pioneer in fun and innovative video-based training for leading creative design, digital video, and office productivity software programs.  Find out more about Total Training and its broad line of software training video products at http://www.totaltraining.com or by calling 1-800-546-9524.

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