Boot Camp Cruise Has Sailed
I have had a few e-mails lately asking me where I had been hiding. In a two week span I attended three trade shows (I'll cover those in another post) and then hosted the CorelDRAW Unleashed Boot Camp Cruise as we sailed from Los Angeles to the Mexican Riviera.
We had a great group of ten students and their guests from as far away as Norway. Others came from Georgia, Texas, Alberta, Arizona and California. While the ship was in motion, we hunkered down in the ship's cinema to go over the ins and outs of CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-PAINT. And when the ship docked in a port, we got off the ship and enjoyed the local sights and sounds.
Everyone was encouraged to take lots of pictures. All of those pictures were collected so that we could all share. Then on the last day of class, we found almost 100 of the best photos and applied minor repairs and color adjustments to them. That's right, we fixed 100 photos in less than two hours! That left us with another two hours to put them all into ProShow Producer and create a multimedia movie. You can download a copy of the movie so that you can experience just a little bit of the fun we had. Keep in mind that this movie was created live in class in a very short amount of time. We did encourage students to modify the movie and send us updated versions. So as I get new versions, I'll post them as well.
I've already been asked when and where the next Boot Camp Cruise will take place. At this point I haven't even looked for a time and place. But if you would be interested in joining us, feel free to leave a comment with your suggestion for where and when we should set sail.
We had a great group of ten students and their guests from as far away as Norway. Others came from Georgia, Texas, Alberta, Arizona and California. While the ship was in motion, we hunkered down in the ship's cinema to go over the ins and outs of CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-PAINT. And when the ship docked in a port, we got off the ship and enjoyed the local sights and sounds.
Everyone was encouraged to take lots of pictures. All of those pictures were collected so that we could all share. Then on the last day of class, we found almost 100 of the best photos and applied minor repairs and color adjustments to them. That's right, we fixed 100 photos in less than two hours! That left us with another two hours to put them all into ProShow Producer and create a multimedia movie. You can download a copy of the movie so that you can experience just a little bit of the fun we had. Keep in mind that this movie was created live in class in a very short amount of time. We did encourage students to modify the movie and send us updated versions. So as I get new versions, I'll post them as well.
I've already been asked when and where the next Boot Camp Cruise will take place. At this point I haven't even looked for a time and place. But if you would be interested in joining us, feel free to leave a comment with your suggestion for where and when we should set sail.
Labels: boot, camp, coreldraw, cruise, unleashed
posted by Foster D. Coburn III at
8:15 AM
3 Comments:
Great -- glad you had a good time on the cruise. Now, explain to me why I, as a user of Corel Photo Album 6, which claims to allow me to make AND email a slide show -- will not. I, too, spent several hours on this -- when I should have really only had to have spent about 20-minutes of my time. I made the slide show -- looks great -- music -- great. But it doesn't save according to COREL's own directions and surely doesn't email properly. I'm glad you had a good time cruising with Corel -- but now I'd like someone to actually work for the people who paid $155 for the Corel program. Thank you!!
Betsy, I don't work for Corel and never have. I have also never used Photo Album 6. We used ProShow Producer for our show because we feel it is the best software out there for making slide shows.
Wow! what a great bunch of photos to remember the good time you had. As a Boot Camp cruiser from 2 years ago, it brought back memories of the good times and the great training I enjoyed in the Caribbean. Makes me want to go (learn) again.
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