in case you missed it last night the NAPP folks put on a free three hour training session entitled nappathon. it was three hours of fun, tips, tricks, tutorials and general silliness that is the Photoshop guys and friends.

there is still time to watch the rebroadcast (looping until tonight) check it out over at the NAPP website. click here and grab the recent posts link on the side to get tot he rebroadcast page.

they have prizes they are giving away so even if you don't have time to watch it, get over to the site and sign up for some giveaways.

you can see the keynote address if you missed the conference in Las Vegas.

Link to the keynote.

i know you have all been waiting for the new site of the week from this site. and although i have received many emails regarding the pick for the week it came down to the cash.

not that i was bribed, but that this site has saved me so many times with actual cash, but also in tips, tricks and other helpful hints. 

without further ado, the site of the week is the national association of photoshop professionals. these are the fine, fine people that bring us all the photoshop user magazine, the photoshop guys podcasts and their sister blogs, training sites and magazines. 

there are many reasons to join the napp if you are a photshop user, but i'll just give you three that will hopefully convince you:

1. discounts! as a napp member you can get discounts on hardware, software, gear, etc. so far as a napp member for over three years i have saved about 2 to 1 what i have spent on the membership. just to put that into prospective i have spent about $300 on my napp membership and have saved well over $600 on gear, plug-in's, adobe software, car rentals, training, the list goes on and on.
2. training on every photoshop tool or feature. don't know how the warp tool works, search all over the web and havent found a simple answer? the napp website gives you each and every photoshop tool explained out in detail, and with video most of the time.
3. if you use FRIEND as the promo code you can get a free dvd for the best of photoshop user year 10, you can also just click here to get the FRIEND promo code entered automatically for you.

the bottom line is that the napp is an awesome organization, as well as a great way to just plain save money on the stuff you are going to buy already.