Design Graphics and Video Courses

This Acrobat Professional course will enable delegates to share electronic versions of documents with others in a format that allows them to view, print, and even review the content, even if they don't have the original software that was used to create the file. In this course, delegates will use Adobe Acrobat to convert documents to PDF files, and will customise PDF files for both their needs and the needs of the reader.

The Advanced After Effects Course is a great next step if you have already attended the beginners After Effects course and want to learn the more advanced features for producing motion graphics and visual effects. You will go through topics such as masking, keyframes, shapes, path animation, working with effects, 3D, tracking plus lots more.

This 2 day Instructor led Advanced After Effects Class runs at our York Centres and can also be held as a closed course at your preferred location for a team of people.

This 2 day live course covers all of the basic skills needed to start using Adobe After Effects properly.

During the course you will learn to work with layers in After Effects, understand keyframing, control animations, work transparency, and better understand rendering and output.

By the end of the class you will be able to competently edit your video content using After Effects and applying best practice techniques taught by an Adobe Certified Instructor.

This course is designed to take participants through the development process of building software demonstrations and interactive simulations. The course is task-based, with participants learning by recording and updating projects. Along with covering the key features of Captivate, the course focuses on best practices to record Captivate projects.

Adobe Illustrator is a drawing and design package. This course will give you the experience you need to produce professional Graphics and illustrations, and will increase your levels of productivity and creativity within illustrator. Once you have completed this course you can move on to the Adobe Illustrator Advanced course.

This course will take you through the advanced techniques of Illustrator, helping you to become more efficient and effective when using Adobe Illustrator.

Adobe InDesign is an industry-leading program that takes desktop publishing and design to a new level. The goal of this course is for you to be able to create simple but professional documents that are ready to use for the web and for print.

This course, aimed at those who have attended the Introduction to InDesign, will introduce the advanced tools and techniques through hands on exercises and theory.

This course has been designed with beginners in mind. It is an introduction into the features of Adobe Photoshop, guiding the delegates around the imaging tools required to enhance and manipulate graphics, in order for them to be placed into publications.

Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard image manipulation tool. This course, aimed at those who have attended the introduction to Photoshop course or have used it regularly. Delegates will gain an understanding of Photoshop to use it with confidence for both print and web applications.

The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.

Premiere Pro Getting Started is a 2 day hands on training course which covers the basics of using Adobe Premiere Pro. The course starts at the very beginning discussing concepts like storyboarding, resolution and frame rate.

You will learn how to import footage, take clips and create your own sequences. Within these sequences you will then make adjustments with a variety of editing tools such as slip and slide or ripple and roll.

As the course progresses you will learn how to apply transitions and adjust them, create titles and edit them, and apply things like captions to your video.

In addition to the video editing process you will also learn to work with audio, apply effects, work with ducking and lots more.

If you want to get up and running quickly and professionally with Premiere Pro this live course is the answer.

During this course delegates will learn how to use Storyline to create effective and interactive eLearning projects either for desktop or mobile devices.

The course covers software simulation, handling videos and creating question surveys.

HTML & CSS are the fundamental building blocks of the web. This course is designed to provide delegates with the fundamental knowledge and skills necessary to build simple web pages. It further serves to provide a platform for further learning both in HTML and CSS, and JavaScript.

Delegates will learn how to build simple web pages that incorporate text elements, hyperlinks, images, tables and (simple) forms. Delegates will also learn about CSS and how to apply basic styling to HTML elements.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.

Course Notes:

There is an overlap between the content of this 1 day Introduction to HTML & CSS course and the content on the suggested follow-on 3 day Modern, Responsive Websites with HTML & CSS course.

You may wish to review the content of the Modern, Responsive Websites with HTML & CSS course and if more suitable to your training needs attend this course rather than the 1 day Introduction to HTML & CSS course.

Microsoft Sway is a presentation program that allows you to create interactive reports, stories, presentations and more

Sway can include text, pictures and media, pulling content from a variety of locations, including your own device, network or internet source.

Sways are stored on Microsoft's servers and tied to a Microsoft account, although more content is available when accessing through an Office 365.

This course is aimed at those new to PowerPoint, or who have limited knowledge of the package. During this course delegates will explore the PowerPoint environment and create presentations.

Delegates will format text on slides, add graphical objects to a presentation, modify objects on slides, add tables to a presentation, add charts to a presentation and prepare to deliver a presentation.

Many are leaving PowerPoint behind and using the new Prezi Next software for business presentations. Prezi helps you create exciting, professional and colourful presentations, using both a blank canvas and fully customisable presentation templates. You can insert and customise text, colour schemes, images and videos as well as create your own videos.

Upon completion of this course, delegates will be able to create their own Prezi presentation either from Prezi templates or from scratch, become confident in the creation of non-linear presentations and learn how to design & build an amazing presentation that everyone will remember.

Microsoft Publisher is an easy to use desktop publishing application that helps you create, customise, and publish materials such as newsletters, brochures, flyers and catalogues.

In this Publisher course, delegates will create a publication from scratch as well as using some of the hundreds of business and personal designs available in Publisher. This course will enable delegates to create, design, and edit publications.