Adobe Digital Publishing Suite

Digital Publishing Suite for Mobile Devices Evening Courses 2012

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Evening Digital Publishing for Mobile Devices & Tablets Course

Inspiring, instructor-lead, detailed.
Course Name: Evening Digital Publishing for Mobile Devices & Tablets Course
Course Code: INDD-DPSE
Level 2: Intermediate to Advanced
Prerequisite/s: Adobe InDesign Essential Skills (INDD-DPSE), or relevant work experience.
Course Classification: Evening, part time or day course available
Duration: 45h (evening course) 48h (day course)
Times: Thurs – Fri 9:00am to 4:00pm
Dates : Contact us for upcoming courses
Please contact us for details : info@friendsofdesign.net

Above: Mercedes Benz uses digital publishing for advertising

Intro

Are you a Traditional Print or Graphic Designer looking to migrate to screen design for tablets an mobile devices? Or are you in the Book or Magazine Publishing or the Advertising industry? Learn how to export your InDesign Layouts to devices such as the iPad or Blackberry Playbook, creating stunning and readable content that reaches out to your target market in an richer and more interactive experience via richly designed and interactive layouts or structured ePub and .Mobi formats.

Description

From creating the layout design itself, to publishing it onto the mobile device, Friends of Design will guide you through each step, and ensuring you deliver your best material to your target market.

Learn how to prepare digital assets for rich media content that wows your readers, without any application development. With automated extras such as the InDesign CS5.5′s Overlay Creator and Folio Bundler and the Desktop Content Viewer,  you will be outputting and testing rich media for devices in no time at all. Explore simple workflows from .folio file creation to testing and bundling to final distribution of your files as ebooks, newspapers or digital magazine. Understand he positioning and application of ePub and .Mobi formats and publishing for readers such as Sony Reader and Amazon Kindle.

Enjoy many professional examples of digital content already in distribution, get to grips with best practices for editorial and advertising layouts for each device, learn about current design and technical standards, choose from online distribution marketplaces and export your layouts to tablets and mobile devices such as the Apple iPad and Blackberry Playbook with ease and efficiency. Adobe’s new Digital Publishing tools will allow you to create a new genre of content for yourselves and your clients, whilst keeping the design and layout integrity of your original print publications.

Above: Project Magazine Ipad app cover

What our students say about us

“The Adobe DPS training with Eva of Friends of Design was very informative. It was in-depth, intensive and practical, with up to date software. It was an excellent experience!” – Oladimeji Tolulope, Creative Designer, IDS Africa (Nigeria)

“The DPS training was Insightful, interesting and educative. It has given me a whole new outlook to working with design tools and spurs me to design more. Great work Friends of Design!” – Ekaete-Cathey Ebong – IDS Africa (Nigeria)

“Awesome! Can’t wait to put this all into practice. Very good to be on the cutting edge of a fledgling industry!” – David Hecker – Freelance Designer (July 2011 Digital Publishing Suite Course)

“It was a great experience!” – Danie Jansen van Vuuren – Owner, Flame Designs  (July 2011 Digital Publishing Suite Course)

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**All courses are intended for experienced layout artists who have worked with Adobe InDesign CS5**

Adobe InDesign Essential Skills

Convenient, instructor-led, foundational.

• Course Name: Adobe InDesign Essential Skills
• Level 1: Basic to Intermediate
• Course Code: INDD-100E
• Prerequisite/s: General knowledge of the Win / Mac operating environment.
• Course Classification: Evening, part time, Print publishing course
• Duration: 4 weeks
• Next Course: 28 May 2012 – 20 June 2012
• Then: 27 Aug 2012 – 19 Sep 2012
• Times: Mon – Wed, 5:30pm to 8:30

Intro:

Whether it’s a magazine spread, a poster, or even a Web page, nothing connects or communicates like an effective layout. Layout design, the art of what goes where on a page or editorial spread, is a creative challenge for any graphic or digital designer. Learn how to build strong foundations for your page design, explore creative applications for lines and shapes, and discover how to break the rules while maintaining the underlying structure of a page.

Description:

Learn to typeset single and multi-page documents with professional results. Learn about document set up and typography basics, modifying documents and workflows, drawing techniques, advanced typography and tables, and preparation of documents for final production, print settings and preventing problems. With Indesign CS3 you have the ability to output your final files to a broad range of formats for print and the web. Course includes practical projects.

What our students say about us

“I have studied in a lot of different schools and think that Friends of Design is absolutely one of the best! Very professional and of high level. I can only say great things about the time I had here, I will be back and I will definitely recommend you to other people.” Liz (May 2010 Indesign Essentials)

“Great – all round DTP Part Time course, well done Friends of Design!” Justin (Feb 2010 Indesign Essentials)

“Throughout school and college, this is probably the place where I learnt the most. Very good lecturers and training, and amazing teaching. I leave happily knowing that I can work well in InDesign” Lindsay Ansell (Feb 2011 Indesign Essentials)

“I thoroughly enjoyed it!” Natasha Morris, Marketing Associate – Investec (August 2011 InDesign Essential Skills)

“I enjoyed the course a lot and will be back to do Illustrator CS5. I will recommend Friends of Design!” – Mariana Hudson (November 2011 InDesign Essential Skills)

” I enjoyed the fact that the lecturer could relate what we are doing to the “real world” – Laticia Harker – Instructional Designer – (March 2012 InDesign Essential Skills)

“Great lecturer with a sense of humour!” – Sally Shaw – Sally Shaw Interiors – (March 2012 InDesign Essential Skills)

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Pricing also available for customised, on-site and group training.

Finishing Art for Designers

• Course Name: Finishing Art for Designers
• Level 2: Intermediate to Advanced
• Course Code: FINART-100E
• Prerequisite/s: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign Essentials Skills or good working experience in each of the CS4 programs.
• Course Classification: Evening, part time
• Duration: 1 week, 3 evenings
• Times: Mon – Wed, 5:30pm to 8:30pm
• Next Finishing Art course – 23 July 2012 – 25 July 2012
• Then : 22 Oct 2012 – 24 Oct 2012

Intro

From first concept to beautifully printed piece in your hand! There is no need to rely on a third party to make your work ready for repro.

Description

Complete your print jobs with the finesse and expertise of an old-school finishing artist. Work through actual problem files, learn practical first class techniques from experienced graphic designers in 1 lesson from Indesign, 1 lesson from Illustrator and 2 lessons from Photoshop. Hands on techniques to avoid embarrassing and costly print blunders.

What our students say about us

“The course was very good and the lecturer was super. I am more confident knowing what the industry requirements are for finished art – goal achieved” – Marnhe Grove, MG Design ( Finishing Art for Designers, April 2011)

“The lecturer was very warm, and always ensures that everyone in the class is up to speed. She was great at revising concepts!” – Lailah Orrie, Producer and Editor, NHU Africa (Finishing Art for Designers, July 2011)

“It was useful to understand how design impacts printers and printing” – L Harper, Instructional Designer (Finishing Art for Designers, April 2012)

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Adobe Illustrator Essential Skills

Convenient, instructor-led, foundational.

• Course Name: Adobe Illustrator Essential Skills
• Course Code: ILLUS-100E
• Level 1: Basic to Intermediate
• Prerequisite/s: General knowledge of the Win/Mac operating environment.
• Course Classification: Evening, part time
• Duration: 4 weeks, 3 evenings per week
• Times: Mon – Wed, 5:30pm to 8:30pm
• Next course – 19 March 2012 – 11 April 2012
• Then: 25 June 2012 – 18 July 2012

Intro

Adobe Illustrator is a powerful and versatile tool for creating illustrations for the print and Web. By tapping the power of this vector based program, you can create detailed and scalable art for
almost any application.

Description

In this course, you will build a solid foundation in Adobe Illustrator. You will start with a tour of important menus, tools, and palettes, then explore selection tools, drawing tools, layers, the pen tool (a lesson unto itself) as well as transformations/distortions, type tools, and modifying paths and shapes. You’ll never call Illustrator help again.

Practical projects and exercises make this course a must! You will be amazed how quickly you will begin to master this challenging but rewarding vector program.

What our students say about us

“The course exceeded my expectations. It felt like it was good value for money.” – Dwain Bester, Design Studio Owner (June 2010 Illustrator Essentials)

“Illustrator was the cherry on my design milkshake. I’ve done 2 other courses here before and by far this was the best experience I’ve had so far. Thanks FOD for an awesome time!” – Melissa (September 2010 Illustrator Essentials)

“The trainer really brings excitement to the lecture, and is passionate about the topic!” – Ryan Ali, Design Times writer (March 2011 Illustrator Essentials)

“It was really good to learn how to use Adobe Illustrator. Definitely feel much more confident with the program!” – Anon (Sep 2011 Illustrator Essentials)

“I learnt a great deal from this course and feel much more confident using the program – it exceeded my expectation!” – Anon (April 2012 Illustrator Essentials)

“Great course, enjoyed the group and teaching style – I learned a lot too!” - Anon (April 2012 Illustrator Essentials)

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Adobe Photoshop Essential Skills

Convenient, instructor lead, foundational.

• Course Name: Adobe Photoshop Essential Skills
• Course Code: PTS-100E
• Level 1: Basic to Intermediate
• Prerequisite/s: General knowledge of the Win / Mac operating environment.
• Course Classification: Evening, Part time
• Duration: 4 weeks, 12 evenings
• Times: Mon to Wed, 5:30pm to 8:30pm
• Next Course: 30 April 2012 – 23 May 2012
• Then : 30 Jul 2012 – 22 Aug 2012
• Please contact us for details: info@friendsofdesign.net

Intro

Perfect all of your images with non-destructive filters and powerful colour-correction, cloning, and healing tools. Create sophisticated composites easily with breakthrough tools for automatically aligning and blending layers, making quick selections, and more.

Description

Learn to edit images with professional-quality results. It offers a simplified user interface that makes learning and working in the program easier. Print or Web designer? With Photoshop CS5 software you have unrivaled power to edit images, create sophisticated image composites, and the ability to output your final files to a broad range of formats for print and the web. Course includes practical projects.

What our students say about us

“I loved this course, told all my friends about it and laughed almost every lesson!” Kate Stubbs (October 2010 Photoshop Essentials)

“I enjoyed the Photoshop course thoroughly. I kind of knew the basics but the lecturer just enlightened the entire subject. Looking forward to Level 2!” Abdul – Majeed Solomon – DTP Finished Artist (January 2011 Photoshop Essentials)

“With the knowledge I gained in this course, I will definitely be coming back for more modules!” – Anothony Mbusi (July 2011 Photoshop Essential Skills)

“Very enriching course, I don’t fear Photoshop anymore, and feel like I am equipped to go forth and Photoshop!”  - Marinella Avvakoumides (July 2011 Photoshop Essential Skills)

“Explains the tools in a clear, concise way at a very good pace!” – Carly Warren (October 2011 Photoshop Essential Skills)

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