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Adobe® Photoshop™ for Photographers (Retouching Techniques)

Are you an aspiring or working photographer wanting to learn how to use Adobe® Photoshop™ to retouch and enhance your images? Want to be able to create incredible effects using colour, glow and compositing effects, among others? We will show you how to do this and much more, from simple and subtle lightening and darkening effects to creating full scale, surreal images. The creative possibilities are simply endless, and you will end up impressing yourself and your clients.

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QuarkXpress to Adobe® Indesign™ Migration

Thinking of switching from QuarkXpress to Adobe® Indesign™? You’ve made the right choice, as have many others, based on the fantastic and wide ranging capabilities of Adobe® Indesign™. We will show you how to make this transition with ease and efficiency, reducing time consuming and costly mistakes and giving you the freedom to explore Adobe® Indesign™’s many sophisticated layout tools, ranging from extraordinary typographic capabilities, innovative graphics handling and page layout features as well as its extensive interactivity tools.

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FreeHand to Adobe® Indesign™ Migration

Some traditional designers remain lost when converting their workflows from Freehand to Adobe® Indesign™, and often make time consuming and costly mistakes along the way. We will show you how to convert your Freehand files with ease and efficiency, freeing your time and ultimately allowing you to “just get on with it” using Adobe® Indesign™. Layouts and spreads are done with the ease, giving you the freedom to explore the many more creative layout solutions that this software has to offer.

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Freehand to Adobe® Illustrator™ Migration

Want to be able to convert your technical Freehand illustrations into Adobe® Illustrator™ but are daunted as to the how’s and where’s? Our Freehand to Adobe® Illustrator™ Migration course will how you how to do just that with the minimum of fuss and, more importantly, with accuracy and precision by keeping close to the original artwork. This means increased efficiency, and more opportunity to create visually stunning digital work using the advanced tools of Adobe® Illustrator™. Increase your output exponentially, book your seat now and never look back! Now is the time to master the creative industry’s new favourite design tool : Adobe® Illustrator™.

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Finishing Art for Designers

Avoid embarrassing and costly print blunders by learning how to complete your print jobs perfectly without the need for a third party. From first concept to beautifully printed piece in your hands, our Finishing Art class experts will show you how to work through actual problem files, and give you invaluable tips and techniques to finish your work with finesse and expertise. Our experienced graphic designers will work through a lesson from Adobe® Indesign™, a lesson from Adobe® Illustrator™ and two lessons from Adobe® Photoshop™, so you get a thorough tour of preparing your graphics for successful output.

This class is a must for any aspiring designer, so don’t delay, book your seat now!