Bespoke Digital Design Training Courses
Many of the Adobe Training courses run as Bespoke Digital Design Training Courses where content is mixed and matched from existing course overviews or specific criteria is given by the client themselves.
These design training courses have been organised for virtually every area in both public and private sector from designers, content creators, tender writers, the print industry, publishing, finance, construction and through to education.
Adobe Effects Training Course
It was good to be running an Adobe After Effects Training Course again and we thought it might be nice to update this particular post with some animation training news. We are running this course both as Introduction to After Effects and also as custom workshops of which the latter was actually one of the most recent courses.
This After Effects Course was for a company based in the Cotswolds, Cirencester to be precise, who specialise in medical replacements for joints such as hips, elbows etc.
Their marketing team already had some experience in Effects but wanted to expand on their current skills. Effectively they were looking to create splash screen animations and short social media reels of around 30 seconds to a minute long.
We covered things such as Keyframes in great depth combining them with the graph editor for great control and to smooth the effects.
Keyframes in After Effects?
We work with keyframes a lot on the After Effects course and this one was no exception. In their most basic function Keyframes let you define a start and end point for many effects including transitions, motions and masks to name a few.
Once the asset (image, video, audio) has been added to the timeline you then click the stop watch next to the action you want to start and the keyframe is activated. You then move along the timeline to the position where you want the action to stop and set a second keyframe.
An example of these might be speeding up or slowing down a section of frames and then returning to normal. You can see where the keyframe is set in the example shown below.
Did you know there are four types of Frames in After Effects?
Linear Keyframes
Continuous Bezier
Bezier Keyframes
Hold Keyframes
Find out more about keyframes
We actually did quite a lot of work on this course with keyframes in particular when working with time remapping.
Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop Training for schools
We do lots of tailored Adobe Training for schools and this wasLightroom Course and Adobe Photoshop course for a school in Lincolnshire. It was hosted for the Photography and Media departments.
It was a straightforward approach to the Lightroom Training with a basic overview of its tools and tabs and how these could be adapted and used for the students. It was much the same approach to the Photoshop training element where we looked at layers, selections and special techniques. There were three people on the Adobe Lightroom Training in Lincolnshire each with differing skill-sets and areas of interest so it was decided to split the day up into two with the Adobe Photoshop Training in the morning and Lightroom Course in the afternoon.
A print company with a number of delegates with varying skill sets looking to focus on both print production and updating current skill sets. The prime objective was for the delegates to be able to get accurate colour prints out from Photoshop for their printers predominantly their litho printer. Therefore the Photoshop Course focused on quite specific print techniques including colour separations, half tones, spot colour management and profiles.
Photoshop Poster Design Course in the Midlands
This Photoshop Course was held onsite at Rufford Golf Club in Newark. The course criteria was specific, the dlelegates wanted to create, design and publish their own posters. In effect bringing the whole process in-house and save the company some money.
There were three people all at introductory level on the Photoshop Training which was run over two days. We began at the very beginning then over the course built up on the design side by using vector shapes, the pen tool and working with blending and opacity masking.
Adobe MasterClass Training & Adobe Captivate Course
This was combined bespoke training, the five day Adobe MasterClass plus a one day tailored Adobe Captivate Course (this particular Captivate Training focused on working with historic PowerPoint slides}. These were imported into Captivate and new eLearning content modules were generated.
The whole objective was to produce professional and effective content on a global eLearning platform using Adobe Captivate
