One of the features covered in the Lightroom Course is how to Add Your Logo in Lightroom easily by using the nifty little Identity Plate feature. Which, of course is absolutely perfect for anyone who records Lightroom Tutorials and video or if you showcase images to clients.
From a business point of view onsite training courses are full of benefits. The first one is they are effective, they are flexible and a cost effective way to train one or more staff members at times and dates to suit you.
In InDesign you work with frames (not in all cases, but mostly) to position text and graphics on one or more pages. It can be used to create numerous documents from flyers to multi-page catalogues that are then sent out for print production or output to digital. But it is much more than that. If you are an author you could use InDesign to export your book to an ePubs format where it can then published on numerous digital readers including Amazon Kindles or perhaps you have a business presentation well, use the interactive elements in InDesign to create your visual presentation.
The choices are………………………..huge!
Looking for the Control Bar in InDesign CC 2019? The control bar no longer appears automatically when you install or update Creative Cloud. It now needs to be manually turned on from the Window menu. Why? Because Adobe have introduced the the new InDesign CC 2019 Properties Panel and this opens on the InDesign load. Just like the Control Bar the Properties Panel is also context sensitive and changes according to what is currently selected.
Useful but oft ignored is the Split Windows feature in InDesign which gives two views of the same document. For example, one pain in the neck of working in InDesign is when highlighting the text to change the text colour it’s difficult to see the new shade without turning off the highly. That’s because all colours are inverted when selected as can be seen in the screen shot below, the text looks purple in the screenshot but in actual fact it’s green. Most people deselect to view the new colour which can be time consuming if you want to skim through a number of different shades to find the right one. There is an easy solution to this known as Split Window in InDesign.
So how can you preview your text colours without committing a number of selection acrobatics? One of the things shown on the InDesign Training Courses is a neat little feature known as Split Window which is ideal for previewing text colour amongst other things.
Adobe CC 2019 – During October Adobe released its latest version – 2019 which as usual contains some useful and not so useful features so lets take a look at one particular feature in the three most popular pieces of software, Photoshop, InDesign & Illustrator. Lets take a look at Photoshop first.
Marketing are always creative users of Creative Cloud and Photoshop and produce extensively for print, web and social media and will probably find this particular new feature more than useful. Adobe have included a new frame tool which is used to create placeholders for images. Placeholders sit in the document until you want to drop in an image.
For example if you have a regular newsletter or banner in which only the content changes every month whilst the layout stays static the Frame Tool would be ideal for you because you can update the image easily without moving or interfering with the layout itself.
Onsite Adobe training course /s otherwise known as in-house training are one of the most cost effective ways of delivering software training to staff. It is delivered on your premises at times and dates to suit you, your staff and their schedules.
Because these are closed courses only delivered to your company the content can be completely tailored around you. This means together we can identify your exact training requirements and put together your training step by step. If you have examples of exactly what you would like to achieve on the course send them across prior to the course and we can incorporate them into the training.
Onsite courses are an ideal solution for one 2 one’s, small groups of mixed ability delegates or a complete team roll-over from other software such as QuarkXpress to InDesign. This type of training means that the delegate /s can work closely with the trainer to achieve their objectives.
Over the years I have delivered onsite adobe training courses across the UK to a varied group of clients including Iceland Foods Ltd, Henry Ford Academy (Centre of Excellence) Daventry, Bravissimo, Morrisons Supermarkets PLC, DWP (Department of Work & Pensions), Trust Pilot London, George @ Asda, National Design Academy, thinkBigger / Channel Four, University of Nottingham and many, many more.
Why not take a look at what they and others have to say about their training on the Testimonials Page
Pricing is more than competitive starting at £275.00 for the first person on the course then £75.00 for each subsequent person. For four people that works out at £500 per day, £125.00 each.
*Please note depending on location travel expenses may be incurred.
Only time for a quick post today due to a an outstanding workload at the moment. Last week saw me in both London and Lutterworth and next week I’m off to Preston, Lancashire then finally delivering a two day Illustrator Course in Nottingham. Phew. So what gives with the Camtasia Course in London recently?
Again a tailored eLearning course for a client in Canary Wharf but apart from the lovely client it was the outstanding views. One of the great perks of this job is the travel which presents so many opportunities for mobile photo’s.
One of the things I often get asked about in an initial training email query or voice chat is what would I expect to be able to do or be able to achieve after a days training. It’s a difficult one to answer really as the results are so broad. It’s normally down to you and what you want to achieve in the InDesign Training Course Work?
Anyway I thought it might be helpful if I showed some examples of work from delegates on some of the courses and I’m going to start it off with a newsletter spread designed by a delegate on the InDesign Introduction Course.
I love running graphic design training courses especially when you see what people create in the space of one day. I love this image that was converted to Black and White on a recent Photoshop Course by one of the delegates. Who, incidentally had never used the software before.
See the before and after shots.
Serif Affinity Photo Training Courses. Affinity Photo is Serif’s answer to Photoshop. It can be used for many of the same things as Photoshop including retouching, restoring and manipulating photographs. The two have some similiarities but it has to be said the Affinity Photo does contain some unique and interesting workflows.
Price. Unlike Photoshop which is a subscription based payment model Serif Affinity Photo has a one off payment – then it belongs to you, forever. No more fees, ever and you are not locked into a subscription based payment model. It costs in the region of £50.00. Although not every Photoshop feature is available for the money and provides a realistic image editing alternative.