Graphic Design Training Courses

Our Graphic Design Training Courses include the three major players in Adobe Creative Cloud, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator and is available either as an Online Graphic Design course with a live instructor or held onsite at your premises UK wide.

During the course you cover various parts of Creative Cloud using them in the same way design professionals do every day. As this is an Introduction to Graphic Design Course and we specialise in tailored design training any of the Creative Cloud apps can be mixed and matched with other more advanced Adobe Courses to create tailored training.

Graphic Design Course
who is it for?

This Graphic Design Course is ideal for anyone looking to acquire design skills either for career progression or small business owners looking to bring their design in-house. It is perfect for freelance designers, content creators and just about anyone looking to get a firm grip on Adobe Creative Cloud software.

It is suitable for large company roll outs, small company group sessions or as a 121. 

Graphic Design Course
what will I learn?

You will learn to work with the three main parts of Adobe Creative Cloud including InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator. We are happy to mix and match the software and levels to create tailored design courses to suit your individual objectives.

So if you would prefer to swap out the Illustrator day and replace it with Premier Pro, Acrobat or something else then that’s fine with us.

Photoshop Training
Graphic Design Training

On the Photoshop Training day you learn how to work with images by enhancing, recolouring and preparing them for professional output.

Learn the tools and techniques needed to create images for print, digital and social media.

It is an introduction to Photoshop Course but we are happy to mix and match the content to suit you.

Just let us know if there is anything you’d like to include or remove at the time of booking.

You will learn how to create collages, social media images and to output your photographs as high quality professional images to print and digital.

Full Photoshop Training Content can be viewed at the bottom of the screen:

• Work with Photoshop Tools, Panels & Interface
• Image Size & Image Resolution
• Understand Layers and None-Destructive workflows
• Create, edit and use accurate colour
• Swatches & Gradients
• Smart Objects & Smart Filters
• Select & Mask /Select & Masks Properties Panel
• Make precise selections, add to and remove from selections
• Prepare images for both print and web output

InDesign Course
Graphic Design Training

The InDesign Training day shows how to create and layout a variety of different documents including flyers, brochures and interactive PDF’s. You will work with grids for accurate layout, use paragraph styles for consistency in your text and add images for message & visual appeal.

We usually include and work with the images you created on the Photoshop Training day. This lets us show you how images work in InDesign and the natural flow between the two apps to give your documents a more visually appealing look.

You will also look at more advanced ways to handle images including text wraps with the text wrap panel and clipping paths.

Because this is part of a Graphic Design Training Course you will also learn to work with colour, branding and libraries to create highly communicative, branded and attractive professional documents. 

We look at creating colour swatches from inside InDesign using the Capture App and other tools plus we work with external design resources to create a vast array of different colour swatches and matching text styles

As we near the end of the InDesign Training day we look at creating basic interactive PDF documents and using Package and Preflight to export the InDesign documents for maximum quality and accessibility.

View our InDesign Interactive Training

Full InDesign Training Content can be viewed further down the screen:

• Edit & Update existing documents
• Create New Documents (including bleed, slug, margins & columns)
• Colour, Swatches & Gradient Panels
• Colour Sampling Tools & Matching Colour
• Use Grids for precise layouts
• Character & Paragraph Styles
• Pages & Master Pages
• Bullets & Numbering
• Create, Design & Publish effective and communicative layouts and spreads
• Publish to various outputs including InDesign, PDF
• Export to ePubs, JPEG 

Illustrator Training
Graphic Design Training

Adobe Illustrator training part of the course shows you how to work with vector graphics to produce vibrant colourful artwork for both digital media, print and the web. On the Illustrator course you will learn how to use type to produce individual logo design, create vector based social media icons, work with charts and create basic infographics.

Full Illustrator Training Content can be viewed from the menu at the side to:

• Work with Illustrator Tools, Panels & Interface
• Understand and use selection tools in Illustrator
• Create, edit and manipulate geometric shapes
• Drawing tools, pen, anchor points, pathfinder
• Use Illustrator’s layout tools including Grids, Guides, Smart Guides
• Illustrator Type Tools /Create Logos
• Working with Images
• Exporting /Printing to Print & Web

Online Graphic Design Training Courses

This is also available as an Online Graphic Design Training Course with a virtual live instructor. You will have direct contact with your instructor throughout the whole of your course both via video and sharing screens in real time. All our digital design courses are available online. 

If you have any questions about Online Adobe Training please do not hesitate to pick up the phone or drop us an email. 

Onsite Graphic Design Training Courses

An onsite design training course for large team roll outs, 121 sessions, company groups /workshops. There are a number of benefits to onsite training but the main ones are: 

• The training is focused entirely on your and your company requirements

• No traveling involved for you or your team saving travel & expenses

• Cheaper than traditional training

• The approach is focused specifically on you and your specific needs this is not a generic one size fits all course. 

• Prior to the training you chat with me about your aims, content preferences and levels of delegate /s knowledge

• InDesign course is tailored to suit you or your team

• Flexible dates & times to suit you

The training is run over 3 days and can be broken down into a combination of days suit you. This could be two days Photoshop Training, and on day InDesign Training or one day Illustrator Course and a two day InDesign Crash Course. As with all the Adobe Training Courses it has a very fluid approach and can be tailored to suit individual need.

Again, please don’t hesitate to get in touch for an informal chat.

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