Adobe®
Our classes are designed for students that need to express their ideas with precision; work fluidly across media; and produce exceptional results in print, web, interactive, and mobile design. Create eye-catching images and graphics, layout stunning pages, build standards-based websites, create interactive content without writing code, and extend page layouts for viewing with eBook reading devices.
Adobe® Acrobat Level 1
Acrobat 9   |
Acrobat X |
Course Objective: You will use Adobe® Acrobat® 9.0 Pro to create and manage PDF documents.
Target Student: This course is designed for office professionals who need to create and share PDF files and PDF Portfolios.
Adobe® Acrobat Level 2
| Acrobat 9 |
Acrobat X |
Course Objective: You will use Adobe® Acrobat® 9.0 Pro to convert documents to PDF files, enhance and customize PDF documents for interactive use online, and prepare them for printing.
Target Student: The target student for this course are office professionals who want to employ the advanced productivity and creative features of Acrobat 9.0 Pro.
Adobe® Dreamweaver CS5 Level 1
Course Objective: You will design, build, and upload a website.
Target Student: This course is intended for novice web designers, web developers, website designers, and graphic artists with some programming background who need to build simple websites and want to utilize the features of Adobe Dreamweaver CS5. The course covers the Adobe Web Communication using Dreamweaver CS5 objectives, and is intended to help prepare students to take the Adobe Certified Associate exam.
Adobe® Dreamweaver CS5 Level 2
Course Objective: You will develop professional-looking web pages using the Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS5 application.
Target Student: This course is intended for web developers, designers, and administrators who are familiar with the basic tools and features of Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS5 and want to expand on existing knowledge to gain intermediate to advanced skills for creating and maintaining more robust interactive websites. This course covers the Adobe® Certified Associate and Adobe® Certified Expert exam objectives, and is intended to help prepare students to take the Adobe Certified Associate exam and Adobe Certified Expert exam as well.
Adobe® Flash CS5 Level 1
Course Objective: You will create and manipulate a wide variety of objects ranging from simple graphic designs to complex animation sequences using the Adobe® Flash® CS5 application.
Target Student: This course is intended for designers and developers who are new to Flash. It covers the Adobe Rich Media Communication Using Flash Professional CS5 objectives, and is intended to help prepare students to take the Adobe Certified Associate exam.
Adobe® Flash CS5 Level 2
Course Objective: You will plan, design, and develop complex Flash projects using the Adobe® Flash® CS5 application.
Target Student: This course is intended for users who want to expand their introductory skills in developing animations and working with ActionScript™ 3.0. This course covers the Adobe Certified Associate exam objectives, and is intended to help prepare students to take the Adobe Certified Associate exam.
Adobe® Illustrator CS5 Level 1
Course Objective: You will use Adobe Illustrator CS5 to create illustrations that include graphics and text.
Target Student: This course is intended for designers, publishers, pre-press professionals, marketing communications professionals, or people switching to a design job or taking on design responsibilities and who need to use Illustrator to create illustrations, logos, advertisements, or other graphic documents.
Adobe® Illustrator CS5 Level 2
Course Objective: You will create complex illustrations, manage color across a range of devices, work with graphs and variables, control how illustrations appear on print and the web, and preview them on mobile devices.
Target Student: This course is intended for designers, publishers, prepress professionals, marketing communications professionals, or people switching to a design job or taking on design responsibilities, who need to use Illustrator to create illustrations, logos, advertisements, or other graphic documents. They will have some previous experience with Illustrator.
Adobe® Photoshop CS5 Level 1
Course Objective: You will understand and use the various elements in the Photoshop interface so as to efficiently work with the software. You will use the different tools in Photoshop for selecting parts of images and identify the need for having layers in a Photoshop document. You will also organize the different components of the design as layers. With the layered Photoshop document thus created, you will apply layer effects and other special effects in order to enhance the appearance of the design. Once the design is finalized, you will save images in both print and web formats.
Target Student: Level 1 is intended for a diverse audience including, but not limited to, computer-savvy professionals who want to create and enhance graphics for marketing materials, newsletters, blogs, and websites; photographers who want to work with and prepare photos for print or web; students with an interest in graphic design or those with novice design skills; and professionals who want to learn and use Photoshop as a complement to other CS5 programs, such as Illustrator. The course covers the Adobe Visual Communication using Photoshop objectives, and is intended to help prepare students to take the Adobe Certified Associate exam.
Adobe® Photoshop CS5 Level 2
Course Objective: You will enhance your ability to create accurate masks and image effects, retouch images, work with video files, automate repetitive tasks, and integrate with other Adobe applications.
Target Student: Level 2 is intended for intermediate and advanced users of Photoshop. The course covers the Adobe Visual Communication, using Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop ACE exam objectives, and is intended to help prepare students to take the Adobe Certified Associate and Adobe Certified Expert exams.
Adobe® Photoshop CS5 Web Production
Course Objective: You will set Photoshop’s unit preferences and save files in different formats to see how well each format balances image quality with file size reduction. You will then calibrate your system’s color display. You will also use Photoshop as part of creating finished web pages, export individual slices, and create an HTML web page that displays a table containing the sliced sections. Finally, you will create and optimize animations for the web and mobile devices.
Target Student: This course is intended for web professionals with a basic knowledge of Photoshop, who are interested in using Photoshop for web production. This course covers the Adobe® Certified Associate and Adobe® Certified Expert exam objectives, and is intended to help prepare students to take the Adobe Certified Associate exam and Adobe Certified Expert exam.
Adobe® InDesign CS5 Level 1
Course Objective: You will utilize Adobe® InDesign® CS5 to create and deliver eye-catching printed documents.
Target Student: This course is intended for students who want to explore the basic tools and features of InDesign for creating professional page layout and designs.
Adobe® InDesign CS5 Level 2
Course Objective: You will use the advanced features of Adobe® InDesign® CS5 to create and design content for the web and print.
Target Student: This course is intended for students who want to expand their entry-level knowledge of Adobe InDesign by using advanced features and collaboration tools.