Users explore how Acrobat technology works within the structure of today's workplace and receive a solid foundation for applying Acrobat features to these real-world situations. The hands-on curriculum specifically addresses the demands of users who want to create visually rich documents that communicate effectively with clients and colleagues in all industries.
Adobe Illustrator is the premier vector drawing program in the world. In this class students will produce engaging vector content using text and graphics with an eye toward outputting in formats appropriate for print and the web. In addition to teaching essentials, the course focuses on teaching best practices for creating vector content.
Illustrator Level 2 for people who need to learn advanced features in Illustrator regarding creating graphics for print or the web.
Adobe InDesign Level I (2 days) is an introductory to intermediate level course that provides those who are new to Adobe InDesign the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to create rich page content.
Using Adobe InDesign, you may have created documents such as brochures, posters, labels, newletteers, etc. In this course, you will use advanced InDesign techniques to enhance the look and functionality of your documents and to manage and layout longer documents.
This class is for Photoshop users who want to learn more about image retouching and employ advanced techniques in color correction and custom imaging, appropriate for print or web. Learn effective and advanced techniques for color corecting images; work and learn all the details regarding all the different type of masks in Photoshop. Learn how to batch process repetitive tasks. Learn how Photoshop can be used with video. Working with Camera RAW files and Photoshop Digital Negative fiels. Also learn "slicing" how to convert an Adobe Photoshop file into a web page layout. "
Students will produce engaging raster (bitmap) content using text and graphics. In addition to teaching essentials, the course focuses on teaching best practices for creating raster content.
In this class you'll learn how to create motion graphics and visual effects used for broadcast, film, online content and mobile devices. After Effects CS6 has added many performance boosters allowing you to meet your deadlines faster. There is a new 3D engine (supporting fully ray-traced text and shapes) for extrusions, a 3D camera tracker, variable mask feathering and support to convert Illustrator (or EPS) vector art into shape layers. After Effects is also used for green screen editing. See how to take live video, shot on a green screen background, drop out the green and replace the background with new video or a still image. What is the difference between Premiere and After Effects? The answer is this: Premiere does hard-core video editing, shortening clips, replacing audio, simple transitions, multi-camera editing and export of your final work. After Effects is the application that allows you to integrate moving video with still or animated effects, such as titles, 3D-motion graphics, filters that can create radio waves, particles, distortion and shatter effects.
AIR:Building Desktop Applications with Flex is a two day course designed to equip Flex developers with the skills needed to develop robust desktop applications using the Adobe Integrated Runtime..
An inclusive class that demonstrations the various ways that Camtasia can be used: from product demonstrations and elarning to video podcasts. In this instructor-led training class, students will learn how to teach and demonstrate visually with Camtasia Studio. You will learn to: answer questions with screen recordings explaining how to use software and Web sites; post PowerPoint presentations on the Web, add Picture-in-Picture functionality for virtual learning; demonstrate features, new versions of software, Web sites and other applications, and rollout online training to an entire company or general audience and let them learn at their own pace.
This class moves beyond the basics of Captivate and into more sohisticated concepts. See the Course Outline for the specific concepts covered.
Using Adobe Captivate provides students with the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to develop and build elearning modules including software demonstrations and interactive simulations with Captivate. In addition to learning key concepts, students also learn best practices for creating and publishing Captivate projects.
Web developers have relied upon awkward tricks and excess code to craft web page appearance using HTML alone. Now, with the adoption of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) those days are gone, and HTML can go back to doing what it does best: organizing and structuring web page content.In web design work CSS is used to set text styles, colors and even layouts for your web pages. Incorporating CSS into your site development simplifies your HTML, eases the burden of managing multi-page websites, and empowers you to create engaging, attractive page designs. It is an essential, not optional. technology for creating web sites today.
For years, web developers have turned to Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) to set fonts, colors and text styles for their web pages.The immense benefits of using CSS include sitewide control and flexibility. Still, with the power to control all aspects of design from the page layout to major components such as navigation bars and user forms, CSS remains largely under-utilized. This class will take you to the next level of working effectively with CSS not only to style text but to work with layouts as well including information on all the positioning properties in CSS and when to use them to best effect, and how CSS can allow you to rapidly change a layout just by chaning your CSS code.
A one day class that gets you up and running with Contribute, allowing you to make edits and changes to existing web sites.
Adobe Dreamweaver Web Design Complete provides attendees with the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to build and manage professional websites using Dreamweaver. This is the course to take if you're using Dreamweaver and you've never created a web site before, or perhaps you've used previous versions of Dreamweaver and need to refresh your knowledge, or you've used other visual web site creation tools and now want to use Dreamweaver. This class also provides you with substantial informaion on using Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), two essential technologies for creating any web site. We recommend this class for people using Dreamweaver to create web sites and do not have the time or budget to also take html and CSS classes. If not using Dreamweaver you may want to consider taking our html and CSS classes.
Fast Track to ColdFusion MX 7 is a 3-day course that provides experienced Web developers with the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to start building and maintaining dynamic and interactive web applications using ColdFusion MX 7.
Fireworks: Web Graphic Creation is a two-day course that provides Web Designers / Graphic Creators with the knowledge and hands-on practice needed to create rich web graphics. You will learn how to use tools in Fireworks to create and edit web graphics with both vector and bitmap images, work with layers, build buttons, add rollovers, slice images, and optimize and export graphics.Other recommended classes: Dreamweaver Website Development.
A thorough hands-on investigation and exploration of the various ways to use Catalyst to create both interactive content and rich application interfaces without the need to write a single line of code.
Flash Level 1 is designed to teach a wide spectrum of people how to design and deliver cross-platform, low-bandwidth Flash productions that can include animations, interactivity, special effects, sound and video for presentations delivered on the internet or by stand-alone player (not on the internet). It is hands-on, task-based course, with students learning by doing. Along with covering the essentials of Flash (see our "Objectives" and "Course Outline" for more information), the course focuses on best practices and design, stressing the importance of usability, accessibility, optimization, and performance. It also includes an introduction to Actionscript.This is our most popular class.Other classes to consider after this class: Flash Level 2 Actionscript; Flash Video Development. Here's the bsic technique we use to teach this class: first we describe a new concept, then we demonstrate the new concept, then students work with the new concept in an easy, fun, informal way, questions are asked and answered; then students and instructor apply the new concpet to a real-world task/exercise. More questions, more answers. Review and Summary. Read some of our testimonials for lpeople who have taken this class: http://www.multigroup.com/testimonials.html
This class provides attendees with the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to create dynamically generated event-driven animation and interactive productions with Flash. The course teaches fundamental programming techniques. It begins by introducing core concepts including instance names, variables, functions, properties, and methods; then proceeds through conditions, loops, event handling, and animating with ActionScript. Special emphasis is also placed on using the concepts introduced to various real-world tasks including elearning, simulations and rich internet applications. in addition to the workbook with CD, everyone attending the class will get additional example files illustrating a variety of Flash concepts. This class introduces Flash users to creating interactive Flash files by programming with ActionScript, including using ActionScript to animate, process data, play sounds, load in dynamic content, and manipulate components and more with Actionscript. This class is for anyone who wants to understand and master Actionscript for whatever interactive Flash production they hope create.
Flash video files (.flv files) are the hottest video format on the web today. Used by You Tube and countless other sites, Flash video has the distinct advantage of working with the Flash Player, the plug-in technology that is widespread across the internet.Before Flash video, people coming to a site using video would be confronted with a bewildering choice of options: “Do you want to view the video using Widows Media Play”; “Do you want to view the video using RealPlayer;” “Do you want to view the video using QuickTime”…most of the time people would throw up their hands and walk away.Because Flash video works with the Flash Player, which most people already have, deploying a Flash video file is seamless and easy. Just click the play button and the video plays, no need to ask confusing questions.This class provides students the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to produce and deliver high-quality Flash Video over the internet using Flash. Topics include developing a rich media player using the Flash pre-built components as well as creating a custom player using ActionScript; using high-quality encoding techniques, including the new Flash Video codec enabling the delivery of higher quality video over lower bandwidth connections; creating live video; and exporting the new alpha-channeling and video color filters. This course will focus on delivering the best experience possible with Flash Video, exploring bandwidth scaling, progressive downloading, and streaming with the Flash Media Server and Flash Video Streaming Services.
Sophisticated and dynamic websites employ numerous advanced HTML techniques. Perhaps you need help reigning in those crazy tables, or you want to spice things up with embedded animations or videos. Maybe you need to frame multiple documents together or you want to learn the tags needed to create text fields, buttons, and other form elements. This class equips you with the HTML tools needed to make your websites interactive, accessible, and easier to manage.
All web pages, from blogs and wikis, to corporate sites and online retailers, are built upon the same underlying code structure: HTML.Because the Hypertext Markup Language serves as the foundation for web content of all types, learning HTML is the starting point for any person who wants to craft new pages, edit existing web content, or design web interfaces. Note: if you're using Adobe Dreamweaver to create or edit web pages and web sites we recommend you take our Dreamweaver Complete class which also covers html while working with Dreamweaver.
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Flex is quickly becoming the Web developers tool of choice for Rapid Application Development. Our Introduction to Flash Builder 4.0 class is designed for both the advanced programmer that is new to the Flash Platform and the beginning programmer. Students will learn how to develop Flex applications using the Flash Builder Integrated Development Environment. The concentration is on using the MXML language used by Flash Builder to create interfaces for Web applications including navigation controls, forms, images, text and special effects.
A class for people who want to begin working with the technologies for creating dynaimic web sites with Dreamweaver including server side scripting languages and SQL (Structured Query Langage). In addition attendees will learn the basics of working with a database and learn how to make calls to the database to populate a page with data (text and images) coming from the database,.In addition, the class will demonstrate the functionality of such frequently used features as creating a comment field which will send an email to a recipient, creating a password field, and much more.
Flex is quickly becoming the Web developers tool of choice for Rapid Application Development. Our Introduction to Flash Builder 4.0 class is designed for both the advanced programmer that is new to the Flash Platform and the beginning programmer. Students will learn how to develop Flex applications using the Flash Builder Integrated Development Environment. The concentration is on using the MXML language used by Flash Builder to create interfaces for Web applications including navigation controls, forms, images, text and special effects.
An introduction to Javascript for web design including the use of the JQuery framework.
The course introduces and teaches techniques for developing print and interactive forms using Adove LiveCycle Designer 8 and 8.2 (ES or not) thgrough significant amoutns of thoroughly guided hands-on practice,
A 2-day class in video editing essentials with Adobe Premiere.