Our 5 day short courses are intended teach beginners both fundemental and advanced concepts for several popular software packages. They are PhotoShop, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver and AfterEffects.

The 5 day PHOTOSHOP course will cover the following topics:-

Layers and layer management, type, effects, Beziere tools, file importtion and exporting, masks and alpha channels, selections, illustration technique, cloning and brush tools, 3D effects

The 5 day INDESIGN course will cover the following topics:-

All aspects of design and typography necessary fro creating brochures, magazines and books. Hyperlinks, printing and the creation of PDF files, style sheets. This course offers, in effect, essential graphic design training.

The 5 day FLASH course will cover the following topics:-

Animation, typography, buttons and interactivity, symbols and instances, morphing text and images, unique special effest

The 5 day DREAMWEAVER course will cover the following topics:-

Basic HTML design, Cascading Style Sheets, buttons and hyperlinks, incorporating images and movies, navigation and web site design and control, uploading to servers. During the course we will create a functioning web site.

The 5 day AFTER EFFECTS course will cover the following topics:-

Importing stills and movies, layers and composition, nested compositions, advanced special effects, animation and cameras, setting the export codecs and quality, text, alpha channels and Z (depth) buffers

Training starts at 10 in the morning and finishes at 6 in the evening. There is a one hour break for lunch.