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Upcoming Courses and Training

Adobe Creative Cloud Courses

Unlock the power of vector graphics with our Adobe Illustrator course. Perfect for aspiring designers, this course covers the essentials of creating stunning vector images, ideal for logos and illustrations. You’ll master anchor points, paths, and the use of selection tools and modifier keys. Explore workspaces, object manipulation, swatch creation, and text formatting. Gain hands-on experience with the shape, transform, paintbrush, and pen tools to craft professional logos, backgrounds, and simple illustrations. Elevate your design skills and bring your creative visions to life.
#36056, Online Live, 9/30-10/28, Monday, 5:30-8:30 PM Instructor: Maribeth Fleischmann
Master professional document creation in our Design Processes and Procedures course. Learn industry best practices using Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign to seamlessly blend vector and raster images into sophisticated layouts. Focus on efficient print production workflows while completing projects, including 2-color, 4-color, and multi-page documents. Explore class topics or propose your own. Intermediate experience with Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign is required, such as completion of introductory courses. Elevate your design skills and produce polished, print-ready work.
#36888, Online Live, 10/2-10/30, Wednesday, 5:30-8:30 PM Instructor: Maribeth Fleischmann
Master the use of Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud to edit and enhance your digital images and give them a professional polish. This course includes simple, step-by-step instructions to guide you through the many tools that make this software so popular and unique.
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Instructor-Moderated - Online

Graphic Design Courses

Learn how to concept and design logos, flyers, brochures, videos, social media posts and more for your workplace or small business with the user-friendly platforms Canva, Adobe Express and YouTube Studio.
#36162, Online Live, 10/15-11/12, Tuesday, 5:30-8:30 PM Instructor: Justin King
In this course, students will learn basic skills needed to function in the world of graphic and web design. Among the topics covered in this course will be design fundamentals, color theory, raster vs. vector imaging concepts, and Mac OS vs. Windows interfaces. Students will learn how Adobe Creative Cloud works and learn why they would use specific Adobe tools or their open source alternatives to solve various design problems. This course will prepare students to take the Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign Introduction courses.
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