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Design Projects for Adobe Illustrator CS2
Practice while you learn the fundamentals of Adobe Illustrator CS2 with useful design projects. Master Illustrator's drawing tools, including the Pen tool. Learn how to use Illustrator's many image-editing features. Reinforce your Illustrator skills as you explore the elements of composition, color, and typography, along with secrets of good graphic design.

Introduction to CorelDRAW X3
Enhance your company newsletter, logo, or letterhead, boost your personal Web page, or design an original greeting card using dazzling images you’ve created with CorelDRAW. Learn how to add brilliant colors, designs and exquisite text to your original artwork and then export them with ease to other computer applications, such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat, and the Web.

Photoshop Elements 6.0 for the Digital Photographer
Bring out the best in your images! Adobe's Photoshop Elements 6.0 provides the tools you need for quick fixes and detailed enhancement. Take control as you discover the features of this award-winning package specifically designed for photo enthusiasts. Created for those with no image-editing experience, this class will take you from novice to accomplished user. Upgrade students are welcome as well!

Photoshop Elements 6.0 for the Digital Photographer II
Adobe's Photoshop Elements 6.0 is full of outstanding features for advanced editing. Once you've learned the basics, you're ready to see how they all work together for detailed editing, building collages, restoring old photos, and more. This class is designed for those already familiar with cropping, printing, and color adjustments, as well the various selection tools. If you're ready to take your photo-editing skills to the next level, join us and see what more you can do with the advanced features of Elements.

Design Projects with Adobe Illustrator CS
Practice while you learn the fundamentals of Adobe Illustrator CS2 with useful design projects. Master Illustrator's drawing tools, including the Pen tool. Learn how to use Illustrator’s many image-editing features. Reinforce your Illustrator skills as you explore the elements of composition, color, and typography, along with secrets of good graphic design.

Introduction to Microsoft Publisher 2007
In this hands-on, project-oriented class for beginners, you'll learn how to design, create, and publish a wide variety of stunning documents using Microsoft Publisher 2007. If you're looking for a quick, easy, and inexpensive way to produce professional brochures, newsletters, flyers, or even a Web site, Microsoft Publisher 2007 is your solution! This affordable and functionality-packed program can take you to levels of design expertise you never dreamed possible.

Introduction to Microsoft Publisher 2003
Learn how Microsoft's comprehensive, yet easy-to-use, desktop publishing package can help you create and publish a wide variety of stunning documents. This hands on, project oriented course will give you valuable experience in designing, developing, and publishing newsletters, Web sites, and brochures. And if you're new to graphic design, you'll receive plenty of expert guidance in selecting and using images, colors, and layouts.

Intermediate Microsoft Powerpoint 2003
Learn from an expert and experienced trainer to work smarter in the world's most popular presentation program. You've seen presentations with diagrams, photographs, animation and video and wondered, "How did they do that?" In this course you'll learn to master these techniques -- and to use digital cameras, scanners, VCRs, camcorders -- to achieve the full potential of PowerPoint. You'll look forward to showing your work to a live audience, on video, or on the Internet.

Multimedia Arts Certificate
This nationally recognized Multimedia online certificate training program focuses on providing the conceptual, technical, and visual design skills required to create multimedia applications and environments.  Students learn professional applications for Adobe Photoshop, Micromedia Flash, Apple Final Cut Pro, and Adobe After Effects, or equivalent digital imaging, animation, digital video editing, and motion graphics tools.  Course projects include critique, story boarding, retouching, compositing, Flash animation and site design, basic Action-Scripting, video and sound edition principles, motion graphics production and interface design.  This online program is only offered in partnership with major colleges and universities.

Marketing Design Certificate
The Business Marketing Design online certificate training course focuses on developing technical skill and creative artistry using applied marketing principles.  This courses only offered in partnership with major colleges and universities.

Introduction to Microsoft Powerpoint 2007
Learn how to use Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 to create impressive slide presentations filled with formatted text, images, video, audio, animation, charts, and hyperlinks. Find out how to save your presentations so you can share them with others over the Web or on CDs.

Introduction to Photoshop CS3
If you're a photographer, a graphic artist, or you just want to alter your old family photos, Adobe Photoshop is the program you most need to learn. This hands-on, project-oriented course is filled with detailed, step-by-step instructions you'll have no trouble following as you learn how to edit photos, create basic paintings, and prepare your images for printing. Discover how to improve photographs by removing flaws, correcting poor exposure, or adding new elements using the newest techniques Photoshop CS3 has to offer. You’ll even learn how much fun it can be to paint again without the usual mess. And, best of all, you won't need any prior artistic ability or Photoshop experience to take this course.

Intermediate Photoshop CS3
Learn the secrets of professional image editing from a 2006-2007 nominee to the Photoshop Hall of Fame. This course, for the student who already knows the Photoshop toolset, explores new and better ways to create images and edit photos. Students will explore the sophisticated layers features that allow users to combine images in amazing ways.

Photoshop CS3 for the Digital Photographer
Adobe Photoshop CS3 is a high-end software solution that provides support and specialized editing tools for digital photographers and graphic artists. In this class, we'll focus on how to select and use the professional techniques that are most helpful to photographers. Designed for those with no image-editing experience, this class will take students from novices to accomplished users.

Creating Web Graphics with Photoshop CS3
Learn how to use Photoshop to create and save graphics for the Web. You'll create these graphics for a Web site of your choice as you develop a Web page lesson-by-lesson, from idea to Internet.

Introduction to Microsoft Visio 2003
In today's fast-paced, technology-driven workplace, you need clear communication to get ahead. Learning to create professional-looking diagrams in Microsoft Visio 2003 will take your skills set to the next level. Follow along as a seasoned industry professional leads you through easy-to-follow projects and exercises to design diagrams based on industry standards and best practices. You'll learn how to use Visio's many features and functions to make your diagrams pop.

Introduction to Microsoft Visio 2007
Get the training you need to create professional-looking flowcharts and diagrams using one of the most popular flowcharting programs on the market, Microsoft Visio 2007. Follow along as a seasoned industry professional leads you through easy-to-follow projects and exercises that teach you how to design diagrams based on industry standards and best practices. You'll learn how to use Visio's many features and functions to make your diagrams pop.

Introduction to Illustrator CS3
Adobe Illustrator CS3 is the program of choice for many graphic and visual artists. It allows you to draw and manipulate artwork, add special effects, apply color, and much, much more. This program also sets the industry standard for creating vector images, which you can resize without loss of quality. Whether you're looking to do a little more with your art or to design professionally, this class will give you the Illustrator training you need!

Introduction to InDesign CS3
In this Adobe InDesign CS3 class, you'll get hands-on desktop publishing training and come away knowing how to use this popular page layout software to design and create professional quality letterhead, business cards, brochures, PDF files that play movies, and more. You'll discover that you don't have to be a designer or an artist to produce professional quality documents!

Introduction to Photoshop CS4
Learn to use Adobe Photoshop CS4 to edit images, process photos, and create original graphics. Whether you're a photographer, graphic artist, or just want to alter old family photos, Photoshop is the program for you! This hands-on, project-oriented course is filled with detailed, step-by-step instructions you'll have no trouble following as you master editing photos, creating basic paintings, and preparing your images for printing. Discover how to improve photographs by removing flaws, correcting for poor exposure, or adding new elements using the newest techniques Photoshop CS4 offers. You'll even find out how much fun it can be to paint again--without any mess to clean up. And, best of all, you don't need to have any artistic ability or prior Photoshop experience to take this course.

Graphic Design with Photoshop CS3
This nationally recognized Graphic Design online course and training program using Photoshop CS3 is ideal for students looking to take their interest in art and turn it into an enjoyable and creative career. This Graphic Design program begins with the fundamentals of graphic design and guides you through the terms and processes students use to turn knowledge into a career. The student will learn the rules of graphic design, as well as useful marketing strategies and information about art in the electronic age. This online certificate program is offered in partnership with major colleges, universities, and other accredited education providers.

Photoshop CS4 for the Digital Photographer
This course will focus on how to select and use professional techniques to enhance photos of all kinds, including both digital and scanned-film images.

Introduction to Adobe Acrobat 9
Adobe Acrobat 9 gives you the power to create PDF documents from a variety of source files or completely from scratch.  In this introductory course, you'll learn how to combine, reuse, share and distribute all sorts of content.