Creative Licence

Adobe Photoshop is a popular graphic design and photo enhancement program that is both powerful and versatile. You may be wondering what exactly it is and why it would be worth learning. Take this magazine page on the right for example. Use the buttons below to show the elements done in Photoshop.

Create selections quickly and apply any kind of changes to any part of photographs or illustrations.

You can spice up your designs with special effects and merge images together.

Adobe Illustrator helps you create distinctive vector artwork for any project. You may be wondering what exactly it is and why it would be worth learning. Take this magazine page on the right for example. Use the buttons below to show the elements done in Illustrator.

Make your designs dynamic by using flowing vector shapes and keep control over them easily.

Be creative and use Illustrator’s vector and raster effects to easily create stunning graphic elements.

Adobe InDesign lets you design engaging page layouts for print or digital distribution with precise control over typography.You may be wondering what exactly it is and why it would be worth learning. Take this magazine page on the right for example. Use the buttons below to show the elements done in InDesign.

Wrap text around your photos and illustrations easily. You can quickly create interaction between images and text.

InDesign has endless options to make your text look professional. Use drop caps, running headers, paragraph and character styles, etc.

HTML is the foundation of the internet and with this markup language it will allow you to build the structure and the foundation of any site. Knowing and understanding how HTML works will give you the core skills needed by every web developer.Looking at the website on the right will show you the structure of HTML first.

Headers

Create and define header's and paragraphs in HTML to define the structure of the page for SEO and accessibility.

Adding Images

A major part of all sites is the images and photographs that complement the text. Here we show you how to code the images into your site.

Cascading Style Sheets is the visualisation language of the world wide web. It allows you to dress and create the pretty visuals for your site. By looking at the example on the right you can turn some of the CSS features on and off to see what effects you can apply.

Colour & Gradients

Adding colour to your site is now a must and now with CSS3 you can even add Gradients that will make your site stand out.

Rounded Corners

Why have all your boxes on your site with sharp corners. Now with CSS3 you can easily add rounded corners to your boxes.

JavaScript is the behaviours of the site. If you are looking to add any kind of interactivity to the website then using JavaScript will give you these effects. You can alsocreate dynamic animations and movements with JS. If you look on the example to the right and this will allow you to turn these features on and off.

Transitions

Image transitions can easily be created with jQuery to give you a dynamic feel to your site.

Drag & Drop

Again using jQuery you can add a drag & drop feature to yoursite allowing your users to interact with your content with great ease.

The first stage of achieving a successful video is to bring the raw materials together and create a polished edit. Products you will lean during this course will let you do just that.

Using the tools you learn in Creative License - Video Specialist, you can transform otherwise flat looking shots into a rich, vibrant and impressive visuals.

Adobe After Effects lets you combine different elements and create visually stunning videos. On completion of this course, you will be able to bring your ideas to life.

From no CAD experience learn how you quickly create drawings, solve geometric problems, improve your working time by using templates and blocks.

AutoCAD 101 Gives you the full experience from no Knowledge to full understanding of the basics of AutoCAD 2011 so after 5 days you will have an understanding how AutoCAD works, navigate throughout the interface, modify existing drawings, create templates, create and edit blocks, manage block and content libraries, annotate, present and print out your projects.

Enhance your knowledge of AutoCAD 2011 by using it at its full potential.

In AutoCAD 201 you will learn how to create Dynamic blocks to reduce your production time, add attributes, extract info from it, work with XREFs, and more...

Any project needs to be built, and 3D lets you see how is going to look like once is done.

Save money, improve your presentation and get a better understanding how your projects works together with a 3D version of it. With AutoCAD 301 you will learn how to create from 2D plans you 3D model or get your 2D plans out of your 3D model, realistic views, walk through animations or just an sketch view...

Why stop with just a 3d model and walk through animations.... 3DS MAX is the tool that will bring your project to life.

From Photo realistic view of your designs to animate everything on it, with 3DS MAX you can do whatever you want to your projects, and show it in ways you thought where not possible to give your clients a full understanding of it.

Photoshop is one of the key tools you'll work with and the tool your design buddies consider home turf, learning this tool will help when working with graphic and technical designers.

When creating Visualisations Photoshop is the tool of choice for preparing background images, materials, textures and fabric swatches for use in AutoCAD and 3ds Max visualisations.

Photoshop has its own 3d engine which is often used to create rough and ready work to give the client an idea of their design, which is often essential when getting work off the ground and launched into projects.

The majority of the time though you'll be using Photoshop to apply the finishing touches to your 3d visualisation before presenting them to clients with framing text and effects to polish off your designs.