Graphic Design Training in Birmingham

Adobe Hyvä is a modern frontend framework for Magento 2 that replaces the Luma stack with a performance-focused, developer-friendly architecture.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level to advanced-level Magento developers who wish to implement and customize Hyvä Themes in Adobe Commerce (Magento 2) projects.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the architecture and benefits of Hyvä Themes.
• Install and configure a Hyvä-based Magento 2 store.
• Customize templates, styles, and layout using Alpine.js and Tailwind CSS.
• Integrate third-party modules and ensure compatibility with Hyvä.
• Optimize performance and user experience with Hyvä's lean frontend stack.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion
• Hands-on exercises and labs
• Live development environment implementation

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Adobe Express is a user-friendly, cloud-based design tool that enables individuals and teams to quickly create high-quality graphics, videos, and branded content without advanced design experience.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level users who wish to create visually appealing marketing assets, presentations, and social media content using Adobe Express.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Navigate the Adobe Express interface and use templates effectively.
• Create social media graphics, flyers, presentations, and short videos.
• Apply branding elements such as colors, logos, and fonts consistently.
• Collaborate and publish designs using Adobe Express's cloud features.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training in Birmingham (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level professionals who wish to optimize their document workflows using Adobe Acrobat and AI-powered tools.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Create and edit PDF documents from various sources.
• Modify PDF content, including text, images, and formatting.
• Use annotation and markup tools for document review.
• Implement security features to protect PDF documents.
• Leverage AI-powered tools to automate PDF-related tasks.

This instructor-led, live training in Birmingham (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level graphic designers and animators who wish to learn how to create stunning animations, interactive media, and engaging web content using Adobe Animate.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Navigate the Adobe Animate interface and tools.
• Create and edit animations using keyframes, motion tweens, and shape tweens.
• Design interactive animations and applications with ActionScript and JavaScript.
• Incorporate audio and video elements into projects.
• Export animations for web, video, and mobile platforms.

This instructor-led, live training in Birmingham (online or onsite) is aimed at anyone who wishes to take better pictures using mobile devices.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the tools and settings used for mobile photography.
• Learn tips and tricks to take better mobile photographs.
• Master mobile photography basics and lighting.

This instructor-led, live training in Birmingham (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level and intermediate-level photographers who wish to harness the full potential of Darktable for their image editing and management needs. This course outline provides a comprehensive overview of the Darktable software, starting from the basics and progressing to more advanced editing techniques.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up a development environment with Darktable.
• Import, organize, and manage their photo collections.
• Edit and enhance images using Darktable's features.
• Perform advanced color correction and manipulation.
• Apply non-destructive editing techniques.
• Debug common issues in Darktable.

This instructor-led, live training in Birmingham (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level content developers who wish to have a foundational understanding of Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Animate, and Adobe Character Animator.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the core functions of each software tool in the Adobe Creative Suite.
• Use tools and techniques in Adobe After Effects for motion graphics, Adobe Premiere Pro for video editing, Adobe Illustrator for graphic design, Adobe Animate for animations, and Adobe Character Animator for character animation.
• Improve creative design and production capabilities, enabling faster and more efficient development of high-quality digital content.

This 1 day workshop will guide you through manipulating images for the web and print using the open source application GIMP.

This instructor-led, live training in Birmingham (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level users who wish to learn the essential tools and techniques of image editing using GIMP.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Navigate GIMP's interface and toolbox efficiently.
• Edit and manipulate images with various tools like cropping, scaling, and painting.
• Work with layers, selections, and transparency to create complex compositions.
• Enhance photographs and prepare images for the web.
• Customize GIMP with plugins and scripting for enhanced functionality.

Graphics programs Adobe is a set of tools for creating, editing and manipulating graphics, multimedia and documents. Adobe Systems is known for creating many professional programs dedicated to graphics, multimedia, photo editing, website design and more. Here are some of the main graphics programs created by Adobe: Adobe Photoshop Jest is one of the most popular raster graphics editing programs. It allows you to manipulate photos, create graphics, retouch, color correction and many other advanced operations. Adobe Illustrator Focused on vector graphics, Illustrator lets you create logos, illustrations, vector graphics, typographic designs, and more that can be scaled without losing quality.

This course demonstrates through hands-on practice the fundamentals and applications of Inkscape.

What you will learn during the training:

• principles of creating computer graphics and desktop publishing
• ways of defining and working with color
• differences between vector and bitmap graphics
• ways to customize color photos and graphics
• principles of retouching and creating photomontages
• create your own illustrations and graphics
• entrusted to adapt to the needs of graphic material composition and printing
• how to do logo and logos
• create interesting charts and tables
• create business cards and letterhead
• creating labels, diplomas, invitations
• preparation of leaflets
• how to format text
• use of spot colors
• principles of preparing to print
• digital printing, offset printing, screen printing

Sample topics of classes:

• my poster
• portrait
• expanse
• my catalog
• my face
• billboard
• my logo

The course discusses Dreamweaver tool. He explains the issues involved in creating pages, using templates, convenient creation of tables, layers, inserting graphics, creating an aesthetic menu up to a comfortable place on the server side.

The participant will learn during the training:

• Smooth operation of the program
• Issues and printing technology
• Adjustments and photo retouching
• Adjust colors
• Red-eye removal
• Adjust the brightness and contrast
• Adjust the size
• Improve sharpness
• Compose multiple photos into a single image
• Improve the quality of old, damaged photographs
• Create a sepia effect
• Cutting objects from the background
• Construction of the image, color models, the basic concepts and formats
• work with layers and masks
• Tool selection and tool path vector
• Styles and Effects
• Work with the text
• Adjust color photos and graphics
• Correction layer
• Automation
• History of the document
• Retouching and montages
• Save your work

What you will learn during the training:

• principles of creating computer graphics and desktop publishing
• ways of defining and working with color
• differences between vector and bitmap graphics
• ways to customize color photos and graphics
• principles of retouching and creating photomontages
• create your own illustrations and graphics
• entrusted to adapt to the needs of graphic material composition and printing
• how the logo and logos
• create interesting charts and tables
• create business cards and letterhead
• creating labels, diplomas, invitations
• preparation of leaflets, banners print preparation and billboards
• how to format text
• creating style sheets and formatting styles
• use of additional colors
• principles of preparing to print publication
• digital printing, offset printing, solvent

Adobe Acrobat Reader for most of us is a program to play PDF files.

But, this application also allows you to submit PDF documents according to our needs and to replace other documents created in popular programs such as Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, Power Point is on this format.

Training Creating PDF documents is addressed to people who want to learn the secrets of the composition of PDF documents

Form of conduct

• Exercise preceded by a lecture teacher.
• Participants use stand-alone computers.

The participant will learn during the training:

• use a vector graphics program.
• create simple objects
• creating advanced curves
• create a logo
• tracing elements created on paper or photograph
• receipt of leaflets
• advertising posters
• open and modify documents and PDF vector, EPS

This instructor-led, live training in Birmingham (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level graphic designers, marketing professionals, and publishing specialists who wish to use Adobe InDesign to create professional-quality books, brochures, posters, and marketing materials.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Navigate the Adobe InDesign interface efficiently.
• Set up projects with the correct dimensions and layouts.
• Work with text, images, and graphics to create compelling designs.
• Utilize styles, templates, and color palettes for consistency and efficiency.
• Prepare files for professional printing or digital publishing.

This course is for people who comprise text, graphics and want the ability to be expanded to create presentations, books, pamphlets, and other interactive elements on different types of devices: computers, laptops, tablets, smartphones, and mobile phones.

We invite you to take part in a course devoted to image processing using Adobe Photoshop.

The course is aimed at those who want to learn how to "fight" with the colors, how to "save" the image to prepare them for the show, how to do the editing, retouching, collage, how to use the RAW format ...

We will show how you can fine-tune shots so that they drawn from the best. We will discuss all the tools at work photo editor.

You will have the opportunity to acquire new knowledge illustrated dozens of examples and preserve it in the form of exercises performed under the care of the teacher. In addition, you can access the prepared materials. Benefit from the experience of experts to save time avoiding random walk.

The course provides knowledge about how to work with Adobe Premiere Pro, the basic techniques of installation, project development from beginning to end, and the effective use of tools.

The training provides practical knowledge on how to create an interactive eLearning platform. In addition to learning the basic concepts, students will also learn best practices for creating and publishing Captive projects . During the training you will learn:

• Recording demonstration
• Edit demonstration
• Working with objects in the Timeline
• Working with images
• Publish your projects
• Adding audio
• Recording a Simulation
• Adding animation
• Add a slideshow
• Transferring Results to a Learning Management System
• Project Update
• Create Standalone Viewer with MenuBuilder

This instructor-led, live training in Birmingham (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level developers and UI/UX designers who wish to use Adobe LiveCycle Designer to create interactive and dynamic PDF forms.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Create and edit PDF forms with various elements and properties.
• Add scripts and logic to PDF forms using JavaScript.
• Validate and secure PDF forms.
• Integrate PDF forms with data sources and web services.
• Deploy and distribute PDF forms.

This instructor-led, live training in (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level photo enthusiasts and graphic designers who wish to use Adobe Photoshop Elements to edit and enhance their photos.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Edit and enhance their photos with various tools and functions.
• Organize and manage their photo collections with the organizer.
• Create and share photo projects such as slideshows, collages, and calendars.
• Apply artistic effects and filters to their photos.
• Perform basic and advanced photo retouching techniques.

This course gives explains how to use InDesign to create documents with well-design, professional look, including Paragraph and character styles, layout features, and customized text and graphics. Gradually advanced InDesign techniques would be covered to enhance the look and functionality of your documents.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

In this instructor-led, live training in Birmingham, participants will learn how to create web-based data-driven visualizations that run on multiple devices responsively.

• Use D3 to create interactive graphics, information dashboards, infographics and maps.
• Control HTML with jQuery-like selections.
• Transform the DOM by selecting elements and joining to data.
• Export SVG for use in print publications.

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based graphics format used to create 2D vector images.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn the fundamentals of SVG as they step through the creation of their first SVG project.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the basics of vector graphics and SVG
• Learn how to create, modify, use, and optimize SVG
• Learn how to use SVG with HTML & CSS
• Learn how to do basic animations with SVG
• Create their own SVG animation

Audience

• Developers and Programmers
• Graphic Designers
• HTML & CSS developers interested in learning more about SVG

Format of the course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to use Adobe Photoshop's photo-enhancement features as they step through a series of hands-on exercises to improve the quality of a set of sample photographs.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Apply Photoshop's photo enhancing features to alter the quality of a photograph
• Adjust the sharpness and blur to bring out the key features of a photograph
• Change the coloring and facial expressions in photographs
• Prepare photographs for printing or development

Audience

• Photography beginners and enthusiasts

Format of the course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

During the 3-day training, participants will learn some history of the theory and guidelines transformed into sample projects:

"Tracing" from a drawing on paper to a vector image that can be used for printing, cutting, engraving, etc.

"Pierre Bézier Curves" rules for creating basic curves and compound curves as well as editing and repairing.

"Typography" creating your own font from drawing to obtaining an open type font (OTF) file.

This instructor-led, live training in Birmingham (online or onsite) is aimed at anyone who wish to become a graphic designer.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand basic design theory and apply useful design techniques.
• Use Adobe Creative Cloud apps effectively including Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
• Learn about alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud.
• Get familiar with the latest design trends.

The "Adobe After Effects CC" training offers comprehensive learning how to use this tool to create motion graphics and visual effects. The program covers the basics of working with the program, creating projects, importing materials, adding effects, animating compositions, optimizing performance, rendering, customizing the workspace, as well as advanced editing techniques, creating three-dimensional objects, stabilizing motion, tracking motion, creating a particle system and rendering to different output media. The training ends with a discussion of exporting projects and creating output files.

This instructor-led, live training in Birmingham (online or onsite) is aimed at web designers who wish to design an application with Adobe XD.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up Adobe XD to start designing an application.
• Develop quick wireframes.
• Create prototypes that contain micro interactions.
• Add UX designs to a CV.

This instructor-led, live training in Birmingham (online or onsite) is aimed at web designers who wish to create mobile interfaces with Adobe Illustrator and Adobe After Effects.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Implement UI/UX designs for a responsive mobile application.
• Prepare and animate designs in Adobe Illustrator.
• Create reusable components.
• Incorporate advanced animations with Adobe After Effects.

This instructor-led, live training in Birmingham (online or onsite) is aimed at marketers and analysts who wish to use Adobe Analytics to analyze and optimize their company website's performance.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the benefits of web analytics.
• Generate reports that provide insights into a business.
• Collect and segment data.
• Set up and use metrics.
• Analyze visitor behavior.
• Create and manage campaigns to improve the performance of a website or marketing initiative.

This instructor-led, live training in Birmingham (online or onsite) is aimed at graphic designers and illustrators who wish to use the advanced tools in Adobe Illustrator to create professional and high-quality vector artwork, illustrations, and graphic designs.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Learn more about the new and advanced features in Adobe Illustrator.
• Know the tips and tricks on how to use the advanced Illustrator tools.
• Redraw hand sketches into digital images.
• Create professional grade graphics, logos, and animated GIFs.
• Transform, blend, and distort texts and images.
• Automate workflows for repeated tasks.

This instructor-led, live training in Birmingham (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to advanced-level engineers and drafters who wish to use GD&T to create precise and standardized 2D drawings for engineering projects.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand and apply GD&T symbols and concepts to 2D drawings.
• Create clear and standardized technical drawings using GD&T principles.
• Interpret and implement feedback based on GD&T annotations.
• Collaborate effectively with teams using standardized GD&T notations.

Adobe After Effects Essentials is a 2 day training course which covers all of the basic skills needed to get up and running
with Adobe After Effects. During the course you will learn to work with layers in After Effects, understand key framing,
control animations, work transparency, and better understand rendering and output. By the end of the course you will
be able to competently edit your video content using After Effects and applying best practice techniques.

The Adobe After Effects Essentials course covers all the basic skills needed in the post production of professional quality
video content.