Design Software Training Courses

One to one and small group computer training courses in Birmingham and around the UK

We specialise in courses for professional design software including Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator, web design software like Macromedia Dreamweaver and desktop publishing software such as Adobe InDesign and Quark XPress.

Most courses can be customised to your requirements and intermediate or advanced courses will usually be based around working through your own projects and designs.

Based in Cofton Hackett, close to Birmingham, Bromsgrove, Solihull and Redditch.
On-site Training is available in Birmingham, Solihull, Bromsgrove, Redditch and other Midlands areas, and many courses (and some other courses) can be organised at client's premises around the UK.
Many courses are also available for one or two trainees at our premises in Cofton Hackett (South Birmingham).

 

Courses

Photoshop (photo editing) - Desktop Publishing - Graphic Design
Web Design - Web Graphics - Macromedia Studio
Adobe Creative Suite (Design) - Adobe Creative Suite (Web)

Photo Editing - Photoshop Training Courses

Adobe Photoshop Training

Beginners Adobe Photoshop course for image editing and design
- for those with limited experience or no previous Photoshop experience -  1 day

Photoshop beginners and intermediate image editing, design and montage
- for beginners with limited experience or no previous Photoshop experience - 2 days

Preparing and Designing Images for Print with Photoshop
- Intermediate  1 day (or 2 day with beginners course)

Preparing and Designing Images for Web Sites with Photoshop
- Intermediate  1 day (or 2 day with beginners course)

Photoshop Image Editing and Design - intermediate & advanced
- Intermediate to Advanced   2 day (or 1 day selective course)

Photoshop Photo Montage, Photo Retouching, Manipulation and Compositing
- Intermediate to Advanced  2 day

Custom courses available - please send a list of your requirements

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Web Design Training Courses

Macromedia Dreamweaver training / Adobe Dreamweaver training

Dreamweaver course - beginners - 1 day
Dreamweaver course - intermediate - 1 day
CSS web design & XHTML with Dreamweaver - 1 day

Beginners and intermediate Dreamweaver course - 2 days
Intermediate Dreamweaver course & CSS web design and XHTML - 2 days

Macromedia Studio Web Design Courses

Macromedia Dreamweaver web design & Macromedia Fireworks web graphics introduction - beginners (and some intermediate) - 2 days
Also available for Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 & Fireworks CS3 course

Macromedia Studio - complete web design course with Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash - 5 day course
beginners to advanced web design, web graphics and animation - 5 day course

Macromedia Studio web design intro - 3 day course
Introduction web design, web graphics and animation. 3 day beginners course for Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Fireworks and Macromedia Flash.
Suitable for Schools and teachers wanting a web design introduction in preparation for teaching a DiDa course.

Adobe Creative Suite 3 (Web Edition) - Web Design Courses

Adobe Creative Suite 3 ( Web Edition) - 3 day beginners course.
3 day introduction to Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash.
Introduction to web design, web graphics and animation. 3 day beginners course for Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, Adobe Fireworks CS3 and Adobe Flash CS3.

Adobe Creative Suite 3 ( Web Edition) - 5 day course:
Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash - 5 day web design course

5 day web design course which will give you an understanding of Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash and how to build professional web site designs.

For Adobe Dreamweaver courses - see links to Macromedia Dreamweaver courses
For Adobe Fireworks courses - see links to Macromedia Fireworks courses
For Adobe Flash courses - see links to Macromedia Flash courses
Similar courses are available for the new Adobe versions.

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Web Graphics Training Courses and Animation Courses

Macromedia Fireworks training

Macromedia Fireworks course - beginners web graphics - 1 day
Macromedia Fireworks training - advanced web graphics - 1 or 2 days

Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop - preparing and designing images for web sites  - 1 or 2 days

Macromedia Flash Training

Macromedia Flash courses

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Desktop Publishing Training Courses

Adobe InDesign Training

Adobe InDesign course - beginners
Beginners introduction to desktop publishing with Adobe InDesign - 1 day

Adobe InDesign training - beginners / intermediate
Beginners and intermediate desktop publishing with Adobe InDesign - 2 days

Quark Xpress Training

Quark XPress course - beginners
Beginners introduction to desktop publishing with Quark XPress - 1 day

Quark XPress course - beginners / intermediate
Beginners to intermediate desktop publishing course with Quark XPress - 2 days

Adobe Creative Suite (Design Edition) Training

Introduction to Adobe Creative Suite for desktop publishing, image editing, design and illustration - 3 day course
Introduction to Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator.

Adobe Creative Suite course - complete desktop publishing, image editing, design & illustration training course - 5 day course
Beginners to intermediate course in Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.

Other Desktop Publishing courses

Desktop Publishing Introduction - 2 day beginners course
2 day introduction to DTP, design and page layout using either Quark Xpress or Adobe InDesign, and basic image preparation and image editing with Adobe Photoshop.

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Graphic Design Training Courses

Adobe Illustrator Training

Adobe Illustrator course - beginners
Beginners introduction to Adobe Illustrator - 1 day

Adobe Illustrator course - Beginners / intermediate
Beginners to intermediate design and illustration with Adobe Illustrator -  2 days

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Photoshop (photo editing) - Desktop Publishing - Graphic Design
Web Design - Web Graphics - Macromedia Studio
Adobe Creative Suite (Design) - Adobe Creative Suite (Web)

 

The computer training courses listed above are available in Birmingham and surrounding Midlands areas of the UK, including : Birmingham, Solihull, Redditch, Bromsgrove, Worcester, Driotwich, Malvern, Hereford, Stourbridge, Kidderminster, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Telford, Stafford, Shrewsbury, Lichfield, Derby, Tamworth, Nuneaton, Coventry, Warwick, Leamington Spa, Stratford upon Avon, Evesham, Banbury, Oxford, Northampton, Leicester, Nottingham, as well as Cofton Hackett, Barnt Green, Alvechurch, Rednal, Lickey, Rubery.

Many of these courses may also be arranged with trainers in other areas of the UK, including Yorkshire, Manchester and London.

Custom Courses
Customised courses are available for most applications, most intermediate and advanced courses are intended to be customised to include working with some of your own designs and projects.
If you just need help with a project that you are working on at the moment then the training can be based around doing all the things you need to achieve the end result of a finished project.
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UK training for design applications
The courses listed above are available in Birmingham and Midlands areas with myself.
I also work with a number of experienced trainers around the country who can provide on-site training for various design software and other applications - including those listed above and some other training courses not listed here.
Design software training courses available around the UK

Trainers Contact Me
If you are a freelance trainer, and can provide training for any of the following please contact me with details of your software experience, your training experience, your location and your daily rates.
Quark Xpress, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat, Macromedia Dreamweaver (web page design or database design), Macromedia Fireworks, Macromedia Flash, etc.
Adobe Premiere, Macromedia Director, 3D programs like 3D studio max
+ other design software

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