Design Classes in NYC, New York

Adobe InDesign is used to publish printed documents that include: newsletters, brochures, postcards, menus, books and more. In this InDesign Class in NYC, students will learn how to use InDesign CC to design marketing material, brochures or a multiple pages documents. Outline:  Getting to know the InDesign work area Using the tools, options...

This hands-on introductory course details the most essential Adobe InDesign features for beginner level users. Students will create multi-page documents while learning a variety of text and image layout techniques. Topics Covered: Creating & Customizing Documents Page Setup & Layout Working With Master Pages Working With Typography ...

This course delivers a concise introduction to Rhino and an overview of fundamental skills for creating and editing geometry. Requirements: No prior knowledge required. The course is good for both Mac and PC. Course Topics Overall familiarity with the Rhino interface An introduction to Rhino geometry types Essential skills for creating and editing...

This class is designed to get you up and running quickly with the fundamentals of Photoshop: retouch photos, improve contrast and color, save files for print or web, and more! This 6-hour class is meant to get you started fast. It is designed for people who need to use Photoshop lightly and only have one day to spare. If you want to learn Photoshop...

This hands-on introductory course details the most essential Adobe Photoshop features for beginner level users. Topics include basic image editing, transformation, retouching, enhancement, and compositing.  Topics Covered: Understanding File Formats & Resolution Selections Techniques Image Transformations Layer Management Layer Masking...

User experience design is often misunderstood as simply interface design, but is actually comprised of many moving parts beyond the visual aspect–a good user experience also takes into account how the user feels.  In this hands-on UX training, you’ll learn about the complete UX design process, including user research, product requirements,...

Bring your creative ideas to life with Adobe InDesign, the professional page layout standard, used by designers and production professionals to design, preflight, and publish a broad range of documents such as brochures, catalogs, magazines and books. InDesign allows you to lay out and design multiple page documents.  This workshop is designed...

Photoshop® is the application utilized by most industry professionals, whether preparing graphics for print or for the web. In this Photoshop Class in NYC, the students will learn how to use Photoshop CC for color correction, retouching, and photomontage. Outline: Getting to Know the Work Area Using the tools, options bar, and other panels Basic...

This hands-on introductory course details the most essential Adobe Illustrator features for beginner level users. Students will learn how to create and manipulate vector shapes with a variety of tools. The course also covers text, color, effects, and layers. Topics Covered: Understanding Vector Graphics Creating & Transforming Paths...

Learn the foundations of the Markup Language used to create webpages. In this class we’ll introduce you to HTML, the standard markup language used to create webpages. You’ll dive in and hand code a webpage from scratch, learning how to format paragraphs, headings, and lists. You’ll also learn how to create links, add images, and modify tags...

This course introduces you to the InDesign interface, including the tools and palettes, and explains how to create and navigate a document, work with text and objects, use pen tools, add color, import and manipulate graphics, and manage long documents and styles.  Bring a flash drive to class to save your work. Prerequisite:  Mac experience...

As technology changes and more media outlets compete for customers’ time, providing an enjoyable experience is critical to both attracting and keeping users. This class aims to demystify UX by giving a practical and simple introduction to what UX is while also explaining some of its core concepts of usability.  This is a field that affects...

Photoshop is the industry standard photo image editing software for print and digital output. In this hands-on introductory workshop, we will walk through Photoshop's basic capabilities and use tools and techniques to edit images and create visual design mock-ups - no design experience required! This bootcamp will help students visualize products...

This hands-on introductory level course covers the fundamentals of Adobe After Effects. The class will introduce students to the key concepts, terminology, and interface of After Effects. Topics include compositions, layers, animation, keyframing, effects, 3D, and rendering. Topics Covered: Best Practices File Management Project Organization...

This hands-on course introduces the fundamentals of web design with HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Students will learn how code is structured and the major features of the languages. Exercises will include creating a small website including text, images, embedded video and links and styling with CSS to control color,...