CityEast Community College

Discover how easy it is to make short visual stories of important personal events from your existing photos. This workshop will show you how to make digital stories from your existing photos using FREE software from Microsoft called PhotoStory 3. Using this software, create slideshows using your digital photos. With a single click, you can touch-up, crop, or rotate pictures. It’s that easy! Add stunning special effects, soundtracks, and your own voice narration to your photo stories... [More]

This Adobe Photoshop CS4 workshop is designed to provide you with the skills to design electronic artwork using a wealth of powerful painting and selection tools. Following a basic introduction to photoshop tools, menus, colour modes and file formats you will learn how to scan images, retouch and correct colour and grayscale images, use layers and filters to create complex images. Also covered is restoration of old photos. PLEASE NOTE: Basic keyboard and mouse skills are required. . [More]

Using three industry standard graphics and page layout applications – Adobe Indesign CS4, Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Adobe Illustrator CS4, this hands-on, six week (one day per week), course provides the practical skills and understanding required to create digital artwork at a beginners level. The course looks at page layout, typography and raster and vector digital imaging for print and web based production using the industry standard graphics software. By course conclusion, you shou... [More]

This introductory class is instructor led with students learning how to use Adobe InDesign CS4 to its full potential by completing exercises producing stationery, brochures, magazine, newsletter layouts and forms. Best practices relating to design and typography, as well as shortcuts, are emphasised. You will learn how to work with text and images and create press-ready and web-ready PDF files. The workshop focuses on document construction, page layout, typography and image-manipula... [More]

In this step by step workshop, you will create your own professional and personalised cards (including X-mas & birthday), invitations, flyers calendars, letter head & business cards. Microsoft Publisher 2007 is a simple easy to use Desktop Publishing software. If you know MS Word you are just a few steps away from understanding MS Publisher. Save on buying commercial stationery by designing and creating your own. Prerequisite keyboard skills and knowledge of MS Word. Learning Outcom... [More]

Using CS4 desktop publishing software, extend your knowledge of Indesign, Illustrator and Photoshop. This course looks at page layout, typography and digital imaging for print and web based productions. You will learn to use the sophisticated features and enhanced productivity tools in the Adobe Creative Suite 4. You will also learn to take advantage of the integration capabilities. . [More]