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Technical Training


Creativisual Edmonton Alberta

Creativisual and the University of Alberta's Technology Training Centre have partnered to offer individuals quality training in the Adobe Creative Suite. XHTML and CSS courses are also offered to help individuals update their existing HTML knowledge to incorporate the new web standards for website building.

Visual Design: Designing for Print and Web

Course Description
Designing any marketing materials can be difficult. This course is designed to make the design process easier.

Topics covered in this course include:

  • Design Principles: Contrast, Repitition, Alignment, and Proximity
  • Colour Theory
  • Colour Wheels
  • Typography
  • Document attributes for print and web

Adobe Illustrator will be used to implement design principles however prior knowledge of Adobe Illustrator is not necessary.

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Adobe InDesign CS3 - Level 1

Application Description
The new de facto standard in print layout, Adobe InDesign was released to replace Adobe Pagemaker and to compete with competitor QuarkXPress.

Course Description
After completion of this course, students will be able to:

  • Use the application's interface.
  • Add both text and images.
  • Format text and use both character styles and paragraph styles.
  • Apply effects to images.
  • Insert and format tables.
  • Create and modify Master Pages

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Adobe Photoshop CS3 - Level 1

Application Description
Adobe Photoshop has shaped the graphics industry since its introduction in 1990. Adobe Photoshop is still a leader in the bitmap graphics industry, and has spawned a sub-culture of graphics artists that "Photoshop" images.

Course Description
After completion of this course, students will be able to:

  • Use the application's interface.
  • Use basic tools in Photoshop.
  • Learn the principals of RGB, CMYK, and other colour modes.
  • Learn the concept of image resolution.
  • Use Layers and layer masks.
  • Basic photo manipulation.
  • Basic colour correction.

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Adobe Photoshop CS3 - Level 2

After completion of this course, students will be able to:

  • Use advanced tools in Photoshop.
  • Use Adjustment Layers.
  • Use Smart Objects.
  • Use Smart Filters.
  • Create a website layout and prepare the graphics for HTML.
  • Advanced photo manipulation.

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Cascading Style Sheets

Course Description

XHTML
  • Span, Div, Link, Style Tags
  • Id and Class Attributes
Basic CSS Presentation Control
  • Type
  • Background
  • Text Blocks
  • Boxes and Borders
  • Lists
  • Positioning
  • Selectors
Website Design with CSS
  • Dynamically Resizing Multicolumn Websites with Headers and Footers
  • Fixed Position/Size Websites
  • Browser Compatibility Issues
  • Rollover Menus and Advanced Use of Lists
  • Advanced Backgrounds and Borders (if time permits)

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HTML/XHTML - Level 1

Application Description
XHTML has become the new standard for web development. The HTML language has now become very strict in terms of how a website is built. This course is designed to introduce HTML to beginners or to help update one's knowledge of HTML.

Course Description
Upon completion, students will be able to:

  • Create their first web page.
  • Add text and apply basic text formatting to text.
  • Add and apply basic positioning to images.
  • Add links to text and images.
  • Add multiple pages to a website.
  • Publish their website onto the internet.

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Adobe Dreamweaver CS3

Application Description
Adobe Dreamweaver is a web development application that is commonly used in the web development industry. Dreamweaver has two editor views. An HTML editor mode, and a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor mode which allows users to easily add and format text, add images, and implement other web languages such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and Javascript (JS). HTML knowledge is not required but is strongly recommended.

Course Description
Upon completion, students will be able to:

  • Use the application interface
  • Create a web page
  • Edit an existing page.
  • Manage web page download time.
  • Creating and formatting text.
  • Saving web pages
  • Adding images
  • Adding backgrounds.
  • Drawing a website map.
  • Defining a website.
  • Structuring the website
  • Templates
  • Working with HTML.
  • Formatting paragraphs.
  • Adding links to text and images.
  • Creating a table.
  • Building a website with frames.

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