Design Training Courses

Adobe InDesign is an industry-leading program that takes desktop publishing and design to a new level. The goal of this course is for you to be able to create simple but professional documents that are ready to use for the web and for print.

Canva is easy graphic design for people who aren’t graphic designers!

It’s used mainly to make social media posts look professional, as you can publish your designs straight to Facebook, Twitter etc …although it’s recently expanded into presentations.

There are two versions of Canva – paid (pro) and free. This Canva training course can be attended by people who have either account (there are only a few differences and I will include workarounds for the features that aren’t included in the free version).

This course is aimed at those already familiar with PowerPoint. During this course delegates will go beyond using the standard layouts and designs offered by PowerPoint, to creating their own designs.

Delegates will integrate current design trends into their presentations to create modern but professional slides and learn some of the tricks and short-cut methods for doing so. You will create a presentation containing a variety of slide layouts which can used as a template for future presentations.

This Access course enables delegates to progress from the one level databases associated with holding data in Microsoft Excel, to multiple table relational databases, covering all the basics including the advantages and disadvantages. This course is a perfect starting point for a future in data manipulation.

This Microsoft Access course is for delegates who have sound skills in the use of MS Access and are now ready to expand their knowledge into some of the more specialised and advanced features of the software. This course will provide delegates with the skills needed to create complex queries, create macros to automate tasks, enhance forms and reports and use the Access programming language Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), enabling delegates to really take control of their databases.

Adobe Illustrator is a drawing and design package. This course will give you the experience you need to produce professional Graphics and illustrations, and will increase your levels of productivity and creativity within illustrator. Once you have completed this course you can move on to the Adobe Illustrator Advanced course.

This course will take you through the advanced techniques of Illustrator, helping you to become more efficient and effective when using Adobe Illustrator.

Microsoft Publisher is an easy to use desktop publishing application that helps you create, customise, and publish materials such as newsletters, brochures, flyers and catalogues.

In this Publisher course, delegates will create a publication from scratch as well as using some of the hundreds of business and personal designs available in Publisher. This course will enable delegates to create, design, and edit publications.

Visio provides a dedicated, familiar, Microsoft drawing environment, complete with a broad range of templates, shapes, and sophisticated tools designed to make creating a wide variety of business and technical diagrams easy, giving business and technical users the power to visualise and communicate ideas, information, and systems.

Delegates will learn basic concepts for creating flowcharts, cross-functional flowcharts, and organisation charts. This includes learning the basics for using and creating shapes, printing drawings, creating custom stencils, and many time-saving shortcuts and techniques designed to increase user productivity.