C2 Adobe Training Schedule

Apple's free "iBooks Author" layout program makes the creation of highly interactive ebooks possible with drag and drop ease - no programming required! This class takes students through the process of creating an ebook with multi-touch, interactive features like video, audio, presentations, slideshows, quizzes and 3D objects.

WordPress basics is for anyone who needs to make updates their existing WordPress website. Students learn how to add new content, post images and videos, and manage comments. This class starts with the absolute basics and assumes no previous web training.

The proposed third version of the web's styling language (CSS3) adds features that designers have been asking for for years: downloadable fonts, rounded corners, drop-shadows, gradients, multiple backgrounds, transparency and more. Explore all these new tools in our 4 hour, hands-on class.

This class is for students who want to design and create their own custom HTML emails. Content includes: Design decisions that help you avoid emails that look like spam, how to export an all image email from Photoshop, building custom layouts with tables in Dreamweaver, and how to style your layout with inline CSS.

Learn to create rich interactive experiences for the iPad and other tablet devices using Adobe InDesign and the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. We begin by converting your existing design into a proper format for digital publishing. Next we add interactive elements like slideshows, audio/video, panoramic images and more. Lastly we export everything onto your tablet for testing before reviewing how to publish to the App Store/Marketplace.

This course will teach users how to create an interactive form from a static PDF using Adobe Acrobat Pro. Topics include designing a PDF form in InDesign, Microsoft Office or from a scan, automatic form field detection, manually adding form fields, editing form fields, creating buttons and links and distributing, tracking and managing form data.

Are you a visual thinker who wants to add advanced interactivity to your websites but the thought of learning programming leaves you cold? C2's Dynamic Websites with jQuery Plug-ins class is for you. Learn how to install and configure the most popular interactive plug-ins to add industry standard features like tabs, slideshows, lightboxes, tooltips, overlays, sliders, animated drop-down menus and mega-menus to your site with the absolute minimum of coding.

HTML5 is the future foundation of web development and it's already in use in the mobile web space, so there's no time to waste! Get up to speed with the new version of the HTML language with our 4-hour hands-on HTML5 class.

Learn to use InDesign to create a basic ePub for reading on Apple iBook, Kindle, Nook and other mobile readers. You will learn how to layout, format and add images to your ePub layout, then export and test using Adobe's Digital Editions software. We will also explore basic CSS editing to add features to your ePub after exporting from InDesign.

InDesign CS5's new interactive features now allow designers to create an interactive layouts without needing to learn any code. In this class we will create the following types of documents: Interactive layouts, presentations and portfolios. Some of the topics covered include: video/audio, hyperlinks, buttons and page transitions.

This class is for anyone who wants to quickly launch a website that they can update on their own without having to learn too much behind the scenes coding. The entire process is covered from installation or purchase of a hosted website; setting up a theme, editing the website, adding content, installing plugins, stopping spam and setting up basic shopping carts.

This class covers advanced techniques using Adobe Photoshop for retouching portrait photography and landscape shots. This class was developed as an add-on to our existing Adobe Photoshop course.

Explore Acrobat's full potential to help you create and modify PDFs for the office. This course will focus on creating PDFs from a variety of file types while you learn to edit and optimize them for your needs.

This course helps designers with basic web development skills improve their expertise with the newest, most requested web technologies and techniques. HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, PHP and mySQL feature prominently in this course as foundational tools that help web designers create modern, accessible, SEO-friendly sites that work well in any browser - including mobile! Students will learn the new features of HTML5 and CSS3 to improve the content and look of a website, how to make great mobile versions of a website, how to use AJAX and jQuery to create a better user experience, and how to move the final version of the site to a content management system (WordPress) so clients can safely update site content.

This level covers all the new HTML5 and CSS3 features with emphasis on what is useful (and in some cases, required) today. Feature detection and fallback solutions for older, less capable browsers are also covered.

This level covers all aspects of developing a mobile version of a website.

This level covers using jQuery, jQuery plugins and AJAX for a better user experience.

This class teaches how to move a website into a content management system, WordPress in this case, but the skills learned will apply to most any content management system.

Workshop: Bring in your own files or work on our demo project. Level 5 is available only as part of the Training Series, not as an individual level. Workshops do not qualify for our re-take policy.

Busy schedules and tight budgets sometimes demand a custom solution, and C2 can offer just that! Custom classes available at your location or ours, for one person or a group. Pricing, class duration and scheduling determined by your needs. You've found your shortcut to success right here, with custom classes from C2.

Busy schedules and tight budgets sometimes demand a custom solution, and C2 can offer just that! Custom classes available at your location or ours, for one person or a group. Pricing, class duration and scheduling determined by your needs. You've found your shortcut to success right here, with custom classes from C2.

Learn how to animate using Flash! Basic to intermediate Actionscripting is also introduced. The advanced continuation of this class is the Flash Programming Series.

Get started the right way by learning Flash's animation basics from the ground up. All Flash's timeline based animation techniques are taught in this class: frame by frame, motion tweens and shape tweens.

Take basic animation skills and make banner ads with clickable links and short multi-media presentations using Flash.

Dig deeper into Flash's capabilities as you learn more complex masking; filters and blending modes to add effects without building complex artwork and when necessary, how to build more complex animations.

This level covers the ActionScript coding that designers need to understand. We understand desingers are not coders, but there are several Flash features (preloaders, loading external content, full frame websites, etc) that require some knowledge of ActionScript coding. Programming concepts are kept designer-friendly and as basic as possible. The code presented is designed to be re-used via copy an d paste whenever possible.

Workshop: Bring in your own files or work on our demo project. Level 5 is available only as part of the Training Series, not as an individual level. Workshops do not qualify for our re-take policy.

This series covers Adobe Illustrator from the basics of the pen tool to the new version’s additions. This course is a must for anyone working with logos, vector artwork, or complex type manipulation.

Illustrator Level 1 covers the basics of Adobe Illustrator. Tools, workspaces and introductions to basic shapes are covered. The lessons and tool usage learned in this level are the foundations for the rest of the Illustrator Series.

Illustrator Level 2 continues to advance your knowledge of Illustrator. Lessons include using type, working with layers, color usage and gradients, and appearance attributes.

Illustrator Level 3 features the more advanced elements of Adobe Illustrator including blending, appearances, graphic styles, effects, filters, brushes and symbol usage.

Illustrator Level 4 is a critical level for users in a production workflow environment. This level covers proper file preflight for printing and creating a document that will seemlessly transition to the web. Subjects also covered include how to combine Illustrator with other programs in the Adobe Creative Suite and creating 3-D images.

Professionals who want to learn how to use illustrator to create logos, illustrations and produce vector artwork ranging from simple to complex. Knowledge of Macintosh or Windows operating systems is required.

This 5 week series examines all the features of Adobe InDesign. Learners will build a variety of projects in each level, with an in-depth project and workshop in the last level.

We begin by covering the basics of Adobe InDesign. This course is a must for the beginning user of this application. Learn the basics of type, graphics, color and layout.

Continue to advance your knowledge of InDesign while digger deeper in the more advanced aspects of typography and image control.

Learn to creating vector artwork, master pages, and tables as we as begin to setup larger documents.

We continue the series with many advanced features including transparency, exporting documents, and long-document formatting.

Workshop: Bring in your own files or work on our demo project. Level 5 is available only as part of the Training Series, not as an individual level. Workshops do not qualify for our re-take policy.

The jQuery JavaScript library enhances the visitor experience on your webpages, helping you make your content dynamic and interactive. C2's jQuery series is for web designers and developers who have a good grasp of HTML and CSS but have no programming or JavaScript experience. Using the jQuery JavaScript library students will learn how to create the most popular interactive elements for webpages: lightboxes, overlays, slideshows, animations, tooltips, menus and scrollers. We also learn to enhance forms and bring in dynamic content to a page via Ajax.

Following the progressive enhancement and unobtrusive JavaScript processes, we learn the basics of programming logic and language grammar then move on to how to select and manipulate any element on the page.

Students learn to animate and control any element on the page. We learn how to add and remove elements from the page dynamically, add temporary content in an overlay which leads to our first basic slideshow

A key use of jQuery is to enhance static navigation elements making them more interactive, animated and dynamic. Level 3 focuses on creating a better user experience for the contents of a webpage.

Forms are one of the only ways for users to send data back to a website from a webpage so anything we can do to the process with jQuery to make it easier and more error free for visitors is a usability win. We learn several techniques for enhancing our forms in this level. We learn how Ajax lets us refresh any part of our webpage with new data without having to reload the page or continue on to another.

Workshop: Bring in your own files or work on our demo project. Level 5 is available only as part of the Training Series, not as an individual level. Workshops do not qualify for our re-take policy.

This class covers Adobe Photoshop from the basics to the new Extended version’s additions. This course is a must have for anyone working with graphics such as photographs, web images, and graphic design.

Photoshop Level 1 covers the basics of Adobe Photoshop. Tools, workspaces, and introductions to color correcting, photo repair, and layers are covered. The tips and tricks learned in this level are the foundations for the rest of the Photoshop Series.

Photoshop Level 2 continues to advance your knowledge of Photoshop focusing on professional color correction, real-world photo retouching, and non-destructive image editing.

Photoshop Level 3 focuses on the elements of Photoshop geared towards photographers and those dealing with professional photography. Topics take you from how to open and accurately read camera raw files to how to create a high quality presentation using Adobe Bridge.

Photoshop Level 4 starts with Photoshop for the web. Topics covered will include proper set ups and file types, animation using Photoshop, and website designs. The course continues with Color Correction and proper print setups. This level is a must for designers of both web and print.

Workshop: Bring in your own files or work on our demo project. Level 5 is available only as part of the Training Series, not as an individual level. Workshops do not qualify for our re-take policy.

We take a holistic approach to designing and building websites. We build a web page as the first exercise in class and we progressively build more feature rich pages and sites as the class progresses. This course is not software specific. It can be completed with just a text editor. The instructor will use Dreamweaver in code view for most of the course. Photoshop will be used to prepare images but the principles behind the image creation will be stressed, the principles will carry over into any program used to process images.

Level 1 covers: Handcoding HTML & CSS

Level 2 covers: Website Creation & Design

Level 3 covers: Navigation & Forms

Level 4 covers: Dynamic Sites

Workshop: Bring in your own files or work on our demo project. Level 5 is available only as part of the Training Series, not as an individual level. Workshops do not qualify for our re-take policy.

This class is for web developers and advanced web designers who want to start moving their static sites to the WordPress content management system. Students will learn the PHP/mySQL backend that runs all WordPress sites, how to convert a CSS layout to a WordPress Theme, creating and installing javascript plugins and connecting to shopping carts from WordPress.

This class is for web developers and advanced web designers who want to start moving their static sites to the WordPress content management system. Students will learn the PHP/mySQL backend that runs all WordPress sites, how to convert a CSS layout to a WordPress Theme, creating and installing javascript plugins and connecting to shopping carts from WordPress.

This class is for web developers and advanced web designers who want to start moving their static sites to the WordPress content management system. Students will learn the PHP/mySQL backend that runs all WordPress sites, how to convert a CSS layout to a WordPress Theme, creating and installing javascript plugins and connecting to shopping carts from WordPress.