GRAFIX Training and Consulting provides comprehensive training courses for all the products listed on this page. Use the pull-down menu below to view a brief description of the product you are interested in, or jump to that product's class syllabus.

Technical Writing

GRAFIX offers classes in the following to assist in creating technical manuals and documents with a long life-cycle:

Image Editing and Illustration

GRAFIX offers training in the following to help you create, color correct, and composite images for both print and the web:

Photoshop: The world-standard image-editing solution for print and the Web
Raising photo design and production to exhilarating new heights, Adobe Photoshop® software expands its scope to bring you innovative artistic tools and enhanced Web features, plus the power of Adobe ImageReady® software for advanced processing of Web graphics. Photoshop is the first integrated toolset for taking your images from concept to completion in print and on the Web, maximizing your efficiency while helping you achieve the finest-quality output in both media.

Photoshop and ImageReady Pricing and Class Syllabus

Offering an unparalleled combination of creative freedom and productivity, Adobe® Illustrator® is preferred by designers, graphic artists, technical illustrators, and business professionals around the world. Its time-saving features and superior integration with Adobe Photoshop®, ImageReady™, PageMaker®, and PostScript® 3, as well as drag-and-drop convenience with Microsoft® Office and other graphics applications, help you create eye-catching artwork for print, presentations, and the Web in an exceptionally smooth workflow.

Illustrator Pricing and Class Syllabus

World-Class Illustrator Examples

Web Design

GRAFIX offers training in the following to help you create dynamic content for your Web needs:

The cutting-edge tool for creating premier Web sites
From Paris to San Francisco to Tokyo, the Web's top designers and developers use Adobe GoLive™ software to create and manage world-class sites. Its visual design tools let you lay out pages with pixel-level control, while the flexible source-code editor helps you write, edit, and check your HTML. Add in easy-to-use Dynamic HTML, cascading style sheets, QuickTime editing, ready-to-use JavaScript actions, and advanced site-management capabilities, and it's no wonder that GoLive is the tool of choice for Web professionals.

GoLive Pricing and Class Syllabus

Macromedia Dreamweaver has everything you need to develop a professional Web site. Now you can build Macromedia Flash graphics directly in Dreamweaver. Whether you use Dreamweaver's visual layout tools or its text-editing environment, the intuitive Macromedia User Interface makes it easy.

Dreamweaver Pricing and Class Syllabus

Electronic Document Exchange and Review Cycle (PDF)

GRAFIX offers training in the following to help you create and distribute electronic documents:

The essential tool for universal document exchange
What good is a document you can't open? Whether you create business plans, spreadsheets, graphically rich brochures, or Web sites, Adobe® Acrobat® software lets you convert any document to an Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) file. Conversion is as easy as a click within your Microsoft Office toolbar (Windows only). Your team can work smarter by electronically adding comments and signing documents without leav-ing their Web browsers. Easily secure your documents with password protection. Anyone with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader software can open Adobe PDF files across a broad range of hardware and software, and the files will look exactly as intended—with layout, formatting, and images intact.

Acrobat Pricing and Class Syllabus

Page Layout

GRAFIX offers training in the following to help you create world class advertising and magazine layouts:

Adobe® InDesign™ speaks the language of professional designers, delivering unparalleled creative freedom, productivity, and precision for designing superb pages. It works seamlessly with Photoshop® and Illustrator®, providing a single integrated design environment that doesn't interrupt your creative process. InDesign even opens QuarkXPress and PageMaker® files, so you can bring your work with you as you enter a new world of design possibilities. With InDesign, your creativity is in command.

InDesign Pricing and Class Syllabus

A powerful yet easy-to-use program, QuarkXPress is used by the world's leading designers and publishers to produce everything from newsletters, ads, and brochures to product packaging, catalogs, magazines, and newspapers. QuarkXPress is an integrated publishing package that combines expert type, layout, color, and graphics-handling features with professional illustration tools, word processing, and sophisticated prepress functions -- all in one application. Precise typography and layout tools give you an unparalleled design control and command over every aspect of your document, from conception to output.

QuarkXPress Pricing and Class Syllabus