Design Work Life: Cataloging Inspiration Daily

I’ve always said that if I ever win the lot­tery I would become a pro­fes­sional stu­dent. I’ve always wanted to go back to school, and I would be enrolled in var­i­ous classes con­stantly if I had the time. So need­less to say, I’m very excited to announce our most recent part­ner­ship with Course Horse, a site that pro­vides makes it eas­ier for prospec­tive stu­dents to find, com­pare and enroll in the best local classes. I’ll be start­ing a new series of posts that will each high­light a group of classes on a par­tic­u­lar topic that I per­son­ally wish I could take myself.

This week, we’re start­ing with Design Program Basics. These courses are great whether you want to brush up on your skills or learn a new one. No mat­ter what dis­ci­pline you’re focused on, knowl­edge in each of these pro­grams is a must.

• Illustrator Essentials: Learn how to cre­ate vec­tor art for design and web­sites, cre­ate Perspective Drawings and con­trol your brushes to cre­ate a more nat­ural brush stroke. More info.
• Photoshop Essentials: Students will be able to cre­ate graph­ics for use in web­sites, retouch dam­aged pho­tog­ra­phy and use Text, Layers and Drawing Tools to cre­ate images. More info.
• InDesign Essentials: Learn how to lay out a mul­ti­ple page doc­u­ment, insert pho­tos, cre­ate text styles, mas­ter doc­u­ments and pages, flow in copy from Microsoft Word and send a doc­u­ment off to print. More info.