Silicon Beach Training – Image, Print & DTP Training

3D Studio Max is the most powerful tool for 3d designers, architects, interior designers and games producers – "maximise your creativity with the best-selling 3d modelling, animation and rendering solution for visual effects, character animation and next generation gaming"

This is a comprehensive 3D Studio Max training course for designers and animators new to this industry leading 3D modelling, animation and rendering package from Discreet. This 3D Studio Max training course will enable you to migrate from 2D design to 3D animations, to create photorealistic images, finally rendering sequences for 3D animations, multimedia productions, broadcast and the web.

This one-day Adobe Acrobat training course helps users to understand and apply the power of Adobe Acrobat for creation, management, searching, distribution and archiving of electronic documents.

This Adobe Acrobat training course targets end-users or anyone who aims to further understand the functionality of Acrobat. This is a hands-on exercise based course.

Adobe After Effects is a very large and powerful motion graphics application. With extra primary features added with each version it has become increasingly difficult to offer a short introductory course, while providing the full feature detail required to meet specific users' needs.

Our solution to this is to offer a two day core After Effects training course, plus additional half-day modules on more advanced topics. Extra days may then be added in accordance with clients' requirements. Choosing all six modules provides an exhaustive, five day After Effects training course.

Adobe After Effects is a deep, powerful non-linear video effects package. It provides a swathe of video effects such as transitions, warps and particles, and compositing tools such as keying, track mattes, etc. It can work with a variety of different media, and render video to broadcast standard.

This advanced After Effects training course goes deeper into After Effects' more complex tools and techniques, including 3D, advanced expressions, keying, etc.

This is a two-day introductory AVID training course for those wishing to learn the AVID Editing System. Avid is the most widely used professional edit interface in the world and is used in news, drama, documentary, soaps, game shows and feature films.

The AVID training course intensively follows the needs of the editor in using the edit suite, starting with the technical underpinnings of video in the digital realm, and exploring the wide variety of editing tools available to the Avid user.

This is a two-day AVID Advanced training course for those wishing to advance their knowledge of the Avid Editing System.

This AVID training course, which allows the editor to use and maintain any Avid edit suite, begins with discussing the technical nature of sound and picture in the digital realm. The Advanced editing tools are fully explored as are the range of special effects available for colour correction, multi-layered video, and audio mixing.

Macromedia Director is a multimedia-authoring tool widely used for producing applications for distribution on CD-ROM, DVD and the web. Applications developed for the web are saved as Shockwave movies and embedded in an HTML page. The program contains a sophisticated scripting language called Lingo.

Director Training Course content: Essentials, Animation, Input & Output, Interactivity, Production Skills, Director Techniques & Scripting.

This Advanced Director training course is aimed at delegates who are comfortable with the director interface and basic Lingo. This Advanced Director training course will establish a solid foundation in advanced programming concepts through practical experience.

The diverse and exciting challenges faced by lingo programmers will be explored through the development of applications for both web and cd rom environments.

Discrete Event Simulation is a tried and tested technique which allows for easy modelling of real systems. It has relevance at the business process or factory-production-line level, for intermediate decision support and training and also at the strategic level.

This course provides intense training in either of two contemporary tools Extend or Showflow. The aim is to provide real skills in practical modelling through instruction, examples and exercises Model building nowadays is through animated (2D or 3D) interfaces which speeds up build and means that users do not have to be programmers.

Animation also means that output is tangible and that models are easy to validate. Business Process Maps and Models can easily be converted into dynamic simulations which take and feed information from databases or spreadsheets for What-If analysis, Reengineering, Process Change, Prototyping and Process Improvement.

During this Adobe Illustrator training course you will discover how to create high quality drawings and illustrations with Adobe Illustrator.

This Adobe Illustrator training course will teach you the unique features of Illustrator, including how to create logos, professional type effects, complex airbrush effects and colour control. You will learn the industry standard program for print and online graphics.

Generally most digital designers only scratch the surface of Illustrator. This Illustrator Advanced course will take you below the surface of Adobe Illustrator challenging you and enabling you to master high quality design and illustration techniques for both print and screen. If you've mastered Illustrator basics and you're ready for the next level, this course is for you.

This Advanced Illustrator course begins by filling in the gaps in your knowledge and examining those areas that are often overlooked in Illustrator, and then goes much further, covering a range of powerful techniques aimed at both print and the screen. Real artwork and design projects are discussed to demonstrate efficient production methods. Delegates are encouraged to bring projects in to explore specific areas of interest. On completion of this Advanced Illustrator training course, delegates will discover the hidden depth that. Illustrator has to offer. Delegates will gain the confidence to use Illustrators more advanced features helping to speed up and improve workflow as well as releasing their true creative potential.

This Adobe InDesign training course is suitable for those with no previous experience of the or those who are self taught. Familiarity with the operating system and the keyboard is a course prerequisite.

During this Adobe InDesign training course, you will learn how to produce documentation from design concept right through to output. You will gain a comprehensive understanding of features and processes involved in producing effective documentation.

This one day InDesign Migration training course is designed for delegates who already have some page layout experience, with either Adobe PageMaker or QuarkXpress.

Course content: Adobe InDesign User Interface, Keyboard shortcuts, Document creation, Text handling, OpenType, Working with Graphics and Transparency, Tables and Printing.

PageMaker is the ideal page layout program for business, education, and small- and home-office professionals who want to create high-quality publications such as brochures and newsletters. This Pagemaker training course will allow you to get started quickly with templates, graphics, and intuitive design tools; work productively across Adobe applications; and easily leverage existing content to create customized communications.

Course content: Document Creation, Working with Type, Images and Layout & Master Pages.

Photoshop allows designers, photographers and web creators to produce all kinds of graphics by manipulating and composing scanned or drawn images, using powerful layering and masking techniques and a wealth of special effect filters. Learn how to optimise your images for print or for the web.

Upon completion of this Adobe Photoshop training course, the delegate will be confident in using Photoshop to:

• Scan, re-touch, and optimise images for print or the web
• Work effectively and flexibly with layer masks in the production of montage and image manipulation
• Use filters and layer effects both as tools and effects
• Export from Photoshop using the most appropriate file format for the job in hand
• Develop Photoshop skills further using the in depth knowledge gained during this course

This two-day Advanced Photoshop training course teaches participants the techniques necessary to create, manipulate and edit professional quality images with skill and precision. This course is suitable for designers and photographers who have working experience of Photoshop.

Areas often overlooked by everyday use of Photoshop are examined and explained both in theoretical discussion and by practical example on this Advanced Photoshop training course. On completion, candidates will have mapped out the depths that Photoshop has to offer as well as carrying away a range of techniques that speed up and improve the workflow.

Adobe Premiere is a powerful non-linear video-editing package, equipped with all the tools you need to create professional video for broadcast or the web.

This 2-day Adobe Premiere training course introduces the basic concepts of editing video. Premiere's interface and toolset are explained with working examples, and we will look at transitions (wipes and fades), filters and keyframing. The basics of compositing video layers are also covered.

Adobe Premiere is a powerful non-linear video editing package, equipped with all the tools you need to create professional video for broadcast or the web.

This 1 day Advanced Adobe Premiere training course gives delegates the chance to expand on the knowledge gained in the standard Premiere course, and to practise the new techniques in a mini project.

QuarkXpress is the industry-standard page layout application. It is used worldwide to design and layout the majority of magazines, brochures and books you will see today. Xpress gathers together text, pictures and other graphic elements, all of which together compose a page or series of pages. QuarkXpress can be used to produce anything from a baggage label to a multiple-volume encyclopaedia.

On completion of this Quark training course the delegate will be able to use QuarkXpress to:

• Design, layout and edit documents from single-page flyers and newsletters to multi-page magazines to books
• Add and edit text and images
• Create and add colour to the document
• Use style sheets to simplify text styling
• Output high resolution documents ready for print

VectorWorks is one of the leading CAD packages available, providing professional design solutions for the AEC, entertainment, landscape design and machine design industries.

We offer six comprehensive modules from 2D Foundation through to advanced 3D rendering and lighting techniques.

These comprehensive 1-day VectorWorks modules, led by professional architects & designers can be tailored to your individual requirements.