Ascend offers hands on training in Adobe, Avid and Quark applications. We offer a structured schedule at both our Chicago Loop and suburban Deerfield, IL facilities. Most of our classes offer leveled options, such as an Illustrator Level 1: Fundamentals to Intermediate, then a Level 2: Advanced course. This Level 1 doesn't mean this is simply a basics class, only that it does cover some of the basics before the intermediate topics. Our classes are designed for those who need to get up and running very quickly in any application, and students leave with the knowledge to create, develop, engage and evolve.
Adobe Acrobat Professional 8.0: Acrobat PDF Interactivity is a 2-day course that will cover everything from basic electronic document conversion to multimedia projects. We'll learn about navigati...
Adobe After Effects Level 1 is a 2-day course that will introduce the After Effects software and take the student from start to finish on a basic animation project using most of After Effects' st...
Adobe After Effects is the industry leader for Video Composting that allows you to create QuickTime movies for output on the Web, CD ROM, Monitor, or full-motion broadcast quality video for television...
This 2-day course will include everything you need to get started building applications with AIR. Flex developers will learn to create rich applications for deployment on the desktop. Learn how to int...
Advanced ColdFusion Development is a 3-day course that provides experienced ColdFusion application developers with the knowledge and hands-on practice that they need to build, maintain, and scale effe...
Description of Adobe ColdFusion 8: Fast Track to ColdFusion: Fast Track to ColdFusion 8 is a 3-day course that provides experienced Web developers with the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to...
Adobe Director Lingo is a 2-day course that will cover everything in Lingo from the ground up, starting with the ABC's of programming and ending with writing your own customized behaviors from sc...
This workshop will enable you to create high-end, professional presentations. We will go in-depth into animating Text, using Sound & Digital Video. You will learn about creating interactive programs t...
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Level 1: Website Development is a 3-day course that provides web designers the skills to create, design, manage edit and publish professional websites. Students leave this class...
This course is designed for seasoned Dreamweaver developers and designers who wish to take the next step in making the most of Dreamweaver CS3. In this class, we’ll explore some of Dreamweaver CS3...
This class takes more time with Dreamweaver CS3's advanced functions, including: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Advanced Behaviors, and customizing the Dreamweaver application itself. You will lea...
This course will create web graphics from start to finish with Fireworks CS3. Students will explore Dreamweaver CS3 integration such as the new Copy/Paste function. Website graphics will be created fr...
This is an introductory course for designers and budding developers new to the Flash environment, Students will produce an engaging Flash interface using text, graphics, animations, video, and sound....
Adobe Flash CS3 Level 2: ActionScript 3.0 provides experienced Flash designers with the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to create dynamically generated event-driven animation and interactive...
This advanced Flash class is designed for current Flash designers with ActionScript experience. Students must be active Actionscript developers with a minimum of 1 year developing experience. Students...
Flex 3: Building Dashboard Applications provides developers with the knowledge needed to use Flex 3 charts to create highly interactive dashboards for data visualization. Developers will be able to cr...
Flex 3: Developing Rich Internet Client Applications provides experienced application developers with hands-on, practical experience using Flex. This three day course introduces developers to all the...
Adobe Illustrator CS3 Level 1: Fundamentals to Intermediate is an introductory course for designers and budding developers new to the Illustrator CS3 environment, or those that have not had formal tra...
Illustrator CS3 Level 2, Advanced will build upon the knowledge planted in Level I. We will use the Effects and Filters and how they differ, and also the Appearance Palette to save a Graphic Style. We...
Adobe InCopy is an InDesign-integrated solution for collaborative editorial workflows. You will learn to organize, assign metadata and make your files more searchable in Bridge. You will also develop...
This workshop is designed to teach current intermediate to advanced InDesign users how to use XML within InDesign for print and Web applications.You will learn how to create basic XML files and produc...
Adobe InDesign CS3 Level 1: Fundamentals to Intermediate, explores the use of the most powerful desktop publishing program on the market. Students will use frames to place text and graphics, learn typ...
InDesign CS3 for Quark Users class is for students who have a solid knowledge of QuarkXPress and are making the jump to InDesign CS3. The benefits of this course over the InDesign Level 1 class are t...
This workshop is for the experienced user as well as students who have taken a previous InDesign workshop with us. Students must be actively working in InDesign with a minimum of 1 year experience. In...
This course is designed to help companies learn the required skills to start making their own photographs for commercial use. We’ll cover the subjects of choosing the right camera for the job, how t...
Adobe Photoshop CS3 Level 1: Fundamentals to IntermediateThis class is for all levels of Photoshop users. Seasoned users may wish to take this class in order to fill in “holes” in their Photoshop...
Photoshop CS3 Level 2: Advanced and New CS3 Features is for those who want to take their Photoshop skills to the next level. Alpha channels, professional retouching techniques, nondestructive filterin...
This course will offer a step-by-step introduction to and exploration of Adobe Premiere Pro, one of the most powerful motion graphics applications available, now reintroduced for the Mac as well as Wi...
Avid #239: Color Correction: This course teaches the intermediate user to color correct a sequence in Avid Xpress Pro. Learn to color correct each shot in a sequence, work with color and luminance saf...
Avid Xpress Pro Editing is an in-depth introduction to the techniques of nonlinear editing on the Avid Xpress Pro system. The class progresses through all the basic phases of creating a sequence on Av...
Introduction to Avid Xpress Pro: Effects introduces basic effects and is a prerequisite for the 210 Creating Graphics & Mattes for Avid Xpress Pro with Adobe Photoshop course. Topics include: creating...
Each day of this class is focused on a single topic. Day one will cover blogs. Day two will focus on content management systems. Each day will begin with a topic overview meant to provide context for...
This course is an intensive 5 day hands-on workshop that covers the Final Cut Pro and associated Studio software applications. This course will take you through the basics all the way through some of...
This course in QuarkXPress new version 7.0 will help you to begin to explore the enormous power of the most popular desktop publishing program on the market. You will explore the different palettes, m...
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