Digitally Speaking

a glimpse into the future

We don't really grow up. Sure, we may get jobs, have 3 kids, pay our accounts and do our tax returns but when confronted with something challenging, engaging and attractive, we cannot resist. It's no surprise that popular modern gadgets such as cellphones, laptops, Wii's, and iPods have become as indispensable as they are. We spend hours on them, and because of the constant assault of technology into our lives, we have become very information smart. We filter automatically that which holds no permanent value and take only that which is useful or appeals to our aesthetic nature. Or that which you can play with.

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We look forward to seeing you in class, as always.

Yours in Design
Éva

Featured Book: Professional Portrait Retouching Techniques for Photographers Using Photoshop

Featured Book: Foundation Flash Catalyst

Each year, Scott Kelby, Editor-in-Chief of Photoshop User magazine and the #1 best-selling Photoshop author, trains literally thousands of photographers on how to retouch portraits using Photoshop through workshops at the Photoshop World Conference & Expo. Now you can learn the same techniques he uses in his own retouching workflow, in the only book of its kind–one written expressly for photographers who do their own retouching.

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"Flash Catalyst is a new tool from Adobe to improve the designer-developer workflow in creating Rich Internet Applications. It enables designers to create application designs in Photoshop or Illustrator and add functionality directly to those in order to create simple interactive experiences. These can then easily be brought into Flex, where developers can add any more complex functionality. This is a landmark tool from Adobe that radically changes the way designers and developers work."

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FEATURED WEB COURSE

FEATURED DTP COURSE

FEATURED MOTION GRAPHICS COURSE

Adobe Flash Essential Skills CS5 (5 Week Evening Course)

Our popular Adobe Flash Essential Skills evening course offers you a comprehensive program providing you with all the necessary tools and techniques to create basic to intermediate rich media Flash websites.

Adobe Flash is vector graphic development program that allows you to develop powerful and interactive graphics and web based content. Flash can be used to develop content of various levels, from basic animated drawings to interactive web sites.

Next Adobe Flash Essential Skills: Evening Course: 4 July - 3 August 2011

Next Web Design module HTML/CSS Essential Skills: Evening Course: 8 August - 31 August 2011

Adobe Photoshop Essential Skills CS5 (4 Week Evening Course)

Our Adobe Photoshop Essential Skills evening course offers you a comprehensive program that provides you with all the necessary tools and techniques to create amazing designs.

This course shows you how to use Adobe Photoshop to perform many different image processing techniques. In this course, you will learn how to use several tools for selecting parts of images, and will move, duplicate and resize images. You will learn to use layers, layer effects, filters, painting and blending, and color modification. Also, you will learn how to create images of different formats for different applications.

Next Adobe Photoshop Essential Skills: Evening Course: 11 July - 3 August 2011

Next DTP module InDesign Essential Skills: Evening Course: 8 August 2011 - 31 August 2011

Apple Final Cut Pro™ Essential Skills (4 Week Evening Course)

Apple Final Cut Pro™ has become the industry standard in film and video editing, its capabilities ranging far and wide from editing, processing and output to a variety of formats. Apple Final Cut Pro™ supports a number of applications from simultaneously composited video tracks, audio tracks, multi camera editing and huge editing resources. We will show you how to apply these marvelous tools to your creative video workflows, resulting in top notch high quality productions guaranteed to impress every time.

Next Apple Final Cut Pro Essential Skills: Evening Course: 5 July 2011 - 28 July 2011

Next Motion Graphics module Adobe After Effects Essential Skills: Evening Course: 1 August - 24 June 2011

45 Photo Editing Tutorials for Photoshop

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If you're looking to improve a website by using Photoshop, to enhance the vibrance of a photo, make it more interesting, or more exciting, here are 45 of the best tutorials to show you some of the possibilities.

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Have a look at this amazing Flash designed website. Make your own custom cases for iPhone, Blackberry & iPod touch. Customize your cases with the art from world renowned artists or mix and match colours for tough protection or upload your own imagery.

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Feast your eyes on this uniquely designed Flash website. It might even make you hungry!

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Creative Training Solutions

Featured customised course - Adobe Acrobat Collaborative Workflows

Most people are under the impression that Adobe® Acrobat X™ is just a PDF Creator and reader. However, Adobe® Acrobat X™ is so much more than that. Are you looking for new ways to share and collaborate with your colleagues and clients on important projects? Wouldn't it be great to manage workflows more effectively, increase productivity and ensure reliability and consistency? With Adobe® Acrobat X™, this has never been easier. Using groundbreaking collaborative tools, sharing, commenting and reviewing is phenomenally improved. We will show you how to use Adobe® Acrobat X™ to achieve all this and more, making the review and markup process quicker, smarter and more cost effective resulting in a higher quality of work in less time. In addition, the need for extensive paperwork is effectively removed, with review tracking. And the ability to share and collaborate on files across local area networks, online or via email. This in turn benefits both your company as well as the environment. With all this to look forward to, contact us now to find out more on 021 402 0303 or info@friendsofdesign.net

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Office Space To Rent

Rent a "cube" in our cubefarm and meet and work with other creative people.

The advantage of working in a creative hub is enormous - you will be surrounded by other creatives which is the perfect environment for collaboration, feedback and even friendship. If you are working in any design genre (be it video, fashion, interiors, photography, sound film, illustration, web) and would like to be a part of a creative hub sharing ideas and skills, then please contact us asap for viewing.

We are situated at 186 Bree Street. Your cube is within the walls of a buzzing digital design training academy and includes free internet access.

Contact Margarita today for more info.

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