e-Learning: Design & Media Library

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New Horizons offers the most complete library of online courses for design professionals who use technology to enhance communications. The library was created explicitly with web designers, graphic designers, page layout experts, and creators of original art and media in mind. These professionals leverage high-powered PCs and advanced computer applications to enhance creativity and drive productivity throughout their design processes. The New Horizons Design and Media library provides training for most major design functions from graphic development to photo manipulation and enhancement to layout and publishing. The library is suitable as a “Just-in-Time” reference to be used under tight project deadlines, as well as a formal training tool that accommodates various learning paths in design and electronic communication disciplines.

Application training for the novice or expert designer - Including design specialties

This collection of courses covers the design and media applications of industry giants Adobe, Macromedia, Corel, Lotus, Quark, and Microsoft. Multiple application levels and versions are included to accommodate the broadest base of design specialists – and the career path of each student as he or she faces new assignments and encounters new technologies. Typical design roles that are supported:

Web Designer

Uses sound design techniques and UI (User Interface) best practices to create web pages with text and graphics. Fundamental skills include web authoring with HTML, creating web-suitable imagery (objects), applying Cascading Style Sheets, and planning website navigation. Typical applications and programming languages include: HTML, FrontPage, Cascading Style Sheets, and a number of Adobe and Macromedia products that meet specific Web design objectives.

Graphic Designer

Uses sound design techniques to create graphical elements and objects for Web, print, or multi-media output. Fundamental skills include drawing and editing dynamic graphics, adding text to graphical elements, applying styles, and manipulating color. Typical applications include: Photoshop, Illustrator, FreeHand, and Fireworks.

Page Layout or Prepress Expert

Uses artistic techniques to layout pages in advance of Web or print publishing. Fundamental skills include arranging text and graphics on a page to meet marketing objectives, developing and managing templates, applying styles, and preparing documents for publication. Typical applications include: QuarkXPress, InDesign, and FrameMaker.

Animator / Multimedia Designer

Uses artistic techniques to create dynamic objects that mix elements of text, graphics, sound, and motion. Fundamental skills include drawing and editing graphics, manipulating film or video images, and employing applications to enhance the spatial, temporal, or acoustical qualities of graphical objects. Typical applications include: Flash, Director, LiveMotion, and After Effects.

Training partner to the leading design application companies

New Horizons is proud to be a training content provider to the world’s leading design application developers - Adobe. Through these relationships, New Horizons has developed and hosts branded Websites that offer application training to Adobe’s customers respectively. These arrangements require that New Horizons courses are of the highest quality, and that ongoing course development is timely with new product releases.

Reference tool and partner

New Horizons integration of online reference tools, including a custom collection of the most relevant books on design and media topics, is unmatched in the industry. Popular courses are available in a collaborative format with access to an instructor, in addition to the convenient and highly regarded self-study format. And topical “discussions” happen virtually through New Horizons Learning Port threaded message boards, designed to give students a place to get peer feedback and assistance.

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