Want to change an image? Or use it in a different format? If you can imagine it, Photoshop can do it. Learn how to create amazing effects, retouch old photographs, and design more visually arresting web pages and PowerPoint presentations with this premier photo editing software tool. In this course, you’ll learn about all the resources available to you in Photoshop and develop or strengthen your skill at using them. Everything you need to bring out your inner digital artist is waiting for you in Photoshop, so learn how to use this valuable tool.

Common tools, uncommon results. That’s what you get when you enter the exciting world of digital media. This course introduces you to popular industry tools and techniques that will allow you to create incredible computer graphics, web animations, digital videos with sound, and interactive multimedia. In addition to learning digital art creation, photo editing, audio and video recording, and editing, you’ll also learn the fundamentals of Flash animation, Macromedia Director interactive multimedia authoring and DVD-ROM creation. By the end of the course, you’ll possess an interactive DVD portfolio of your projects as well as the skills you’ll need to launch a creative career in digital and interactive media.

Unleash the power of Macromedia Director, the de facto tool for interactive multimedia for high-powered DVD. Through the use of LINGO, Director's powerful, feature-rich scripting language, you’ll gain the knowledge and expertise to develop exciting 2D interactive media, such as arcade-style video games, interactive marketing and promotional DVDs, and interactive portfolios and presentations. If you desire a career in interactive media development, this class is for you.

Creating digital media is one thing. Creating digital media that looks good, is easy to use, and is engaging is something else. This course explores design and composition of both the art and the interface, as it applies to digital media in a variety of applications, including the web, CD-ROM, interactivity, and static and motion graphics. But that’s only half the course. In addition to learning to create “effective” graphics, you’ll learn to manage the media creation process, including project management, asset management, and client relations. You’ll leave this class ready to become a digital media producer or artist.

This is no flash in the pan. The tools you’ll acquire in this class are here to stay. You’ll gain a thorough understanding of the fundamentals of Adobe Flash 8 and Flash ActionScript that will allow you to create powerful web animation and interactivity. You’ll explore script syntax and logic, learn to control targeted objects and timelines, and prepare and encode video for deployment so that advanced features of web design, layout and publishing as well as dynamic content loading will be at your fingertips.

When it comes to video editing, you have to be efficient and you have to be compelling. Content producers must be able to quickly and creatively adapt their techniques to the market’s changing needs. In this course, you’ll gain an understanding of video and audio file formats, compression techniques, and time lines. You’ll also explore telling stories through editing techniques in high-end video tools and using motion graphics to create two-dimensional artwork in fully controlled motion. By the end of the course, you’ll have a portfolio to display your video editing, sound editing, and motion graphics expertise.

Learn to use technology to inspire creativity. In this course, you’ll explore the building blocks of the multimedia world: text, sound, images, animation and video. You’ll learn the basics of painting and drawing using vector graphics, image formats, and digital image editing. You’ll gain an understanding of the basics of 3D animation as well as get an overview of the interactive multimedia title development process. You’ll also be introduced to Lingo, a scripting language for interactivity. Hands-on projects using a variety of cutting-edge tools will give you an impressive portfolio of work by the end of the course.

Students will acquire skills and knowledge to design and develop online applications powered by the cutting edge Adobe Flash 9 player. Content will be authored using Adobe Flex 2 for client-side development and PHP for server-side development. Major concepts covered are web application design, development, and deployment. Topics include the proper usage of Flex 2 components, creating custom components, and user interface design techniques. The final project will be a scalable fully functional online application.