Design Training
Acumen provides training in the use of graphic design programs. Craig has trained thousands of graphic designers and communications staff, throughout New Zealand and Australia, in the flexibility and power of Acrobat and PDF files. He has also presented customised on-site training to organisations*.
Training has been in demand from organisations wanting to focus the training examples to their in-house documents and processes. It is often very useful to such organisations to have their real work matters resolved in training because staff are then immediately able to offer benefits back to the workplace.
(* including Wellington Regional Council, Napier City Council, Victoria Gaming Authority, Otago University).
Training has been offered in topics such as these:
- Acrobat/PDF
- Converting graphic design to PDF; the full process
- Microsoft business applications and PDF
- Converting paper documents to PDF
- Commenting and proofing
- Editing PDFs; what you can do, what you should do
- Solving design challenges
Photoshop
- Maximising the quality of photos from your digital camera
- Introduction to photo editing
- Image touch-up
- Clear cutting
- Creating a montage of images
- Adding effects
- Scanning
InDesign
- Introduction to page layout
- Comparison of InDesign with Word
- Creating master pages
- Creating text style sheets
- Adding graphics
- Exporting to PDF
- Creating efficient workflows