Course Length:

Option 1: 12 weeks (2 sessions of 2 hours per week)

Option 2: Boot Camp (6 sessions of 6 hours each)

With each of our courses, you will be working with actual real world examples, allowing you to learn the real skills necessary for the graphic design field. There will be homework assignments after every lesson, reviewing the concepts taught in that lesson. As well, the course wll culminates with 6 final portfolio pieces, which will showcase and tie together all the skills learnt.

AID: Adobe InDesign
InDesign is covered comprehensively, including basic layout, text and graphics manipulation, drawing tools (bezier curves), color creation and application, style sheets, master pages, multiple pages, justification, hyphenation, indexing, table of contents, and much more. Essential typography rules are also covered.

AI: Adobe Illustrator
A completely hands-on approach to creating illustrations and beautiful type with Adobe Illustrator. Students create many illustrations while strategies for easy execution are discussed and practiced. The course covers drawing, typography, shape combination, special effects, layers, patterns, blends, custom color, logo creation and much more.

AP: Adobe Photoshop
A comprehensive class, with an emphasis on the application of concepts to real work situations. You will work on many images! Projects include everything from simple color correction to complex photo retouching, providing an overview from scanned image to printed piece. The course covers advanced selections, retouching, layers, patterns, adjustment layers, masks, type effects, paths, and special filters.

About our School

The Bold Edge combines the benefits of e-Learning, online video tutorials and on-site instructor-led training methods to offer high quality interactive online courses in Adobe® products, Graphic Design and web site development technologies.

With The Bold Edge, your instructor virtually comes to you. Get hands-on training, and save time and money. Eliminate the commute and travel expenses, reduce your carbon footprint on the environment to stay green.

All you need is a reliable internet connection (DSL or faster), a web browser such as Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari, and the apropriate software programs(which we offer at a deeply discounted student rate). Unlike online video tutorials and books that may just leave you hanging helpless, with The Bold Edge you can interact with your instructor and other attendees live.

You are no longer by yourself.  You have an expert by your side to answer any question you may have on the subject.
Your Live Training session is recorded and posted online so you can review parts or the entire training session. You can then  focus on learning from your instructor instead of taking notes.

Therefore unlike other instructor-led programs, you will not need to retake any training.  Just log in using the link provided to you to playback your training session video.

Our online classrooms can accommodate up to 25 attendees but we limit that number to 10 per training session to allow more one-on-one interactions between the instructor and each attendee.

All our training sessions are delivered through an encrypted internet connection using a secure private network. You can rest assured your privacy is entirely protected and your computer completely safe from intruders and malwares.