Classes@SterlingEducation Centre

Sterling Logo Sterling Education Centre Inc.
220 Homebrook Drive
Near Upper James St. and Rymal Road (Hwys. 6 and 56)
Mount Hope, Ontario L0R 1W0
Telephone (905) 545-6363
E-mail: learn@sterlinged.com

Adobe Photoshop
Macromedia Dreamweaver
Macromedia Flash
QuarkXPress
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
Adobe GoLive

Adobe Photoshop
Maximum 2 students. Learn how to scan and retouch photos, remove scratches, correct colour casts, highlights, and shadows, and boost detail in low-contrast images using Levels, Curves, Colour Balance, Selective Colour, and the Clone Stamp tool.
Use Blur Tool, Sponge tool, Clone Stamp Tool and Dodge tool to improve photos.
Learn how to select people or objects with Marquee Selection tools, Polygon tool, Magic Wand tool or by Quick Mask method.
You'll also learn shortcuts for working productively with the Layers palette.
See 4 ways to add colour to black-and-white images.
Learn to use the Paint tools to create your own brushes or patterns, paint illustrations, select, or mask.
You'll learn to create special effects for type, logos, patterns, and layer styles.
Learn how to feather images for vignettes or collages.
Create textures for web pages
Create web graphics such as a multi-coloured button for a rollover or save images for the web. Learn how to remove the background of a logo so it is transparent on your web page.
Add frames, cast shadows, drop shadows, and curvd shadows for scrapbook images.
Learn how to use Layer Masks to fade one image into another or superimpose 2 or more photos.
You'll see the difference between Layer Masks, Quick Masks, and Group Masks.
Work with Channels for saving selections or spot colours.
Discover 2 ways to create Clipping Paths around products and people so that when you bring them into another software program, the background does not show. Use the Pen tool and Convert anchor point tool to create paths, selections, or illustrations.
Create special effects by combining a snapshot of the original photo with your altered images, using the History Stamp tool.
Produce duotones, composites of several images, feather photos, close crop photos.
Includes a list of 20 ways to increase your efficiency in Photoshop and keyboard shortcuts for working with the Layers palette.
Students will receive the new book Photoshop: One Step at a time with 162 exercises and CD to practice after the course.

Macromedia Dreamweaver
There is a maximum of 2 students so you know you'll get the attention you deserve. We’ve been teaching Macromedia Dreamweaver for designing web pages and automating production for over four years, so our instructors are well experienced. Click on a button to easily import images, Flash animations, rollovers and tables. Create imagemaps with hotspots. Add links to other pages or other spots on the same page. Import photos, artwork, or Flash animations. Add a form for receiving orders over the Internet. Insert horizontal or vertical navigation bars. Lean how to open a new browser window that's a specific size. You'll see how to upload a complete web site or just one altered page. This class usually sells out, so register today. Includes Dreamweaver: One Step at a Time book with 200 pages.

Macromedia Flash MX or MX 2004
Because of our small classes, we can be more flexible. We have the latest version of Flash, as well as the previous. We'll teach whichever version students prefer. Learn to draw with Flash's vector drawing tools and create animations including spinning, rotating, moving, and zooming logos. Make photos fade from one into another. Add sound and music to buttons, movies, or frames. Create rollover buttons and ActionScript of buttons, objects, and movie clips. Similiar to the multimedia application Macromedia Director, Flash uses a timeline with frames and layers to create movement. Learn to create mouse trails so a logo falls from the mouse when you move it across a web page. Add interactive buttons and text input boxes that automatically calculate totals. More ActionScripts including mousetrails, change a mouse cursor into a logo, create a digital clock that changes time with the viewer's computer, trace bitmapped images or videoclips, create text that glitters or add a strobe effect to type. Includes 100-page manual with additional exercises. Includes Flash: One Step at a Time book.

QuarkXPress
Learn to produce ads, business forms, brochures, and newsletters efficiently. Import graphics, wrap text, drop caps, tile over-sized documents, develop style sheets for headlines and body text, create master pages for common elements and efficiency, create custom colours and print colour separations and registration marks.

Adobe Illustrator
Learn how to alter type for logos and create colourful designs. Mask objects, trap, create custom colours, use special filters, create graphs, illustrations, and colour separations. With the new version 10, you can add soft drop shadows, feathered edges, and an outer glow.

Adobe InDesign
Learn to produce ads, business forms, brochures, and newsletters efficiently. Import graphics, wrap text, drop caps, tile over-sized documents, develop style sheets for headlines and body text, create master pages for common elements and efficiency, create custom colours and print colour separations and registration marks.