Fidelis Training offer bespoke and scheduled training in a large range of creative and web technologies including Adobe training courses for Adobe InDesign CS4 & CS3, Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 & CS3, Adobe Illustrator CS4 & CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS4 & CS3, Adobe Flash CS4 & CS3 & Flash ActionScript; Adobe Acrobat 9 & 8 and Adobe Premiere CS4 & CS3, Adobe Director and QuarkXPress 8 & 7; Adobe Dreamweaver 8, Color Management; Digital Imaging; Enfocus products for PDF workflows; Database publishing solutions, Google SketchUp and other more specialized technologies including plug-ins for QuarkXPress, InDesign and Photoshop.

All of our courses are taught by certified trainers and industry experts and are held in our training centre or client office
At Fidelis Training we understand the needs of busy professionals in creative industries: all of our courses are customized and as per the client requirement and we make sure we deliver the appropriate content in appropriate timeline.

Mac or PC?:
We teach on both Macintosh and Windows PCs. The software works almost identically, but we respect your need to work on the same platform as your work or home computer. Regardless of platform, all of our computers have 19" monitors and the most up-to-date software to make your learning experience pleasant as well as efficient.

Professional Instructors:
Our instructors are professionals who work full-time in the field and bring their working knowledge to the classroom to enhance your learning experience. The length and structure of our courses allows you plenty of time to experiment and ask questions.

Written Reference Material:
In every class, we provide you with a custom training manual featuring step by step exercises and Power User keyboard shortcut guides that you can use long after the class is over. Our syllabus for each class is comprehensive, designed by people who are in the business, to answer the questions that always come up in a professional working environment.

Certificates:
We present a handsome Certificate of Completion to every one of our students. While the certificate is not valid for any college credit, it is proof that you have attended our fine training courses.

Adobe InDesign is the page layout application of choice of many users. It contains a host of advanced text, color, print and layout features not found in any other application. It also boasts and interface similar to many of Adobe’s other leading design applications and so is reasonably intuitive for users of these applications. Further, Adobe InDesign integrates seamlessly with the other Adobe applications and can include native Photoshop and Illustrator files. PDF output, XML , and export to GoLive output are also supported, making InDesign the perfect tool for repurposing content. For users with such requirements, bespoke training can be the ideal way to focus precisely on learning in-depth those aspects of the software you need to master.

Fidelis Training offer InDesign bespoke courses that are tailored to focus on your specific needs.

If you are interested in discussing InDesign training from Fidelis, please contact our training department to discuss this option further so that we can offer you a proposed course outline and business proposal tailored to your needs.

Adobe Illustrator is Adobe's industry standard vector-based illustrating tool and with the likely demise of Freehand it looks set to retain its crown for some time. It is used by graphic designers throughout the world to create a vast variety of different media including illustrations, package designs, leaflets & flyers, web graphics & animations, notice boards, billboards, and many other graphic objects. Mastering the basics then means you'll be able to produce an almost endless scope of graphic designs.

Adobe Illustrator adds some great new features that beginners can start using straight away such as Control palette, Adobe Bridge, Live Trace and expanded export options.

Fidelis Training offer Illustrator bespoke courses that are tailored to focus on your specific needs.

If you are interested in discussing Illustrator training from Fidelis, please contact our training department to discuss this option further so that we can offer you a proposed course outline and business proposal tailored to your needs.

Adobe Photoshop is the ultimate image editing application providing extra features over the normal Photoshop CS4 application used by the majority of design professionals throughout the world. Photoshop CS4 offers incredible creative freedom both in terms of manipulating exisiting images, creating new art work, and integrating all design elements. Photoshop CS4 also supports vector graphics, easy automation, and a wide range of other improved features, including the brilliant new Adobe Bridge, vanishing point effects, one-click red-eye correction and much more. If you’re serious about working in the creative industries, it’s no exaggeration to say that you must know this application.

In this bespoke course in Adobe Photoshop, you will learn the areas of image manipulation and creation which are most relevant depending upon your previous experience. If new to Photoshop learning how to create accurate selections to modfiy with Photoshop’s tools will form a key part of the training (including Quick Masks), as will understanding layers, using colour and transparency, and adjusting images to improve their quality/suitability for their intended publication. As Photoshop is such a feature-rich application, other features of the software will be considered according to how appropriate they are to your workflow needs.

Fidelis Training offer Photoshop bespoke courses that are tailored to focus on your specific needs.

If you are interested in discussing Photoshop training from Fidelis, please contact our training department to discuss this option further so that we can offer you a proposed course outline and business proposal tailored to your needs.

Adobe Acrobat  provides the perfect platform for sharing, presenting and controlling access to information with others. With Acrobat Professional 9 you can create fully interactive PDFs that contain not only perfectly formatted text and images, but also contain multi-media resources like sound, movies, Flash files and the new 3D interactive elements that are great not only for creating visually stunning PDFs but also for technical drawing professionals who need to create interactive diagrams. Add to this the ability to use Acrobat as a presentation tool and you can create feature rich presentations that look great across platforms and can be securely distributed and viewed by all users for free.

In this course we'll get you up and running with the best ways to work with Acrobat 9 to improve the way you create, combine, share and distribute Adobe PDF documents.

Fidelis Training offer Acrobat bespoke courses that are tailored to focus on your specific needs.

If you are interested in discussing Acrobat training from Fidelis, please contact our training department to discuss this option further so that we can offer you a proposed course outline and business proposal tailored to your needs.

Adobe Flash is now a web standard and the only widely distributed technology for integrating vector graphics and animation into web sites. This combination of design and animation tools is complimented by a strong development environment that allows programmers to create highly interactive database driven technologies. Flash 8 sees the arrival of a host of exciting new features, including an improved script editor (with a visual interface); a revamped library interface; a new Undo feature; powerful run-time effects; and breakthrough motion-graphics capabilities to name but a few.

In this course, we focus on using Flash for the creation of visually attractive vector and animation-based page elements and websites. We will create artwork in Flash as well as importing artwork and images into Flash files. We also work with text, creating navigation systems, and creating interactive elements that contain sound and video. An overview of many of the new features in Flash will also be given.

By the end of this course you will have a good understanding of the core features of Flash and how to use them to create visually attractive, interactive web elements. You will also be able to build and implement a full Flash project from start to finish.

Fidelis Training offer Flash bespoke courses that are tailored to focus on your specific needs.

If you are interested in discussing Flash training from Fidelis, please contact our training department to discuss this option further so that we can offer you a proposed course outline and business proposal tailored to your needs.

Adobe Flex is a highly productive, open source framework for building and maintaining expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops and operating systems. Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) created with Flex can run in the browser using Adobe Flash® Player software or on the desktop on Adobe AIR™, the cross-operating system runtime. This enables Flex applications to run consistently across all major browsers and on the desktop. And using AIR, Flex applications can now access local data and system resources on the desktop.

Fidelis Training offer Flex bespoke courses that are tailored to focus on your specific needs.

If you are interested in discussing Flex training from Fidelis, please contact our training department to discuss this option further so that we can offer you a proposed course outline and business proposal tailored to your needs.

QuarkXPress continues to be the standard for page layout for most professionals working in print and design industries. The principle is simple: QuarkXPress allows you to place elements created in other applications onto a page and to flow text around those objects. But there are many new and exciting features to this powerful tool including advanced typography tools, utilities for precise aligning and positioning, tables and layers to name but a few.

In this course we focus on learning the key features of QuarkXPress required to produce well-formatted, print-ready color documents. You will learn how to flow and format text, place and position images, align and adjust layouts and create multi-layout files.

By the end of this course, you will have groundwork knowledge of the main elements involved in producing professional print-ready documents with confidence and will have a sound working knowledge of the key requirements of good quality press documents.

Fidelis Training offer QuarkXPress bespoke courses that are tailored to focus on your specific needs.

If you are interested in discussing QuarkXPress training from Fidelis, please contact our training department to discuss this option further so that we can offer you a proposed course outline and business proposal tailored to your needs.