Design & Media
New Horizons offers a full suite of courses from the top vendors of design and media software, including Microsoft and Adobe. These hands-on courses are available in multiple delivery formats and are designed for graphic designers, video producers, and web designers at all levels.
| Acrobat | AutoCAD |
| CorelDRAW | Dreamweaver |
| Fireworks | FrameMaker |
| FreeHand | FrontPage |
| GoLive | HTML |
| Illustrator | InDesign |
| Macromedia Flash | PageMaker |
| Photoshop | Publisher |
| QuarkXPress |
Design and Media Library
The most comprehensive design and media library available
New Horizons offers the most complete library of online courses for design professionals who use technology to
enhance communications. The library was created explicitly with web designers, graphic designers, page layout
experts, and creators of original art and media in mind. These professionals leverage high-powered PCs and
advanced computer applications to enhance creativity and drive productivity throughout their design processes.
The New Horizons Design and Media library provides training for most major design functions from graphic
development to photo manipulation and enhancement to layout and publishing. The library is suitable as a
“Just-in-Time” reference to be used under tight project deadlines, as well as a formal training tool that
accommodates various learning paths in design and electronic communication disciplines.
Application training for the novice or expert designer - Including design specialties
This collection of courses covers the design and media applications of industry giants Adobe, Macromedia, Corel,
Lotus, Quark, and Microsoft. Multiple application levels and versions are included to accommodate the broadest
base of design specialists – and the career path of each student as he or she faces new assignments and
encounters new technologies. Typical design roles that are supported:
Web Designer - Uses sound design techniques and UI (User Interface) best practices to create web pages with
text and graphics. Fundamental skills include web authoring with HTML, creating web-suitable imagery (objects),
applying Cascading Style Sheets, and planning website navigation. Typical applications and programming
languages include: HTML, FrontPage, Cascading Style Sheets, and a number of Adobe and Macromedia products
that meet specific Web design objectives.
Graphic Designer - Uses sound design techniques to create graphical elements and objects for Web, print, or
multi-media output. Fundamental skills include drawing and editing dynamic graphics, adding text to graphical
elements, applying styles, and manipulating color. Typical applications include: Photoshop, Illustrator, FreeHand,
and Fireworks.
Page Layout or Prepress Expert -Uses artistic techniques to layout pages in advance of Web or print
publishing. Fundamental skills include arranging text and graphics on a page to meet marketing objectives,
developing and managing templates, applying styles, and preparing documents for publication. Typical
applications include: QuarkXPress, InDesign, and FrameMaker.
Animator / Multimedia Designer -Uses artistic techniques to create dynamic objects that mix elements
of text, graphics, sound, and motion. Fundamental skills include drawing and editing graphics, manipulating
film or video images, and employing applications to enhance the spatial, temporal, or acoustical qualities of
graphical objects. Typical applications include: Flash, Director, LiveMotion, and After Effects.
Training partner to the leading design application companies
New Horizons is proud to be a training content provider to the world’s leading design application developers -
Adobe. Through these relationships, New Horizons has developed and hosts branded Websites that offer
application training to Adobe’s customers respectively. These arrangements require that New Horizons
courses are of the highest quality, and that ongoing course development is timely with new product releases.
Reference tool and partner
New Horizons integration of online reference tools, including a custom collection of the most relevant books
on design and media topics, is unmatched in the industry. Popular courses are available in a collaborative
format with access to an instructor, in addition to the convenient and highly regarded self-study format.
And topical “discussions” happen virtually through New Horizons Learning Port threaded message boards,
designed to give students a place to get peer feedback and assistance.
Recent additions to our design media library include:
Adobe
• Acrobat 7.0
• AfterEffects 6.5
• Audition 1.5
• FrameMaker 7.0
• GoLive CS, CS2
• Illustrator CS, CS2
• InDesign CS, CS2
• LiveMotion 2.0
• PageMaker 7.0
• Photoshop CS,CS2
• Premier 7.0
• Version Cue
Macromedia
• Authorware 6.5
• Director MX
• Dreamweaver MX
• Fireworks MX
• Flash MX
• Flash MX 2004
• FreeHand MX
• Generator 2
Corel
• Corel DESIGNER 9
• Corel Painter 7
• Corel PHOTO-PAINT 11
• Corel Ventura 10
• Corel DRAW 11
And many more course titles including Microsoft FrontPage, QuarkXPress, HTML 4.01 Web Authoring Series, Web Design and Usability Techniques, and earlier versions of applications listed above. Most courses are broken down into levels suitable for beginner, intermediate, or advanced designers, or are organized to address specific skills. All courses are designed to support the PC version of their respective applications. Courses for popular applications like Acrobat, CorelDRAW, Director, Flash, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, and many others are written to support the MAC equivalent applications.
