1-2-1 online training

1-2-1 online training

COVID 19 Update

All bespoke 1-2-1 training courses to be taught remotely till further notice

During the current situation with coronavirus we have decided to provide all of our courses via secure online educational conferencing software till the situation is resolved. We hope to return to classroom training before long. But meanwhile we’ll run our courses using Adobe Connect software which is secure, extremely user-friendly and stable.

How will this training work?

Once your booking has been confirmed, you will receive an email from us inviting you to an Adobe Connect meeting. In order to commence the training you need only click on the link at the time and date specified to join the session. If you’d like to try out an Adobe Connect demo, please use this link.

We will be there waiting for you, ready to provide you with bespoke 1-2-1 training on your preferred application.

Easy to set up

It’s really easy to use Adobe connect.
All you need are the following;

  • A computer or laptop with the relevant software (either Mac and Windows – both are fine)
  • An integrated video camera (or an external one)
  • An integrated microphone
    Headphones or earphones that you can use on your computer
  • A reasonably fast, reliable internet connection (hard-wired ethernet is faster than wireless)
  • For the best experience we recommend a large monitor of 21″ or more. Smaller screens work almost as well but you may need to zoom in and out a bit more on those.
  • You should download Adobe Connect software before the your training commences. This will allow you to test your connection and computer before the training day.

So you see, it’s easy to carry out our bespoke training courses online. You can book by the hour – making it easier to fit around your busy schedule.

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After Effects training

After Effects training

After Effects Training

Our remote, online After Effects training courses are taught by motion graphics expert, Angie Taylor – a motion graphic designer, author and illustrator with 25 years industry experience. Choose from our standard two-day After Effects training courses – all taught on a 1-2-1 basis. Or pick and mix modules from below to make up your own bespoke course.

You can choose from Beginners, Intermediate or Advanced courses in Photoshop. Or, pick and mix modules  to make up your own bespoke course. We offer remote, online training for individuals and groups.

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What we cover in our After Effects training

There are four levels of After Effects training available as well as custom courses. You can find example outlines of these courses by clicking on these links. Each of these is a 2 day course

How does the training work?

Angie will send you an evaluation form that takes a few minutes to complete. This will give Angie an indication of the level of After Effects training you require. She will customise the course to fit your own personal needs. Evaluation form example

Your Instructor - Angie Taylor

All courses are taught by artist, Angie Taylor. Angie worked as a motion graphic designer for over 25 years.

She was a demo artist for Adobe and is an Adobe Community Professional. You can see examples of Angie's work here on her portfolio.

Angie is a lecturer at the Univeristy of Brighton. She has taught children and adults at several colleges, schools and universities.

Angie has several books & courses  published on design & animation.

fundamental-after-effects

Getting comfortable in After Effects
  • An overview of the After Effects interface
  • Making use of task focussed workspaces
  • Customising the application preferences
  • Project settings you need to know about
  • Creating composition settings presets
  • Useful, advanced composition settings
Importing Images into After Effects
  • Supported image types in After Effects
  • Working with Photoshop files in After Effects
  • Working with Illustrator files in After Effects
  • Importing or creating image sequences
Working with video footage in After Effects
  • Supported video formats in After Effects
  • How After Effects works with aspect ratios
  • Adjusting video frame rates and looping footage
  • Understanding video compression and codecs
  • Working with interlaced footage and field order
Timing and motion graphics
  • Importing Premiere Pro animatic via Dynamic Link
  • Adding comp or layer markers in After Effects
  • Making motion graphics dynamic with sound effects
  • Animating elements in time with music
Mastering the five transform properties
  • Rotation
  • Scale
  • Position
  • Anchor Point
  • Opacity
  • Working with 3D in a 2D environment
Applying Effects
  • Adding video effects layers (Blurs, Color correction etc)
  • Applying effects to solids (Generator effects)
  • Creating backgrounds (Fractal noise, patterns, textures)
  • Using Adjustment Layers to apply effects to multiple layers
  • Applying shadows and bevels with Layer Styles
  • Masking effects to isolated areas
Panels
  • Essential Graphics
  • Motion Sketch
  • Smoother
  • Wiggler
  • Mask interpolation
Previewing your work
  • Customising the Time control options
  • Setting up a disk cache (purging)
  • Composition panel options (fast previews, region of interest, resolution, draft options, masks, channels, view options)
  • Timeline controls (shortcuts, view area, zooming, navigating, panels)
Keyframe Assistants
  • When to use Easy Ease and when to use Continuous Bezier
  • Time-reversing keyframes and animations
  • Fixing acceleration issues with Exponential Scale.
  • Understanding keyframe interpolation
  • Auto orient rotation options.
2 day course

Intermediate After Effects

Color and channels
  • RGB, HLS and other color systems
  • Using RGB channels for color adjustment
  • Compositing images with alpha channels
  • Color spaces & color management in After Effects
Presets & Templates
  • Building a comprehensive preset library
  • Using Essential Graphics panel to create Templates
  • Working with Master Properties
Spatial Animation
  • Creating motion paths
  • Adding or removing path keyframes (drawing paths)
  • Four basic keyframe types (Linear, Auto Bezier, Continuous Bezier, Bezier)
  • Using Hold keyframes to animate sudden changes
  • Using Auto Orient to automatically rotate objects along paths.
  • Recording mouse movements with Motion Sketch
  • Creating randomness with the Wiggler
  • Physics (Balance, gravity, bounce etc)
  • Applying squash and stretch to animation
Temporal Animation
  • Adjusting timing in the Timeline (Keyframe interpolation, keyframe velocity)
  • Four basic keyframe types (Linear, Auto Bezier, Continuous Bezier, Bezier)
  • Viewing speed and value graphs in the graph editor
  • Roving Keyframes in time to even out speed changes
  • Retiming animations in the keyframe view (Alt-click and drag)
  • Matching keyframes between properties to avoid glitches (scale and position)
  • Creating overlapping actions
  • Going past the pose to create dynamism
  • Smoother
Shape Layers
  • Primitive vector shapes
  • Drawing custom vector shapes
  • Fills and strokes
  • Combining shapes
  • Shape operators
  • When to use multiple layers
  • Converting shapes from other applications
Text Layers
  • Character panel
  • Paragraph panel
  • Source text property
  • Arranging text along a path
  • adding text animator properties
  • The range selector
  • The wiggly selector
Working in the Layer Panel
  • Spotting Interlacing issues and other errors
  • Trimming footage in the Layer panel
  • Best practices for Ken Burns effects (Panning and Zooming)
  • Viewing effect paths and controls in the Layer panel
  • Working with multiple viewers
Grouping
  • Parenting
  • Nesting
  • Precomposing
  • Collapsing Transformations
  • Layer and render order
2 day course

Advanced After Effects - day 1

Expressions
  • Rotation linking
  • Working with 2D properties
  • Wiggle
  • Looping
  • Audio control
  • Expression controls
  • Rigging
Keying and Compositing
  • Using masks to isolate areas
  • Auto-tracing images and movies
  • Rotoscoping footage with the Rotobrush
  • Keying out green screen with the Keylight effect
  • Creating transparent keys with the Color Difference effect
  • Matte Correction technique
  • Auto-tracing movies or images
Working with the Graph Editor
  • Understanding the speed graph
  • Animating dimensions individually with the Value Graph
  • Tips tricks and techniques with the Graph editor
RGB images and channel effects
  • Blending modes
  • Mattes and Matte effects
  • Alpha channels
  • Channel effects
  • 32-bit/ linear workflows
Combining Effects
  • Procedural V’s non-procedural effects
  • Creating Fire/smoke/water with Turbulent Noise
  • Saving effect presets
  • Adding color to effects or layers
  • Distorting surfaces with turbulent displace
  • Effects that refer to other layers (Displacement maps etc)
Character Animation techniques
  • Forward Kinematic animation with layers
  • IK animation
  • Puppet Tool
  • Character Animator

Power User

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Advanced After Effects - day 2

3D 
  • 3D properties
  • Working with the 3D view menus
  • Navigating custom views with the Camera tools
  • Controlling the Axis modes
  • Cinema 4D Renderer
  • Extruding and bending layers
Cameras
  • Basic camera properties
  • Using the camera tools to adjust or animate the Active camera
  • Manually adjusting using position and point of Interest and orientation
  • Using nulls
  • Zoom
  • Depth of Field
  • Keyframing cameras
  • Auto-orient options
Lights
  • Basic Light properties
  • Light types
  • Material Options
  • Shadows
Cinema 4D Lite and Cineware
  • Importing a 3D object into your comp
  • Adjusting the render settings of cineware
  • Editing the file in Cineware
  • Cineware and After Effects cameras
  • Creating a new 3D object for your comp
  • Multipass compositing
Tracking
  • Masks
  • Layer Tracking
  • Camera Tracking
  • Mocha AE
  • Capturing camera moves from a GoPro
Rendering and Distribution
  • Image sequences versus movies
  • Adobe Media Encoder
  • The Render Queue
  • Render Settings
  • Output Modules
  • Templates
  • Watched folders
2 day course
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After Effects training in Brighton

After Effects training in Brighton

Adobe After Effects with Angie Taylor

Please Contact Us to find out about Angie’s next After Effects course and book your place.

Here are some of the things you’ll learn

  • How to control timing and adjust values with the graph editor
  • Tips to help visual artists manually draw key frames in the Timeline
  • All the different interpolation types in After Effects
  • How to use the rules of animation to create compelling animation
  • How to demystify effects and make sense of them
  • How to convert vector artwork into animated shapes for infographics
  • Create 3D per-character animation directly in After Effects using the Cinema 4D Renderer
  • Build your own valuable library of custom presets and templates.

About your trainer

Angie Taylor is a motion graphic designer with 25 years experience in the film and TV industry. She’s a Lynda.com author and an Adobe Community Professional. Angie has presented seminars at conferences worldwide including After Effects World, Macworld, NAB, IBC, BVE, Reasonsto, Flash on the Beach and FMX. Angie has worked as a demo artist for Apple, Adobe and MAXON
1-2-1 After Effects training

1-2-1 After Effects training

Sighvatur Jónsson | SIGVA media

The 1-2-1 After Effects training course at Creative Cabin was just what I needed to speed up my work in After Effects, which I’m using more and more alongside Premiere Pro for video production. The course gave me a better understanding of the interface of After Effects. I also learned about optimizing the workflow for making different kind of graphics for various projects, from simple web videos to complex documentaries.

Angie is an experienced graphic artist as well as a tutor, who knows how to communicate in both a relaxed and professional manner. The preparation for the course is also worth a mention. Angie provided me with an online survey for the evaluation of my level of experience. As a result of this survey, the course material was customized and prepared with focus on my own needs. Nevertheless there was room for making changes to the program during the two days course.

The location of the Creative Cabin, in a quiet suburb of the beautiful city of Brighton, adds the final touch. For me it was just a matter of jumping on the bus outside my hotel, enjoying the ride through the city and walk for just a few minutes to the Cabin from the bus stop.

I think it’s of high value to take a “custom made” course like this. As soon as I arrived back home I was already utilizing my new knowledge on my current projects at SIGVA media.

Photoshop Training

Photoshop Training

Photoshop Training

You can choose from Beginners, Intermediate or Advanced courses in Photoshop. Or, pick and mix modules  to make up your own bespoke course. We offer remote, online training for individuals and groups.

About Your Trainer

Angie Taylor is the trainer for all courses taught at Creative Cabin. She has published several books & articles on motion graphic design. She is an Adobe Community Professional, contributing regularly to Adobe forums. She is a Linkedin learning instructor & teaches on MA Digital Media Arts at University of Brighton. 

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Photoshop training - in Brighton or remote

We teach all levels from beginner to advanced level Adobe Photoshop. Our Photoshop training courses are taught by a professional graphic designer with over 25 years experience.

Learning Photoshop is a great life-long skill to aquire. If you want qualifications, our course will help you to prepare for the Adobe authorisation exam. This course is taught by Adobe Community Expert, Angie Taylor.

Our Adobe Photoshop course in Brighton

Photoshop is the industry standard software for photo retouching, making marketing materials, creating concept art. Our practical courses can help you to create creative projects for your own portfolio. We will teach you a variety of techniques, tips and tools. Our bespoke, 1-2-1 Adobe Photoshop training course in Brighton is perfect for anyone looking to improve their skills.

Remote Online Courses

You can learn via our Adobe Photoshop training course right here in Brighton. Perhaps you’re not located in Brighton? Or maybe you prefer to carry out the Adobe Photoshop training in the comfort of your own home. In these situations, we can provide remote, online Adobe Photoshop training on a 1-2-1 basis.

We use web conferencing software to deliver the training to you. The software makes use of the webcam, microphone and screen sharing services. It’s a great way to deliver 1-2-1 Adobe Photoshop training or training to groups of your employees – without face-to-face contact. This is particularly important in this difficult time as many of us have to self-isolate due to the Corona virus.

1-2-1 bespoke courses

We will develop bespoke course content for you. This will help our delegates get to grips with the basic and advanced concepts of Adobe Photoshop. Our Adobe Photoshop training course in Brighton is a one-to one course. so there’s just you and the trainer at the desk. We can tailor the course content to help suit your learning needs.

Schedules

Our tutor, Angie has over 25 years of industry practice as a graphic designer. We can offer flexible course times to fit in around your busy schedule. Most courses are held on Thursdays and Fridays but we can also discuss courses for the evening or on weekends. The online, remote Adobe Photoshop training course in Brighton is instructor-led. This Adobe Photoshop training course can be taken as a part-time evening course or taken over a long period, spread over weekends.

 

 

Your Instructor - Angie Taylor

All courses are taught by artist, Angie Taylor. Angie worked as a motion graphic designer for over 25 years.

She was a demo artist for Adobe and is an Adobe Community Professional. You can see examples of Angie's work here on her portfolio.

Angie is a lecturer at the Univeristy of Brighton. She has taught children and adults at several colleges, schools and universities.

Angie has several books & courses  published on design & animation.

What we cover in our Photoshop training

In this Adobe Photoshop training Angie Taylor shows just how easy it can be. You’ll tour the interface, gain an understanding of the workflow, and be introduced to core techniques. Angie will customize the course exactly to fit your needs.

All classes taught at the Creative Cabin are delivered on a one-to-one basis. This means it’s just you and Angie at the desk. You can ask questions whenever you want.  Angie will customise the course to fit your own needs.

 

How does the training work?

Angie will send you an evaluation form that takes a few minutes to complete.

This will give Angie an indication of the level of Photoshop training you require. She will customise the course to fit your own personal needs.

Evaluation form example

Photoshop Training modules

Photoshop Fundamentals

  • Navigating within the workspace
  • Bringing old photographs to life
  • Understanding different image formats and resolutions
  • Working nondestructively
  • Correcting badly shot images
  • Cloning and using Content aware to fill spaces
  • Applying dynamic adjustment layers
  • Working with selections and Quick Mask mode
  • Creating and formatting text
  • Drawing and painting with Photoshop
  • Saving files correctly for web delivery
  • Creating composite images with layers
  • Creating new images with the drawing and painting tools
  • Using the dodge and burn tools to focus interest or highlight areas of an image
  • The clone tool and healing brushes
  • Understanding layers and objects
  • Making selections
  • Adding effects to images
  • layer masks and transparency options
  • Combining layers with Blending modes

Photoshop Training modules

Photoshop Intermediate

  • Retouching photographs
  • Fixing images
  • Color correction and balancing
  • Formatting images for web, print or screens
  • Working with text and typography
  • Working with the Pen and Pencil tools
  • Tweaking, exporting, and saving artwork
  • Combining 3D elements in your images
  • Automating complex tasks with Actions
  • RGB, HLS and other color systems
  • Using RGB channels for color adjustment
  • Compositing images with alpha channels
  • Color spaces & color management in Photoshop
  • Retouching portraits
  • Nondestructive dodging and burning
  • Working with raw images in Camera Raw

Advanced Photoshop

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Art Courses For Kids

Art Courses For Kids

Art & design courses for children

Bespoke art, design, sculpture, 3D & animation tutoring for children.

Angie works as a mentor and tutor for kids of all ages & abilities.

Angie also has experience teaching people with special needs including Autism and ADHD.

To find out more please use the button below.

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Adobe Photoshop for kids

We teach several different art & design classes for kids. Our most popular course by far is our Photoshop courses for kids.

Graphic designers use special software like photoshop to achieve effective images an designs. The main goal of Photoshop course for kids  is to teach children how to enjoy creating images in easy and understandable way.

Drawing is a great way for kids to express themselves. It helps the to develop creative thinking and imagination.

Photoshop program is probably the most popular tool for editing images. In this course, your child will learn how to use and manipulate photographs. Basic editing, retouching and colour correcting of digital imagery.

The goal of this course is to kickstart your kid’s creative career at an early age. To help to equip them with the essential skills and knowledge for a career in the creative arts.

Your Instructor - Angie Taylor

All courses are taught by artist, Angie Taylor. Angie worked as a motion graphic designer for over 25 years.

She was a demo artist for Adobe and is an Adobe Community Professional. You can see examples of Angie's work here on her portfolio.

Angie is a lecturer at the Univeristy of Brighton. She has taught children and adults at several colleges, schools and universities.

Angie has several books & courses  published on design & animation.

Photoshop will help your kids to:

  • Learn the interface, shortcuts and basic function of photoshop
  • Understand how to work with layers
  • Import, combine and export images
  • Learn about color modes and traditional phtography terms
  • Learn to crop, color edit, sharpen and remove imperfections
  • Add type, selection technique and manipulate layer options.

Adobe Photoshop training topics:

Lesson 1: Getting Started with Photoshop

  • Introduction to Photoshop
  • Navigate the Photoshop Workspace
  • Customize Photoshop
  • Lesson 2: Image adjustments
  • Adjustment layers to improve images
  • Image effects

Lesson 2: Managing Selections and Layers

  • Use Selection Tools
  • Manage Layers
  • Lesson 4: Making Composite Images
  • Repairing images and removing elements
  • combining different images together
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Lesson 3: Drawing & Painting Images

  • Draw with Brushes
  • Create Gradients
  • Use Tool Presets

Lesson 4: Drawing Shapes with Vector  Tools

  • Create Images with Vector Paths
  • Use the Shape Drawing Tools
  • Work with Type
  • Type Special Effects

Lesson 5: Using Advanced Layer Techniques

  • Use Filters to Apply Special Effects
  • Apply Special Effects to Layers
  • Use Smart Objects for Non-destructive Editing

Lesson 06: Creating Animation & Video

  • Edit Video
  • Add Graphics, Titling, and Animations to Video
  • Make animated GIFs

Lesson 07: 3D

  • Learn how to import 3D Objects
  • Use Vanshing Point to fit them into a scene
  • Modify Images with Masks

Other subjects taught

Drawing

Angie teaches drawing, painting and sculpture. she can teach using traditional materials. If your child prefers, she can teach digital drawing, painting and sculpture skills.

Animation

Angie teaches all types pf animation. Adobe Character Animator is a great place to start for any child wanting to get into animation or game design.

Art appreciation

Angie teaches children about the history of art and design. Using examples that kids can relate to, she brings the stories of art to life.

3D & Sculpture

Angie has an honours degree in Sculpture. She can teach children how to create 3D models & digital sculpture using intuitive 3D software. She also teaches VR art & sculpture techniques.

Problem solving

your Angie teaches practical skills for planning creative projects. She’ll teach children how to be inventive and to think outside the box.