We’re excited to share some information about a new course we have in the works!

What if you could study all three of the main Adobe design tools: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign at once? As a designer you’ll often use these applications together, almost hand in hand, passing elements earom one to the other and back…so why learn them separately? In this new course, Certified Adobe Expert and Instructor, Martin Perhiniak, will show you how this workflow method is effective for students to master these Adobe design tools.

Photoshop Masterclass, a 12 hour training course coming this May, will be the first course of the series to be available.

Read on to learn directly from Martin, all about his ‘Combined Learning Method’…

As a Certified Adobe Expert and Instructor, I have realized over the last ten years that teaching the Adobe design applications together is far more effective and easier for my students.

Think of them as a team playing football or basketball. The players can train as much as they want on their own, but without practicing together they will never be able to play as a team and win.

The aim of my method is to teach you how to be fluent in designing with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign as a whole and not as three separate applications. No matter what you want to specialize in, you will always need to be able to use all three applications and be confident in what roles they play in the workflow. In a branding project for instance, you will design the logo and all the vector graphics in Illustrator, design the website and banners in Photoshop, and create the brand guide and brochures in InDesign.

Here are just a few reasons why this combined learning method is effective:

1. You’ll understand the roles of each applicationand when to use them. (You wouldn’t believe how many designers with several years of experience are still struggling with choosing the right application for a specific part of a project.)
2. You’ll learn how they work together and how tomaximize their abilities as a whole. (There are features shared between InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop, and they will only work properly if you are aware of how to set them up correctly.)
3. You’ll understand the similarities and differences between them much more clearly. (Which will save you the confusion in the long run.)
4. You won’t worry that you are weak in any of them as you will be equally as strong in all three. (Take any design job description and you will see that it will require you to be fluent in all three applications.)
5. You won’t have to learn settings, tools, panels and keyboard shortcuts three times. (Fortunately Adobe managed to make the interface and general feel of Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign very similar, and you can even customize the panels and keyboard shortcuts to streamline your workflow.)