City Lit

This accelerated course gives students a deep-dive into Illustrator fundamentals. Hands-on lessons teach participants how to draw with the Shape and Pen tools, apply color to strokes and fills, work with complex shapes, create vector graphics, and more.

This class introduces graphic design and basic design principles. Topics include typography, color, composite images, lateral thinking, and more. Students will use these lessons to create their own logos, magazine covers, posters, and other graphic design projects.

This class teaches introductory techniques for Adobe Illustrator. Students will learn how to customize the Illustrator workspace, transform basic shapes, create patterns, work with layers, and use fundamental tools to create projects for print and screen.

This course teaches intermediate page layout skills for InDesign. Students learn how to manipulate text, use master pages, use paragraph styles, work with placed images, and implement best practices to work efficiently.

This class shows how to enhance photographs and illustrations using Adobe Photoshop. Students will learn how to adjust image size and resolution, define and edit selections, work with layers, adjust colors, retouch images, and more.

This accelerated course focuses on fundamental Photoshop skills for professional use. Students will learn to import, enhance, and manipulate images. By the end of the class, students will know how to manage the Photoshop workspace, add text, manage color, work with layers, retouch, crop, straighten, and more.

This course focuses on specialized topics in Photoshop, allowing those with foundational skills to advance their knowledge. Students will engage in a new assignment each week. By the end of the course, students will understand how to utilize masks, filters, grids, guides, patterns, and brushes.

This course focuses on InDesign fundamentals for professional work. Students will learn to manage images, pages, Master pages, text, text frames, paragraph styles, color, tables, and more. The class will also touch on integrating InDesign with Photoshop and Illustrator.

This class covers Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator. Students will learn fundamental skills in each program including how to navigate the workspace, manage color, save different file types, and manage text and images.

This class introduces fundamental film editing skills for Mac’s Final Cut Pro. By the end of the class, students will know how to make a first edit using the Event Browser, adjust audio using keyframes, understand and use connect edits, make a ripple edit using the trimming tool, and manage essential data.