Instructor Led Mac Training Classes in United States

Five-Day OS X Advanced Administration Workshop ...Mac OS X Advanced Administrator Workshop Description: There is no like this training available anwhere else in the United States: this Workshop represents an accumulation of two and a half years of OS X consulting experience, research, and lab testing. If you work for a corporation, school, or non-profit company that needs to upgrade ten or more workstations to OS X, this "super-geek week"  more...

One-Day Darwin Terminal Workshop ...services, fix permission and trash issues, even turn your Mac OS X machine into a router. Once you feel comfortable using the Terminal, your evolution as an OS X Administrator will accelerate. Charles Darwin coined the term "survival of the fittest," and your fitness as an OS X Guru for your company depends on your ability to tap the power of the Terminal. Learn all of the new command-line  more...

Two-Day OS X Server 10.4 Workshop ...ut of the most powerful operating system ever to run on a Mac! This two-day course can effectively lay the groundwork for you to become an Apple Certified Technical Coordinator (ACTC) or an Apple Certified System Administrator (ACSA). Even though Apple has done an incredible job of shielding Network Administrators from the intricacies of the command line, there are still tweaks to be made from  more...

Mac OS X Troubleshooting & Maintenance ...Mac Troubleshooting and Maintenance - OS X Description: Are you torn between upgrading your Mac or buying a new one? Is your company moving to OS X? Just what is OS X 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4 and how do they work? Get your hands dirty "under the hood" of OS X and find the tools and answers you're looking for on troubleshooting memory, hard drives that are running and have crashed, power supplies,  more...

Mac OS X Four-Day Admin Workshop ...Mac Administrator Workshop Description: This Five-day, intensive Macintosh Administrator Workshop is designed to bring you up to speed quickly! It combines the content of three of our most popular Workshops: Macintosh Troubleshooting and Maintenance for OS X, OS X Server 10.4 and OS X 10.4 Administration, at a substantial savings! Separately, the Workshops would cost $1747. This special  more...

Certified Hands On Flash CS3 Rich Content Creation Class Chicago and Deerfield Ascend Training ...the classroom. Each student works on our state of the art Mac or PC with a 19 inch digital flat panel monitor. Our classes feature small class sizes with never more than 10 students, and all our classes are backed up by a 6 month retake policy. Classes we offer: Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe InDesign CS3, Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, Adobe Flash CS3, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe  more...

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Level 1 Training: Hands-On, Chicago and Suburbs Learn Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 From Industry Professionals All Ascend classes are taught in a hands-on format. We feel that students learning Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, InDesign or any creative application are benefited from an interactive experience. Each student works on their own Mac or PC at their own individualized workstation. Ascend enables all students enrolled in our published schedule  more...

Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign Training: Chicago & Onsite Customized Adobe and Quark Training: Ascend offers hands on classes in Chicago, the Midwest, or nationwide.Certified Training in: Adobe, Avid and QuarkXPress. Most clients in the Chicago area, the midwest and other cities in the U.S. come to our Chicago Loop or Deerfield locations. We also offer hands-on training at your location. Our interactive class in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign,  more...

Adobe Dreamweaver Training: Chicago and Deerfield IL ...celling. Each student works at an individual workstation, Mac or PC with a 19" Digital monitor. In addition to our monthly schedule at Chicago and Deerfield, we travel all over the country and internationally for onsite training. We feel that onsite trainin gives us the opportunity to customize such classes as Photoshop, InDesign, Dreamweaver and Flash. Our Dreamweaver Class  more...

Certified, Hands On ColdFusion: Chicago/Deerfield Ascend Training ABOUT ASCEND TRAINING: Ascend offers hands on training in ColdFusion, Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, InCopy, Acrobat, Avid, Quark and more. We believe in hands on, individualized training programs. All our classes are kept to a maximum of 10 students or less. Each student works on their own Mac or PC with a 19 Dell Digital flat panel monitor. All our classes are backed  more...

Ascend Training: Adobe Classes- Chicago ...the art where each student sits at their own workstation, Mac or PC. Students travel from Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Iowa City and as far as Utah, Wyoming, and even Brazil for our Chicago classroom training. We also gladly travel to your facility outside the Chicago area. With either option, all our students receive the highest level of individualized attention and our classroom training is  more...

Xsan 300 Xsan Administration v1.4 Course Description The three-day Xsan Administration course focuses on deploying storage area networks. Students configure, performance tune, and troubleshoot a storage area network using Apple s Xsan tools. The course also covers storage resource management and data protection. A combination of lecture and hands-on exercises provides practical real-world experience. A portion of the final class  more...

PHP MySQL Training ...etting Up Shop The Basic Tools you Need Windows v Mac Beyond the Basic Tools Creating a spopt for your Web site Your First Web Pages XHTML Anatomy of a Web Page Viewing the Source Code HTML Element Head and Title Elements Meta and other Head Elements Body Element Paragraph Element List Elements Commenting and Symbols Building your Homepage  more...

HTML Training ...etting Up Shop The Basic Tools you Need Windows v Mac Beyond the Basic Tools Creating a spopt for your Web site Your First Web Pages XHTML Anatomy of a Web Page Viewing the Source Code HTML Element Head and Title Elements Meta and other Head Elements Body Element Paragraph Element List Elements Commenting and Symbols Building your Homepage  more...

Microsoft PowerPoint This course teaches the basic functions and features of PowerPoint 2003. Students will learn how to create presentations, rearrange and delete slides, use the Formatting toolbar, set tabs, and align text. Learn how to work with objects, AutoShapes, text boxes, fill colors, WordArt, and other types of images. Create tables, apply a design template, work with slide masters, add headers and footers,  more...

Microsoft Excel This course is an introduction to spreadsheets, databases and charting using Excel. Students will learn how to enter and edit data, labels, and formulas, work with functions, format cells, print worksheets, create charts, and save a workbook as a Web page. Part II course also offered, and also offered on the Mac - see Web site.  more...

Dreamweaver Part I This course is an essential introduction to using Dreamweaver (Win & Mac). Learn how to define a Web site, format text, apply images, tables, and styles, create and format links, and publish a Web site.  more...

Color Management With Mac OS X In today s digital imaging workflows, it s challenging to ensure predictable and reproducible color across print, web, broadcast and CD/DVD authoring. This color management course will help design and digital imaging professionals to understand the basics of color profiling and display calibration needed to create a successful color-managed workflow. In this three-day hands-on course, you ll learn  more...

From Quark to InDesign QuarkXpress users will find a lot to line in Adobe InDesign. This fast-paced, hands-on course covers the similarities and the key differences between these two page layout programs.  more...

Mac OS X (Tiger) for Beginners This gentle hands-on course covers the basic operation and performing common tasks on an iBook G4 laptop. You'll import and manage your files using folders and aliases, customize Finder windows; find applications, documents, photos, email messages, address book contacts and iCal events with Spotlight; and customize the Dock and the Desktop to better suit the way you work.  more...

Mac OS X Tiger: Intensive Mac OS X Tiger: Intensive is a 6 hour hands-on course covering the fundamentals through intermediate use of the Macintosh under Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.  more...

QuarkXPress Expert Level (Mac or PC) As you begin this course, you likely have a basic understanding of how QuarkXPress works. You may be able to create simple layouts and perform basic tasks, but find that's not enough to effectively work within a more professional, fast-paced environment. Throughout this course, you will build on your existing skills to learn some of the more advanced features of QuarkXPress, as well as learn some  more...

QuarkXPress PowerUser (Mac or PC) You have probably been using QuarkXPress for a while, and your skills may be to a point where you can easily create just about any type of document. However, you may still struggle when dealing with complicated layouts, or you may want to tackle some of the more advanced issues involved with high-end printing. In the first half of this course, you will apply some helpful techniques to make  more...

Adobe After Effects (Mac) After Effects is a hands-on instruction course that will introduce you to the world of 2D motion graphics and visual effects. Students will be able to use After Effects to add motion graphics and visual effects to film, video, multimedia, and Web projects. During this course, including computer lab time, students will be provided with the information necessary to complete the following  more...

Illustrator Level 1 (Mac or PC) Illustrator Level 1 is a hands-on instruction book that will introduce you to the basics of Adobe Illustrator 10. Adobe Illustrator is a sophisticated graphics program capable of creating complex and attractive illustrations and type effects. In this course, you will learn many of the basic skills that will allow you to take advantage of Illustrator's powerful tools. Upon successful completion of  more...

Illustrator Expert Level (Mac or PC) In this course, you will use Adobe Illustrator 10 to create dynamic graphics using advanced drawing and editing tools, path editing techniques, filter effects, and masks. You'll take advantage of Illustrator features such as the Transparency palette, live effects, and the Appearance palette to create engaging effects. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: Use  more...

Illustrator PowerUser (Mac or PC) In this course, you will learn to use Adobe Illustrator to work with several graphic formats. You will create dynamic effects using patterns and brushes. You will also use advanced text manipulation techniques to effectively integrate text into your illustrations. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: Create, edit, and apply tiled patterns, and design,  more...

Mac Basics ...Mac OS X is the easiest to use computer operating system available. With its consistent, intuitive interface, you will get your work done quickly and easily using your computer as a tool to assist you in accomplishing your daily tasks. During this course, including computer lab time, students will be provided with the information necessary to complete the following objectives: Choose  more...

Adobe Premiere (Mac) Our Premiere course will introduce you to most of the features of the Adobe Premiere program. In this course, you will use both basic and advanced editing tools to edit audio and video clips and to create a complete digital movie. During this course, including computer lab time, students will be provided with the information necessary to complete the following objectives: Create a new  more...

Photoshop Level 1 (Mac or PC) In this course, you will learn to use several tools for selecting parts of images, and will move, duplicate, and resize images. You will learn to use layers, and to apply layer effects and filters to create special effects, including lighting and texture effects. Additionally, you will: Identify the differences between raster and vector graphics, and manipulate Photoshop's various graphic  more...

Photoshop Expert Level (Mac or PC) In this course, you'll learn skills that go beyond those covered in the Photoshop Level 1. You'll further your understanding of isolating image areas by creating and saving masks with specialized tools, commands, modes, and layer elements. You'll learn how to use vector paths for a variety of purposes, including masking, clipping paths, and illustration. You'll also learn to create and apply  more...

Photoshop PowerUser (Mac or PC) In this course, you will learn professional techniques for obtaining consistent, predictable, high-quality images from Photoshop. The course addresses color correction processes for each of the three primary uses of Photoshop?desktop printing, Web images, and preparing images for commercial printing. You will learn a balanced approach, starting with system calibration, through the scanning  more...

QuarkXPress Level 1 (Mac or PC) You have probably created simple documents such as letters and reports using word processing applications. You most likely applied basic type formatting, may have even included some graphics in the documents, and probably printed the documents yourself on a desktop printer. Now you may need to create high-quality single- and multiple-page documents for professional publication. In this course,  more...

Personal Training on your Mac or PC We come to you at your convenience to teach you about your Mac or PC. Want to learn to manage your digital photos, or transform your videos into DVDs? Want to learn to connect your digital camera successfully to your PC? We teach everything from the basics to advanced concepts in video editing and production. Call us for help now. You won't find anyone else as available, reliable and  more...

Enterprise Linux Security Administration: Guru Labs GL550 Focuses on using the latest advances in Linux security to secure both the base OS, and a collection of the most popular applications. Advanced security technologies such as Kerberos and SELinux are covered.  more...

Apple OS X Operating System ... will tell you that these design applications run best on Macs. And other industry-standard programs, like Final Cut Pro and Aperture, only run on Macs. Learn how to tap into the Mac operating system's amazing abilities in this one-day class. This course covers OS setup and troubleshooting; application and plug-in installation; file structures; working with preferences; connecting to the  more...

Adobe InCopy CS2 ... InCopy/InDesign "Bridge" workflow, and can even get your Mac and PC system working together. Before each on-site training session, we take a close look at your current production process, resource skill sets, and types of print content being created. From this data we can distill a training program that not only meets your current needs, but also provides a path for the future. Working with  more...