the tools to design your visual communication

Teaching you the tools to better communicate your message to internal and external customers.

Hello - I’m Andrea Welsh, the Adobe Educator for Creative Training

Solutions. Being a Graphic Designer and qualified Adobe

Educator with over 10 years teaching experience, you can be sure whatever you choose

you’ll be more confident of grasping those design tools for

your visual communication!

The role of Design and Creativity in becoming an Experience Business

Creative Training SolutionsAt Creative Training Solutions, we help you learn the tools to create effective visual design

material by using the Adobe Creative Cloud. We offer face to face training at Molendinar on the

Gold Coast, or we will come directly to you if you have a business where you would like us to

train your team. Some of the Adobe CC programs we teach are Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

and Acrobat. We specialise in running short courses which range from 1 day to 9 day courses.

At Creative Training Solutions, our students come from marketers, students, unemployed,

entrepreneurs, architects, people wanting to up-skill themselves, graphic designers and much

more. Getting in-touch with stakeholders is important to us, so we have a customer care team

who are available Monday to Friday during business hours to answer any questions.

EXPERIENCEOur accredited trainers are Industry Professionals who have over 10 years’ experience in the graphic design industry. We are qualified and regularly audited to ensure you receive the best Adobe personal experience.

Leading Australian Companies update employee skills every 6 months.

34% Creative Training Solutions Mission

We inspire our students to create, deliver and optimise their content to

communicate visual design.

INNOVATIONWe teach on the latest Adobe Creative Cloud software, rather than CS6. You can download the Adobe CC at your workplace and create communications, edit documents in no time at all

Our Values

PersonalisationSupportFlexible

PartnershipSharingUpskilling

Adobe Educator

Our accredited trainers have all completed the Adobe courses that entitle

them to become Adobe Educators.

WHY TRAIN WITH US?• Small Collaborative Class Sizes (Less than 5)

• Short Industry related Tailored Courses

• Certified Educators with real world experiences

• We also tailor one-on-one training

• We’re able to train your team at your business location

• Our class dates and schedules are flexible

• Our courses run during business hours

• We teach the latest Adobe Creative Cloud Applications

• Most importantly our curriculum is written by an authorised Adobe Certified Educator.

www.creativetrainingsolutions.com.auph: 07 5597 5184

ON GOING SUPPORTAt Creative Training Solutions, we believe in you using the programs when you leave our classes. Our training continues with online video resources, back up email support, re sit options and invitations to join our online community forum

Why You Need To Learn This?• 37% of marketers said visual marketing was the most

important form of content for their business.

• 74% of social media marketers use visual assets in their social media marketing.

• When people hear information, they’re likely to remember only 10% of that information three days later. However, if a relevant image is paired with that same information, people retained 65% of the information three days later.

• People following directions with text and illustrations do 323% better than people following directions without illustrations.

• An estimated 84 percent of communications will be visual by 2019.

• Creative People Find New Opportunities.

• Creative Thinkers Ask Questions Before The Customers Do.

• Creative Employees Have A Broader Outlook And Approach.

• Creativity Ushers Enthusiasm To Learn.

• Creative Employees are more productive and happy at the workplace.

What you get out of this?• Be able to produce content for both web and

print media.

• Understand how to use all the key tools in the Adobe CC Programs.

• Retouch and colour correct photos, combine images to create something new, create graphics for print, web and more.

• Create numerous graphics using drawing tools, the pen tool, compound paths, effects, layers, masks, blends and more.

• Free re-sit class to refresh your memory within 12 months.

• Skills that will advance your career.

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Should you like to know more about how

we can help you master the tools to better

communicate your marketing messages.

We’d love to hear from you.

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84 % of communications will

be visual by 2019.

Creative employee’s have a broader outlook

and Approach.

Source HubSpot

MARKETING MATERIAL YOU CAN CREATE

Teaching you the tools to better communicate your message.

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Stereolab:

A future

so bright,

they gotta

wear shades.

StereolabDots and Loops (Elektra)Stereolab take their sonic cues from elevators, ice-skating rinks, and ‘50s film soundtracks, turning these ultrasquare sounds into some of the most innovative music around. On the eccentric British sextet’s billionth album, the fl uid harmonies and French-and-English lyrics of Laetitia Sadier and Mary Hansen glide over hip-swaying rhythms, layers of electronic effects, and the fab sounds of xylophone and maracas. All this potential kitsch morphs into a wonderfully hypnotizing spell, proving once again that Stereo-lab is one of the decade’s most brilliant and underappreciated bands. As good as the Beatles. LORRAINE ALI

PhotekModus Operandi (Astralwerks)Drum ‘n’ bass albums rarely work. The music’s percussive barrage grows tedi-ous in sustained doses, and few artists have the conceptual ability to sus-tain a theme. But the fi rst long-player from Photek (a.k.a. Rupert Parkes) is an exception. With “The Hidden Camera,” Parkes supplies a creepy soundtrack for an England overrun by surveillance gadgets. On meditative cuts like “The 5th Column,” Parkes reveals a Western interest in Asian culture that extends beyond Hong Kong action fl icks and plastic Japanese kitsch. If you are one of those who think drum ‘n’ bass is the dance music equivalent of Dungeons and Dragons-a boys’ club for dour obsessives-Modus Operandi probably won’t alter your opinion of the genre. But it will certainly help you appreci-ate it even more. JOHNNY RAY HUSTON

Tanya DonellyLove Songs for Underdogs (Reprise)In Throwing Muses, Tanya Donelly played Paul McCartney to Kristin Hersh’s John Lennon. Strange, then, that on Donelly’s twisting ride to solo artist (with successful pit stops in the Breeders and Belly), she should not only take with her the Muses’ natural pop sensibilities, but also their pen-chant for musical adventurism. Donel-ly’s solo debut frequently finds her evoking the gamine folk of an intelli-gent Jewel, only to turn around and ter-rorize like an angry Sinead O’Connor,

and then go all Kate Bush-theatrical before you’ve had a chance to adjust. Half the album is extraordinary, but with a stronger sense of self, Donelly might have turned out a full-fl edged classic. DUDLEY SAUNDERS

Boyz II MenEvolution (Motown)Boyz II Men sound one step closer to the old age home on Evolution. Revis-iting the same toothless lyrics and tor-toise tempos that sold so well on its last two studio albums, the Philadel-phia foursome delivers another sedate parade of luxuriant harmonies, mellif-luous hooks, and rubbery beats buff ed to a colorless gleam. They’re masterful vocal technicians, but they undercut their skills with the colossal safeness of everything they do. Songwriting and production assists from Sean “Puffy” Combs, Babyface, and Jimmy Jam Jam

Jam and Terry Lewis add exactly what Boyz II Men don’t need: more polish. DIMITRI EHRLICH

HeliumThe Magic City (Matador)Thanks to the twisted lyrical persona and innovative guitar spirals of leader Mary Timony, Helium have always been a step ahead of their indie rock peers. Nothing they’ve done before, however, suggested they had an album like this in them. On The Magic City, the band achieves new heights by trading its spartan power-trio sound for eerie Celtic folk, swirling postpunk synths, and sci-fi effects. It’s a heady brew, resembling a rock ‘n’ roll Paul’s Boutique in its kaleidoscopic majesty. As always, Timony’s haunting vocals remain the key. On tracks like “Ocean of Wine,” she evokes both danger and innocence in the most nutty way. MATT DIEHL

The Sundaysstatic and silence (Geff en)True to its name, this British quartet has always been lovely, lazy, and just a tad dull. Now things have changed. On their third disc (after a fi ve-year hia-tus), the Sundays have learned how to rise and shine. They actually jam on the funk-infl ected grooves of “Summertime” and “Another Flavor,” emphasizing atti-tude over atmosphere, and they pile stately orchestral fl ourishes onto “Folk Song” and “Cry.” No longer willing to play the delicate ingenue, frontwoman Harriet Wheeler has toughened into a steely cross between Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval and the Cranberries’ Dolores O’Riordan-only without the drowsy intonation or the latter’s cranky dispo-sition. JEREMY HELLIGAR

Steve EarleEl Corazon (E-Squared/Warner Bros.)When an artist known for living on the edge backs away from the precipice, it is not always benefi cial to his or her art. On El Corazon, Steve Earle proves that peaceful living-a much-needed change for him, given his well-publicized drug addiction and imprisonment-needn’t translate into sonic blandness. Songs like “You Know the Rest” are as aus-terely powerful as anything Earle, one of his generation’s most underrated lyr-icists, has ever written. Magnifying their intensity is a newly controlled delivery that shreds the heartstrings with every line. DAVID SPRAGUE

Matraca BergSunday Morning to Saturday Night (Rising Tide)Matraca (the c is soft) Berg is that rare instance of an upper-echelon song-writer more befi tting of a place in front of her songs than behind them. From unabated lust for a “bowlegged dream” on a Saturday night to the inevitable Sunday-morning-prayer-meeting mis-eries, Berg paints portraits of a com-munity rife with unspoken hunger and ancient dreams, bespeaking a wisdom beyond her years. And her voice, backed by an entire troupe of Nashville yodelers, has a forgiving lilt that shifts into go-for-broke overdrive. She’s mighty cute, and will break quite a few hearts before she ends her days. HENRY CABOT BECK

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From logos to patterns, from packaging to type, we’ll teach you lots of what Illustrator can do. You’ll create numerous graphics in class, using the standard

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