| AECO industry consultant Microdesk announced that it has partnered with Adobe and will begin selling and offering training in Photoshop to architects, interior designers, engineers, as well as their associated marketing and advertising firms as part of its comprehensive suite of design process applications and services.
According to Microdesk Solution Specialist Oliver D. Smith, the company sees synergies between design and rendering applications such as AutoCAD, Revit, 3DS Max, and Photoshop, the leading photo manipulation and processing software. "We recognized that many design firms struggle to show their concepts to their clients as accurately and efficiently as possible. That's why we've devised a set of courses that will enable all levels of users to go from various design platforms such as AutoCAD and Revit to rendering programs such as 3DS Max and VIZ Render and further enhance graphics through Photoshop to create more vibrant, realistic images," Smith said.
According to Smith, these classes will also be offered to associated advertising and marketing firms, helping bridge the gap between these firms and the AECO industry. "Marketing people have many of the same challenges that architectural designers do - making their graphics files as realistic, accurate, and flexible as possible, able to be used across a variety of applications and platforms," said Smith.
To address these architectural and marketing needs, Microdesk has developed a set of one-day training courses for all levels of proficiency - from beginner to advanced user. Named after classic Greek and Roman architectural column designs, they include the following:
Doric: For beginners, this introductory course to Photoshop shows users the basics from the interface, various palettes, keyboard shortcuts, color adjustment, shadows, highlights, to image size and resolution, replacing, retouching, and editing.
Ionic: This course goes beyond the basics to cover Photoshop topics ranging from masking essentials, sharpening, and layer essentials, to group and layer composition, opacity and blend modes, and creating/editing text.
Corinthian: Designed for advanced users, this class provides practical insights into Photoshop's full capabilities, including layer effects/styles, vector based shapes, use of adjustment layers, smart objects, smart filters, as well as recording and playing actions.
In addition to offering courses in Adobe Photoshop and the complete AutoCAD and AutoCAD Revit Architecture suites from Autodesk, Microdesk provides training on Google Sketchup, Google Earth the ESRI ArcGIS suite of products as well as custom installation, training and full customer service and support.
Microdesk provides business process, information technology, and software consulting to the architectural, engineering, construction, and facility operations industries. Its services also include commercial-level desktop and web-based software development for geographical information systems and building facilities management. Microdesk, a leading Autodesk partner, is part of the Autodesk and ESRI Developer Networks and operates Authorized Training Centers for Google and Autodesk. Microdesk has offices in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, California, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Washington DC. Visit www.microdesk.com |
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