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American Graphics Institute has been awarded a grant to train Massachusetts-based employees at no cost to employee or employer, providing free training, classes, and workshops to workers in the state. Through the grant, American Graphics Institute (AGI) is offering free training in the latest…

You can use Bootcamp for Creative Cloud which is good news for Mac users that need to work in a Windows environment. We’ve tested Apple Bootcamp with Creative Cloud including Adobe CC 2019, and earlier versions dating back to CC 2017, CC 2015, CC 2014, and CC versions. Creative Cloud runs under…

American Graphics Institute (AGI) and AIGA both work to expand the professional and creative opportunities for designers. Our partnership with AIGA Boston formalizes a collaboration to help the design community learn new skills and digital tools, as well as gain access to professional…

Investment analyst Daniel Ives at FBR has written that it would be good for Apple to buy Adobe Systems since back in 2016, and in 2017 Seeking Alpha repeated the call for Apple to buy Adobe. In 2018 there are many reasons it would be great for creative professionals if Apple buys Adobe this year…

Adobe develops software applications and services used for design, marketing and communications. Professionals in these fields, as well as educators and students benefit from understanding these applications. Options for learning Adobe applications include classroom training, private courses,…

Adobe Flash will be disabled by default in the next version of Safari which is the Mac OS default web browser. Apple has been sharing previews of its upcoming Mac OS update, Sierra, and Apple has emphasized that Adobe Flash content will not play by default. When a Mac OS user in version 10 of…

It’s 2016 and Adobe Flash remains a Problem. Adobe Flash is the cause of the top-10 vulnerabilities exploited by malware, ransom ware, and computer viruses. Every one of the top 10 security threats all targeted the Adobe Flash player. The threats don’t include a single Java exploit or attack on…

The digital journalism skills needed in the modern newsroom are illustrated by changes taking place at the largest cable news network, CNN. The news network is investing $20 million into their digital news products, while making cuts in traditional journalism such as news broadcasting. The new…

No Classes on Monday, March 21 due to weather

Winter weather is impacting the Adobe classes, HTML courses,, WordPress classes, Google Analytics courses and all other workshops and classes scheduled at American Graphics Institute on Monday, March 21, 2016. Classes…

Design professionals can use Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) libraries for many projects. Many designers can benefit from Adobe CC Libraries, an often overlooked tool in the Creative Cloud collection of apps. Adobe CC Libraries provide designers with a quick and easy method to find and access assets,…

A report released this week indicates that Boston has the second largest number of arts organizations per capita among major cities in the United States, trailing only San Francisco. Boston beats out New York City, which ranks third in the number of arts organizations such as museums, art…

The value of using video in content marketing and digital marketing is significant. While it’s often said that “a picture paints a thousand words” imagine how many words a video paints for a viewer. The value of video has been tallied by Brainshark who reports that the information retained by…

There are several highly needed skills for digital marketing jobs or for advancing a digital marketing career. If you are not yet working in a digital marketing job, the career outlook for 2016 and beyond is good. All types of businesses and organizations now realize that digital marketing is an…

For several months there has been discussion that the management of the Philadelphia newspapers were considering placing them under the control of a nonprofit organization. Yesterday this happened as the two largest newspapers in Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily…

Adobe Post is a new app launched today by Adobe Systems that provides an easy way to create images for sharing using social media. Adobe Post is used to prepare images for social media that are used either as stand-alone posts, such as on Pinterest and Instagram, or as images that accompany text…

American Graphics Institute kicked-off an intensive Adobe training program at the suburban Boston headquarters of Reebok yesterday. Participating in the event were Reebok president Matt O’toole as well as Massachusetts Lt. Governor Karyn Polito and Secretary of Labor Ron…

Adobe is discontinuing the Adobe Edge applications. These apps were released three years ago as Adobe looked to create animation and web design tools that supported HTML5 but were different from their existing Flash and Dreamweaver tools. Adobe Edge animate was released for creating HTML5…