Our Clients
For more than 25 years AGI has delivered training and consulting services to thousands of clients including:
Adobe Systems
Google
Microsoft
T.Rowe Price
TBWA \ Worldwide
Internal Revenue Service
NY State Tax Authority
National Archives
Central Intelligence Agency
U.S. Army Central Command
Verizon
Fortune Magazine
New York Times
HBO
NBC
Lockheed Martin
Boeing
Raytheon
Lego
HP / Compaq
Gillette
L.L. Bean
New Balance
Reebok
Macy’s
Citizens Bank
National Life
Metropolitan Life
State Farm
Citigroup
John Hancock
Prudential
Fidelity
Johnson & Johnson
Pfizer
Kaiser Permanente
Glaxo Smith Kline
Blue Cross / Blue Shield
Clients comments on private training from AGI
“This was one of the best trainings that I have participated in. The whole group loved the training and benefited from it. The examples, the support, the multi-version exercises (with completed code), the accompanying textbook, the additional research, the hands-on aspect -- all contributed to an overall, extremely helpful session. On behalf of the Center for Online Learning, I thank you for such an outstanding experience.”
Director, Center for Online Learning
Metropolitan State University
“An excellent experience -- the customization of the training was truly impressive. Our designers are excited and ready to go.”
Business Manager, Design Ops
Reebok International
“AGI took the time to listen and develop a curriculum around our specific needs. The preparation and overall client service paid off with an exceptional training session. I will be recommending AGI. Thanks again!”
Publishing Systems Manager
Staples
“The staff are very personable, professional and accommodating. The facility is easily accessible, very modern, clean, comfortable, and the class size is perfect. The instructors are extremely sharp, they are great at explaining the program(s) in their simplest form and getting to the core of what each program(s) strengths and weaknesses are. They make the material very palatable and easily digestible. They include a comprehensive booklet with tutorial CD for each class. On top of everything else they make themselves accessible after the training class when we are back in our own world via email in case we get stuck or have any issues figuring something out..Kudos to AGI!!!”
Hrair A.
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Live instructor
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Private Adobe Training
AGI offers private Adobe training and custom Adobe classes at your office, in AGI's classrooms, or live online. Whether you need introductory Adobe training for a group, or an advanced Adobe course, our Adobe professionals can help you and your team get the skills they need quickly and effectively. Our private Adobe classes are more than training, as our expert staff can work on issues specific to your group, and adapt Adobe training to meet specific needs or objectives of your team. AGI has the experience and skills to help you learn Adobe. About private courses from AGI:
- Private training for 1 person or 1,000 employees.
- Classes can be tailored to your specific needs.
- Available on-site at your location, in our training centers including Boston and Philadelphia, or remotely on-line.
- We have delivered training to more than 50,000 individuals and have been hired by 90 of the Fortune 100 companies.
- Provided training for Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, Google, and Amazon. See a representative sample of AGI clients.
- AGI has more than 25 years experience in providing training to companies and organizations.
Contact AGI to learn more about our private Adobe classes and customized Adobe training options. You can contact AGI by phone:
- Boston headquarters: (781) 376-6044
- Philadelphia: (610) 228-0951
- USA: (800) 851-9237
You can also contact us using the form below:
Adobe Acrobat Training Class - Introduction
This introduction to Adobe Acrobat class provides a solid understanding of how to use Adobe Acrobat to create, edit, secure, and annotate PDF files. You'll learn how to navigate the Acrobat workspace as well as create and optimize PDFs from a variety of applications. AGI's instructors have authored several Acrobat books and deliver this in-depth Acrobat training course.
Adobe Acrobat Training Class - Advanced
Expand your Acrobat skills to include interactive PDF files, PDF forms, digital signatures, and more in this intermediate-level Acrobat course. Learn how to optimize your PDFs for assistive technologies, the print process, and the Web, and add multimedia to make your documents more engaging. This Acrobat class, taught by Adobe-Certified Instructors, also shows you how to improve your productivity through batch processing and how to prepare your PDF files for online use.
Live, Section 508 Compliance Training Class online or in-person
In this Section 508 Compliance Training class, you'll learn how to prepare documents so that they're readable by users taking advantage of assistive technology such as screen readers. In this Acrobat Section 508 Compliance and Accessibility course you will learn how to understand the requirements of Section 508 and discover how to tag files for accessibility.
Acrobat PDF Workflow for Prepress Training Class
Discover how to create a PDF prepress workflow in this Acrobat PDF Workflow for Prepress Training class. You'll discover how to consistently create PDF files for graphics and prepress, edit text in PDF files, specify colors and color separations in PDF files, and update graphics within PDF files. You'll also discover how to manage fonts in PDF files and check graphics. This PDF prepress class is led by an expert Adobe Acrobat and PDF instructor and covers everything from preflighting to printing.
After Effects Course - Introduction
This two-day After Effects course teaches you the foundational skills to create exciting visual effects and motion graphics. In this After Effects class, you cover essential topics, starting with using the interface, layers, keyframes, masking, and media management. You'll explore the depth of the After Effects tools, including 3D effects and rendering your project for output. Discover how After Effects works as part of a video editing workflow or as a stand-alone tool for creating motion graphics.
After Effects Course - Advanced
In this two-day advanced After Effects course, you will discover advanced skills for creating visual effects and motion graphics. In this course, you learn advanced compositing, the timeline, selections, color correction, color keying, motion tracking, expressions, environmental effects, and more. Learn to integrate sophisticated motion graphics and special effects into your video editing projects or create dedicated motion graphics for presentations and displays. Our After Effects courses are led by the team that writes the best-selling After Effects Digital Classroom as you learn from live instructors who lead each course.
After Effects Bootcamp
This four-day comprehensive After Effects training provides introductory through advanced skills for creating effects, animations, and motion graphics. This bootcamp combines our introductory through advanced After Effects classes into four consecutive days, providing you with an intensive multi-day workshop. The material covered is identical to the introductory and advanced After Effects courses, but is delivered in a single week. You start by learning essential After Effects skills and end the week with a full set of experience across a wide range of effects, color correction, compositing, and many other skills. This course is a perfect starting point for video editors wanting to learn effects and animations, as well as aspiring motion graphics and animation professionals.
Adobe Captivate Training Class - Introduction
This Adobe Captivate training class is for professionals who need to create e-learning content, create screen captures, develop simulations, and build recorded video presentations using Captivate Classic. This two-day Captivate class for beginners and those without formal training will get you up and running quickly. You will learn to create new projects, record and edit content, work with images, and understand how to import images, text, and audio. You will also learn to integrate Captivate with PowerPoint and publish completed projects.
Adobe Captivate Training Class - Advanced
The advanced Adobe Captivate class enables you to create more sophisticated e-learning content, screen captures, simulations, video presentations, and product demonstrations. Discover how to include sophisticated tests and quizzes in your Captivate projects. Learn how to customize content with buttons and backgrounds, then apply these across an entire project for consistency. Discover how to work with audio and video content, create accessible e-learning, and use question pools and scripts to work more efficiently. Learn to deliver high-quality completed projects in a variety of formats.
Adobe Creative Cloud Course for Video Editing and Effects
This Adobe Creative Cloud Course for Video Editing and Effects teaches Creative Cloud video applications used to create broadcast-quality video and film. Learn to use the Creative Cloud tools for creating videos including Premiere Pro and After Effects. Learn video editing and how to create special effects in this combined course. These courses can also be taken individually, and the individual Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Photoshop courses are listed separately under under Adobe training.
Adobe Creative Cloud Course for Graphic Design
The Adobe Creative Cloud Course for graphic design teaches the Adobe Creative Cloud tools used in creating brochures, newsletters, magazines, newspapers, flyers, postcards, proposals and other printed materials. If you need to create great looking materials that are shared in print or electronically, this course teaches the tools used in building exceptionally designed materials using the Creative Cloud. Individual Creative Cloud courses for specific applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign are also available and are listed individually under Adobe training.
Adobe Creative Cloud Course for Web Design
This Adobe Creative Cloud Course for web design teaches Creative Cloud design applications used in creating websites, landing pages, HTML emails, and web pages. Learn the Adobe Creative Cloud tools that make it easy to create effective web designs, including Dreamweaver, Adobe XD (or Figma), and Photoshop. Individual Creative Cloud courses for these applications are also available and are listed under Adobe training if you wish to take only a single course.
Adobe Connect training class
Learn to create and conduct successful web conferencing, e-learning sessions, and webinars in this Adobe Connect training course. This introductory-level Adobe Connect training class covers building content, sharing, recording, and collaborating for meetings, courses, and webcasts. Gain the skills necessary to improve collaboration and create rich, high-impact interactions among attendees no matter where they are located.
Adobe Animate Course - Introduction
This introductory Animate course provides you with an introduction to animation and interactivity. Learn to animate designs that can be shared on different screens and devices. In this two-day Animate course, you'll create immersive experiences including animation, video, audio, and images. Discover how to make your web and interactive content look polished, professional, and interesting as you learn Animate from AGI's team of experts, who are the authors of numerous books on digital animation tools from Adobe. No previous animation or web design experience is required for this course.
Adobe Animate Course - Introduction
This introductory Animate course provides you with an introduction to animation and interactivity. Learn to animate designs that can be shared on different screens and devices. In this two-day Animate course, you'll create immersive experiences including animation, video, audio, and images. Discover how to make your web and interactive content look polished, professional, and interesting as you learn Animate from AGI's team of experts, who are the authors of numerous books on digital animation tools from Adobe. No previous animation or web design experience is required for this course.
Adobe Animate Course - Intermediate
This Animate course takes you beyond the basics and you'll discover design techniques, workflow management such as sprite sheets, and gain a stronger foundation for working with Animate using HTML5 as well as scripting. This Animate class teaches you the skills necessary so you can use Animate to take your interactive and Web projects to the next level.
Adobe Animate Course - Advanced
This advanced Animate course focuses on HTML5 and ActionScript 3.0, which allows you to develop complex Animate applications quickly and efficiently. Discover how to streamline your workflow and experience limitless creative potential in your designs using the enhanced tools available in the newest version of ActionScript. The detailed training materials provided with this class, produced by the Adobe-Certified AGI team, allow you to build on your classroom experience and continue to develop the skills learned in this Animate training course.
Live, introductory Illustrator class online or in-person
In this introduction to Adobe Illustrator course, you will discover the tools that will help you create professional-quality artwork and illustrations. This Illustrator class introduces you to the workspace, methods for drawings using the pen and shape tools, and additional options for working with color and text. You also discover how to use layers so that you can maximize your productivity right away. This Illustrator course is for beginners who are new to the application or for those who have experience but have received no formal Illustrator training. Whether using Illustrator for graphic design, creating logos, icons, or user interfaces, this Adobe Illustrator training is a good starting point.
Illustrator Course - Advanced
In this advanced Adobe Illustrator course, discover how to take advantage of symbols, effects, styles, and transparencies, along with advanced drawing and blending techniques. This Illustrator course covers advanced design techniques for creating artwork while using the tools to work more efficiently, including new AI (artificial intelligence) features. This class is for those who have completed the introductory Illustrator training or have a complete understanding of all topics covered in the Introduction to Adobe Illustrator course.
Illustrator Course for Fashion & Apparel Design
This Adobe Illustrator course is focused on fashion and apparel design. This Illustrator course is for clothing designers, shoe designers, or accessories designers. Learn Illustrator from our experienced professionals who help you convert your visions into reality using Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. Whether you're completely new to using computer design tools, or migrating from a dedicated CAD system, our Illustrator trainers show you how to expand your creative process. Our unique in-depth knowledge of Illustrator and fashion design technology provide a unique and comprehensive training experience. You'll receive the skills you need to be productive and competitive, and create designs that can be easily transferred to production. You'll learn to produce easily-modified flat drawings, fashion sketches, patterns, storyboards, textile designs, and accessory designs. Our Illustrator for Fashion, Apparel, and accessories design classes can also be tailored to your specific needs.
Illustrator Bootcamp
This four-day comprehensive Adobe Illustrator course provides you with comprehensive illustrator skills. This Illustrator bootcamp combines our introductory through advanced Illustrator classes into four consecutive days, providing you with an intensive workshop to learn Illustrator. The material covered is identical to the introductory and advanced Illustrator courses but is delivered in a single week. Start by learning essential Illustrator graphic design skills with Illustrator and end the week with a full set of experience creating designs, logos, and layouts, using graphic styles, the blend tool, understanding gradients, and much more.
Premiere Pro Class - Introduction
In this comprehensive two-day Adobe Premiere Pro course, AGI's expert instructors ensure you have a solid foundation in video editing using Adobe Premiere, an industry standard for video editing. This Premiere Pro class covers using the Adobe Premiere workspace, transitions, effects, and filters, editing audio, exporting your work, and more as you learn video editing techniques. This Adobe Premiere class gets you up and running quickly in video editing and production. Learn quickly and easily from the expert Adobe Premiere instructors at AGI.
Premiere Pro Class - Advanced
Improve your video editing skills in this advanced-level Premiere Pro course, and discover the tools to take your creative work to its fullest potential. Learn how to integrate Photoshop, After Effects, and Audition, how to perform precision color-correction, and multiple masking techniques to refine your work. This Premiere Pro class includes a detailed training manual for reference outside the classroom.
Premiere Pro Bootcamp
This four-day comprehensive Premiere Pro bootcamp provides introductory and advanced skills for video editing as you learn the process and workflow for creating and editing digital video. This bootcamp combines our introductory through advanced Premiere Pro classes into four consecutive days, providing you with an intensive workshop. The material covered is identical to the introductory and advanced Premiere Pro courses but is delivered in a single week. You start by learning essential Premiere Pro skills and end the week with experience editing and assembling video, creating transitions and titles, editing audio, and much more.
Dreamweaver training class - Advanced
In this advanced Adobe Dreamweaver training course, you learn advanced web design skills, including CSS layout techniques, how to enhance sites with multimedia, and how to create complex site designs. This Dreamweaver class requires knowledge of the skills covered in the introductory Dreamweaver class and previous web design experience.
Dreamweaver Training Class - Introduction
This introductory Adobe Dreamweaver training course provides you with a solid foundation for understanding the web design process, along with the tools for creating and managing websites and web pages using Dreamweaver. In this Dreamweaver course, learn to create professional-looking websites and landing pages, style text, add images and links, and use tools for publishing and managing your site.
Figma Course - Introduction
In this hands-on live Figma course with certificate, you learn to use Figma to create prototypes for websites, applications, and more. Figma is an essential part of the UX workflow in many organizations, and this class teaches you to use It efficiently and collaboratively. Use Figma’s design features to create visual designs for your interactive projects. Learn Figma prototyping features to add interactivity and animation. Publish to share your designs and library of styles with your team as part of this collaborative prototyping tool.
Advanced Figma Course
Expand your Figma skills and improve your prototypes through this advanced Figma course with certificate. This live class is for those who know the basics of Figma and can create user interfaces and prototypes but want to expand their skills by building responsive and reusable components, using design systems, and fully utilizing Figma's online collaborative capabilities for UX and UI work. Learn Figma through live instruction and in-class projects as you gain best practices from our UX professionals with extensive experience using and teaching Figma.
Figma Bootcamp
The Figma Bootcamp teaches you the design and prototyping process with Figma. Learn to build the design and workflow for projects, incorporate interactive elements, share projects for collaboration, and obtain feedback. Find out how to build reusable components and develop design systems to provide standardization and consistency across a UX team. The UX bootcamp combines the introductory and advanced Figma courses into two consecutive days to provide an in-depth opportunity to learn Figma from a practicing UX professional.
InDesign Course - Introduction
In this introductory InDesign course, learn to create professional designs such as flyers, brochures, and marketing sheets that can be shared in print or PDF. In this InDesign course, you'll discover how to create documents efficiently using advanced typographic controls and intuitive graphic features. You will also discover techniques that will help to make your InDesign publications look polished and professional. This course is suitable for those working in marketing, communication, graphic design, publishing, and other roles where there is a need to create professional publications.
InDesign Training Course - Intermediate
This intermediate InDesign course helps you to work more efficiently and build more complex documents. Learn to work with longer documents, create books, and discover advanced typography, color controls, snippets and libraries in this intermediate InDesign class. Become an expert at using styles to efficiently apply consistent formatting to text and images across documents, automating repetitive work while keeping documents looking professional and consistent. This class also teaches advanced methods for working with tables along with efficient ways to import, format and manage graphics with skills that help graphic designers, publishers, and digital marketers to efficiently create documents and publications.
InDesign Course - Advanced
Move from proficiency to mastery with this advanced InDesign course. Created for graphic designers and digital marketers ready to explore the exceptional capabilities of InDesign, participants learn how to leverage templates, use advanced color features, create interactive documents, and share using digital publishing options. This two-day InDesign course teaches advanced skills and techniques to those who have an understanding of all topics covered in the introductory and intermediate InDesign training courses.
InDesign Class for Quark Users
In this InDesign course, you learn how to transition your Quark skills into InDesign proficiency. You discover how to work within InDesign to create new documents from scratch and convert Quark documents to InDesign. This InDesign training class includes learning the tools that you need to created finished publications. In this InDesign class AGI's Adobe-Certified Instructors ensure that you have the practical knowledge you need to work efficiently with InDesign.
InDesign XML Class
This InDesign class is focused on the XML capabilities of InDesign for creating powerful publishing workflows. Understand the efficiency XML brings to InDesign layouts in this InDesign XML course. Learn to leverage your InDesign skills by importing XML into layouts, transforming XML, and exporting XML from InDesign. You learn important XML capabilities and functionality within InDesign as part of this InDesign course.
InCopy Class
Discover Adobe's InDesign-integrated writing and editing software in this InCopy course, which compliments InDesign. Explore the InCopy workspace, work with InCopy documents, print from InCopy and export documents to PDF. This InCopy class also covers sharing content with InDesign for a smooth, productive workflow between designers and editors.
LiveCycle Designer Training Class
Learn how to create electronic form templates that accommodate input data without losing the integrity of the original documents in this LiveCycle Designer class. By the end of this LiveCycle class, you'll have an understanding of layout techniques, formatting and alignment, the import & export of form data, and other essential skills for generating interactive Portable Document Format (PDF) files. The Adobe-Certified Instructors at AGI will also provide a detailed LiveCycle Designer training manual as part of this course.
Photoshop course - Introduction
This introductory Photoshop class teaches foundation skills for working effectively and creatively. Learn to be more productive and to create higher quality images efficiently. Gain skills for editing, retouching, and enhancing images. Learn how to make selective changes, color correct, and retouch your images using Photoshop. Whether learning Photoshop as a beginner for graphic design, marketing, or digital imaging, or an experienced user with no formal training, this class is a great starting point for learning Photoshop. This Photoshop course is led by a live instructor, as are all classes at American Graphics Institute.
Photoshop course - Intermediate
This intermediate Photoshop class covers more advanced use of Photoshop's tools, filters, and layers to create complex graphic designs and digital images. Discover how to take advantage of a comprehensive range of creative effects. Learn to improve efficiency through the use of automation features and new AI tools that include generative fill and selection tools, actions, buttons, smart objects, and Photoshop's artificial intelligence capabilities.
Photoshop course - Advanced
This advanced Photoshop class is for users who already have an understanding of foundational masking and retouching tasks in Photoshop and are looking to create more complex selections and more advanced designs. This class is also for those looking to use some of the advanced AI tools that have recently been added to Photoshop. In this advanced Photoshop course, attendees learn how to create complex composites, work at an advanced level with color correction, and build incredible masks. This course is useful for graphic designers, visual artists, and marketing professionals who regularly use Photoshop.
Photoshop class for web design & web graphics
In this one-day Photoshop class for web design, discover how to quickly and easily create images for use on the web, social media, and HTML email. This Photoshop course covers image optimization and creating effective web graphics with impact. You can attend this Photoshop class as a stand-alone course or start with the introductory Photoshop course to gain a comprehensive set of image editing skills. This class is essential for all web designers.
Photoshop Class for Text Effects
Discover how to create exciting and eye-catching text effects in this half-day Photoshop class. Learn how to utilize effects and text controls to make great looking text using Photoshop in this specialized course.
Adobe Experience Manager Class
Adobe Experience Manager training classes led by experienced AEM trainers that have created many digital publications for major publishers. This AEM training class is a fast way to learn Adobe Experience Manager Mobile.
Adobe XD Course for Prototyping
Learn to use Adobe XD) for prototyping apps and websites in this UX class. Learn the efficient use of Adobe XD as a testing and prototyping tool for both web design and app design in this one-day Adobe XD Course. Learn to create app simulations, define navigation, build screens, and interactions. This Adobe XD course is useful for UX designers, developers, business analysts or anyone involved in the UX and UI process.
Private Adobe Training - Course Dates
All classes are led by a live instructor. Class times listed are Eastern time.
Illustrator Course for Fashion and Apparel Design
Weekdays
Mon, Dec 16 2024 to Tue, Dec 17 2024
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Live instructor-led class online
$795.00
Live instructor-led class online
$695.00
Live instructor-led class online
$795.00
Adobe Captivate Training Class - Introduction
Weekdays
Mon, Dec 16 2024 to Tue, Dec 17 2024
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Live instructor-led class online
$695.00
Adobe Creative Cloud Course for Graphic Design
Weekdays
Mon, Dec 16 2024 to Wed, Dec 18 2024
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Live instructor-led class online
$1,495.00
Live instructor-led class online
$1,690.00
Adobe Captivate Training Class for New Captivate 2023
Weekdays
Mon, Dec 16 2024 to Tue, Dec 17 2024
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Live instructor-led class online
$695.00
Adobe Illustrator Workshop: One-Day Seminar
Weekdays
Tue, Dec 17 2024 to Tue, Dec 17 2024
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Live instructor-led class online
$495.00
Live instructor-led class online
$995.00
Live instructor-led class online
$795.00
Live instructor-led class online
$495.00
Live instructor-led class online
$695.00
Live instructor-led class online
$795.00
Adobe Captivate Training Class - Introduction
Weekdays
Mon, Jan 06 2025 to Tue, Jan 07 2025
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Live instructor-led class online
$695.00
Live instructor-led class online
$1,590.00
Live instructor-led class online
$1,690.00
Live instructor-led class online
$595.00
Live instructor-led class online
$795.00
Live instructor-led class online
$995.00
Private Adobe Classes
About Private Adobe Classes
American Graphics Institute has been delivering public and private Adobe Classes for more than a decade. We offer regularly scheduled public Adobe classes and private training. Our many clients include companies of all sizes, non-profit agencies, and educational institutions. AGI provides Adobe training to employees working in marketing, communications, design and a variety of business roles.
Adobe Courses from expert instructors
American Graphics Institute’s live Adobe Classes are led by expert instructors from American Graphics Institute with extensive experience in Digital design.
The instructors in that lead our live Adobe Classes are experts on Digital design and Adobe. American Graphics Institute teachers are also available for private Adobe training which can be delivered on-site at your location or as a live online course.
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