What to Learn After Adobe Captivate

Adobe Captivate is an eLearning authoring tool. Creative professionals across industries worldwide use it to create interactive videos, presentations, and online learning content. If you already know how to use Adobe Captivate, you might consider learning Adobe Photoshop, and the rest of Adobe Creative Suite or even discover a new career in user interface design. We’ll cover these skills below, so you clearly understand what you want to tackle next. 

What is Adobe Captivate?

Adobe Captivate is software for creating eLearning content such as videos, slide shows, presentations, and software simulations. As a productivity tool, Adobe Captivate allows users to quickly turn out demonstrations and simulations. The program even allows easy conversion of PowerPoint presentations into eLearning formats.

Managers, Human Resources personnel, Educators, and other professionals involved in training use Adobe Captivate to create learning materials easily. Adobe Captivate presentations include responsive design to fit any device. Including desktop, web, tablet, and mobile. Users can easily create interactive videos, virtual reality walkthroughs, screencasts, multi-module courses, and quizzes.

Read more about what Adobe Captivate is and why you should learn it.

What Can You Do with Adobe Captivate?

Adobe Captivate is a powerful tool for creating eLearning materials in various mediums. Adobe Captivate supports the creation of interactive videos, virtual reality walkthroughs, screencasts, multi-module courses, and quizzes. These tools are ideal for training specialists needing to create onboarding tools for new employees, along with virtual skill or safety demonstrations.

Adobe Captivate is also extremely useful for creating online courses. Virtual walkthroughs can demonstrate practical skills, and screencasting can simulate software use. Multi-model branches allow courses to organize lessons and follow each training session with interactive quizzes. This makes Adobe Captivate ideal for any business wanting to create and sell online courses.

Lastly, anyone can use Adobe Captivate to make creative videos and presentations. Adobe Captivate's responsive design features ensure finished videos and projects are compatible with any device, including desktop, web, and mobile, ensuring viewability from anywhere. Virtual tours, screen captures, and interactive slideshows can make for dynamic visual media for usage in meetings or as marketing products.

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop integrates well with Adobe Captivate and opens up new capabilities. Users can create images in Photoshop and import them as assets in Adobe Captivate. Photoshop project layers can also be imported into Captivate, with each layer becoming its own individual asset. Photoshop’s “image generator” feature allows menu buttons to be easily imported into Adobe Captivate projects. With these features, learning Adobe Photoshop can increase your capabilities and productivity within Adobe Captivate. If you’re interested in learning Photoshop, Noble Desktop offers several in-person and online Adobe Photoshop courses. 

Adobe Creative Suite

Since interfaces and menus are similar across Adobe software products, once you learn Adobe Captivate, you’ll already be familiar with the basic navigation of other Adobe programs. This is an excellent opportunity to dive into the entire suite of Adobe Creative software. Creative professionals use Adobe programs worldwide, and they are a must-learn for Marketers, Freelancers, and Graphic Designers. These programs are required for many creative professions. Even if your chosen field does not have such requirements, learning these programs and skills can be a great resume booster. You may even find specific programs leading you toward a new career, such as Video Editor, Photographer, Illustrator, Animator, and Marketer. Learn more about Adobe Creative Cloud and what classes you might be interested in through Noble Desktop’s Adobe Learn hub.

User Interface Design

Designing a full and effective online course, complete with several learning modules and quizzes, requires a knowledge of user interface (UI) design. If you are an eLearning Designer, learning UI design principles will improve the content you make with Adobe Captivate. You may even find yourself interested in a new career. UI Design is an exciting and lucrative career involving the design of websites and mobile applications. Visit Noble Desktop’s UI Design Learn Hub to learn more about the career and which classes you should take. 

Learn Adobe with Hands-on Training at Noble Desktop

If you’re interested in getting started with Adobe Captivate, Noble Desktop offers an Intro to Adobe Captivate course that covers the fundamentals of the program. This course is ideal for beginners wanting to become comfortable with using and creating training materials from the program.

Like other Adobe programs, Captivate integrates with other Adobe software such as Photoshop and Illustrator. While Adobe Captivate is a powerful program on its own, its capabilities expand when used with other Adobe products. Noble Desktop’s Adobe Creative Cloud Bootcamp teaches many Adobe programs, including InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Adobe XD. Noble Desktop also offers bootcamps in individual Adobe programs. These courses are ideal if you want to master only one Adobe product rather than learn the whole suite. 

A Graphic Design Certificate is also available that teaches Adobe programs along with graphic design principles. Even if your chosen profession isn’t in the graphic design field, knowing basic graphic design principles can elevate the projects you create with Adobe Captivate and other Adobe programs to another level. 

Key Insights

• Adobe Photoshop integrates well with Adobe Captivate and increases its capabilities.
• Designing eLearning courses in Adobe Captivate could spark an interest in and lead to a career in User Interface Design.
• Learning Adobe Captivate can teach you the basic interface of Adobe programs and be a great segway into Adobe Creative Cloud.
• There are a number of creative careers you could pursue from learning Adobe Creative Cloud.