Featured Graphic Design Courses

Photoshop in a Day

Learn the fundamentals of Photoshop in this accelerated class, where you will discover how to retouch photos, remove unwanted elements, and save files for print or web. This class is perfect for beginners who want to improve their photo editing skills in a short amount of time.
- 6 hours
- Open to beginners
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InDesign in a Day

Learn the fundamentals of InDesign, including page layout, typography, and image manipulation, in this accelerated class. Perfect for beginners or those looking to refresh their skills, this class will give you a solid foundation in InDesign.
- 6 hours
- Open to beginners
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Illustrator in a Day

Learn the fundamentals of Illustrator and start creating vector graphics with this accelerated class. You'll learn how to use the Pen tool, draw lines and curves, use colors and layers, trace images, and more.
- 6 hours
- Open to beginners
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Figma Bootcamp

Start learning Figma for UI/UX design. Gain a solid understanding of its capabilities, from creating files, to designing on a grid, working with text/photos/colors, creating components, building prototypes, exporting assets, sharing files, creating animations, and more.
- 12 hours
- Open to beginners
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Photoshop Animated GIFs

Learn how to create and optimize animated GIFs in Photoshop, including creating simple animations, using tweening, reducing file size, creating complex animations, using video in GIFs, and embedding animations in smart objects. This course is designed for individuals with prior experience using Photoshop.
- 6 hours
- Prerequisites required
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Adobe Lightroom Classic

Learn to manage & edit photos in Adobe Lightroom. Import from camera, edit, organize, optimize, develop, create slideshows, webpages, books, and publish on social media.
- 12 hours
- Open to beginners
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Adobe Photoshop Bootcamp

Learn how to retouch and color correct photos, combine images, and create graphics in Photoshop. This course covers the basic and intermediate features of Photoshop, such as color/contrast, photo retouching, layers, masks, filters, and saving files for web/video/print.
- 18 hours
- Open to beginners
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Adobe InDesign Bootcamp

Learn how to design professional page layouts with text & graphics in Adobe InDesign. this course covers styling, importing, packaging, and advanced techniques like styles, master pages, and tables. Perfect for creating books, magazines, and ads.
- 18 hours
- Open to beginners
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Adobe Illustrator Bootcamp

Learn how to draw and edit vector graphics using Adobe Illustrator. This course covers the basics and advanced features, including the Pen tool, effects, layers, masks, and more. Perfect for creating logos, icons, and packaging.
- 18 hours
- Open to beginners
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Graphic Design Portfolio Bootcamp

Learn the fundamentals of graphic design as you get hands-on experience and produce real-world projects. Broaden your understanding of graphic design concepts, understand the elements of design, and expand your portfolio in this comprehensive graphic design course.
- 30 hours
- Prerequisites required
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Graphic Design Certificate

Begin your journey as a professional graphic designer by learning the essential skills and tools used by industry experts. Gain hands-on experience in Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator, and create a stunning portfolio to showcase your talent to potential employers or clients.
- 84 hours
- Open to beginners
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Why Choose Noble Desktop for Onsite Training?

For over two decades, Noble Desktop has created and delivered the highest-rated corporate training programs in NYC. We have extensive experience developing curriculum for a variety of professional contexts, including onsite, in our Manhattan classroom, and live online. All of our programs can be completely customized to meet your team’s unique needs.

Onsite Graphic Design Courses

These are a some of the upcoming Graphic Design courses we can offer your team, onsite at your location. We can also modify or customize the curriculum to fit your needs.

November 2024
Adobe Illustrator Bootcamp November 25–December 16 Mondays & Wednesdays 6–9pm EST	$975 18 Hours	Learn how to draw and edit vector graphics using Adobe Illustrator. This course covers the basics and advanced features, including the Pen tool, effects, layers, masks, and more. Perfect for creating logos, icons, and packaging.
December 2024
Adobe InDesign Bootcamp December 2–4 Monday to Wednesday 10–5pm EST	$975 18 Hours	Learn how to design professional page layouts with text & graphics in Adobe InDesign. this course covers styling, importing, packaging, and advanced techniques like styles, master pages, and tables. Perfect for creating books, magazines, and ads.
InDesign in a Day December 2 Monday 10–5pm EST	$425 6 Hours	Learn the fundamentals of InDesign, including page layout, typography, and image manipulation, in this accelerated class. Perfect for beginners or those looking to refresh their skills, this class will give you a solid foundation in InDesign.
Graphic Design Certificate December 2–January 3 Weekdays 10–5pm EST	$2,995 84 Hours	Begin your journey as a professional graphic designer by learning the essential skills and tools used by industry experts. Gain hands-on experience in Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator, and create a stunning portfolio to showcase your talent to potential employers or clients.
Adobe Photoshop Bootcamp December 9–11 Monday to Wednesday 10–5pm EST	$975 18 Hours	Learn how to retouch and color correct photos, combine images, and create graphics in Photoshop. This course covers the basic and intermediate features of Photoshop, such as color/contrast, photo retouching, layers, masks, filters, and saving files for web/video/print.
Photoshop in a Day December 9 Monday 10–5pm EST	$425 6 Hours	Learn the fundamentals of Photoshop in this accelerated class, where you will discover how to retouch photos, remove unwanted elements, and save files for print or web. This class is perfect for beginners who want to improve their photo editing skills in a short amount of time.
Figma Bootcamp December 11–12 Wednesday to Thursday 10–5pm EST	$695 12 Hours	Start learning Figma for UI/UX design. Gain a solid understanding of its capabilities, from creating files, to designing on a grid, working with text/photos/colors, creating components, building prototypes, exporting assets, sharing files, creating animations, and more.
Graphic Design Portfolio Bootcamp December 13–January 3 Fridays & Mondays 10–5pm EST	$1,295 30 Hours	Learn the fundamentals of graphic design as you get hands-on experience and produce real-world projects. Broaden your understanding of graphic design concepts, understand the elements of design, and expand your portfolio in this comprehensive graphic design course.
Adobe Illustrator Bootcamp December 16–19 Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 10–5pm EST	$975 18 Hours	Learn how to draw and edit vector graphics using Adobe Illustrator. This course covers the basics and advanced features, including the Pen tool, effects, layers, masks, and more. Perfect for creating logos, icons, and packaging.
Illustrator in a Day December 16 Monday 10–5pm EST	$425 6 Hours	Learn the fundamentals of Illustrator and start creating vector graphics with this accelerated class. You'll learn how to use the Pen tool, draw lines and curves, use colors and layers, trace images, and more.

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We’ll discuss your training needs free of charge. If you’re not sure exactly what training your company needs, our expert instructors are ready to learn about your goals and help decide what learning program is best. We make your goals our priority so that you and your team can experience impactful development that leads to dramatic growth.

Learn More About Our Graphic Design Onsite Training

Almost every business, organization and institution will, at one point or another, need to create content for a mass audience. This includes everything from promotional flyers to brand logos, with a huge amount of different creations in between. Giving your team members the skills and training they need to start working on complex design projects will provide you with a significant leg up when it comes to working on complex design projects and can help you ensure that the content you create is memorable and effective at its persuasive goals. There are numerous aspects to graphic design training available and, if you have a team that will benefit from learning any of these aspects of the process, there are corporate training seminars that can help your team members learn the skills they need.

Why Teach Your Team Members Graphic Design?

Graphic design is an essential aspect of almost any project, assuming it has any public facing element to it. Whether it is something as simple as modifying existing company iconography for use on branded merchandise or creating entirely new logos and branded content for product launches, press releases or advertising campaigns. So long as your team members are completing tasks that involve communicating with a mass audience, understanding the basics of graphic design can be a major help.

This kind of training is beneficial for a wide range of different teams and you can fairly easily design a training structure that fits the needs of your team. Given that there are so many different approaches to learning graphic design, this makes the graphic design training a viable path to pursue for teams in virtually any department, and this training can be easily customized to provide the most practical and direct training possible.

What Can My Team Learn in a Graphic Design Training Program?

Graphic design offers a few distinct pathways in terms of the training you can organize for your team members. Since it is a creative and technical process, you can either focus on the creative side or the technical side, with the option for both if you are looking to provide your team with comprehensive training (best suited for teams of inexperienced designers who want to learn the full scope of the field). While both are valuable skills to acquire, you’ll want to focus on the skills that provide the most immediate benefit to your projects and your team’s workflow.

The most common kind of graphic design training is a training structure that focuses on the use of the technical applications that most professional graphic designers utilize. The most common of these applications are the trio of desktop design software programs available through Adobe Creative Cloud, Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop. Each program serves a specific function (Photoshop handles image manipulation, Illustrator is a vector graphics illustration tool, and InDesign is a page layout tool), but their interconnectedness means that most graphic designers will learn how to use all three tools at one point or another within their careers.

These lessons are designed to provide team members with practical, hands-on experience using the applications in the kinds of contexts in which they will use the programs on their own projects. This can mean learning the basics of how to use Photoshop for retouching images to be posted as part of a website testimonials sections, learning advanced Illustrator skills to draw multifaceted, easily transferable logos for a wide range of different applications, learning how InDesign can be used to easily wireframe everything from posters and business cards to webpages and a massive variety of different tasks in-between. These training events can be customized to include material from the projects that you are currently working on and the training skills can be mixed and matched to maximize what your team members get out of the class.

The other most common type of graphic design training focuses less on the how and more on the why, emphasizing design theory and foundational principles that most graphic designers follow when they are working on varying projects. It isn’t always this obvious, but the design decisions made by a bait and tackle shop will likely differ from those made by a large computer component conglomerate and designers need to have an understanding of when one particular strategy is better than another. This will require more focused, guided training (and it is slightly harder to really customize to your projects, since it is more about creative work), but it is an important skill to learn for teams that are going to be creating new graphic design content as part of their regular work tasks.

There is also the opportunity for professional corporate training that covers both of the major aspects of the graphic design process. These immersive bootcamp style training programs cover practical design skills, such as the use of major applications as well as their integration with one another and the more theoretical design skills required to make informed and productive decisions as part of their regular graphic design work projects. This immersive training is great for new teams of graphic designers who need to start working on complex projects relatively quickly or who need to know a robust set of skills in order to accomplish their goals.

What Makes Noble Desktop’s Corporate Training Options Unique

Noble Desktop provides clients with detailed, customizable, live training services that can be tailored to fit the needs of your teams. This means that your team members will get live, hands-on training in all of the graphic design skills that are most relevant to their daily workflow in a private online learning space at your corporate offices or from their homes.

The important aspect of Noble Desktop’s corporate training is the live, hands-on aspects of the learning process. Even in an online classroom, your team members will still be able to speak directly to a live instructor who can help them with any difficulties that may arise or challenging concepts that they need to pay more attention to.

Private Graphic Design Training: Onsite or Live Online

When you book a private training session with us, you have the option to rent a room in our offices or host us in your office. We can even customize your training with your assets and topics that aren’t covered in our standard outlines. We can even add your branding to fit your team’s on the job needs. We offer a standard curriculum if you don’t want to spend time on the nitty-gritty logistics.

Purchase Vouchers or Group Classes

You can purchase group vouchers so that your employees can attend any of our courses at their convenience on weeknights, weekdays, or weekends. Our classes are live online or in-person at our Manhattan offices. When you invest in a large block of vouchers, you'll also receive a custom registration tracking portal to manage them. This is designed to ensure that your team members are able to easily and effectively book and attend training courses that are hosted outside the context of a corporate training session.

With a variety of courses on our calendar, you don't have to worry about coordinating with each employee to find a class that works for them. Your employees can use their vouchers to enroll in the class that fits their proficiency, schedule, and location needs.

The way your team needs to learn

Your employees will leave our training proficient in the graphic design tools that the course focuses on and they can implement what they’ve learned the very next day. Your employees will also have our course files to keep forever so they can continue using their training as a guide for their day-to-day tasks.

Our hands-on curriculum and focused instruction cater to every learning style. We simulate the challenges your employees will actually face on the job. We can customize the projects in our curriculum with your business’ assets so that your employees can leave with the skills specific to your company.

How We Teach

Our industry veteran expert instructors know the most relevant use cases for your team. We have a team of instructors so you can rest assured knowing you’re getting the best instructor for your particular industry. Our curriculum is always up to date with relevant knowledge.

We teach through hands-on projects so that your employees get actual practice during the training, not just a lecture. Your team members will learn by experience so that they can return to work the next day ready to implement their new skills.

Our training offers practice in triplicate with a variety of and projects. We can even use your company’s assets and information so that they’re training with the most relevant data. Immersive education is the only way to ensure your employees will be able to perform the new skills you’ve invested in on the job.

Self-learning just doesn’t work when it comes to industry-specific advanced graphic design skills. With Noble Desktop, you’re not just buying a class – you are guaranteeing that your employees are the most skilled.

Each attendee will have full access to class files, a workbook, and our video suite after the training. They can reference these materials later for more practice which will help them retain the skills that you invested in the long term.

Proficiency Levels

We can cater to any proficiency level and offer beginner to advanced options. Our specialized courses give more experienced graphic design professionals an appropriate challenge with lessons aimed at expanding their toolkit with Creative Cloud applications, while our beginner courses teach on the job essentials that maximize your employee’s workflow on graphic design projects and give them more freedom to experiment and feel comfortable with the applications.. Regardless of your team’s prior experience, Assessments to determine participant level are available, just ask!

Custom Solutions for Every Team

Your graphic design training can be customized to fit the needs of your team, including utilizing your company’s graphic design assets and focusing the lessons on the specific kinds of projects that your team will be working on. This isn’t necessary (you can still work on generic projects in the class if you don’t want to go through the trouble of customization), but it is often a welcome benefit for teams of all kinds.

We tailor courses for finance professionals, healthcare, marketing, retail, and more. Just ask! We’ll teach all of the essentials that your employees would need to know on a daily basis and then tailor it to your industry with real projects. For an additional cost, we can also help employees get certified by Adobe in any combination of their Creative Cloud applications.

What Kind of Graphic Design Training is Available?

When looking at the graphic design corporate training options available to you, there are a few things to consider. The first is what kind of lessons and training you aim to cover in your corporate training seminar. Aiming to teach too much can result in the essential lessons having less of a hold and it can extend the training in unproductive ways. Likewise, training that is too narrow runs the risk of leaving your team members lacking certain practical skills that they need in order to make use of their newly acquired graphic design skills.

For example, if you are looking to provide your team members with introductory training aimed at getting them comfortable with the basics of working with an application, you may want to consider something like a Photoshop in a Day or Illustrator in a Day program. These courses, which, unsurprisingly, can be completed in only a day of training, provide your team members with the skills they need to feel comfortable working with applications like Illustrator or Photoshop, including everything from the basics of navigating the interface to utilizing the tools that are most commonly used on simple graphic design projects.

For teams seeking more advanced training, there are longer, more immersive versions of these courses, such as the Photoshop Bootcamp or Illustrator Bootcamp. These courses take the introductory lessons offered in the single-day versions of the training program and build upon those lessons with more advanced techniques and deeper dives into the less commonly used but still professionally useful aspects of the applications. These lessons are easily customizable to focus on the aspects of the applications that your team members are most likely to use and teams with a baseline understanding of the applications can bypass the basic introductory content entirely.

There are also training courses that focus on specific elements of graphic design applications, including courses narrowly focused on edge-case uses for applications (the kind that aren’t useful for everyone, but are incredibly useful for anyone who finds themselves needing to know how to use them). For example, teams dealing with Photoshop may want to be trained in how to use the application to create GIFs (since it is the premiere option for online GIF making with the death of Flash) or how to use the Lightroom companion app and there are dedicated corporate training options available to help with those skills. This training is niche, but it is invaluable for the kinds of team members who will regularly make use of these niche skills.

Finally, if you are looking to provide your team members with a robust, complete graphic design training experience, you can sign them up for a Graphic Design Bootcamp. These bootcamps cover all of the major lessons that are taught in the application bootcamps, combining instruction in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. These are immersive training courses that can be designed to fit your team’s specific needs (for example, downplaying InDesign while focusing more heavily on Illustrator), meaning that even though the classes are long, they can be modified in such a way that your team members maximize their time spent with important, relevant skills training. These courses also cover foundational design philosophy skills that professional design teams will need to have a grasp on while creating new designs and content.

Get Started on Your Corporate Graphic Design Training Today

Once you’ve decided that graphic design training is the right path forward for members of your team, you can contact a Noble Desktop representative to schedule a free consultation and begin the process of scheduling your corporate training event right away. This training can be customized to fit the needs of your team members and can include your company or institution's assets as part of the training, or you can opt to run a standard corporate training seminar.

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Featured Graphic Design Courses

Photoshop in a Day

InDesign in a Day

Illustrator in a Day

Figma Bootcamp

Photoshop Animated GIFs

Adobe Lightroom Classic

Adobe Photoshop Bootcamp

Adobe InDesign Bootcamp

Adobe Illustrator Bootcamp

Graphic Design Portfolio Bootcamp

Graphic Design Certificate