Career skills solutions
Preparing future creatives
With the blurring of boundaries between writing code and crafting beautiful imagery, what new skills do students need, what new tools must they master, and how can educators help guide them on the path to successful careers? Explore how to prepare students for the new creative marketplace.
Overview
Engage students with industry-standard tools and best practices that promote future career success with Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 software. Creative Suite 3 Design Premium empowers students interested in print design and publishing to master design challenges and continue to do their best work after graduation. Creative Suite 3 Web Premium equips students with the same comprehensive tools professionals use to create and manage websites and web applications. And with Creative Suite 3 Production Premium, students are ready to run all aspects of a video post-production workflow.
Resources
Instructional resources
Visual Design: Foundations of Design and Print Production
Visual Design is a yearlong, project-based curriculum that develops career and communication skills in print production and graphic design using Adobe tools.
Digital Design: Foundations of Web Design
Digital Design is a yearlong, project-based curriculum that develops IT career skills in web design and production using Adobe tools.
Digital Video: Foundations of Video Design and Production
Digital Video is a yearlong, project-based curriculum that develops career and communication skills in digital video production using Adobe tools.
A Study in Motion Graphics
These video modules can be used as supplemental course materials as you learn to prepare graphics for broadcast using Adobe After Effects® software.
Professional development
Adobe Creative Suite Video Workshops
Adobe Video Workshops introduce the essentials of your Adobe product. You'll find about 250 video tutorials for Adobe Creative Suite 3, covering a wide range of subjects for print, web, and video professionals.
Adobe Design Center
The Adobe Design Center contains samples, tips, articles, and tutorials categorized by product for designers who work with Adobe products to create media or design projects.
Adobe Developer Connection
The product-specific Adobe Developer Centers contain articles, code samples, tutorials, sample projects, and other resources for developers building projects using Adobe products and servers.
Resource centers
Adobe Design and Film School Connection
Students and faculty in design and film programs can find tutorials, cool downloads, an online forum, hot info on new trends, and school spotlights.
Products
Products
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection
Gain the most freedom with this highly integrated suite for design, web, and video projects.
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium
Discover a complete post-production environment for student film, video, DVD, and web projects.
Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro
Organize and collect information, collaborate and share documents and portfolios, collect and manage feedback, and create and track more secure forms with Adobe PDF and Adobe Acrobat® software.
Adobe Flex
Build next-generation web experiences with the Adobe Flex® solution for creating rich Internet applications.
Adobe AIR
The Adobe AIR™ runtime lets developers use their existing web development skills in HTML, Ajax, Adobe Flash®, and Flex to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop.
Adobe ColdFusion
Create better Internet applications quickly and easily with Adobe ColdFusion® software.
How to buy
Education product pricing
Educators, students, and educational institutions can purchase Adobe products at discounted prices by ordering through the Adobe Education Store or an Adobe Authorized Education Reseller.
Education volume purchasing program
With the Adobe Open Options 4.5 volume software licensing program, educational institutions can make the most of their software budgets, providing students and faculty with access to Adobe's industry-standard software.
Next steps
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