What is it that you need to do or improve?

Are you wanting to:

• Build your work faster, but in a way that’s still flexible
• Learn keyboard shortcuts to speed up your workflow
• Mockup art and branding on images for your Packaging work
• “Map” Styles in Word to trigger InDesign Styles automatically
• Build a WordPress website
• Create an HTML5 animated ad banner
• Build a 10 sec video including images and titles 
• Create multiple labels using InDesign or Illustrator with an Excel supplied list
• Master Layers, Masks and Smart Objects in Photoshop
• Create patterns, backgrounds or textures in Adobe Illustrator
• Take better advantage of your file’s metadata
• Master the Pen Tool in Illustrator
• Build colour palettes and manipulate sets of colours in Illustrator
• Use Adobe InDesign and CC Libraries more efficiently
• Learn better ways of moving work between applications

Feel like you’re falling behind?

• Discover which features benefit your type of work
• Learn which new features will impact you, your team and your organisation
• Which new features to be careful of
• Understand which previous methods of yours may be affected by these new features

Are there tools you’ve always wondered about?

• Are you using Finder/Explorer properly? 
• A lot of computer users lack some of the fundamental skills when it comes to using computer applications. Often this is because it is assumed that the knowledge is already there.

“It’s like putting someone into the driver’s seat of a car without ever giving them a lesson.”

• Many younger Designers coming straight out of college lack the real-world approaches and techniques  needed to work with their more experienced colleagues. This is especially a problem when working remotely.
• The Hypermouse “Back to Basics” sessions are designed to cover all sorts of tips, tricks and techniques that will help bring you up to speed and may surprise many seasoned professionals.