Education and Inspiration for Aspiring Designers.

New Event!
Learn Software Skills

Enhance your graphic design journey at our live, in-person classes. Engaging, small group learning to prepare you for excellence.
Ready for the next step? We are pleased to offer a brand new, 2-day format class introducing basic skills in Adobe Illustrator® & Adobe Photoshop®, with a brief look at Adobe InDesign® and Affinity® design softwares. These are the industry standards in creative work and will give you confidence to launch and grow your skills for productive uses.
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This training event, Software Skills for Graphic Designers, is perfect for aspiring designers looking to get started or improve their skills using industry standard tools for producing their creative work.

Course Formats

  • Small group, in-person classes with 10 students, 2 instructors. Instruction and exercises.
  • Software Skills is a 2 day, in-person training event
  • Event held at:
    Christ Community Church
    121 S College St
    Myerstown, PA 17067

Upcoming Series for 2026

  1. The Fundamentals of Graphic Design (past)
  2. July 23 & 24 NEW SERIES! Software Skills for Graphic Designers
  3. NEW SERIES! The Principles, Process & Power of Logo Design (Fall 2026)
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Software Skills for Graphic Designers Overview

Adobe Illustrator® Essentials
121 S College St, Myerstown, PA
‍Thursday, July 23, 2026
Learn the essentials of setting up your workspace and creating documents. How to use artboards and the pasteboard. Learn the primary tools for creating vector artwork, colors, gradients and typography. Practice using the pen tool, the pencil tool, layers, pathfinder, shapebuilder and so much more.
Adobe Photoshop® Essentials
121 S College St, Myerstown, PA
Friday July 24, 2026
You'll be introduced to the Photoshop® workspace, essential tools, photo editing basics, how to work with layers, layer blend modes, healing brush tools, leveraging generative AI features ethically to save time (not to replace creativity), round trip editing with Illustrator® and InDesign® and more.
Adobe InDesign® Quick Look
121 S College St, Myerstown, PA
Friday July 24, 2026
A brief look at the power of InDesign and what it is built for. How to bring assets from other apps into your InDesign® documents, working with master pages and paragraph styles, threaded text frames, text wrapping and output for print jobs.
Affinity® Studio Quick Look
121 S College St, Myerstown, PA
Friday July 24, 2026
A brief look at how Affinity® studio apps–Vector, Pixel and Layout can work for you in creating quality graphics and projects for free! The skills you learn in the previous classes are applicable as you learn how to follow similar workflows on a more affordable platform.
2-Day Learning Event Format
121 S College St, Myerstown, PA
Thursday and Friday July 23 & 24, 2026
‍Instructors - Matt Feener and Lyndon Gehman
Students will arrive at 8:30AM. You'll get settled in and enjoy coffee (good coffee!) and light morning snacks as we prepare for the first session to begin at 9:00AM.

Sessions will proceed throughout the day with some breaks and skills practice times sprinkled in.
Lunch will be provided on site.
Group sessions will end at 4:00PM and students may work on skills practice or request one-on-one coaching on specific questions until 5:00PM.

*For full benefit, students should bring their own computer*
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Drinks and light refreshments will be available throughout both days. Students will be responsible for their own breakfast and supper and any lodging requirements if coming from out of the area.

Any questions about the event may be directed to Matt Feener by emailing learn@elevantacademy.com

Registration Open

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