"Okay, so you've dabbled in photo enhancement, you've played with
some page design and you've sort
of designed your own logo...

But now you want more!"

Well great! You've come to the right place.

If you're interested in learning ALL ABOUT computer graphic design, desktop publishing and digital illustration... this is going to be the most exciting site you've ever visited.

 

Read on to find out how you can...

 

• Learn All The Skills Of A PROFESSIONAL Graphic Designer

• Create Great Looking Original LOGOS

• Tap Into The MASSIVE International Market For Skilled Graphic Designers, Web Designers, Logo Designers and Computer Graphic Artists

• Launch a new career, or rekindle an old one!

Gary Crilley: Artist, Graphic Designer, Author, Teacher

 

Dear fellow digital artist,

As an author and teacher and trainer, I'm bombarded daily with requests for more information about the subjects I teach. It seems that more and more people are hungry for training in the fields of graphic design, web design, desktop publishing, photographic enhancement and digital illustration.

But here's the key; they want to learn at their own pace and from home! Nobody wants to step out of the workforce for four years to learn all this stuff.

And I can understand that.

Here's a question for you...

What's the difference between $10 an hour and $150 per hour?

 

The answer is KNOWLEDGE.

'Professional' graphic designers train for YEARS to acquire the knowledge that enables them to earn TEN AND FIFTEEN TIMES the income of 'untrained' amateurs. Can you afford to spend FOUR YEARS out of the workforce? Can you afford the tens of thousands of dollars it costs to go to college?

Remember, the difference between the amateur and the professional is only knowledge...

Is this knowledge a SECRET?

Do you have to pay tens of thousands of dollars to learn this secret?

 

The short answer is NO.

My name is Gary Crilley and I regularly earn HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS AN HOUR designing logos for desperate companies, creating sales brochures and marketing aids for struggling firms, and illustrating web graphics for startup corporations.

I have won awards for my designs and my illustrations. I have been head-hunted by design companies. I have even taught computer graphic design at college level, and in addition I have hosted classes in Photoshop, Indesign, Freehand and other major software packages which have attracted SEASONED PROFESSIONALS.

I have also earned more than $800 an hour teaching graphics software and design! That's right, $4800 for a single 6 hour class!

I have 20 years experience in COMPUTER Graphic Design. But do I have a degree in graphic design? Did I train at a prestigious university?

No I did not.

I acquired my knowledge the hard way. It took several years and a lot of trial and error to get where I am today, and it was no picnic, believe me. But I learned several things along the way.

The three most important things I learned were;

1. ALL of the knowledge that I gained that was VITAL for my success was SIMPLE and
EASY TO LEARN (once I knew where to look)

 

2. ALL of the knowledge that I painstakingly gathered is available to anyone
(who knows where to find it)

 

3. NOT ALL of this knowledge is taught to
graphic design students!
(even at the most prestigious design schools!)

 

This last point really shocked me. For years I'd thought I was behind the eight ball because I never went to college. In fact, even when I won design competitions, I still had an inferiority complex because of my lack of 'formal training'.

But all that time I was wrong. Dead wrong!

I found this out the day I became an employer and began to hire design graduates. That's when I discovered that the majority of these FULLY TRAINED designers knew next to nothing about the day-to-day work of DESIGNING ON A COMPUTER. Subjects like prepress and copyright and even the best way to utilise their software were completely foreign to them.

Why do you think job advertisments for Graphic Designers INSIST on a minimum two years experience? If you don't believe me, check them out yourself.

Imagine spending 4 YEARS at college, running up a debt of tens of thousands of dollars, and STILL NOT POSSESS ALL THE SKILLS NECESSARY to be a high earning graphic designer!

A Lack Of Resources

If that wasn't enough of a shock, imagine how I felt when I embarked on my teaching career and discovered that there were no CREDIBLE, COMPLETE or DETAILED resources available for the budding Computer Graphic Designer - or indeed for anyone wishing to advance their knowledge level.

Sure there are software manuals and there are theory books on design. But where are the 'This is how to create computer graphics' books? Where are the practical and theory textbooks (that don't read like 'textbooks') that give the student advice on such things as which hardware is best, which software is essential, and how to avoid printing issues and lawsuits?

That's the point at which I wrote the first edition of Learn Professional Computer Graphics & Digital Illustration (2002). That original book has been expanded and updated several times since then and is now a fully fledged training course for students, intending students and even graduates.

THE COMPLETE RESOURCE

Do you want to...

• Increase your hourly rate to triple figures?

• Avoid the mistakes that cost you credibility?

• Gain the skills that the MOST EXPERIENCED designers and illustrators use to earn their salaries?

• Earn a decent income working from home?

• Enhance photographs like a PROFESSIONAL, but in half the time?

• Gain a job directly from college without joining the 'minimum 2 years experience' roundabout?

• Gain the confidence to take on the BIG JOBS?

• Establish a reputation for great design that WORKS and PRINTS and is completed ON TIME?

Or perhaps you're already working as a Desktop Publisher or Graphic Designer but you feel that your lack of knowledge is holding you back.

It's those little holes in your skill-set that could be losing you clients or preventing you from advancing into the big time.

How would you like to...

• Fill the holes in your knowledge

• Make yourself irresistable to employers

• Take on the big business clients who would normally only deal with the big city design firms

 

I have to admit that I was merely 'dabbling' in computer graphic design before I was introduced to Gary's (Learn Professional Computer Graphics & Digital Illustration) course. As a result I learned so many new things that I landed a job at a design firm that had rejected me on two previous occasions!
Jenny J, Graphic Designer

This course has been written using ALL of the information I gave gathered over the decades, and has been assembled in such a way that anyone can access it from any point, no matter what their current skill level or experience.

In short, this is the source of knowledge that I would have KILLED FOR when I was starting out 20 years ago. It would have saved me YEARS and had me EARNING the big $$$ so much more quickly

As a largely self-trained graphic designer I have found (Learn Professional Computer Graphics & Digital Illustration) an invaluable source of the many 'inside secrets' and rules of thumb that separate the Industry Professional from the Untrained Enthusiast. If you need real-life solutions to bring your graphics under control then look no further!
Ian Witham, Graphic Designer

I recently completed your course Learn Computer Graphics and Digital Illustration, purchased last April. It's taken me a time to get through it for one reason and another which I won't go in to here.
I thought it was great only wish I'd found it 20 years ago, but then I suppose you probably weren't experienced enough to write it then.
My aim of taking the course, aside from improving my graphic design skills, was to move on from my job in London. My role is mainly laying out pages for publications, not a lot of creativity involved in this. Haven't managed to find a better paid position as yet, but have been getting interviews.
During the duration of the course I managed to secure some extra work to design an exhibition stand, so it helped cover the cost of the outlay, so it paid for itself. I also secured a newsletter project from a friend...
Apologies for the long e-mail and thanks again for helping my iron out some of my rough design edges.
Kevin Hyatt

 

You'll discover all types of exciting tips. Here's a sneak peak at what you'll find in the Learn Professional Computer Graphics & Digital Illustration Self Paced Training Course:

• How to choose the correct form of graphic for the job you're planning

• How to design page layouts that look professional and are easy-to-read

• How to 'fix up' photographs in your design

• Which software to use and how to use it

• How to Illustrate with vector paths and bitmap pixels

• How to prepare your creations for print or web

• Little known ways to maximize your design impact and minimize the time taken to do it

• Proven steps to building page layouts that not only look professional but print correctly the FIRST TIME

• Simple keys to keep your clients or employer happy

• Discover how to avoid the mistakes that give amateurs away as UNTRAINED and UNPROFESSIONAL

• Proven strategies for creating realistic illustrations that compete with the very best in the business

• Tips and tricks for making unbreakable logos that satisfy all the requirements of a good brand image

• A dirt-cheap way to set yourself up as a graphic designer and earn the big money from the get-go

• A free and easy way to promote yourself and add striking and original pieces to your portfolio

Have you been looking for this for ages?

I ask because that's the most COMMON comment that I receive from the recipients of this course.

Sometimes I feel like Santa when confronted by yet another happy customer who starts a conversation with 'Why didn't someone do this ages ago...?'

• Discover the marketing tricks that will make your flyers and brochures SELL your client's products - and bring the client back for more.

• Your secret weapon for avoiding the 'minimum two years experience' tag on graphic designer job vacancy advertisements.

And that's just a fraction of what you'll find out in "Learn Professional Computer Graphics & Digital Illustration" That's why you should own this course today (in fact, you can be learning from it in as little as 5 minutes from now!).

What do you get?

The Learn Professional Computer Graphics & Digital Illustration Self-Paced Training Course consists of TEN books, which together cover all the subjects that make up the vast topic of computer graphic design.

The titles of the books are;

Book One: Foundation and Theory

• History of Computer Graphics

• Development of Postscript

• Colour Theory

• Bit Depth and Resolution

• Differences between Bitmap and Vector

• Speed, Efficiency and Perception

• Development of Desktop Publishing

Book Two: Tools and Workplace

• History of Personal Computers

• Choosing a Graphics Computer

• The Great Platform Debate

• Printers and Peripherals

• Graphics Software

• Choosing the Appropriate Software

• File Formats

• Setting up a Graphics Studio

Book Three: Raw Materials - The Input

• Setting up a page

• Operating a Scanner

• Interpreting Scanner Specifications

• Making Great Scans

• High End Scan Settings

• Optimum Resolutions

• Using a Digital Camera

• Differences between Digital and Film

• Taking Pictures

• Using Stock Photography and Royalty Free

Book Four: Printing and Prepress - The Output

• Printing Basics

• Printer Troubleshooting

• PCL and Postscript Languages

• Outputting for Remote Printing

• Linking and Embedding

• General Prepress

• Trapping, Spot Colours, Bleed, Imposition

• Digital Printing

• Prepress for Digital and Wide Format

• Adobe Acrobat and PDF Files

• Creating PDFs That Print

• Using the PDF Settings

Book Five: Introduction to Digital Illustration

• Basic Vector Illustration

• Tools, Menus and Palettes

• Bezier Curves

• Modifying Paths

• Groups and Objects

• Selections

• Transformations

• Organising an Illustration

• Basic Bitmap Illustration

• Starting a New Graphic

• Resolution and Resampling

• Brushes

• Making Selections

• Layers and Channels

• Vector Tools and Clipping Paths

Book Six: Advanced Digital Illustration

• Photographic Enhancement

• Editing Photographs

• Photo Montage

• Stitching Photographs

• Dealing with Tricky Scans

• Combining Pixels and Paths

• Converting Between Bitmap and Vector

• Creating Realism

• Perspective

• Building Shadows

• Texture

• Blends

• Outlines

• Anatomy of a Digital Illustration

Book Seven: Design and Typography

• Visual Communication

• Legibility, Relevancy

• Accessibility, Appropriateness, Space, Contrast

• Repetition, Alignment, Proximity

• Differences between Professionals and Amateurs

• Branding

• Interpreting the Brief

• Working to Budget

• Personality, Functionality, Affordability, Uniqueness, Legality

• The Presentation

• Typography

• Type and Fonts

• Typefaces, Anatomy of Type

• Type Categories, Type Selection

• Barriers to Legibility

• Typographic Rules

• Dashes, Kerning, Ligatures

• Word Flow

• Special Characters

Book Eight: Desktop Publishing

• Page Layout

• Target Markets

• Budgets

• Creating a Dummy

• Document Grids

• Margins, Columns and Master Pages

• Text and Paragraph Styles

• Flowing Text

• Leading

• Typographic Rules

• Graphics and Text

• Bleed

• Planning Your Document

• Order of Page Creation

• Copyfitting

Book Nine: Web Design

• Web Graphics

• Screen Specifics and Gamma

• Colour Working Spaces

• File Formats

• Resolutions

• Limitations of Web Design

• Introduction to HTML

• Text and Graphics

• Stucture of a Page

• Dividing the Screen

• Web Colours

• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

• Rollovers and Hot Spots

• Hyperlinks

• Web Design

• Index Page Specifics

• Functionality

• Web Design Software

• Putting Curves in Pages

Book Ten: Marketing and Design

• Marketing

• Advertising and Salesmanship

• Brand Advertising

• Fishing for a Response

• Features vs Benefits

• The Role of the Designer

• Internet Marketing

• Sales Copy

• Traffic and Search Engine Optimisation

• Keywords

• Role of the Designer

That's almost 900 pages of instruction, advice, tips, tricks and KNOWLEDGE, and it includes over 600 illustrations and images.

At last I've found a course that covers all my needs. I especially like the prepress sections and the advice on getting good results from difficult scans, something I have to do every day in my job. The explanations and diagrams are most helpful... even I can understand them. The author's sense of humour made it much more readable than traditional manuals. I'd recommend (Learn Professional Computer Graphics & Digital Illustration) to anyone with any connection to computer graphics. Compulsive...
Val R, Desktop Publisher

 

What's a resource like this worth?

To accumulate all this knowledge and training in any other format or from any other source would normally cost you as much as $6000. It would also take you several years - it took me almost twenty!

Highly targeted, up-to-date information like this - SPECIFICALLY for computer graphic designers, creators of PROFESSIONAL computer graphics, budding web designers, photographic manipulators, desktop publishers and digital artists - is rare and extremely valuable. Everything is explained in PLAIN English. Which means it's dead-easy to read and understand. And it's logically laid out.

I could sell each one of these course books INDIVIDUALLY for $97, adding up to $970 for the set. Which is still a huge saving on what it would cost you to accumulate this knowledge from other sources.

But the Learn Professional Computer Graphics & Digital Illustration Self-Paced Training Course is not $970

It's not $570

It's not even $270!

Instead, you could soon be learning Professional Techniques in Computer Graphic Design and Digital Illustration for the bargain investment of $147.

That's right, a fraction of what it's really worth or what it cost me to research, assemble and write.

Why should I make it so affordable?

Simply because my costs to deliver it to you are so low.

I have recently translated this massive course into a series of electronic books (e-books) that can be downloaded to your computer in a flash. Which means you can be reading them and discovering all this amazing knowledge in as little as 5 minutes from now.

So I figure I'll be able to offer this fantastic resource of information (which if you follow the tips contained in its pages could really give you some amazing benefits) to more people. And make my investment back over time.

This amazing course is now available in traditional printed format. I have condensed all the books into four volumes, which are available from a third party. If you prefer to hold a tangible book in your hand and keep this full course in your bookshelves for future reference, click the link below and I will send a full printed course to you immediately.
Learn more about the Printed Version

 

No matter which way you go, it's a bargain for you. Several thousand dollars worth of information for $147 is crazy. But it's true.

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$147 is a drop in the ocean compared to what you will earn with the knowledge you glean from this course. I get feedback all the time from people who have made their investment back in one single project!

Still not convinced?

If you're still not totally convinced that you will upskill yourself and put yourself into a new salary bracket or kick-start your graphic design career with this training course, fear not.

If for ANY REASON you're not happy with the content, you have a Complete Guarantee to protect your investment.

That's about as fair as it gets, right?

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I picked up the (Learn Professional Computer Graphics & Digital Illustration) course about six weeks before graduating with my Visual Communication Degree. In my very first job interview it was the things I'd picked up from the course that impressed my interviewer the most. She is now my new boss...
Selina Ruscoe, Design Graduate

I have run a reasonably successful desktop publishing business for seven years. But there have always been jobs that were beyond my ability, and I worried that the service I offered my clients wasn't a complete one.
A friend put me onto the Learn Professional Graphics course, and I can now offer logo design and much more.
My charge-out rate has gone up from $25 an hour to $80 an hour, and my client list is growing!
Thank you Gary. I didn't know an older woman like me could do half this stuff...
Barbara Page, Page Bytes

Do you want more?

Okay, let me tell you what else I'll also do to make this the best investment you ever make. I'm going to throw in some free bonuses that are literally worth more in money terms than my e-book course itself!

Simply grab your copy of Learn Professional Computer Graphics & Digital Illustration Self-Paced Training Course right now, and here's what I'll throw in for FREE:

FREE Bonus #1

Productivity and Managing Digital Graphics

This addition to the Learn Professional Computer Graphics & Digital Illustration Course contains advice and information on working smarter, not harder and looking after your greatest assets - your graphics files.

This 40 page book will have you working faster and more efficiently, saving money while keeping clients and employers happy.

You will also learn the wisdom of backing up, as well as preparing your graphics for storage.

Worth $27

 

FREE Bonus #2

Selling Yourself and Finding a Job in Design

This extremely valuable book gives inciteful and detailed information on self promotion and preparing yourself for employment.

In 54 pages you'll learn how to prepare your portfolio and how to find suitable jobs for inclusion in this important piece of your career equipment.

You will also discover the differences between employers and clients, and learn how to prepare for a job interview or to showcase your talents to a potential client.

Worth $27

 

FREE Bonus #3

Copyright

The last thing you want to happen when you begin your new career is to be sued for breach of copyright or infringing someone else's intellectual property..

This essential 33 page book will prepare you for the rigors of commercial graphics creation.

You will also learn how to safeguard yourself and also your own creations against abuse by others less scrupulous than yourself.

Worth $27

 

 

FREE Bonus #4

Tutorials and Exercises

The perfect addition to a rigorous training course is a book full of exercises and step-by-step tutorials for you to follow and put into practice the knowledge you've gleaned from the course.

These 70 pages will show you how to create a vector logo, illustrate with astounding realism and speed, and use the tools that are readily available to your best ability.

Some people have bought this course purely for this FREE book and the rest is simply the bonus!

Worth $47

 

FREE Bonus #5

Color Pages

This full color book gives high resolution color versions of the most outstanding graphics and illustrations used throughout the course.

Included are the end results of the tutorials created in Bonus Book 4: Tutorials and Exercises.

This is a stunning addition to your course library and worthy of ordering the print version by itself.

 

Worth $27

 

 

FREE Bonus #6

Printer Troubleshooting poster

As many who are new to computer graphics soon discover, creating your file is often only half the job.

Getting it to PRINT is another story altogether.

This handy poster lays out the steps to take when something won't print, and is my free gift to you.

Just print it and hang it by your printer for future reference. It's amazing how many purchasers of the full training course have mentioned the poster and how it has saved them from missing deadlines and losing sleep!

Worth $19

 

That's a total of $174 in bonuses. They're yours FREE with the course. Congratulations!

$174 worth of Free bonuses for a $147 course that's already way below market value - and if you're not happy you can have your money back!!

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But don't take my word for it on how great this package is. Listen to what people just like you have to say about it:

I have been involved in developing Intranets and software for large government and corporate organisations. Each of these projects has required a large amount of technical detail, but have always found myself spending a considerable amount of time to design, layout and simple graphics for these projects.

Since buying and reading this course I have found myself spending much less time on the layout and graphics of a software program and spending more time on developing the functionality of the software. Isn't that what being a programmer is all about?

This course went beyond my expectations and while I have tried to read a lot of other graphics and design books this course is by far the easiest to follow. The projects inside the course emphasise the main points taught in the books as well as let the designer match their projects with what’s in the course. "Congratulations to the author on a fun course that is easy to pick up and refer to anytime...
Ben Fellowes, Software and web developer, Project Manager

I'm currently a computer graphic design student at (a tertiary training institution) in Wellington, NZ. I was lucky enough to get my hands on an early copy of (Learn Professional Computer Graphics & Digital Illustration) and now I use it every day. I especially like the tutorials and exercises as they've taught me heaps of Photoshop and Illustrator.

My only problem is when the other students in the class borrow my books and I have to go find them. I wish they'd buy their own!...
Aloema, Design Student

I was quite intrigued about the course when I was first told about it, and now that I'm reading it I am finding it even better than I had imagined it would be...

...These books are far more in depth than I thought they would be, and they're delivered in a manner that is easy to digest. Usually I find it difficult for me to take in information by reading, as I am normally a hands-on learner and have to physically do something to learn and remember.

I am, however, amazed at how easy these books were to read and how interesting they are. I get quite excited when I find something that I have not fully understood finally clicking together. I am actually finding the course enjoyable to read. I didn't think that reference books were supposed to be read from cover to cover but these are going to be. I am reading (the course) as though it was a novel. Brilliant...
Denny Noble, Architectural Technician

As they say, the proof is in the pudding. And these people are super happy. Just like you'll be.

You can't leave this page empty handed, can you?

Here's a reminder of what you get:

For a mere $147, you're getting the answers you need ... PLUS MORE. Over 1100 pages on hundreds of linked subjects, complete with 800 illustrations and tutorials ALL IN PLAIN LANGUAGE and simple to follow.

Now it's important to note that you can only get this product from me. It's not available in libraries or anywhere else on the net. Just imagine being able to get these answers downloaded to you right away. (Or you can click here to order a full printed course.)

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Wishing you great success.

Warmly,

Gary Crilley
The Electric Artist

P.S. Don't forget, you're getting $174 worth of bonuses for nothing. Everything to get you started in Computer Graphic Design, Professional Graphics creation, Web Design, Photo Manipulation, Desktop Publishing and Digital Illustration.
BEFORE you sign up to a four year degree study, I suggest you at least try this course. It might give you all the knowledge necessary to get a job in Graphic Design, at the saving of tens of thousands of dollars.

And if it doesn't fully replace a college degree, at the very least this course will enhance your learning experience at college, while eliminating the need for two years of experience at the end of your studies.

Finally, if it's not everything I say it is, you can get all your money back. Every cent!

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