CTC Computer Training

Overview

This course introduces participants to Digital Photography. It will teach participants how to correctly take digital photographs, download them onto a PC, manipulate them (using an application called Photoshop Elements) and then finally print them.

Suitability

The course is open to all age groups. It is recommended that Digital Photography Level 1 is completed before joining this course.

Content

Camera

Experimenting with preset modes/Macro function/extreme close-up photos/White Balance/Depth of Field/ IOS(Light Sensitivity) settings/Video Mode

Editing in Adobe Photoshop Elements 3

Setting Computer Screen Resolution/Using Levels to adjust Colour and Contrast/Replacing Colour in an image/Using the full range of ‘Selection’ tools/Sharpening soft focus images/A closer look at Filters and Creative Picture Effects/ A closer look at ‘Layers’ – Adjustment and Masking Layers/Additional tutorials will include;/Making a Picture Package (numerous pictures on a single sheet)/How to make a Panoramic from?multiple sequential images/How to fix distortion and perspective/Changing/replacing backround

Printing

Adjusting Printer Settings/Printer Maintance, ink, paper, nozzle and alignment issues/Storage and Export Solutions – External Hard Drives, Writing a Photo CD/Copying Pictures back to Memory Card after Editing on the computer/Creating a Slide Show PDF document.

Tutor

Tony Murphy, Dip AD, H. Dip, MA

Qualification

CTC Certificate of Attendance

Schedule

3 Saturday Mornings 9.30am-1.30pm

Cost

E160

Next course due to start in early 2010. Please call or e-mail if you wish to express an interest in taking this course so that we can ensure everyone interested can be catered for. Continue reading »

Overview

WEB DESIGN has been specifically developed for anyone who wants to acquire the skills to create a simple web site, without having to commit to the time and expense of a professional-level web design programme. this makes WEB DESIGN an ideal course for second-level students, small businesses, community groups and individuals who need to create personal web sites.

By explaining the basics and cutting through the jargon of web site design, WEB DESIGN gives you the skills you need to get started.

Web Design is:

• Designed for the student, home or small business candidate
• Simple, easy to follow programme progression
• Explains the basic concepts behind web site design
• Covers a variety of web publishing software
• Certifies best-practice in simple web design creation

Web Design ensures that a candidate:

• understands key web publishing concepts
• has the skills necessary to create a simple web site
• understands some of the basic principles of HTML
• can use a web site editor to create Web pages, create forms and tables, use frames and format text
• can save and work with images on a web site
• can publish the site on the World Wide Web (WWW)
• has a good appreciation of security issues and law relating to web publishing

Qualification

CTC Certificate of Completion

Schedule

3 hour classes for 5 consecutive Wednesdays, 7-10pm.

Cost

Was E300 Now E240

Next course due to start in early 2010. Please call or e-mail if you wish to express an interest in taking this course so that we can ensure everyone interested can be catered for. Continue reading »

Overview

The course will cover Word, Excel, Access and Powerpoint so you can easily adapt to the new layout and menu options. The new Ribbon, presented in a clear & organised fashion, groups your tools by task, and the commands you use most frequently are close at hand.

Content

Office Word 2007 provides editing and reviewing tools for creating polished documents more easily than ever before.

Office Excel 2007 makes powerful productivity tools easily accessible. It offers more room for you to work in and delivers faster performance.

Office Access 2007 helps you track and report information with ease. Create and edit detailed reports that display sorted, filtered, grouped information in a way that helps you make sense of the data.

Office Powerpoint 2007 enables users to quickly create high impact, dynamic presentations, while integrating workflow and ways to easily share information. It puts the control in your hands to create great looking presentations.

Certificate

CTC Certificate of Attendance

Schedule

3 hour classes for 4 consecutive Wednesdays, 7-10pm.

Cost

E160

Next course due to start in early 2010. Please call or e-mail if you wish to express an interest in taking this course so that we can ensure everyone interested can be catered for. Continue reading »

Overview

To provide participants with the knowledge and skills to carry out the payroll function in a small or medium enterprise.

The course will start with the basics of running a payroll using Quickpay and general requirements of your payroll, including knowledge to calculate tax and PRSI and the reports that are required for the revenue and Social Welfare.

Contents

Define taxable incomes…………………………………………..Process the payroll of employees

Calculate gross pay………………………………………………..Edit employee data

Explain & complete P45, P60, P30, P35……………………..Print payroll

Calculate employee & employer PRSI………………………..Update records

Calculate employee annual net pay………………………….Importance of password security

Enter company & emloyee details……………………………Calculate effects of budget on pay

Certification

FETAC Level 5 Component Certificate

Schedule

2 hour class, twice a week for 5 weeks

Cost

€280

Next course due to start in November 2011.  Please call 0867223026 or e-mail enquiries@ctccomputertraining.ie if you wish to express an interest in taking this course so that we can ensure everyone interested can be catered for.

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Overview

To provide participants with the knowledge and skills to carry out an acounting support role function in a small or medium enterprise.

Content

Principals of double entry bookkeeping……………………….Set up company parameters

Accounting standards & concepts……………………………….Enter budget fixtures

Extract a trial balance………………………………………………..Process sales, purchases & returns

Bank reconciliation……………………………………………………Process correction of errors

Produce a profit & loss account………………………………….Complete VAT returns

Extract a balance sheet……………………………………………..Process accruals & prepayments

Liquidity, profitability, efficiency ratios……………………….Copy, backup & restore data files

Schedule

2 hour classes, once a week for 12 weeks.

Certification

FETAC Module Credit at Level 5

Cost

€340

Next course due to start in November 2011.  Please call 0867223026 or e-mail enquiries@ctccomputertraining.ie if you wish to express an interest in taking this course so that we can ensure everyone interested can be catered for.

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We have a new Digital Photography Level 1 course presently running in our Leitrim Road office. The course is open to all age groups and ownership of a digital camera is not essential. It will teach participants how to correctly take digital photographs, and download them onto a PC.

Course Content

• Digital Photography
• How Digital media works
• What makes a good picture
• How to adjust the colour balance
• Shooting indoors/outdoors
• Camera functions
• Transferring images to your computer
• Adjusting the size of an image
• How to compress an image’s file size

Tutor

Tony Murphy – Dip AD, H. Dip, MA.

Qualification

CTC Certificate of Attendance

Schedule

3 Saturday Mornings 9.30am-1.30pm (Please call or e-mail for dates).

Cost

Was E220 Now E160

Next course due to start in early 2010. Please call or e-mail if you wish to express an interest in taking this course so that we can ensure everyone interested can be catered for.

Continue reading »