Learn top Adobe programs for less than $40 and launch a graphic design career

Every graphic from a slap-dash sketch to a painstakingly crafted masterwork tells a story. So it makes sense that the tools used to create that work go a long way toward deciding how that story is interpreted. By those standards, Adobe is the Disney of graphic design, packing all the history, pedigree and performance power to best help creative work truly sing.

With the Graphic Design Certification School training ($39, over 90 percent off from TNW Deals), you’ll be ready to wield three of Adobe’s most used, best-loved, industry-leading digital design apps to their utmost potential.

Across three courses with over 40 hours of instruction, students earn full command of Adobe apps that have been key in almost any professional designer’s arsenal for years.

First, the Adobe Photoshop course is set to take even complete beginners through the basics, then the most advanced techniques for getting the most out of the game-changing photo editing software. Students learn how to import images, perform dozens of critical editing functions, morph color, add text, virtually every photo manipulation trick in the book.

Next, the Adobe InDesign course offers the steps for creating a host of physical media materials, including print-quality fliers, newsletters, posters and more. Whether working from templates or designing intricate graphics from scratch, you see how InDesign can handle almost any digital publishing task.

Finally, the Adobe Illustrator course rounds out the design primer with in-depth guides for bringing logos, icons, exotic typefaces and other vector art elements to your work. Vector art allows virtually any picture, shape or text to be modified without losing image quality, a virtual must for any pro-grade designer.

Each of these comprehensive courses is a $400 value, but with this limited time offer, all three courses are available for only $39, less than $4 per course.