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• Adobe InDesign CS3
• Adobe Acrobat 8.0
• Adobe Photoshop CS3
• Adobe Illustrator CS3

Adobe InDesign CS3

Course Outline:

1. Getting to Know the Work Area

• Using the Palette menus
• Learning the Tools panel
• Using multiple documents windows
• Viewing and arranging panels
• Changing the magnifications
• Using the Zoom tool
• Using the navigator panel
• Using the context menus

2. Setting Up Your Document

• Creating and saving custom page settings
• Creating a new document
• Working with master pages
• Dragging guides from rulers
• Adding placeholders for graphics
• Wrapping text around a graphic
• Creating text frames with columns
• Adding, arranging, deleting pages from master
• Overriding master page items

3. Working with Frames

• Working with layers
• Creating multiple columns
• Aligning text within a frame
• Creating graphics frames
• Placing and resizing graphics
• Working with frames and Pathfinders
• Using the Position tool
• Rotating, aligning, and scaling objects

4. Importing and Editing Text

• Managing fonts
• Flowing text manually and automatically
• Resizing a text frame
• Working with page columns
• Using Find and Replace options
• Changing formats
• Checking spelling
• Drag and drop text editing
• Using the story editor

5. Working with Typography

• Adjusting vertical spacing
• Viewing baseline grids
• Changing fonts
• Changing paragraph alignment
• Creating a drop cap
• Applying fill and stroke to text
• Adjusting kerning and tracking
• Working with tabs
• Creating a hanging indent
• Adding a rule below a paragraph

6. Working with Color

• Adding colors to the Swatches panel
• Working with gradients
• Creating a tint
• Creating a spot color
• Introduction to ICC profiles
• Ensuring consistent color
• About color management
• Setting up default working spaces
• Embedding profiles
• Placing a color-managed Illustrator file into InDesign CS3

7. Working with Styles

• Creating and applying paragraph style
• Working with character styles
• Object styles
• Table and Cell styles

8. Importing and Linking Graphics

• Managing links to imported files
• Updating revised graphics
• Working with clipping paths
• Working with alpha channels
• Placing native files
• Importing Photoshop files
• Using a library to manage objects
• Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics

9. Creating Tables

• Importing, formatting, and editing tables
• Using graphics within tables
• Formatting text within a table
• Working with styles and tables

10. Working with Transparency

• Importing and colorizing a black-and-white image
• Applying transparency settings
• Working with effects
• Applying feathers
• Applying, Editing, and removing effects

11. Working with Long Documents

• Crating a book file
• Working with a table of contents
• Setting up indexing

12. Output and PDF Exporting

• Using Preflight
• Using Package
• Creating an Adobe PDF proof
• Separation and transparency previews

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Adobe Acrobat 8.0

Course Content

1. Introduction to Adobe Acrobat

• Adobe PDF on the web
• Getting started with Adobe Acrobat window
• Viewing PDF presentations in Full Screen mode
• Designing document Publishing on the World Wide Web
• Designing documents for online viewing
• Using Organizer

2. Getting to Know the Work Area

• Opening a PDF file in the work area
• Working with Acrobat task buttons
• Working with the navigation pane

3. Creating Adobe PDF Files

• Using the Create PDF command
• Converting & Combining different types of files
• Using Print command to create Adobe PDF files
• Reducing file size
• About compression and resampling
• Dragging and dropping files
• Creating adobe PDF from the context menu (Windows)
• Creating Adobe PDF from clipboard images

4. Creating Adobe PDF from Microsoft Office Files (Windows)

• About PDFMaker
• About Acrobat Connect
• Converting Microsoft Word files to Adobe PDF
• Converting and emailing PowerPoint presentations
• Converting Excel documents and starting a review
• Converting and attaching files in Microsoft Outlook
• Converting web pages from Internet Explorer
• Exporting tables from PDF files
• Converting and attaching files
• Converting web pages from Internet Explorer

5. Combining Files in PDF Packages

• About PDF packages
• Collecting PDF files in a package
• Navigating, changing, and sorting PDF files in a package
• Searching PDF packages
• Printing PDF packages

6. Creating Adobe PDF from Web Pages

• Converting web pages to Adobe PDF
• Connecting to the web
• Setting options for converting web pages
• Creating Adobe PDF files from web pages
• Updating and Converting web pages

7. Converting Email Files to Adobe PDF (Windows)

• Converting email messages to Adobe PDF
• Sorting converted emails
• Adding and printing email messages
• Migrating PDF archives to PDF packages (Outlook)
• Setting up automatic archiving in Outlook

8. Working with PDF Files

• Changing the opening view
• About the onscreen display
• Reading PDF documents
• Searching PDF documents
• Filling out PDF forms
• Comparing documents
• Using the acrobat accessibility features

9. Editing PDF Documents

• Opening and examining the work file
• Moving pages with page thumbnails
• Editing Adobe PDF pages
• Editing links
• Inserting one PDF file into another pDF file
• Looking at bookmarks
• Deleting and renumbering pages
• Setting an opening view

10. More About Editing

• Viewing the work file
• Looking at articles
• Editing text
• Copying text and images from a PDF file
• Editing images using the TouchUP Object tool
• Converting PDF pages to Imaged format files
• Reducing the file size
• Optimizing for page-at-a-time downloading

11. Using Acrobat in a Review Cycle

• About the review process
• Opening the work file
• Working with comments
• Marking up documents
• Summarizing comments
• Comparing two Adobe PDFdocuments
• Spell checking comments
• Printing documents with comments
• Inviting users of Adobe Reader to participate reviews
• Setting up email-based reviews
• Custom Stamps

12. Adding Signatures and Security

• Working with digital signatures
• Selecting a signing method
• Creating and modifying Digital ID's
• Signing documents
• Working with Security settings
• Adding passwords
• Opening password-protected files
• Certifying PDF files

13. Creating Multimedia Presentations

• Adding interactive animations
• Adding Show/Hide fields
• Controlling movie clips with buttons
• Adding sound files and adding multiple actions to one button
• Creating full screen presentations with transitions

14. Using the Engineering and Technical Features

• Merging documents
• Using the Pan & Zoom tool
• Working with layers
• Using measuring tools
• Using Loupe and Cloud Annotation tools
• Preparing engineering documents for distribution
• Permanently removing text from PDF documents

15. Using the Legal Features

• Working with Bates numbering and redaction
• Creating PDF packages
• Applying security

16. Working with Forms in Acrobat

• Converting paper forms to interactive PDF forms
• Adding Text fields, check boxes, and buttons
• Distributing, tracking and managing forms
• Calculating and validating numeric fields

17. Creating Forms with Adobe LiveCycle Designer

• Building new forms
• Adding text, graphics, and banners
• Grouping objects
• Adding content form fields, radio buttons, and check boxes
• Adding shapes, drop-down lists, and current date
• Previewing , exporting, and distributing forms

18. Using Acrobat in Professional Publishing

• Preflighting files
• Printing and layers
• Working with transparency
• Advanced printing controls
• Setting up color management
• The Acrobat prepress features

19. Making Documents Accessible and Flexible

• About flexibility
• About Accessibility
• About structure

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Adobe Photoshop CS3

Course Content

1. Getting to Know the Work Area

• Using the Photoshop Tools
• Using the tool options bar and other palettes
• Customizing the workspace
• Using Adobe Online Services

2. Basic Photo Corrections

• Strategy for Photo Retouching
• Resolution and Image Size
• Straightening and cropping an image
• Making automatic adjustments
• Manually adjusting the tonal range
• Replacing colors in an image
• Using the Dodge tool and the Sponge tool
• Applying the Unsharp Mask filter
• Saving the image for four-color printing

3. Retouching and Repairing

• Repairing areas with the Clone Stamp tool
• Using the Spot Healing Brush tool
• Using the Healing Brush and Patch tools
• Retouching on a separate layer

4. Working with Selections

• Using the Magic Wand and other selection tools
• Working with oval and circular selections
• Selecting with the lasso tools
• Rotating a selection
• Cropping an image and erasing within a selection
• Making a quick selection

5. Layer Basics

• Using the Layers palette
• Rearranging layers
• Applying a layer style
• Flattening and saving files

6. Masks and Channels

• Working with masks and channels
• Creating and editing a quick mask
• Saving a selection as a mask
• Adjusting individual channels
• Loading a mask as a selection
• Applying filters to a mask
• Applying effects using a gradient mask
• Resizing the canvas
• Extracting the paper texture
• Moving layers between documents
• Colorizing with an adjustment layer
• Grouping and clipping layers
• Applying a mask from a saved selection
• Using type as a mask

7. Connecting and Enhancing Digital Photographs

• About camera raw files
• Correcting digital photographs
• Editing images with vanishing-point perspective
• Correcting image distortion
• Creating a PDF portfolio

8. Typographic Design

• Creating a clipping mask from type
• Creating a design element from type
• Using interactive formatting controls
• Warping point type
• Designing a paragraph of type
• Warping a layer

9. Vector Drawing Techniques

• About bitmap images and vector graphics
• About paths and the Pen tool
• Using paths with artwork
• Creating vector objects for the background
• Working with defined custom shapes
• Importing a Smart Object

10. Advanced Layering

• Clipping a layer to a shape
• Setting up a Vanishing Point grid
• Creating your own keyboard shortcuts
• Placing imported artwork
• Filtering Smart Objects
• Adding a layer style
• Placing the side panel artwork
• Adding more artwork in perspective
• Adding an adjustment layer
• Working with layer comps
• Managing layers
• Flattening a layered image
• Merging layers and layer groups
• Stamping layers

11. Advanced Compositing

• Automating a multi-step task
• Applying Smart Filters
• Setting up a four-image montage
• Hand-coloring selections on a layer
• Changing the color balance
• Applying filters
• Moving a selection
• Creating a cutout effect
• Matching color schemes across images

12. Preparing Files for the Web

• Setting up a Web Design workspace
• Creating slices
• Adding animation
• Animating a layer style
• Exporting HTML and images
• Adding interactivity

13. Working with Scientific Images

• Viewing and editing files in Adobe Bridge
• Brightening and booting color in an image
• Creating a map border and work area
• Making a custom border
• Measuring objects and data
• Exporting measurements
• Creating a cross section
• Measuring in perspective using the Vanishing Point filter
• Adding a legend
• Creating a slide show

14. Producing and Printing Consistent Color

• Reproducing colors
• Specifying color-management settings
• Proofing an image
• Identifying out-of-gamut colors
• Adjusting an image and printing a proof
• Saving the image as a separation
• Printing

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Adobe Illustrator CS3

Course Outline

1. Getting to Know the Work Area

• Using the Illustrator tools
• Working with panels
• Using view commands
• Using the navigator panel

2. Selecting and Aligning

• Using the Selection Tools
• Working with the Magic Wand
• Grouping Items
• Aligning Objects
• Applying techniques

3. Creating Basic Shapes

• Using the basic shape tools
• Using Live Trace to create shapes
• Drawing polygons, spirals, and stars

4. Transforming Objects

• Scaling objects
• Reflecting, distorting, shearing objects
• Positioning objects precisely
• Changing perspective
• Multiple transformations

5. Working with the Pen Tool

• Creating straight lines
• Building a curve
• Curves and corner anchor points
• Selecting and manipulating curves

6. Color and Painting

• Using the Appearance panel
• Building and saving your own custom
• Using illustrator swatch libraries
• Creating a spot color
• Creating color groups
• Editing color with Live color
• Assign colors to your artwork
• Using patterns
• Applying Live Paint
• Create a PDF from your artwork

7. Working with Type

• Importing a text file
• Creating columns of text
• Understanding text flow and working with overflow text
• Threading text
• Working with font size and color
• Paragraph attributes
• Saving and using styles
• Creating Character styles
• Sampling text
• Creating text on paths and shapes
• Creating text outlines

8. Working with Layers

• Creating, moving, locking, pasting layers
• Creating clipping masks
• Merging layers
• Applying appearance attributes to layers

9. Blending Shapes and Colors

• Creating a gradient fill
• Adjusting the direction of a gradient
• Adding colors to a gradient
• Creating smooth-color blends
• Changing and combining blends with gradients

10. Working with Symbol

• Using illustrator Symbol Libraries
• Creating and Editing Symbols
• Applying a symbol instance
• Using the symbolism tools
• Updating a symbol
• Breaking a link to a symbol
• Mapping a symbol to 3D artwork

11. Overview of Printing and Color Separations

• Halftone screens
• Output device resolution
• The RGB color model
• The CMYK color model
• Spot colors
• Synchronizing color using Adobe Bridge
• Specifying the bleed area
• Saving in the EPS format
• Exporting and importing flattening settings
• Saving as Adobe PDF

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