Adobe CS5 Design Training
Adobe CS5 Design & Publishing Boot Camp
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Adobe InDesign CS5
Course Outline
1. Getting to Know the Work Area
- Working with panels
- Customizing the workspace
- Using context menus
- Resources for using InDesign
- Preflighting as your work
- Viewing guides
- Adding text
- Working with styles, objects, and graphics
2. Setting Up Your Document
- Creating and saving custom document settings
- Switching between open InDesign documents
- Working with master pages
- Adding sections to change page numbering
- Placing text and graphics on the document pages
- Overriding master page items on the document pages
- Adding, arranging, deleting pages from master
- Viewing the completed spread
3. Working with Objects
- Working with layers
- Creating and editing text and graphic frames
- Adding metadata captions to graphics frames
- Changing the shape of a frame
- Wrapping text around a graphic
- Modifying the shape of a frame
- Aligning objects
- Selecting and modifying grouped objects
4. Flowing Text
- Flowing text into an existing frame
- Flowing text manually
- Creating text frames while flowing text
- Flowing text automatically
- Creating threaded frames automatically
- Adding a jump line page number
5. Editing Text
- Finding and changing a missing font
- Entering and importing text
- Finding and changing text and formatting
- Editing text by drag and drop
- Using the story editor
- Tracking changes
6. Working with Typography
- Adjusting vertical spacing
- Changing fonts and type style
- Fine-tuning Columns
- Changing paragraph alignment
- Creating a drop cap
- Adjusting letter and word spacing
- Setting tabs
- Adding a rule above a paragraph
7. Working with Color
- Creating and applying colors
- Working with gradients
- Creating a tint and a spot color
- Applying colors to text and objects
- Using advanced gradient techniques
8. Working with Styles
- Creating and applying paragraph style
- Working with character styles
- Nesting character styles inside paragraph styles
- Creating and applying object styles
- Creating and applying table and cell styles
- Globally updating styles
- Loading styles from another document
9. Importing and Modifying Graphics
- Adding graphics from other programs
- Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
- Managing links to imported files
- Adjusting display quality
- Working with clipping paths and alpha channels
- Importing native Adobe graphics files
- Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics
10. Creating Tables
- Converting text to a table
- Formatting a table
- Creating a header row
- Adding graphics to table cells
- Creating and applying table and cell styles
11. Working with Transparency
- Importing and colorizing a grayscale image
- Applying transparency settings
- Working with effects
- Applying transparency settings to text
12. Output and Exporting
- Using Preflight
- Using Package
- Creating an Adobe PDF proof
- Separation and transparency previews
13. Creating Rich Interactive Documents
- Setting up an online document
- Adding buttons, page transitions, and hyperlinks
- Exporting as Adobe PDF
- Converting a print document for online use
- Adding advanced interactivity, animation, and video
14. Working with Long Documents
- Crating a book file
- Working with a table of contents
- Setting up indexing
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Adobe Photoshop CS5
Course Outline
1. Getting to Know the Work Area
- Using the Photoshop Tools
- Using the options bar and other panels
- Customizing the workspace
- Finding resources for using Photoshop
- Tools panel overview
2. Basic Photo Corrections
- Strategy for Photo Retouching
- Resolution and Image Size
- Straightening and cropping an image
- Making automatic adjustments
- Using the Sponge Tool and Clone Stamp tool
- Using the Spot Healing Brush tool
- Using content-aware fill
- Applying the Unsharp Mask filter
- Saving the image for four-color printing
3. Working with Selections
- Using the Quick Selection tool
- Manipulating selections
- Using the Magic Wand and other selection tools
- Selecting with the lasso tools
- Rotating a selection
- Cropping an image and erasing within a selection
- Refining the edge of a selection
4. Layer Basics
- Using the Layers panel
- Rearranging layers
- Applying a gradient to a layer
- Flattening and saving files
5. Correcting and Enhancing Digital Photographs
- About camera raw files
- Processing files in Camera Raw
- Merging exposures and applying advanced color
- Correcting digital photographs
- Correcting image distortion
- Adding depth of field
6. Masks and Channels
- Working with masks and channels
- Creating and editing a quick mask
- Saving a selection as a mask
- Manipulating an image with Puppet Warp
- Working with channels
7. Typographic Design
- About type
- Creating a clipping mask from type
- Creating type on a path
- Warping point type
- Designing paragraphs of type
8. 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
9. Advanced Layering
- Clipping a layer to a shape
- Setting up a Vanishing Point grid
- Creating your own keyboard shortcuts
- Placing imported artwork
- Adding artwork in perspective
- 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
10. Advanced Compositing
- Assembling a montage of images
- Applying Filters
- Hand-coloring selections on a layer
- Applying Smart Filters
- Adding drop shadows and a border
- Matching color schemes across images
- Automating a multistep task
- Stitching a panorama
11. Painting with the Mixer Brush
- About the Mixer Brush
- Selecting brush settings
- Mixing colors
- Creating a custom brush preset
- Mixing colors with a photograph
12. Working with 3D Images
- Creating a 3D shape from a layer
- Manipulating 3D objects
- Using the 3D panel to adjust lighting
- Merging two-dimensional layers onto 3D layers
- Importing 3D files
- Merging 3D layers to share the same 3D space
- Adding a spot light
- Painting on a 3D object & 3D postcard
13. Preparing Files for the Web
- Selecting a web design workspace
- Creating slices
- Exporting HTML and images
- Using the Zoomify feature
- Creating a web gallery
14. Producing and Printing Consistent Color
- About color management
- Specifying color-management settings
- Proofing an image
- Identifying out-of-gamut colors
- Adjusting an image and printing a proof
- Saving the image
- Printing
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Adobe Illustrator CS5
Course Outline
1. Getting to Know the Work Area
- Using the Illustrator tools
- Working with panels
- Using panel menus
- Using the zoom tool
- Using view commands
- Using the Navigator Panel
- Understanding rulers
- Arranging multiple documents
- The Search of Help Box
2. Selecting and Aligning
- Using the Selection Tools
- Working with the Magic Wand
- Selecting similar objects
- Aligning objects
- Aligning points
- Distributing objects
- Aligning to the artboard
- Working with groups
- Working in isolation mode
- Adding a group
- Object arrangement
- Applying techniques
3. Creating Basic Shapes
- Using the basic shape tools
- Understanding drawing modes
- Creating rectangles
- Creating ellipses and polygons
- Draw inside mode
- Changing stroke width and alignment
- Working with line segments
- Joining paths
- Using the eraser tool
- Using the width tool
- Outlining strokes
- Combining and editing shapes
- Working with the Shape Builder tool
- Working with Pathfinder effects
- Working with shape modes
- Using Live Trace to create shapes
4. Transforming Objects
- Working with Artboards
- Editing, renaming, and reordering Artboards
- Transforming content
- Working with rulers and guides
- Scaling objects
- Reflecting, rotating, distorting, and 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
- Editing curves
- Deleting and adding anchor points
- Convert between smooth and corner points
- Drawing and editing with the pencil tool
6. Color and Painting
- Color modes
- Understanding the color controls
- Creating color
- Build and save a custom color
- Swatch libraries
- Spot Color and Color Picker
- Creating and saving a tint of a color
- Copying attributes
- Creating and editing color groups
- Working with the Kuler panel
- Assigning colors to your artwork
- Adjusting colors
- Painting with patterns and gradients
- Applying existing patterns
- Editing a pattern
- Working with and editing Live Paint
- Working with Gap Options
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
- Isolating layers
9. Working with Perspective Drawing
- Understanding perspective
- Working with the perspective grid
- Using a preset grid
- Drawing objects in perspective
- Selecting and transforming objects in perspective
- Attaching objects to perspective
- Editing planes and objects together
- Adding and editing text and symbols in perspective
- Release content from perspective
10. Blending Shapes and Colors
- Creating a gradient fill
- Creating and applying a linear gradient
- Adjusting the direction of a gradient
- Creating a radical gradient
- Adding colors to a gradient
- Applying gradient to multiple objects
- Adding transparency to gradients
- Creating a blend with specified steps
- Creating smooth-color blends
11. Working with Brushes
- Using Calligraphic brushes
- Editing a brush
- Using a fill color with brushes
- Remove a brush stroke
- Using art brushes
- Drawing with the paintbrush tool
- Create and edit an Art brush
- Bristol brush options
- Creating and applying a pattern brush
- Changing the brush color options
- The Blob Brush tool
- Painting with a Bristle brush
- Editing the Eraser tool
12. Applying Effects
- Using live effects
- Applying and editing an effect
- Styling text with effects
- Editing shapes with a Pathfinder effect
- Offsetting paths
- Applying a PhotoShop effect
- Working with a 3D effect
- Creating a revolved object
- Changing the lighting of a 3D object
- Mapping a symbol to the 3D artwork
13. Applying Appearance Attributes and Graphic Styles
- Editing and adding appearance attributes
- Reordering appearance attributes
- Adding an additional stroke and fill
- Using graphic styles
- Creating and saving a graphic style
- Applying a graphics style to an object and to a layer
- Applying existing graphic styles
- Applying an appearance to a layer
- Copying, applying, and removing graphic styles
14. Working with symbols
- Using existing Illustrator symbol libraries
- Creating and editing a symbol
- Breaking a link to a symbol
- Replacing and renaming symbols
- Working with the Symbolism tools
- Copy and edit symbol sets
- Storing and retrieving artwork in the Symbols panel
- Mapping a symbol to 3D artwork
- Symbols and Flash integration
15. Working with Adobe Bridge
- Combining artwork
- Vector versus bitmap graphic
- Placing Photoshop files
- Duplicating and editing a placed image
- Applying colors to a place image
- Masking an image
- Applying a clipping mask to an image
- Editing a mask
- Masking an object with multiple shapes
- Release a mask
- Creating an opacity mask
- Sampling colors in placed images
- Replacing a placed, linked image
- Exporting a layered file to PhotoShop
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Adobe Acrobat 9
Course Outline
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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