Duration
5 days
Lesson 1 - Taking Advantage of Adobe Bridge
- What is Adobe Bridge?
- Navigating through Bridge
- Using folders in Adobe Bridge
- Making a Favorite
- Creating and locating metadata
- Using keywords
- Creating a Metadata Template
- Opening a file from Adobe Bridge
- Searching for Files from Adobe Bridge
- Searching by name or keyword
- Using the Filter Panel
- Saving a collection
- Automation tools in Adobe Bridge
- Batch renaming your files
- Saving or uploading your Web Gallery
Lesson 2 - Photoshop - Exploring Photoshop
- Taking a look at the final project
- Experimenting with new Vector capabilities
- Filling a vector shape with a pattern
- Adding a mask to a Vector layer
- Using the new brush tips
- Saving the new Brush
- Adding strokes to vector images
- Cloning your new snowflake
- Adding text layers from another document
- Updating text styles
- Cropping an image
- Exporting to PDF
Lesson 3 - Photoshop - Getting to Know the Workspace
- Opening an existing document in Mini Bridge
- Discovering the Tools panel
- Selection, Cropping and Measuring Tools
- Retouching and Painting Tools
- Drawing and Type Tools
- Navigation Tools
- Accessing tools and their options
- Using Panels
- Putting the panel system to use
- Choosing other panels
- Expanding and collapsing your panels
- Customizing your panels
- Hidden Tools
- Navigating the image area
- Using the Zoom and Hand Tools
- Tabbed Windows
- Maximizing productivity with screen modes
Lesson 4 - Photoshop Basics
- Opening an existing document
- Understanding document settings
- Viewing an image’s size and resolution
- Combining the images
- Using Copy and Paste
- Dragging and Dropping to copy an image
- Transforming and editing combined images
- Changing the size of a placed image
- Removing a background
- Understanding the stacking order of layers
- Refining the edges of copied images
- Adding text
- Saving files
- Understanding file formats
- Choosing a file format
- Saving a jpeg file
- Saving for print
- Changing the color settings
- Adjusting image size
- Saving a Photoshop PDF file
Lesson 5 - Photoshop - Making the Best Selections
- Using the Marquee tools
- Creating a square selection
- Creating a Selection from a center point
- Changing a selection into a layer
- Working with the Magic Wand
- The Lasso Tool
- Adding Pages
- Adding to and subtracting from selections
- Feathering the selection
- Using the Quick Selection tool
- Making difficult selections with the Refine Edge tool
- Using Quick Mask
- Saving selections
- Copying and Pasting a selection
- Using the Pen Tool for selections
Lesson 6 - Photoshop - Painting and Retouching
- Setting up your color settings
- Color primer
- Understanding color gamut
- The RGB color model
- The CMYK color model
- Working in the RGB mode
- Selecting colors
- Starting to Paint
- Using the Color panel
- Using the Brush Tool
- Using the Airbrush feature
- Creating a border using the Bristle brushes
- Applying color to an image
- Changing blending modes
- The Eyedropper tool
- Retouching images
- Using the clone stamp tool
- Repairing Fold Lines
- The History Panel
- The Spot Healing Brush
- The Healing Brush
- Using the Patch tool
- Using the Clone Source Panel
Lesson 7 - Photoshop - Creating a Good Image
- Why you should work in RGB
- Reading a histogram
- Making the Curve Adjustment
- Defining the Highlight and the Shadow
- Locating the White and Black Point
- Inputting the white and black point values
- Adjusting the midtones
- Setting the neutral
- Sharpening your image
- Comparing your image to the original
- Taking care of red eye
- Using the Camera Raw plug- in
- Saving a DNG file
Lesson 8 - Illustrator - Illustrator Essentials
- Using the Shape Tools
- Repositioning and visually resizing the rectangle
- Finding or changing the shape’s dimensions using the Transform panel
- Constraining a shape
- Entering exact dimensions
- Selecting artwork
- Helpful keyboard shortcuts for selections
- The selections tools
- Using shape and transform tools to create artwork
- Adding a fill color
- Entering a shape size in the Transform panel
- Viewing in Outline view
- Rotating the shape
- Changing the color of the triangles
- Using layers when building an illustration
- Creating a new blank layer
- Cutting and pasting objects
- Creating Bubbles
- Cloning the Bubble Group
- Repeating a resize transform
- Moving objects from one layer to another
Lesson 9 - Illustrator - Adding Color
- Basics of the Appearance panel
- Changing colors
- Adding Effects
- Creating a Colorful illustration
- Locating the White and Black Point
- Using Live Paint
- Converting the artwork to a Live Paint group
- Adding a symbol to your artwork
- Expanding the symbol
- Saving Swatches
- What is a global color?
- Selecting the Same color
- Saving a set of colors as a group
- Creating a color group from selected colors
- Using the Color Panel
- Adding Pantone (Spot) Colors
Lesson 10 - Illustrator - Working with the Drawing Tools
- Working with the Pen tool
- Drawing straight lines and curved lines
- Drawing hinged curves
- Drawing curved lines to straight lines
- Drawing straight lines to curved lines
- Inputting the white and black point values
- Manually tracing images
- Placing an image as a template
- Using the Line Segment & Arc Tools
- Using the Pencil, Smooth, and Path eraser tools
- Using the Eraser tool
- Editing existing paths
- Adding and removing points
- Refining a curve
- Cutting and joining paths
- Combining shapes using the Shape Builder tool
- Subtracting with the Shape Builder tool
- Creating the fish eyes
Lesson 11 - InDesign - InDesign Essential Skills
- InDesign Tools
- The InDesign Workspace
- The document window
- Using Guides
- Viewing modes
- Working with panels
- The Tools Panel
- Managing Panelsl
- Saving your workspace
- Working with the control panel
- Navigating through an InDesign document
- Using the Pages panel
- Changing the magnification of your document
- Working with type
- Entering, formatting, and placing type
- Flowing type
- Using styles
- Applying paragraph & character styles
- Apply styles across a story using Find/Change
- Applying object styles
- Working with and placing graphics
- Positioning graphics within a frame
- Applying text wrap
- Understanding layers
- Applying effects
Lesson 12 - InDesign - Building Documents with Master Pages
- Planning your document
- Creating custom page sizes
- Creating a new custom-sized document
- Creating & formatting master pages
- Adding automatic page numbers
- Inputting the white and black point values
- Using Text variables
- Basing master pages on other master pages
- Overriding master page items
- Adding layout pages
- Placing formatted text
- Creating the classified page
- Adding images and text to the master frames
- Applying master pages to multiple pages
Lesson 13 - InDesign - Working with Text and Type
- Adding text to your document
- Creating a text frame
- Changing character attributes
- Changing font and type styles
- Adjusting size and line spacing
- Adjusting character spacing
- Using a baseline shift
- Changing paragraoh attributes
- Horizontally aligning text
- Changing the space before and after paragraphs
- Using tabs
- Adding rules above or below paragraphs
- Changing text color
- Creating drop caps
- Finding and changing text and text attributes
- Finding and changing text using GREP
- Checking and correcting spelling
- Adding words to the dictionary
- Editing text using the Story Editor
- Using Track Changes
- Drag and Drop text editing
- Special characters and glyphs
- Using the Glyphs panel and glyph sets
- Text frame options
- Adjusting text inset
- Vertically aligning text
- Importing text
- Flowing text manually
- Threading text between frames
- Using semi-autoflow to link several text frames
- Changing the number of columns in a text frame
- Baseline grid
- Viewing and changing the baseline grid
- Adding story jumps
- Using styles to format text
- Creating a headline and applying a style
- Importing styles from other documents
- Redefining styles
- Placing text on a path
- Importing text from Microsoft Word
- Finding and fixing missing fonts
Lesson 14 - InDesign - Working with Styles
- Style Types
- Paragraph styles
- Defining and Applying paragraph styles
- Character styles
- Defining and Applying Character styles
- Using nested styles
- Updating styles
- Loading styles from another InDesign document
- Quick Apply
- Organizing styles into groups
- Object styles
- Creating, Applying, and Changing object styles
- GREP Styles
Lesson 15 - InDesign - Working with Graphics
- Understanding how InDesign handles graphics
- Locating missing images
- Working with the Links panel and the Link badge
- Customizing the Links panel
- Adding graphics to your layout
- Fitting an image within an existing frame
- Auto Fitting
- Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics
- Using object styles for images
- Wrapping text around images
- Using graphics with clipping paths and alpha channels
- Removing an image background
- Using anchored objects
- Advanced importing
- Importing layered Photoshop files
- Importing InDesign layouts as graphics
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