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Photoshop Training Topics include:

Create a custom workspace and use Bridge's filtering and automation capabilities to import your JPEG photographs and organize them. Use menu customization and custom keyboard shortcuts to simplify using the program. Control both the size and resolution of your images and change their composition for both printed and web  output. Fix perspective with the new lens correction filter and crop tool and straighten a crooked image. Learn which selection tool does the best job in different circumstances to make accurate and efficient selections of photographs. Use layers to composite (collage) different elements so that they and be moved and scaled independently. Add type and use styles (drop shadows, bevels) to enhance the appearance. Color adjustments to improve the overall appearance of any image and masks to fix localized areas. Salvage images where exposure went wrong. Use color correction creatively for highly stylized photos. Learn to use Photoshop's retouching tools to fix flaws in images and do portrait/beauty retouching.

Develop images with the Camera RAW interface - color balancing, sharpening, sensor dust removal, graduated filter, local adjustments, cropping, split toning, vignetting and other effects to make images look fantastic. Also learn how to process multiple images with the same exposure, save develop presets and save different versions (color, crop, etc.) within the RAW file. Take RAW images into Photoshop for further processing or output for print.

Use layers, masks, blending modes, tools and filters to combine different images. record Photoshop Actions to automate repetitive tasks. Using color profiles & sharpening images with Actions and Bridge to manage images to process with Actions. Learn to right techniques to capture images that will stitch together well and use Photomerge to create full panoramas from  multiple photographs.

 

 

Illustrator Training Topics include:

Work with color, gradients, patterns and color libraries. Create and edit gradients and apply color with gradient mesh.

Use layers and draw with the object and pen tools, manipulate and transform objects, and work with type, including type on a path, vertical type and converting type to outlines.

Master precise drawing techniques with the rotate, reflect, scale, scissors, join, pathfinder & tranform. Create more organic art using width, knife, eraser tools.

Use Appreance and Graphic Styles to simply the application of attributes to art. Use envelopes and warps, create new brushes and seamless pattern tiles and border tiles. Use masking and special effects. Apply and edit symbols, create 3D objects and text and apply artwork to surfaces.

Trace bitmap images into vector shapes with Live Trace and colorize them easily with Live Paint.

Recolorize art easily and store themed projects on multiple artboards within the same file.

 

 

InDesign Training Topics include:

Customize the application’s interface. Learn all the tools necessary to start building single and multiple page documents.

Create a document including graphics, threaded text, styles and master pages.

Use layers, create colors and access color libraries, export to PDF, and prepare documents for the service bureau. Develop custom preflight profiles for various output requirements.

Use advanced approaches to utilizing styles more efficiently - character, paragraph, nested and next style to facilitate complex formatting.

Generate tables of contents and cross references.

Use conditional text and GREP expressions.

Data Merge and scripts.

Creative effects and object styles.

Create and edit tables.

 

 

 

InCopy Training Topics include:

Understand the relationship of the InDesign and the InCopy users.

Determine the appropriate workflow for your organization: Layout Based or Assignment Based. Setting up user access on network server.

Program defaults and customize the interface. Use various doucment views.

Add and import text and grpahics. Format text and apply styles. Copyfit text.

Use inline notes & track changes. Spellcheck, use language dictionaries and thesaurus. Find/change, auto-correct and Text Macros.

 

 

 

 

Acrobat Training Topics include:

Navigating the Work Area & Arranging Panels.

Create, edit and combine PDFs and add navigation. Touch up text & images in PDF documents. Reuse text in word processing or layout

applications, spreadsheet information to Excel and extract images to use in other applications. Insert and change PDF pages.

Create PDF portfolios of PDF and non-PDF files.

Add and remove security, use eEnvelopes and redact text / remove sensitive information.

Reducing file size of PDF documents.

Attach files and add multi-media to PDFs.

Collaboration & Review - setting up an e-mail based or shared review, using the Commenting Tools, creating custom stamps, exporting, importing, summarizing & filtering comments. Comparing documents.

Seach PDFs and ORC text.

Creative fillable forms.

 

 

 

"Web Sites for Designers" Training Topics include:

Creating web sites without ANY coding and completely visually the way one would in a page layout program. The class covers using Adobe Illustrator to create a Site Map and mock -up the web site. Then using Photoshop to automate the process of resizing images for the web. Once all the assets are ready, using Adobe Muse to create an entire web site with navigation, roll-overs, pattern fills, slide shows, text wrap, anchors and more. Deploying the site will be shown using either Dreamweaver to FTP the site or Adobe's own hosting service.