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Course Outline

Photoshop - Exploring Photoshop
Creating Documents
Colour Theory
Brushes
Layers
Adjustment tools
Adjustment commands
Selections

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Overview of Creative Cloud Introduction

This Adobe certified course is aimed at designers who want an overview of the key applications in the Adobe Creative Cloud toolset. The course provides hands on experience of the most useful features that designers use on a day-to-day basis, with an overview of Photoshop CC, InDesign CC and Illustrator CC. Attend this course, get inspiration for new projects and increase your productivity! All our Adobe Creative Cloud courses are taught by industry professionals who are also Adobe Certified Professional trainers. They will share years of their industry experience with you, imparting best practice techniques as well mastery of the tools.

Course Outline for the Creative Cloud Introduction Training Course

Photoshop - Exploring Photoshop

The panels
The tools
Preferences

Creating Documents

Settings
Resolution
Colour modes
Web vs. Print
Mobile/tablet settings
Presets

Colour Theory

RGB
CMYK
Printing colour
Web colour

Brushes

Size
Shape
Options
Custom brushes

Layers

Creating
Organising
Using
Blending modes

Adjustment tools

Dodge tool
Burn tool
Sponge tool
Blur tool
Sharpen tool
Smudge tool

Adjustment commands

Brightness and Contrast
Levels
Curves
Others
Adjustment layers
Auto adjustments

Selections

Selection tools
Making selections
Adjusting your selections
Saving your selections
Channels

Cropping

Cropping images
Cropping options
Perspective cropping

Layer Masks

Making layer masks
Editing layer masks
Using layer masks

Cloning and Repairing

The clone tool
The Healing brush tool
The Spot healing brush tool
The patch tool
Content aware options
Content aware Move
Content aware patch

Text

Adding text
Formatting text

Shapes

Vector layers
Shapes
Custom shapes

Effects

Layer effects
Effect options

InDesign - Introduction to InDesign

What is Desktop Publishing?
Why InDesign?
What you will learn

InDesign Interface

Overview of the interface
Creating customised Workspaces
Organising Panels
Customising Menus
Changing Default Settings

Document Creation

Creating a New Document
Bleed, Slug and Margins
Facing Pages
Columns and Gutter

Frames and Shapes

What are frames?
Creating frames
Moving frames
Aligning frames
Sizing and positioning
Rounded corners
Anchoring frames
Rotating and skewing
Creating frames from text

Working with Text

Creating text frames
Using placeholder text
Inserting special characters
Glyphs
Threading text frames
Viewing threads
The Story Editor
Text frame options, inset spacing etc.
Hyphenation
Importing from Word

Formatting Text

Using Leading
Kerning & tracking
Drop caps
Baseline shift
Justification & Alignment
Uppercase, lowercase, sentence case & title case
Indents
Bullets
Formatting Bullets

Working with Objects

Grouping and ungrouping
Change object shape
Rotating a spread
Arranging objects
Layers Panel

Images

Using mini bridge
Different file formats
Placing images
Frame fitting options
Text wrap options
Resizing and positioning images
Select v direct select
Content Grabber (and how to turn it off)
Display performance
Clipping paths

Layout

Creating layouts
Guides and smart guides
The gap tool
Liquid Layout
Alternate Layout
Using the page tool
Live distribute
Merging frames
Compound shapes

Masters and Pages

Working with masters
Creating masters
Importing masters
Applying masters
Master options
Page numbering
Numbering and sections
Text threads in masters

Colours

Understanding Colours: CMYK, RGB, Pantone etc.
Creating colours
Saving colours as swatches
Sampling colours from images
Exporting and importing colours
Applying colours to strokes and fills
Creating gradients
Saving gradients as swatches
Applying gradients to items

Gradient Feather

When to use
Linear v. radial
Angle and location

Tables

Creating a new table
Convert text to table
Strokes and fills
Alternating row and column strokes
Adding rows and columns
Deleting rows and columns
Merge and unmerge

Other Effects

When to use
Drop and Inner Shadow
Inner and Outer Glow
Bevel and Emboss
Satin
Transparency

Basic Styles

Character styles
Paragraph styles
Style Priority
Creating styles
Applying and removing styles
Overrides
Redefining styles
Importing Styles
Removing unused styles
Nested Styles

Pre-flighting

Why use pre-flighting?
Detecting errors
Identify and correct errors
Custom profiles

Output

Packaging all files
PDF Presets (print ready, small size etc.)
Including printers marks / bleed
Compression
Export to interactive PDF
Page transitions (eg. fade, blind, etc.)

Illustrator - Illustrator overview

What are vectors?
What are Bézier curves?
The pen tools

Creating shapes

The pen tool
Primitive shapes
Adding/deleting anchor points
Creating Bézier curves
Combining shapes
Creating outlines from text
The shape builder tool
The blend tool

Editing shapes

Adjusting existing shapes
Cutting paths
Combining paths and shapes
Erasing paths and shapes

Organising your work

Artboards
Custom artboards
Layers
Sub-layers
Layer properties
Templates
Group Isolation mode

Colour

Choosing a colour
Using swatches
Saving your swatches
Spot colours
Process colours
Global colours

Stroke and fill

Creating strokes
Creating fill
Applying colour to strokes and fills

Transforming shapes

Duplicating
Moving, rotating
Reflecting, Shearing
Scaling
Step and repeat
Transform again

Effects

3D
Stylize
Distort and Transform
Warp
Organising your effects

Text

Adding text
Text within a shape
Text on a shape
Controlling text
Creating outlines from text

Saving and Exporting

Saving options
Exporting options
Exporting to PDF
Other export formats
Using Illustrator with other applications

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Useful Links

Adobe product page – Get to know the family of creative apps for everything from photo to video to design and beyond
Download page – Access everything Creative Cloud has to offer, right from your desktop
Wikipedia page for Creative Cloud – History and capabilities of Creative Cloud
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