Adobe Suite Masterclass

This will provide delegates with most skills required to sit the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) exams in the respective applications, and will serve as a good grounding for those who wish to work towards the Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) exams

• The course will be taught using the Adobe Creative Suite (CS6), but is suitable for those using CS5, CS6 or Creative Cloud.

Module 1 - Introducing the Suite

• The applications and interfaces

• Zooming and navigating

• Introducing image types and resolution

• Adobe Photoshop

Module 2 - Introducing Photoshop

• Creating a new document

• Image resolution

• Rotating and cropping images

Module 3 - Selections

• The Lasso tools

• The Quick Selection tools

• Color Range

• Refining a selection

• Saving and loading selections

Module 4 - Introducing layers

• Combining images using layers

• Creating and managing layers

• The Eraser tools

• Transforming layers

• Common adjustments

Module 5 - Taking layers further

• Layer styles

• Blending modes

• Working with Adjustment layers

• The Type Tool

Module 6 - Retouching tools

• The Spot Healing Brush Tool

• The Patch Tool

• Content-Aware Fill

• Content-Aware Move

Module 7 - Working with History

• History basics

• Configuring History

• The History panel

• The History Brush

Module 8 - Filters

• The Filter Gallery

• Gaussian Blur

• Sharpening

Module 9 - Outputting from Photoshop

• Colour modes

• Exporting other file types

• Adobe Illustrator

Module 10 - Introducing Illustrator

• Vector graphics versus raster graphics

• Managing artboards

Module 11 - Basic shapes

• Illustrator terminology

• Drawing simple lines and shapes

• Modifying paths

Module 12 - Formatting paths

• Working with colour

• Fill

• Stroke

Module 13 - The Pen Tool

• Creating simple line paths

• Creating curved paths

• Combining straight and curved paths

Module 14 - Working with text

• Formatting type

• The Area Type Tool

• The Type on a Path Tool

Module 15 - Using layers

• Working with layers

• Managing layers

Module 16 - Outputting from Illustrator

• Outputting from Illustrator

• Adobe Swatch Exchange

• Exporting artwork from Illustrator

• Adobe InDesign

Module 17 - Introducing InDesign

• The newly-created page

• Guides

• Working with frames

Module 18 - Working with type

• Importing text

• Linking text frames

• Character formatting

• Common paragraph formats

• Using Notes

• Creating simple tables

• Other useful text options

• Special characters and symbols

Module 19 - Working with styles

• An introduction to styles

• The styles panels

• Creating styles

• Applying styles

• Editing and managing styles

• Overrides

Module 20 - Working with graphics

• Importing images

• Scaling and moving

• Text wrapping options

Module 21 - Working with multiple frames

• Grouping, aligning and distributing objects

• Stacking objects

• Converting shapes

• Transforming objects

• Layers

Module 22 - Working with colour

• Working with colours

• Creating tints and gradients

Module 23 - Preparing a document for output

• Resolving errors in a document

• Printing a document

• Exporting files for printing

• Packaging a document

• Exporting a file in another format