Adobe Suite Masterclass

You will learn how to:

• Navigate around the products' environments
• Understand resolution and colour modes
• Use Photoshop to prepare images, including working with selections, layers and retouching of images
• Use Illustrator to create vector artwork, including working with and formatting paths
• Use InDesign to create publications, including working with text, styles and graphical objects
• Output content from all three products in formats best suited for their intended audiences

Course Outline:

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 Marquee tools
• 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
• Creating a new document
• 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
• Modifying paths

Module 14 - Working with text

• The Type Tool
• 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

• Creating a new document
• The newly-created page
• Guides
• Working with frames

Module 18 - Working with type

• The Type Tool
• 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

Certification/Exams
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