Course Content
Design Fundamentals
1 Day
Defining principles of design
Elements of design
The design picture
Commercial and desktop printing
Finishing and distribution Distributed Applications
Monitoring Non-Microsoft Platform
Complex Environments
Backup and Recovery
Adobe Acrobat Professional
4 Days
Why Acrobat?
Getting to Know the Acrobat Workspace
Creating PDFs
Creating PDF Portfolios and Combined PDFs
Collaborating
Editing PDFs
Adding PDF password protection
Creating Acrobat Forms
Adobe Dreamweaver
4 Days
Setting up Dreamweaver
Planning a website
Creating your first website
Fonts and Text on the web
Images, Rollovers and Hotspots
Introduction to CSS
Working with CSS
Designing accessible tables
Writing HTMS & CSS
Adding Interactivity
Using Templates
Testing and publishing a website
Adobe Flash
4 Days
Flash Workspace
Drawing tools
Layers
Symbols
Timeline
Object Based Tweening
Motion editor, presets and tween
Shape tween
Library
Filters
Buttons
Flash and Dreamweaver
Behaviors
ActionScript
Nested Timelines
Tweening Text
Dynamic and Input Text
Import Bitmaps, Sound and Video Clips
Optimize
Publish Settings
Adobe Illustrator
4 Days
Working with multiple artboards
Creating and manipulating area type frames
Creating type on a path
Advanced character and paragraph formatting
Saving and applying character and paragraph formatting as a style
Creating outlines from text
Working with the perspective grid
Creating and transforming perspective objects
Creating and working with brushes (Calligraphic, Art, Bristle, Pattern)
Using the Blob Brush tool
Using the Symbolism tools
Creating and working with symbols
Using Illustrator with other Adobe applications (Photoshop, InDesign, Flash)
Adobe Photoshop
4 Days
Using the Workspace
Working with Panels and Menus
Working with Adobe Bridge
Applying Basic Filters
Understanding Image Size and Resolution
Cropping and Adding Canvas Size
Creating Basic Selections
Transforming Objects
Understanding Layer Basics
Managing Layers
Working with Opacity and Blending Modes
Applying Layer Effects and Styles
Creating Type
Formatting Characters
Scaling and Rotating Type
Saving and Exporting Files