Adobe Acrobat I Adobe Acrobat II Adobe After Effects I Adobe After Effects II Adobe Captivate 4 Adobe ColdFusion I Adobe ColdFusion II Adobe Creative Suite Bootcamp Adobe Dreamweaver I Adobe Dreamweaver II Adobe Dreamweaver III Adobe Dreamweaver with Advanced CSS Adobe Flash I Adobe Flash II (with ActionScript 3.0) Adobe Flash III Adobe FrameMaker I Adobe FrameMaker II Adobe Illustrator I Adobe Illustrator II Adobe Illustrator III Adobe InDesign I Adobe InDesign II Adobe InDesign III Adobe InDesign IV Adobe InDesign for Long Documents I Adobe InDesign for Long Documents II Adobe InDesign for Long Documents III Adobe InDesign with InCopy for Workgroups Adobe Lightroom Photo Workflow Adobe Photoshop I Adobe Photoshop II Adobe Photoshop III: Tips & Tricks Adobe Photoshop Channels and Masks Adobe Photoshop Digital Mastery I Adobe Photoshop Digital Mastery II Adobe Premiere I Adobe Premiere II Color Management for Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4) Color Management for Adobe Creative Suite 5 Layout Software Basics Migrating to Structured Authoring in Adobe Framemaker Professional Design Techniques with Adobe Creative Suite Typography and Font Management Web Design with Adobe Dreamweaver and Photoshop Web Graphics with Adobe Photoshop |
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Adobe Acrobat I |
Learn the skills you need to work efficiently with Adobe Acrobat 10 software (Standard or Professional), the essential tool for document exchange. The first session focuses on creating PDF documents and the second day concentrates on enhancing existing PDF files. Topics include: - Adobe Acrobat basics
- Getting to know the work area (navigation and magnification)
- Converting Microsoft Office files to Adobe PDF files
- Creating Adobe PDF files from Web pages
- Creating PDF portfolios
- Customizing Adobe output quality by manipulating Distiller settings
- Modifying and editing PDF files
- Using Acrobat in the document review cycle
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| Adobe Acrobat II |
This course is designed for people who know how to create PDF documents and are interested in Acrobat's more advanced features. Many of the features covered in this course require Acrobat 10 Professional. Topics include: - Making documents accessible and flexible
- Adding digital signatures and security settings
- Creating and modifying PDF forms
- Creating forms with Adobe LiveCycle Designer
- Designing multimedia presentations
- Using Acrobat's engineering and technical features
- Using Acrobat for professional publishing
Prerequisites: - Adobe Acrobat I or equivalent experience
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| Adobe After Effects I |
Adobe After Effects is the world’s most popular composition and effects program. It is used by most studios in the broadcast, commercial, and film industries. With it you can create digital composites and smooth 2-D animations, rendering movies, and create spectacular text/title effects and elaborate special effects. Its intuitive user interface provides exacting control and flexibility, along with the highest quality output, graphics, and post-production tools for producing on-air promos and bumpers, commercials and music videos, and output to film—all from the desktop. Topics also include: - Importing footage
- Building a composition
- Setting animation
- Working with layers
- Working with audio and text
- Rendering the movie
- Importing
- Compositions
- Interface
- Layers
- Keyframes
- Rotoscoping
- Text
- Effects
- Rendering
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| Adobe After Effects II |
In this course we will explore the more powerful features of After Effects and build on the foundation of After Effects I. We will focus on techniques that production professionals use. The emphasis of this class will be on the broadcast and video media, but the topics also relate to film and interactive multimedia markets. We’ll cover: - Working with Rotoscoping techniques
- Explore keying and mattes
- Motion matching and video stabilization
- 3-D layers, cameras, and lights
- Elaborate titling effects and filters
- Altering time and displacement
- 3-D layers, 3-D cameras, and 3-D lighting
- Track matting
- Keying
- Adjustment layers
- Graphs
- Expressions
- Particle generators
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| Adobe Captivate 4 |
Adobe Captivate is the easiest way to create professional-quality interactive simulations and software demonstrations without any programming or multimedia experience. You'll see how Captivate automatically records onscreen actions, including editable mouse movements, text captions, and scored click-boxes. The small file size and high resolution make Captivate content ideal for rapid application training, user support tutorials, and online product demonstrations. Topics include:- Caption and timelines
- Images
- Pointer paths and buttons
- Movies and animation
- Rollover captions and images
- Audio and highlight boxes
- Slide labels and notes
- Question slides
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| Adobe ColdFusion I |
For experienced Web developers. At the end of this class, you'll have built a database and created a ColdFusion site with elements that you can immediately apply to your own site. Topics include:- How to set up the ColdFusion development environment
- Introduction to ODBC-compliant databases and SQL
- Building dynamic queries
- Publishing dynamic data
- Adding a simple search function
- Creating interactive forms that add, update, and delete information from a database
- Generating order forms and automated e-mail responses
- ColdFusion event scheduling
Prerequisites: - (X)HTML and CSS I (formerly Web Page Development I)
- (X)HTML and CSS II (formerly Web Page Development II)
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| Adobe ColdFusion II |
Extend your knowledge of ColdFusion with more advanced ColdFusion Markup Language constructs. Learn ColdFusion programming techniques that enable you to:- Implement more complex programming concepts such as arrays and loops
- Deploy application-level security
- Read information from and write information to text files on your server
- Use the Verity search engine that comes bundled with ColdFusion
- Schedule templates to run on a recurring basis
- Perform multiple queries as a transaction
- Build intelligent "agents" for the Web
Prerequisites: - (X)HTML and CSS I (formerly Web Page Development I)
- (X)HTML and CSS II (formerly Web Page Development II)
- Adobe ColdFusion I
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Adobe Creative Suite Bootcamp |
You will learn in this class about the interoperability and productivity possible between Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat PDF. Working hands-on, you'll get answers to all your questions about Adobe workflow for print publishing. Topics include:- Organizing and using improved-performance Adobe Bridge CS4: dozens of tips and tricks
- Bridge Home, collections, review mode, grid lock, web galleries, contact sheets
- Setting up synchronized color management and swatches across applications
- Bridge plus Adobe Camera RAW 5.1 plus Photoshop to workflow the best color
- Adding metadata to your digital files; making and reviewing collections of files
- Photoshop adjustment panel, masks panel, rotate canvas, content-aware scaling
- Figuring correct resolution in Photoshop CS4; creating layer comps
- Using Photoshop's smart guides, smart objects, and non-destructive smart filters
- Vibrance adjustment layer; color range mask; on-image controls
- Auto blend and auto align to speed up collage techniques
- The quick selection tool is the magical magic wand
- Illustrator CS4 new features: blob tool, multiple artboards, gradient transparency,
- On-object editing, eraser, align anchors, etc.
- Tracing scanned artwork in Illustrator CS4 with LiveTrace and LivePaint,
- Exploring color with LiveColor and kuler.adobe.com
- Preparation of Illustrator CS4 files for InDesign CS4
- InDesign CS4 has improved links panel, live preflighting, and smart guides
- Styles, style mapping, scripts, GREP searches, and GREP styles for productivity
- Enhanced text handling features, view rotation, and other new features
- Export to an Adobe Flash publication online, complete with page transitions
- ConnectNow plus Acrobat.com for sharing files in an onscreen meeting
- New ways to zoom in and out of your artwork
- Exporting to PDF for web, digital printing, and commercial printing
- How to make a portfolio in Acrobat Professional 10
- Useful production tools including separations preview, fix-ups, and black and white conversion
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| Adobe Dreamweaver I |
Adobe Dreamweaver's powerful page-layout capabilities, site management tools, code control, and groundbreaking support for dynamic HTML make this package the program of choice for many Web page developers. In this class you will learn: - The Dreamweaver interface
- Creating HTML documents
- Adding content to Web pages
- Adding structure tags to content
- Using CSS to style content
- Working with links and anchor tags
- Rollovers and interactivity, including javascript rollovers
- Library items
- Creating forms
- File transfer and site management
Prerequisites: - (X)HTML and CSS I (formerly Web Page Development I)
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| Adobe Dreamweaver II |
In this class, you'll delve into advanced Web page design using Adobe Dreamweaver. We will focus on CSS layout, advanced site building features, site management, behaviors, interactivity, and customization. Topics include: - Site building features of Dreamweaver
- Using CSS for layout and positioning
- CSS-based navigations
- Creating pop up menus and Windows
- Show/Hide CSS-based layers
- Working with snippets
- Advanced templating features in Dreamweaver
- Advanced code control
- Advanced layer techniques
- Customizing Dreamweaver
- Extensibility through third-party objects
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Adobe Dreamweaver III |
Learn how to use Dreamweaver to create a dynamic and database-driven Web site. You will learn how to set up and use Dreamweaver to build server-side scripting (ASP, ColdFusion, or PHP) in order to leverage and manage database content for the Web. You will learn how to: - Use a relational database to make site updating and maintenance easy
- Make all pages, even dynamic ones, accessible
- Use Dreamweaver's server behaviors to help you rapidly develop a Web application
- Collect, manipulate, and validate user-entered data
- Use SQL statements and structures to pass information between pages and a database
- Make data persist, even as the user moves through multiple pages
- Build user login and authentication to secure pages and content
- Use conditions to display and hide page content
- Expand Dreamweaver server script capabilities
Prerequisites: - Adobe Dreamweaver I
- Adobe Dreamweaver II
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| Adobe Dreamweaver with Advanced CSS |
Learn to create compelling cross-browser compatible, CSS-based Web sites using Adobe Dreamweaver Creative Suite 4. Our central focus will be CSS. Dreamweaver will be used to expedite the development process. Hands on projects will range from typographic controls to multicolumn layouts. Projects include: - Converting legacy-based table design to CSS-based layout
- Styling a photo gallery
- Constructing CSS for screen as well as print
- Creating CSS-based navigations including drop down menus
- Blending techniques to create complex designs
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| Adobe Flash I |
Learn to use the standard program for web based animation and video delivery. Topics include: - Timeline construction and management
- Keyframe animation
- Motion and shape tweening
- Working with symbols
- Importing from Illustrator and Photoshop
- Basic scripting in Actionscript 3.0
- Delivery and file formats
- Flash Video examples
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Adobe Flash II (with ActionScript 3.0) |
Learn how to use Actionscript 3.0 to create animation, navigation, and control components. Topics include: - Controlling MovieClips with code
- Working with Dynamic Text fields and Input Text Fields
- Loading external content and other flash movies
- Dynamic preloaders
- Interactivity with code
Prerequisites: - Adobe Flash I or equivalent experience
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| Adobe Flash III |
This class will provide the launchpad for advanced Flash development. You will create a project from scratch based on a real-world scenario and will leave with class projects, related code, and all materials. Topics include: - Planning the development process
- Working with XML and dynamically generated content
- Advanced animation and interaction concepts
- Advanced sound applications
- Integrating video with Flash
- Working with Components using Actionscript 3.0
Prerequisites: - Adobe Flash I
- Adobe Flash II (with ActionScript 3.0) or equivalent experience
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| Adobe FrameMaker I |
In this course you'll learn how to design FrameMaker publications from scratch. You will create a publication in its entirety and will work on a variety of FrameMaker documents. Topics include: - Understanding FrameMaker interface and screen elements
- Using paragraph designer to control paragraph formatting
- Working with character designer
- Adding color to character and paragraph formats
- Working with master pages and anchored frames
- Creating running headers and footers
- Creating and editing variables
- Exploring FrameMaker drawing tools, dictionary, thesaurus
- Working with table designer, customizing tables
- Importing graphics and text
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| Adobe FrameMaker II |
This course concentrates on FrameMaker's long-document features. In this workshop we will cover:- Creating and editing cross-references
- Adding and formatting footnotes
- Creating a book file from individual document files
- Creating and formatting a table of contents and index
- Working with conditional text
- Adding and editing hyperlinks
- Saving FrameMaker files in PDF and HTML formats
NOTE: General page layout techniques are not covered.
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| Adobe Illustrator I |
Learn about this powerful, professional illustration and design tool for graphic artists, technical illustrators, and desktop publishers. Gain mastery over the Bezier pen! Classroom topics include: - Understanding paths, views, selection tools, fills, and strokes
- Setting up preferences and color settings
- Creating basic geometric shapes with the Shape tools
- Using a grid and smart guides to aid symmetrical drawing
- Using the Bezier pen, the Direct Selection tool, and the Convert Anchor Point tool efficiently
- Applying and editing color gradients to filled regions
- Creating and using swatches, tints, gradients, and patterns on filled regions and stroked edges
- Transforming tools and panels including scaling, rotating, distorting, shearing, and reflecting
- Using the pathfinder panel to make complex shapes
- Working with the Blend tool / command and its options
- Creating a compound path
Prerequisites: - Layout Software Basics or equivalent experience
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| Adobe Illustrator II |
In the second course in the Illustrator series, we'll explore some of Adobe Illustrator's highly advanced features, including: - Changing blending modes and opacity
- Using and editing an opacity mask
- Using layers to keep your art project organized
- Creating clipping masks
- Tracing a scanned image with LiveTrace
- Applying warp effects and the envelope feature
- Understanding the Appearance panel
- Creating effects and styles
- Using multiple strokes and fills
- Creating and manipulating type
- Creating symbols and using the symbol tools
- Understanding and creating the four kinds of custom brushes
- Using the mesh tool for complex gradients
- Applying 3-D effects
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Adobe Illustrator III |
In this course, you'll learn how to build your illustration skills by mastering classic art techniques and harnessing the power of Illustrator. Topics in this class include: - Using Illustrators tools to create special effects
- Creating realistic shadows
- Creating repeating patterns for fills and borders
- Drawing 3-D artwork—isometric, dimetric, and trimetric views
- Drawing using custom guides for perspective
- Creating line effects for maps
- LiveTrace to LivePaint to LiveColor explorations
- Creating type effects—type masks, applying a paintbrush effect to text, and text in a circle
- Applying 3-D effects to shapes
- Using the graphing feature to create bar charts and pie charts
Prerequisites: - Adobe Illustrator I
- Adobe Illustrator II
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| Adobe InDesign I |
Take command of this cutting-edge desktop publishing program and you'll quickly see the difference in your work. You'll learn to use Adobe’s top-of-the-line desktop publishing application to create graphics-intensive print documents. This course covers key foundation lessons, including: - Getting to know tools, panels, and workspaces
- Learning how to navigate and zoom through the pages in a document
- Working with layers for efficiency and organization
- Setting up master pages in a document
- Building automatic page numbering and sections
- Creating text and graphics placeholder frames
- Placing text and graphics on document pages
- Understanding text and graphics frames
- Grouping and transforming frames
- Formatting text using paragraph and character styles
- Flowing, threading, and spell-checking text in text frames
- Adding color: swatches, gradients, and tints
- Frequently-used shortcuts and techniques
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| Adobe InDesign II |
Take the next step in learning to become an Adobe InDesign Creative Suite 4 (CS4) master. Learn all you need to know to work effectively with InDesign CS4, including these advanced features: - Working with typography, including tracking and kerning
- Creating drop caps, paragraph rules, custom tabs, dot leaders, and hanging indents
- Developing and working with paragraph, character, and object styles
- Nesting character styles within paragraph styles
- Loading styles from one document to another
- Placing, managing, and editing linked graphics
- Adjusting the viewing quality of the document
- Working with clipping paths and alpha channel masks
- Workflow tips for placing vector and bitmap graphics into InDesign
- Using the Library panel for placing frequently-used content
- Using Adobe Bridge for placing graphics
- Creating tables from spreadsheets; formatting cells and text
- Placing graphics within the cells of a table
- Working with Live Preflight
- Exporting documents to PDF for commercial printing
Prerequisites: - Adobe InDesign I or equivalent experience
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Adobe InDesign III |
Let Adobe InDesign CS4 take you into the future of publishing. Learn to fully exploit all the advanced features of InDesign CS4 as your integrated workflow and publishing environment: - Setting up preferences and color management in your workflow
- Using advanced frame techniques
- Drawing with the Bezier Pen
- Transparency features, feathering, drop shadows
- Applying transparency settings to text
- Working with transparency flattener preview
- Adding and editing hyperlinks, bookmarks, and page transitions
- Placing video, and building JavaScript buttons for web-enabled PDFs
- Preparing documents for commercial printing: troubleshooting, preflighting, and packaging
- Options for exporting files to PDF for commercial printing
- Exporting to Flash
- Expanded features of Adobe Bridge CS4
Prerequisites: - Adobe InDesign I
- Adobe InDesign II
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Adobe InDesign IV |
In this class we will examine ways to speed up productivity in your workflow by taking advantage of the many advanced features throughout InDesign CS4. Presets and GREP (Generalized Regular Expression Parsing) is a way to find and change recurring patterns in text that literal word searches cannot accomplish. The entire Creative Suite, and especially InDesign CS4, is scriptable. We will test many JavaScripts that save time by turning tedious and time-consuming activities into scriptable events. Also in this class we will complete a Data Merge project for joining graphic design with data from an external file. - Automating repetitive tasks with presets
- Preserving your presets from loss, when InDesign defaults are restored
- Updating text formatting using GREP queries in Find/Change text dialog box
- GREP styles and Line Styles within the paragraph style
- Working with Glyph and Object Find/Change
- Introduction to JavaScripts that drive InDesign
- Installing and using JavaScripts
- Setting up Data Merge for joining database content with a document layout
- Shortcuts, productivity, and Q&A
Prerequisites: - Adobe InDesign I
- Adobe InDesign II
- Adobe InDesign III
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| Adobe InDesign for Long Documents I |
Publish long documents such as books or annual reports without the stress! Explore Adobe InDesign CS4 options in numbering, position figures in relation to text automatically, create running headers or footers, and much more. Topics include: - >Converting long documents from other applications
- Setting up preferences for long document production
- Working in Story Editor view
- Ensuring consistent layout using styles and nested styles
- Setting up style mapping for automated formatting of placed text
- Creating bulleted and numbered lists
- Setting up auto numbering of chapters and paragraphs
- Creating and formatting footnotes in a document
- Working with anchored graphics and text frames
- Adding and managing cross-references
- Adding variables, creating running headers/footers
- Creating document versions using conditional text
Prerequisites: - Adobe InDesign I
- Adobe InDesign II or equivalent experience
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| Adobe InDesign for Long Documents II |
Long documents such as books or annual reports production, part two! Adobe InDesign CS4 offers options that allow “chunking” large content into individual documents and then combining and managing them all through a book file. Learn how to generate Table of Content and indexes and how to ensure that all files are consistently formatted. Topics include: - Creating and formatting long tables
- Editing tables in Story Editor
- Linking spreadsheets to InDesign document
- Creating and using table and cell styles
- Updating linked data tables
- Building a book file and controlling pagination of the publication
- Generating and formatting a table of contents
- Synchronizing paragraph styles in a book
- Applying master pages to documents in a book
- Marking and editing index entries and generating an index
- Creating document templates
- Exporting books to PDF preserving interactivity and accessibility
- Exporting InDesign text content for cross-publishing
Prerequisites: - Adobe InDesign for Long Documents I
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| Adobe InDesign for Long Documents III |
Publishing is more than printing, and XML is here to stay as a standard for storing data used in publishing. Explore advanced features of Adobe InDesign CS4 that will you allow to produce publications with content sourced from XML based systems, without losing data or duplicating formatting tasks. Find out how information presented in a familiar environment for graphic designers can be reused on the Web, in archiving projects, or repurposed later in other print projects. Topics include: - Understanding XML and supporting files
- Exploring examples of XML code and structure
- Overview of XML Schema, DTD, and CSS
- Examples of publishing workflow solutions using XML
- Creating and importing tags into an InDesign document
- Working in Structure View
- Exploring Structured environment, Tags panel, and related settings
- Tagging images and text in a completed layout of an InDesign document
- Mapping XML tags to styles and styles to XML tags
- Working with attributes
- Validating a document structure and exporting to XML
- Organizing a document structure
- Exploring XML export options
- Viewing XML code in a browser
- Importing XML content
- Exploring XML import options
- Exporting to cross-media publishing support: XHTML (DreamWeaver) and XHTML (Digital Editions)
Prerequisites: - Adobe InDesign for Long Documents II
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| Adobe InDesign with InCopy for Workgroups |
Adobe InCopy is a professional writing and editing program that tightly integrates with Adobe InDesign for a complete solution for collaborative editorial workflow. Superior to using Word, Adobe InCopy lets you assign editors to work on parts of pages, spreads, or entire documents in parallel with designers, significantly decreasing the production time for most projects. InCopy brings a new level of efficiency to your editorial processes. Topics include: - Basic workflow overview
- Setting user IDs
- Copy fitting in InDesign and InCopy
- InCopy tools and document windows
- Checking files in and out
- Creating new InCopy documents
- Working with graphics
- Tracking changes
- Working with styles
- Working with dictionaries and spell checker
- Creating text macros
- Outputting from InCopy
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| Adobe Lightroom Photo Workflow |
Adobe's newest photography workflow tool, Lightroom, has elegant features for high-volume, efficient file handling and image correction. With its database structure, Lightroom combines and expands the controls found in Adobe Bridge and Camera RAW, yet it integrates with those programs and with Photoshop. You'll learn how all your image files—TIF, JPEG, and RAW—can be managed, optimized, and presented with Lightroom. Topics include:- Importing and arranging photos
- Quick edits
- Developing modules' array of image correction controls
- Tone curves
- Black and white conversions
- Working with Photoshop
- Slideshow's customizable features
- Exporting images
- Print controls and custom print layouts
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| Adobe Photoshop I |
This course provides an introduction to the powerful, versatile photo manipulation features of Adobe Photoshop software. Topics include: - Getting to know the interface, including how to zoom and pan efficiently
- The new workflow: Bridge to Adobe Camera Raw to Photoshop
- The top 10 photo preparation tasks
- Restoration and touch-up to improve images
- Selection tools for selecting the pixels you want to edit
- Layers panel and layer manipulation
- Painting and related tools and optional settings
- An introduction to selections, channels, and quick masks
- How to set the color mode and the correct pixel resolution
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| Adobe Photoshop II |
This course is for Adobe Photoshop users who want to learn more and to apply Adobe Photoshop techniques more professionally. The three days of hands-on training centers mostly on channel operations and techniques. Topics include: - Controlling the Photoshop environment, from tools to preferences to color management settings
- Channel and masking techniques and the new panels in CS4
- Use of the Bezier Pen in vector drawing and the Paths panel
- Advanced layer blending techniques
- File formats for web, print, and digital
- Advanced spot channel techniques, including duotones
- Gamuts and color translation issues
- Working with the Adobe Camera Raw module via Bridge
- Smart Layers, Smart Objects, Smart Filters
- Auto Align and Auto Blend commands
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| Adobe Photoshop III: Tips & Tricks |
This fast-paced course will enhance your productivity with Photoshop software and teach you the most advanced techniques and effects. Topics include: - Camera Raw image correction
- Production image enhancement
- Painting with light using masks
- Tips for unsharp masking
- Non-destructive editing
- Advanced Filter usage
- Selection tips
- Color balancing and correction
- Selected special effects such as watercolor conversion, polar coordinate conversion, and displacement maps
- Color Enhancements via Lab Conversion
Prerequisites: - Adobe Photoshop I
- Adobe Photoshop II
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| Adobe Photoshop Channels and Masks |
Learn how to make masks using channels in Adobe Photoshop CS4 to create high-quality and accurate selections like the professionals do. You will create a series of channel masks, and you will gain a good understanding of how channels work within Photoshop. This is an advanced level class for students who have mastered Photoshop I and Photoshop II. Topics include: - Using quick mask mode
- Creating alpha channels
- Learning tricks for making better selections
- Using painting tools with blending modes inside alpha channels
- Using Calculations and the Apply Image commands to channels
- Adjusting alpha channels with levels, gradients, and blending modes
- Using luminance blending
- Applying layer masks
- Creating special effects using channels
Prerequisites: - Adobe Photoshop I
- Adobe Photoshop II
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| Adobe Photoshop Digital Mastery I |
This course teaches advanced skills in color and photo correction. You will learn photo recovery, image enhancements, and professional portrait work. You'll also work with digital images in their capture state and prepare finished photos for their portfolios. Topics include: - Studio equipment for the digital darkroom, printing, and photo archiving
- Correcting color and exposure problems
- Using blending modes for retouching flexibility
- Making curves work for multiple corrections simultaneously
- Rescuing faded and damaged images
- Creating black-and-white images from color photos
- >Eliminating background problems
- Using null, adjustment, and fill layers to build corrections
Prerequisites: - Adobe Photoshop I
- Adobe Photoshop II
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| Adobe Photoshop Digital Mastery II |
Building on the advanced techniques learned in Digital Mastery I, we focus on portraiture, figure correction, selective focus, and light painting. We will also cover automation in the digital darkroom through mastery of simple and complex actions. You will work independently on selected images. Topics also include: - Techniques for turning photos into glamour and fashion shots
- Controlling the liquefy filter for selective enhancements
- Sharpening and when to avoid unsharp mask
- Color management, printing, inks, and papers
- Using the Camera RAW converter
- Converting to DNG (Adobe's digital negative format)
- Understanding and attaching metadata to images
- Building actions and batch processing to streamline image editing
- Keeping your work: copyright issues
Prerequisites: - Adobe Photoshop I
- Adobe Photoshop II
- Adobe Photoshop Digital Mastery I
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| Adobe Premiere I |
This course is an introduction to video capture and video editing with Adobe Premiere software. Topics include:- Getting acquainted with QuickTime and AVI
- Capturing video
- Pasting and splitting clips, setting the speed, and separating and rejoining linked clips
- Applying a filter and superimposing clips
- Adding transitions, fades, and sound
- Previewing and compressing movies
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| Adobe Premiere II |
With the Adobe Premiere Level I class, you've learned the basics of editing. Now we go beyond the basics. Along with the exercises provided in the book, students will work with real-life footage and incorporate images, titles, and captions. Transitions will also add professional polish to the work, and finally audio issues will be addressed. This is the next step in building your skill set with Adobe Premiere Pro. Topics include:- Working with multiple video tracks
- Editing footage from multiple camera angles
- Syncing audio from independent audio source with video recording
- Using Soundbooth
- Advanced composition with colors and mattes
- Authoring DVDs with Premiere and Encore
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| Color Management for Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4) |
Are you looking for color fidelity in your print workflow? From swatch to screen to proof and printed output, you'll learn how to get predictable, accurate, and stable color. By understanding color management workflow along with ICC profiles, you can use graphics applications with greater color accuracy than ever before. We'll explore:- What color is
- Color theory and models
- How the eye interprets color versus how the monitor makes color
- How devices and software interpret color
- Setting up a color management workflow in the Adobe Creative Suite
- Color management at the OS level of both Mac and Windows
- Software that doesn’t color manage and why
- Assessing your system for improvement by calibration
- Building and editing ICC profiles that work
- Recommended colorimeters and/or spectrophotometers
- Hands-on calibrating a monitor
- Hands-on calibrating an inkjet proofing printer
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Color Management for Adobe Creative Suite 5 |
Are you looking for color fidelity in your print workflow? From swatch to screen to proof and printed output, you'll learn how to get predictable, accurate, and stable color. By understanding color management workflow along with ICC profiles, you can use graphics applications with greater color accuracy than ever before. We'll explore:- What color is
- Color theory and models
- How the eye interprets color versus how the monitor makes color
- How devices and software interpret color
- Setting up a color management workflow in the Adobe Creative Suite
- Color management at the OS level of both Mac and Windows
- Software that doesn’t color manage and why
- Assessing your system for improvement by calibration
- Building and editing ICC profiles that work
- Recommended colorimeters and/or spectrophotometers
- Hands-on calibrating a monitor
- Hands-on calibrating an inkjet proofing printer
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| Migrating to Structured Authoring in Adobe Framemaker |
This advanced class covers using Adobe FrameMaker as an authoring tool for creating XML documents. You'll work with structured interface and add and edit elements and attributes. You'll also work with a complete set of documents needed to deal with structured content such as EDD (Element Definition Documents) and DTD (Document Type Definitions). The class will provide a solid overview of the latest tools available for cross-media publishing. Topics include:- Working with structured interface view
- Working with element catalogs
- Understanding elements and their attributes
- Editing structured documents
- Changing, merging, splitting, and wrapping elements
- Working with paragraph, character, graphic, and table elements
- Validating documents
- Adding and editing element definitions
- Setting up elements with automatic insertion of children
- Converting unstructured to structured documents
Prerequisites: - Adobe FrameMaker II
- XML Development I
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Professional Design Techniques with Adobe Creative Suite |
The amazing array of tools for designers introduced by Adobe Creative Suite creates a need for learning good print design fundamentals. This class covers design principles and workflow techniques in real-life projects. It will show the best practices for using the applications offered by Adobe CS4 and will help you decide which tools are best for a given task. Some typical publications completed during the sessions will demonstrate the design process, production workflow, and management of numerous parts, such as stories, data, charts, and images. Students are encouraged to bring their own projects to compare with class files. This class focuses mainly on print projects. Topics include:- Principles of graphic design
- Use of grids in a page structure
- Choosing the right application for the job
- Organizing your work with Adobe Bridge
- Setting up application preferences
- Creating newsletters and feedback forms
- Using styles, grids, tables, and interactive form fields
- Designing magazines and newspapers
- Choosing color palette, layout, type
- Designing annual reports
- Creating covers, artwork, spreadsheet tables
- Presenting and reviewing projects in Acrobat
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| Layout Software Basics |
This is an essential introduction to desktop publishing and graphics software. If you have little or no experience with desktop publishing or graphics applications, we highly recommend that you take this class. We will go step-by-step through terms and tools of applications used by graphic designers, illustrators, photographers, and editors. Topics include:- The layout software environment
- Tools, panels, and layers
- Using drawing tools
- Master pages
- Placing text and graphics
- Editing objects using the control panel
- The CMYK printing process
- Keyboard shortcuts
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| Typography and Font Management |
Learn about electronic typefaces as used in desktop publishing applications. You will become familiar with the language and art of typography in order to communicate and design more professionally. And you'll learn how to install, manage, and troubleshoot fonts on your desktop publishing computer. Topics include:- Typing versus typesetting
- Legible type design
- Top 10 common errors to avoid in typesetting
- Typeface pairing suggestions
- Readability considerations
- Electronic typeface formats, including PostScript Type 1, TrueType, and Open Type fonts on Mac OS X
- Font management software on Windows and Mac OS X
- Preparing and gathering fonts for service bureaus
- Fonts embedded in PDF files
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| Web Graphics with Adobe Photoshop |
Designers and Web managers will learn how to use Adobe Photoshop and ImageReady software to create high-quality, low-bandwidth graphics for the Web. GIF and JPEG optimization and correcting photos are covered as well as creating:- Transparent GIF graphics
- Background tiles
- Animated GIFs and rollovers
- Disjointed image swaps
- Sliced graphics and generating HTML
- Image maps
- Navigation bars and buttons
Prerequisite: Adobe Photoshop I or equivalent experience |
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| Web Design with Adobe Dreamweaver and Photoshop |
Learn how to use Adobe's software to take your Web interface design to the next level. We will discuss how to understand audiences and create a design appropriate for your target(s). You'll learn how to create attractive navigation elements and add texture and depth to your Web design. You will also learn how to create gorgeous color palettes, and design clean and well-organized Web page layouts. Topics include:- Evaluating Web design
- Creating unique navigation bars
- Unifying different types of photos
- Creating a visual hierarchy for effective flow
- Adding custom elements to site photographs
Prerequisites: - Adobe Dreamweaver I
- Adobe Photoshop I
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