Upon successful completion of this excellent Adobe CS4: Design Workflow course you’ll be a master of using the new and improved Adobe CS4 design products. This Adobe CS4 course begins by exploring Adobe Bridge, and then moving onto raster image editing with Photoshop, vector image editing with Illustrator and how to create a professional layout with InDesign. In addition, this Adobe CS4 course covers how to add multimedia with Acrobat, animate with Flash, edit web graphics with Fireworks, and design a web layout with Dreamweaver. Gain the tools you’ll need to give your next design project professional polish and creative flair, while enhancing your CV to boost your job prospects.
Learning with 1Training.org has many advantages. The course material is delivered straight to you and can be adapted to fit in with your lifestyle. It is created by experts within the industry, meaning you are receiving accurate information, which is up-to-date and easy to understand. This course is comprised of professional learning material, all delivered through a system that you will have access to 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for 365 days (12 months).
Geoff Blake is a Toronto-based author, trainer, designer, and artist. For the past ten years, he’s provided a wide range of graphic design, artwork, consulting, in-class training, and web design services.
A professional public speaker since 1997, Geoff has taught desktop publishing, web design, and graphics courses in both the corporate and post-secondary environments, working closely with some of the largest training providers and colleges in the Toronto area. His appearances, in-class training, and consulting have taken him throughout North America, where he’s built a solid reputation for delivering otherwise jargony material in a fun, enjoyable, and entertaining way. With his diverse print and web experience, he regularly contributes to magazines and web sites, and is currently working on a series of print, web, and design books—penning Ten Ton Dreamweaver in 2006 with Peachpit Press, and following up with Ten Ton Flash, which is in current production.
Geoff is very comfortable with modern digital and pre-press print preparation, cutting edge web design techniques, and software/hardware troubleshooting. Throughout his career, he’s provided expert training and support for a variety of applications, including Microsoft Office, Dreamweaver, Flash, Photoshop, Acrobat, InDesign, Illustrator.
You can visit Geoff online at tentonbooks.com, where he posts his latest tricks, techniques, reviews, and other discoveries in the ever-expanding world of technology.
This bundle contains the following courses:
Those who successfully pass this course will be awarded a Adobe CS4: Design Workflow certificate. Anyone eligible for certification will receive a free e-certificate, and printed certificate.
This excellent Adobe CS4: Design Workflow course will qualify you to be a Graphic Designer. The average salary of a Graphic Designer in the UK is £21,819, and this will go up with experience (payscale.com). With this course you could enter any of the following industries:
1: BRIDGE: THE HUB OF CREATIVE SUITE 4 | |||
1. A Quick Tour of the Bridge Interface | |||
2. Browsing Images & Previewing Thumbnails | |||
3. Metadata, Keywords, Filtering & Collections | |||
5. Establishing the Creative Suite Color Settings | |||
6. Using Additional Bridge Tools & Adobe Services | |||
2: RASTER IMAGE EDITING WITH PHOTOSHOP® | |||
1. Introducing Photoshop CS4 | |||
2. Basic Color Correction | |||
3. Selection Techniques | |||
4. Quick Mask Mode & the Masks Panel | |||
5. Working with Layers & Compositing | |||
6. Using Illustrator® Objects in Photoshop | |||
7. Adding Layer Styles & Creating Layer Comps | |||
8. Saving & Outputting from Photoshop | |||
3: VECTOR IMAGE EDITING WITH ILLUSTRATOR® | |||
1. Introducing Illustrator CS4 | |||
2. Setting Up Multiple Artboards | |||
3. Working with Shapes, Fills & Strokes | |||
4. Tracing a Pencil Drawing with the Pen Tool | |||
5. Working with Live Trace | |||
6. Adjusting Colors & Gradients | |||
7. Working with Effects | |||
8. Outputting from Illustrator | |||
4: LAYING IT ALL OUT WITH INDESIGN® | |||
1. InDesign CS4 Interface & Navigation | |||
2. Drawing Shapes & Working with Color | |||
3. Managing Master Pages & Variables | |||
4. Inserting & Scaling Graphics | |||
5. Object Layer Options, Links & Edit Original | |||
6. Importing Text & Threading Text Frames | |||
7. Creating Paragraph Styles | |||
8. Adding Interactive Elements | |||
9. Outputting Your Work | |||
5: ADDING MULTIMEDIA WITH ACROBAT® | |||
1. Introducing Acrobat 9 Professional | |||
2. Adding Interactivity to PDF Layers | |||
3. Inserting Sound & Video into a PDF | |||
4. Merging Files & Creating a Full Screen Slideshow | |||
5. Assembling a PDF Portfolio | |||
6: GETTING ANIMATED WITH FLASH® | |||
1. Introducing Flash CS4 | |||
2. Importing Illustrator Files | |||
3. Importing Photoshop Files & Layer Selections | |||
4. Creating & Animating Flash Symbols | |||
5. Applying an Action to a Button | |||
6. Motion Tweens, the Motion Editor & Motion Presets | |||
7. Creating a Banner Layout & Publishing to .SWF | |||
7: EDITING WEB GRAPHICS WITH FIREWORKS® | |||
1. Opening Photoshop Files in Fireworks CS4 | |||
8: DESIGNING A WEB LAYOUT WITH DREAMWEAVER® | |||
1. Getting to Know Dreamweaver CS4 | |||
2. Slicing an Image in Photoshop | |||
3. Creating a CSS Layout from Scratch | |||
4. Centering a CSS Layout | |||
5. Hyperlinks & CSS | |||
6. Using a Class Style to Control Layout | |||
7. Inserting Flash Video | |||
8. Integrating Photoshop Smart Objects | |||
9. Finishing Touches | |||
10. Credits |