Adobe Acrobat Professional XI Pro
Overview
Who is this course for?
Adobe Acrobat offers one of the best ways of publishing and distributing documents of any kind on a corporate intranet, the World Wide Web, E-Mail or CD-ROM. When viewed in Adobe Acrobat, the documents can be annotated or modified and then returned or forwarded to others for additional comments or approval.
How long is this course?
1 Day
What do I need to know before attending?
It is assumed only that you have a basic knowledge and understanding of the Windows environment.
What will I expect to achieve at the end of the training?
Create & modify PDF documents using Acrobat Professional.
Content
What is Acrobat?
An overview of the Acrobat suite of products: Acrobat, Distiller, Reader, and PDF Writer.
Understand the Enviornment
The toolbars and the Acrobat toolbox.
Using the Navigation Pane.
Docking and undocking Palettes.
Using Find and Search.
General Preferences
Job Options.
Security.
Font Usage.
Converting to PDFs
From paper documents.
From Web Sites.
Use Distiller to convert postscript.
Inserting and Deleting Pages
Cropping and Rotating Pages.
Merge files
Page Actions.
Headers & Footers.
Watermarks & Backgrounds.
Adding Notes and other Annotations
Inserting Movie Clips.
Touch-up Text Editing.
Viewing Annotations.
Digitally Signing Documents.
Adding Bookmarks.
Creating Articles.
Exporting to PowerPoint
Creating and distributing forms.
Distributing for Review by Email
Distributing for Browser-based Review
Adobe Photoshop CC Introduction
Overview
Who is this course for?
Delegates will learn to modify and combine scanned photographs to create realistic composite images using Photoshop.
How long is this course?
1 Day
What do I need to know before attending?
Before attending this course you should be able to navigate around a computer.
What will I expect to achieve at the end of the training?
Manage the Photoshop Environment
Resize and crop image areas.
Enhance image with automatic and manual adjustments
Paint images using the Paintbrush, Pencil or Paint Bucket
Retouch and repair images
Select image areas using the Lasso, Quick Selection and Magic Wand tools.
Create and manipulate multiple layers.
Apply blending and Layer effects to create realistic composites.
Content
Managing the Photoshop Environment
Default Workspace.
Adobe Bridge.
Introduction to the Toolbox and Tool Options Bar.
Palette Management.
History Palette & Undoing Actions.
Keyboard Shortcuts.
Using Photoshop Help.
Creating multiple Artboards.
Enhancing an Image
Cropping and resizing.
Brightness/contrast.
Adjust colour balance.
Replace colour.
Adjust the Tonal Range of an Image.
Hue & Saturation controls.
Dodge, Burn and Desaturate.
Blurring and Sharpening using Filters.
Adjustments Panel.
Adding Glyphs
Painting and Retouching Images
Clone Stamp and Healing tools.
History Brush and Snapshots.
Content Aware Fill
Content Aware Move
Content Aware Patch
Painting with the Paintbrush, Pencil or Paint Bucket tool.
Introduction to Gradients and painting with Gradients.
Working with Selections
Creating Selections using the Magic Wand.
Adjusting Selections.
Quick Selection and Lasso tools.
Combining Selection tools for complex objects.
Modifying and transforming selections.
Saving and Reloading a selection.
Working with Layers
Importing layers.
Add transparency to layers.
Create new fill layer.
Working with multiple layers.
Basic Blending Modes.
Moving, scaling and rotating layers.
Basic layer effects.
Text Layers.
Adobe InDesign CC Introduction
Overview
Who is this course for?
Adobe InDesign is a high powered desktop publishing program, used across the industry to create professional publications. This course will quickly bring you up to speed on creating, editing and formatting documents.
How long is this course?
1 Day
What do I need to know before attending?
Before attending this course you should be able to navigate around a computer.
What will I expect to achieve at the end of the training?
Create and edit professional looking documents.
Understand the basics of desktop publishing.
Content
Getting started
The Adobe InDesign environment.
Basic documents.
Item position, using Smart Guides.
Smart Dimensions and Smart Spacing.
Structuring multi-page documents
Multi-page documents.
Master pages.
Sections
Typesetting
Text frame threading.
Paragraph formatting.
Paragraph Shading.
Styles.
Colour Theme Tool.
Modifying items
Text frames.
Graphics.
Grouped items.
Layers.
Finalising documents
Outputting documents.
Commercial printing preparation.
Creating PDF’s
Preferences
InDesign preferences.
Document settings.
Adobe Illustrator CC Introduction
Overview
Who is this course for?
This course will enable you to produce a broad range of images for newsletters, product leaflets, adverts, posters and sales material for either internal use, commercial printing or the web.
How long is this course?
1 Day
What do I need to know before attending?
Before attending this course you should be able to navigate around a computer.
What will I expect to achieve at the end of the training?
Create files and understand the user interface.
Create objects, use paintbrush tool to paint objects & create new brushes & symbols.
Create & edit paths, using the pencil & pen tools.
Add colors, patterns & gradients to objects, modify strokes & copy paint formats between objects.
Content
Getting started
Navigating workspace, zooming and panning.
Organising Pallets and Toolbars.
Creating & saving files.
Multiple Art Boards.
Creating Shapes
Making and moving basic shapes.
Nodes, paths and bezier handles.
Fill and Stroke options.
Pen and Pencil Tools.
Joining, simplifying and cutting paths.
Eraser, Scissors and Knife.
Blob Brush Tool.
Touch Tool.
Reusing artwork with Symbols
Add symbols from libraries.
Spray, stain, shift and spin symbols.
Create, edit and break your own symbols.
Colours
Fill & stroke colours.
Eyedropper and Paint Bucket.
Reuse colours with Swatches.
Gradients, Transparency and Blending modes.
Gradients on strokes
Variable width strokes
Meshes – blurring colours inside an object.
Selecting and Arranging
Selecting shapes or nodes.
Multiple selections.
Curvature Tool.
Join Tool.
Transform shapes as a group or separately.
Expand a stroke into a shape.
Pathfinder – combining or intersecting shapes.
Magic Wand – selecting similar shapes.
Grids and Guides.
Shape Builder Tool.
