Intuos4 redefines the Intuos pen tablet experience, thanks to a new design and new features inspired by members of our professional creative community.

As Natural As Can Be

Both the tablet shape and surface have been completely re-engineered to enable ergonomic, consistent strokes, even over long periods of time. Available in four different wide-format sizes, S. M, L, XL and a wireless model, you can pick the perfect one to fit your specific working style and workflow needs.
Go With The Flow

Workflow, that is. This all new professional tablet takes into consideration the many aspects of a professional’s workflow, software integration points, and equal demand for both performance and comfort.
Details, Details

Innovation in every detail. That’s Intuos4. Whether it’s the new Wacom Tip Sensor that lets you capture every nuance of a stroke, the new precision mode, or the added levels of pressure sensitivity to dynamically adjust exposure, brush size, line weight, and opacity, Intuos4 promises to exceed your every expectation.

Target customers are:

• Advertising Agencies
• Marketing Agencies
• Designers
• Production Houses for departments that work in such disciplines within larger organisations.

You will already know how to use a program such as Photoshop or Illustrator. This clas will simply teach you how to use the Wacom Intuos 4 effectively

Wacom Intuos 4

Introduction

What is a Stylus Pad?
It’s Uses in the Industry
Advantages

The Pad

The different ranges
Types of Pens
Pressure, Tilt & Wheel
Setting up the Wacom

Driver Details

Driver Configuration
Setting the sensitivity
Right or Left Hand Setup
Configuring Custom OLED Buttons
Using the Radial Menu
Configuration for Different Applications
Pen or Mouse use.

Usage of Wacom with Photoshop

Advantages with Photography
Touchups using Layer Mask
Burn & Dodge Non-Destructively
Photographic Enhancements with Adjustment Layers

Painting in Photoshop CS5

The different Brushes in Photoshop
Customising the use of Brushes with the Wacom
New Brush Indicator in CS5
Dry, Bristle & Wet Brushes
Painting a Photograph

Painting in Illustrator CS5

Vector Paints
Advantages & Disadvantages of Vector Brushes
Tracing a Photograph, V
Show Outline Mode
Raster Before Output

Other uses of Wacom

Flash, 3D, Video-Editing, Video Post Production
Handwriting Recognition & Games

You can use the technology but do you know how to design?

This class is great if you’d like to find out the fundamentals of design so that you can improve your marketing materials and other such collateral.

Marketers, Designers/ SME business owners who do all their own design.

No previous knowledge is necessary although it would be great if you have already taken a design class at Academy Class such as Creative Suite Jumpstart for Designers, Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign

Design Language
Layout
From Concept to Visual
Colour
Typography
Skills and Studio Tools
Printing considerations

This workshop looks at the use of colour and provides a guide to achieving more effective design and production.

Those who have to use colour in the design process, including designers, ad managers and editors.

Basic design concepts

• Colour theory

• Complementary colours and the psychology of colour

• Keeping abreast of photographic fashion

• Using special effects

• What makes a good cover picture

• Choosing pix to show up cover lines

• Handling under or over-exposed pix

• Layout: getting the best from size and trim

• Planning colour and using spot colour

• Mixing colour

• What printers can and can’t do

Improve the way in which you create, check and send your documents for print. This class is based around the book “Production for Print” which was written and will be presented by Mark Gatter

Starting with a brief overview of the printing process, this course uses many practical examples to demonstrate common printing problems and how to fix them. Students will learn how to apply the appropriate Colour Management Systems preset before beginning work, as well as how to create their own. We also cover editing Adobe Acrobat PDF profiles to create a final PDF output file, how to check work in InDesign and Photoshop beforehand and in Adobe Acrobat afterwards, getting the right kind of proof, the key points for effective communication with print shops, and more. Questions are welcome at any time during the course.

This course is designed to give anyone involved in the creation of digital artwork an understanding of the whole process from layout to final printed work and to avoid the expensive mistakes and broken deadlines often caused by a lack of expertise in this field.

This course is for anyone who sends files away for commercial printing but is never quite sure exactly how they’ll turn out.

Attendees should have at least a working knowledge of InDesign (or
QuarkXPress) and Photoshop.

• Why 4-colour printing works
• How to include Pantone colours in a PDF
• All about RGB vs. CMYK
• About CMS presets, and how to create and apply your own
• How to assess and edit image resolution
• How to calibrate shadow and highlight dots
• Which Image format to use for a given process
• Why trapping is so important
• How to edit Preflight settings
• How to make a perfect PDF

An individual look at how your publication can be improved using the same content.

Subs and art editors handling design, who want to improve their pages and inject fresh ideas.

Knowledge of design technology such as Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator

• The psychology of design and visual codes
• Analysis of typefaces and page balance
• Designing pages with no pictures
• Use of colour and creating an appropriate palette
• Re-thinking your page ‘furniture’
• Dealing with large ads or heavy picture content
• Handling covers, inserts and specials
• Re-thinking the contents page
• Making sure you’re getting the most out of your DTP package