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Please check out the ‘Outlines’ section of the following courses:

• InDesign 101 : Rookie
• Photoshop 101 : Rookie
• Dreamweaver ACA 101 : Rookie
• Flash ACA 101 : Rookie

Managing the Adobe Photoshop Environment

• Exploring default Workspace and Bridge
• Introduction to the Toolbar
• Palette management and Screen real estate
• History Palette and Undoing Actions
• Navigation shortcuts

Working with Selections

• Creating Selections using Magic Wand
• Adjusting Selections
• Quick Selection and Lasso tools
• Combining Selection tools for complex objects
• Saving and Reloading a Selection

Enhancing an Image

• Using Levels and Curves
• Compensate for flash with Shadow and Highlight
• Variations to quickly decide about a colour cast
• Hue and Saturation controls
• Blurring and sharpening using
• Filters

Painting and Retouching Images

• Digital darkroom techniques
• Clone Stamp and Heal tools
• Creating
• saving and loading custom colours
• Painting with Paintbrush
• Pencil or Paint Bucket tool
• Introduction to Gradients and painting with Gradients
• Working with Quick Mask mode and Layer Masks

Working with Layers

• Importing images
• Layers and Selections
• Transforming Layer Objects and using the Smart Objects
• Starting to build layered compositions
• Applying Transparency
• Basic Blending Modes
• Other goodies as Text Layers
• Adjustment Layers and Layer Styles

Outputting your artwork

• Colour modes
• Resolution and Image Size
• Cropping an image Vs Extending the Canvas
• File formats and optimising artwork for Web

Setting Up Your Document

• Be precise with Rulers and Guides
• Add, move and shuffle Pages in your Document
• Paginate Spread Pages
• Using Bridge to organise your creative assets
• InDesign Libraries to share them

Working with Frames

• Place Text and Graphics on the Document Pages
• Applying Colours
• Tints and Gradients
• Get creative with the Stroke panel
• Shapes and Corner options inside of InDesign
• Transforming Frames Content
• Changing the default Transparency
• Share the Appearance attributes with Object Styles

Importing and Editing Text

• Flowing Text and multiple Columns design
• Formatting with Character and Paragraph Styles
• Leading
• Spacing
• Tracking and Kerning
• Create Bulleted and Numbered lists
• Explore decorative Fonts and special Characters with Glyphs panel

Working with Graphics

• Image quality and Display options
• Fitting or Clipping graphics with Frames
• Share Colours across the with Swatch Exchange Format
• Manage linked files and automate updating of your content
• Vector artworks inside of InDesign
• Goddies inside of the Effects panel

Page Layout tools

• Using Placeholders Eyedropper and Master Pages for different workflow
• Aligning multiple Objects and working with Object Groups
• Wrap text around inline Objects while making use of Alpha Channels
• Be a professional with Baseline Grid alignment

Outputting and PDF Export

• Understanding Bleed and Slug
• Differentiate between Spot and Process colours
• Create a Package to share InDesign Documents
• Manage missing Fonts
• Preflight for Prepress

Creating basic Documents

• Explore the prebuilt Document Profiles
• Shortcuts to navigate the Artboard effectively
• Create custom Workspaces

Drawing in Illustrator

• Draw Paths with the Pen tool
• Add, delete or adjust points along a path
• Understand how BÈzier Curves work
• Freeform Drawing tools
• Live Trace to transform images or hand drawn sketches into vector artworks that can be further adjusted Create Logo using simple Shapes
• Discovering basic Blends
• Symbols in Illustrator and Symbol Sprayer options

Modifying Objects

• Lasso select and the other goodies in the Select Menu
• Be precise using Smart Guides
• Grids and Guidelines
• Align, Group and Duplicate to achieve better results
• Transform objects with Twirl
• Bloat and other Warp tools
• Layers palette: Hide and Lock Objects
• Intro to Isolation Mode for effective editing

Working with Colours in Illustrator

• Difference between Swatches and Colour palette
• Applying colour to Stroke and/or Fill
• Adjusting Stroke attributes with Stroke panel
• Introducing Gradients and Patterns

Text in Illustrator

• Point
• Area and Type on a path
• Import Body Type and fix Spelling Errors
• Find and Replace Text or Insert Typographic Characters
• Create Text Outlines to design your own fancy headlines

Outputting your Artwork

• Defining cropping area
• Saving your artwork in vector formats
• Save for Web and Devices

Introducing the Course

• Understanding the course format
• Reviewing the course objectives and prerequisites
• Looking at the course outline

Adobe Flash New Features

• New user interfaceAdobe Photoshop and Illustrator integration
• New drawing tools
• Actionscript 3.0
• Actionscript 3.0 Animation
• Actionscript 3.0 Debugger
• Flash Video Technology
• UI componenets
• Adobe Device Central

Creating and Importing Graphic Assets

• Working with different graphic formats
• Importing bitmap graphics
• Importing vector graphics
• Working with layers and layer folders
• Using the drawing tools
• Using object and merge drawing
• Working with the Color panels
• Creating and using Graphic symbols
• Using the Library panel

Using Text Effectively

• Using the Text tool
• Adding and formatting static text
• Changing font rendering methods
• Adding input text fields
• Embedding fonts in input text fields
• Using font best practices

Creating Animations

• Working with the Timeline
• Using keyframes blank keyframes and frames
• Creating motion tweens
• Creating shape tweens
• Creating transition effects
• Using animation best practices

Adding ActionScript with Script Assist and Behaviors

• Using Script Assist
• Adding actions to a frame
• Creating and using Button symbols
• Adding behaviors to a button
• Loading external SWFs

Using Moving Clips

• Creating and using Movie Clip symbols
• Organizing a Movie Clip Timeline
• Using actions to control a Timeline
• Using frame labels
• Responding to user interactions

Adding Sound and Video

• Importing sound
• Changing sound properties
• Adding sound to a Timeline
• Embedding video in a Timeline
• Using the FLVPlayback component

Publishing Flash Documents

• Using different publishing formats
• Using publishing profiles
• Adding Flash Player detection
• Publishing for deployment

Dreamweaver New Features

• CSS Layouts
• CSS Management
• CSS Advisor
• Browser Compatability
• Spry Data
• Spry Widgets
• Spry Effects
• Photoshop Integration
• Adobe Device Central
• Adobe Bridge

Getting Started

• Introducing Dreamweaver
• Learning the interface
• Defining a local site
• Creating a website

Adding Content to a Site

• Adding content
• Controlling document structure
• Making lists
• Adding horizontal rules
• Adding special characters

Formatting with Cascading Style Sheets

• Formatting text
• Introducing cascading style sheets
• Creating styles
• Exporting CSS rule definitions
• Creating class styles
• Attaching external style sheets
• Creating advanced styles
• Creating a new external style sheet
• Displaying styles
• Understanding cascading order and inheritance of styles

Working with Graphics

• Using graphics on web pages
• Placing graphics on the page
• Modifying image properties
• Editing images
• Doing roundtrip editing with Fireworks /Photshop
• Customizing the Insert bar
• Adding Flash content
• Adding Flash Video

Navigating Your Site

• Understanding site navigation
• Linking to files in your site
• Linking to sites
• Linking to named anchors
• Adding e-mail links
• Linking from images
• Creating a jump menu

Designing Page Layouts with CSS

• Understanding page layout
• Using layers for layout
• Adding CSS to layers
• Using absolute and relative positioning
• Designing with DIVs
• Designing navigation links with CSS
• Importing tabular data
• Using table layout view

UniUsing Libraries and Templates

• Using site library items
• Creating site templates
• Defining editable regions
• Using templates
• Applying a template to an existing page
• Modifying templates

Creating Forms

• Understanding forms
• Processing a form
• Setting focus in a form
• Validating a form

Testing

• Maintenance
• and Uploading
• Testing your site
• Maintaining your files and folders
• Connecting to a remote site
• Synchronizing files

Introducing the Course

• Understanding the course
• Reviewing the course objectives and prerequisites
• Reviewing the course format
• Outlining the course content
• Understanding static page architecture

Dreamweaver Features

• CSS Layouts
• CSS Management
• CSS Advisor
• Browser Compatibility
• Spry Data
• Spry Widgets
• Spry Effects
• Photoshop Integration
• Adobe Device Central
• Adobe Bridge

Getting Started

• Introducing Dreamweaver
• Learning the interface
• Defining a local site
• Creating a website

Adding Content to a Site

• Adding content
• Controlling document structure
• Making lists
• Adding horizontal rules
• Adding special characters

Formatting with Cascading Style Sheets

• Formatting text
• Introducing cascading style sheets
• Creating styles
• Exporting CSS rule definitions
• Creating class styles
• Attaching external style sheets
• Creating advanced styles
• Creating a new external style sheet
• Displaying styles
• Understanding cascading order and inheritance of styles

Working with Graphics

• Using graphics on web pages
• Placing graphics on the page
• Modifying image properties
• Editing images
• Doing roundtrip editing with Fireworks /Photoshop
• Customizing the Insert bar
• Adding Flash content
• Adding Flash Video

Navigating Your Site

• Understanding site navigation
• Linking to files in your site
• Linking to sites
• Linking to named anchors
• Adding e-mail links
• Linking from images
• Creating a jump menu

Designing Page Layouts with CSS

• Understanding page layout
• Using layers for layout
• Adding CSS to layers
• Using absolute and relative positioning
• Designing with DIVs
• Designing navigation links with CSS
• Importing tabular data
• Using table layout view

Using Libraries and Templates

• Using site library items
• Creating site templates
• Defining editable regions
• Using templates
• Applying a template to an existing page
• Modifying templates

Creating Forms

• Understanding forms
• Processing a form
• Setting focus in a form
• Validating a form

Testing

• Maintenance
• and Uploading
• Testing your site
• Maintaining your files and folders
• Connecting to a remote site
• Synchronising files

Day 1 Introducing Flash

Introducing Flash

• launching flash
• resetting the workspace
• exploring the welcome screen
• the flash files explained
• creating our first flash file
• the panels
• modifying the movie properties
• saving the file

Getting to Grips with Drawing

• the line tool
• using the black mouse pointer to manipulate the line
• changing the stroke’s properties
• the colour panel and selecting the right options
• the pen tool
• the pencil and its crafty modes

Getting to Grips with Drawing, fills

• the basic shapes
• watching out for the stroke/fill conundrum
• manipulating shapes
• the color panel and fills solid, bitmap and gradients solving classic problems

Shape Interaction

• working in a single layer causes its problems
• accidental fill on fill but this can be useful, compound shapes and slicing shapes up
• stroke fill interactions

Working in Layers

• building new layers
• locking previous layers to prevent modification
• hiding and showing layers
• outline view as an alternative to visibility
• adding shadows to our design

Spelling it out

• the text tool
• checking the properties before you type
• adding our text
• back to black
• changing the properties
• discussing the anti-alias options
• working with large blocks of text
• an example of text orientation
• breaking apart text and applying a stroke

Enhancing the Design with Images

• a simple import to stage
• let’s take a look at workflow, decide upon the size, resize in fireworks, using image preview to manipulate the quality, exporting the image, import to library and use the symbol in the movie
• a workflow for transparent content, open the image in fireworks, export as PNG32 to maintain transparency, import to library and explore the bitmap properties
• working with ‘vector’ artwork, tracing line-art drawings, is it worth it?, some nice examples

Being Symbolic?

• the concept
• convert to symbol, shape, text and image
• compare and discuss the symbol types
• look at colour effects
• look at filters
• reuse is the key
• blend modes

Using the Mask

• importing an image
• creating a new layer
• using the grid fill deco tool
• turning it into a mask
• locking layers and preview

Tweening Time

• steps to happiness
• tweening different properties, movement, alpha, scale and rotation
• putting it into practise,let’s build a banner
• the magic staircase
• animating images
• cache as bitmap
• exploring easing and breaking up a tween

Publishing your Movie

• a quick look at publish settings
• publishing the movie
• reviewing the output

Day 2 Getting all interactive

Back to Banners

• banner advert sizes
• let’s build a banner to brush up our skills
• alphas, movement, scale, blur
• placing backgrounds and borders on our banner
• advertisement text
• transparent corners
• creating movieclips in retrospect
• masking revisited
• using a mask in an animation
• shape tweening and the spray brush
• how to add a simple link and let’s copy and paste the code

The Building Blocks of a Simple Microsite

• building a button, separating shape and colour, creating a button symbol, bevel filters and tint effects, adding audio to the click and adding some dummy text
• duplicating symbols, duplicating our button and modifying the text
• bringing the buttons together, grouping the buttons using a movieclip and giving everything a name
• using a movieclip for the background, building the symbol off the stage and it’s not the size that’s important
• sketching out the design, a quick storyboard, identifying extra elements, rounded corners and 9-slice scaling

Building our first page

• the home page, layers and layer names, adding our library content, adding text and applying formatting, getting gradient text using masks, image import and workflow revisited and lorem ipsum as a cheat

Building the other pages

• Using scenes to separate our pages
• getting the content in the same place
• duplicating the title symbol and then swapping it out
• swapping out the image
• modifying the layout
• naming our scenes
• modifying behaviour with a sprinkling of script
• adding some code to make the buttons work
• sneaking in a simple preloader
• adding labels to our frames as anchors
• changing our publish settings to enable the anchors
• reviewing the movie and fixing any problems

Publishing the Microsite

• Publish settings and the flash player version
• Reviewing our result

Adobe Certified Associate in Flash

• Preparation
• Practice exam
• Official exam

Creating basic Documents

• Explore the prebuilt Document Profiles
• Shortcuts to navigate the Artboard effectively
• Create custom Workspaces

Drawing in Illustrator

• Draw Paths with the Pen tool
• Add
• delete or adjust points along a path
• Understand how Bézier Curves work
• Freeform Drawing tools
• Live Trace to transform images or hand drawn sketches
• into vector artworks that can be further adjusted
• Create Logo using simple Shapes
• Discovering basic Blends
• Symbols in Illustrator & Symbol Sprayer options

Modifying Objects

• Lasso select and the other goodies in the Select Menu
• Be precise using Smart Guides
• Grids and Guidelines
• Align
• Group & Duplicate to achieve better results
• Transform objects with Twirl
• Bloat & other Warp tools
• Layers palette: Hide & Lock Objects
• Intro to Isolation Mode for effective editing

Working with Colours in Illustrator

• Difference between Swatches and Colour palette
• Applying colour to Stroke and/or Fill
• Adjusting Stroke attributes with Stroke panel
• Introducing Gradients & Patterns

Text in Illustrator

• Point
• Area and Type on a path
• Import Body Type & fix Spelling Errors
• Find and Replace Text or Insert Typographic Characters
• Create Text Outlines to design your own fancy headlines

Outputting your Artwork

• Defining cropping area
• Saving your artwork in vector formats
• Save for Web & Devices

Setting Up Your Document

• Be precise with Rulers and Guides
• Add
• move & shuffle Pages in your Document
• Paginate Spread Pages
• Using Bridge to organise your creative assets
• and InDesign Libraries to share them

Working with Frames

• Place Text & Graphics on the Document Pages
• Applying Colours
• Tints and Gradients
• Get creative with the Stroke panel
• Shapes & Corner options inside of InDesign
• Transforming Frames Content
• Changing the default Transparency
• Share the Appearance attributes with Object Styles

Importing and Editing Text

• Flowing Text & multiple Columns design
• Formatting with Character & Paragraph Styles
• Leading
• Spacing
• Tracking and Kerning
• Create Bulleted & Numbered lists
• Explore decorative Fonts & special Characters with Glyphs panel

Working with Graphics

• Image quality & Display options
• Fitting or Clipping graphics with Frames
• Share Colours across the with Swatch Exchange Format
• Manage linked files & automate updating of your content
• Vector artworks inside of InDesign
• Goddies inside of the Effects panel

Page Layout tools

• Using Placeholders
• Eyedropper and Master Pages for different workflow
• Aligning multiple Objects & working with Object Groups
• Wrap text around inline Objects while making use of Alpha Channels
• Be a professional with Baseline Grid alignment

Outputting and PDF Export

• Understanding Bleed & Slug
• Differentiate between Spot & Process colours
• Create a Package to share InDesign Documents
• Manage missing Fonts
• Preflight for Prepress

Managing the Adobe Photoshop Environment

• Exploring default Workspace & Bridge
• Introduction to the Toolbar
• Palette management & Screen real estate
• History Palette & Undoing Actions
• Navigation shortcuts

Working with Selections

• Creating Selections using Magic Wand
• Adjusting Selections
• Quick Selection and Lasso tools
• Combining Selection tools for complex objects
• Saving and Reloading a Selection

Enhancing an Image

• Using Levels and Curves
• Compensate for flash with Shadow & Highlight
• Variations to quickly decide about a colour cast
• Hue & Saturation controls
• Blurring and sharpening using Filters

Painting and Retouching Images

• Digital darkroom techniques
• Clone Stamp and Heal tools
• Creating
• saving and loading custom colours
• Painting with Paintbrush
• Pencil or Paint Bucket tool
• Introduction to Gradients and painting with Gradients
• Working with Quick Mask mode & Layer Masks

Working with Layers

• Importing images
• Layers and Selections
• Transforming Layer Objects & using the Smart Objects
• Starting to build layered compositions
• Applying Transparency
• Basic Blending Modes
• Other goodies as Text Layers
• Adjustment Layers and Layer Styles

Outputting your artwork

• Colour modes
• Resolution and Image Size
• Cropping an image Vs Extending the Canvas
• File formats & optimising artwork for Web

Taking the AutoCAD Tour

• Navigating the Working Environment
• Working with Files
• Displaying Objects

Creating Basic Drawings

• Inputting Data
• Creating Basic Objects
• Using Object Snaps
• Using Polar Tracking and PolarSnap
• Using Object Snap Tracking
• Working with Units

Manipulating Objects

• Selecting Objects in the Drawing
• Changing an Object’s Position
• Creating New Objects from Existing Objects
• Changing the Angle of an Object’s Position
• Creating a Mirror Image of Existing Objects
• Creating Object Patterns
• Changing an Object’s Size

Drawing Organization and Inquiry Commands

• Using Layers
• Changing Object Properties
• Matching Object Properties
• Using the Properties Palette
• Using Linetypes
• Using Inquiry Commands

Altering Objects

• Trimming and Extending Objects to Defined Boundaries
• Creating Parallel and Offset Geometry
• Joining Objects
• Breaking an Object into Two Objects
• Applying a Radius Corner to Two Objects
• Creating an Angled Corner Between Two Objects
• Changing Part of an Object’s Shape

Working with Layouts

• Using Layouts
• Using Viewports

Annotating the Drawing

• Creating Multiline Text
• Creating Single Line Text
• Using Text Styles
• Editing Text

Dimensioning

• Creating Dimensions
• Using Dimension Styles
• Editing Dimensions
• Using Multileaders

Hatching Objects

• Hatching Objects
• Editing Hatch Objects

Working with Reusable Content

• Using Blocks
• Working with DesignCenter
• Using Tool Palettes

Creating Additional Drawing Objects

• Working with Polylines
• Creating Splines
• Creating Ellipses
• Using Tables

Plotting Your Drawings

• Using Page Setups
• Plotting Drawings

Creating Drawing Templates

• Using Drawing Templates