An introduction to Autodesk 3DS Max Design 2011

• interface & workflow
• project folder configuration
• viewports & navigation tools
• keyboard shorcuts
• reference coordinate system and Snaps
• asset browser

Creating a model

• parametric geometries and shapes
• high and low poly modeling
• modeling 3D objects from 2D shapes
• edge copying technique
• combine multiple modeling concepts to create photo-real models
• learn to build anything you can imagine
• scaling your model (reset Xform)
• Xview

Material Techniques

• learn a material’s workflow
• how to use material templates (arch and design and autodesk materials)
• how to create photorealistic materials
• how to apply a material (uvw map and unwrap uvw)
• open, save, create & merge materials libraries

Cameras & Views

• create & modify cameras
• create camera from view
• viewport background
• scene states
• isolation mode
• display object propreties

Lighting your scene

• standard and photometric lights- advantages & disadvantages
• distributions types photometric lights
• self iluminated materials
• interior lighting techniques
• daylight system
• shadow types

Animation

• how to animate objects & materials
• tips & tricks
• walk through animaction
• select & link objects

Rendering your model

• default scanline renderer
• mentalray renderer
• final gather
• rendering animations with mentalray
• panorama exporter
• print size assistant

Create PDF from Microsoft Office

• Generate PDFs from Microsoft Office
• The PDF Maker
• Embedding bookmarks, TOC, links

Document repurposing

• Powerpoint to PDF presentations
• HTML pages to PDF

Acrobat Distiller

• Create low and high quality PDFs
• Impact of resolution and font embedding
• PDF versioning

Generating PDF from Web pages

• Conversion options
• Selection mode
• Output control
• Embedded media settings
• Flash control

Combining PDFs

• Combine PDFs into single file
• Combine PDFs into PDF Portfolio
• Advantages of single files
• Advantages of PDF Portfolio
• PDF Portfolio deep dive

Layout modes

• Appending different media
• Customising Portfolio
• Home, index and list modes
• Upload to Acrobat.com

The Organiser

• Explore the organiser
• Favourite places
• Exploring metadata
• Network places

Navigating

• New customised toolbars
• Reset workspace
• Navigating views and pages
• Keyboard shortcuts

Editing and repurposing

• Use the touch-up text tool
• Change properties
• RepurposeExport data from insi
• Save out images
• Document wide extraction
• Conversion options

Secure your PDF file

• Different types of Acrobat security
• Security Policies
• Applying security and testing
• Password and permissions restrictions
• Removing security
• Acrobat 8.2.3 security implications

Optimise your PDF file

• Check for file content
• Reduce image size and compression
• Edit font embedding and remove metadata
• Flatten forms fields, remove comments

Acrobat.com

• Hosted Adobe service
• Connect as repository
• Product overview
• Creating a user account
• Remote presentations
• Gaining control of users desktop
• Chat and communication pods
• Adobe Buzzword
• File Manager and uploading

Adobe PDF Forms generation

• Generating a simple PDF (Acro) Form
• Discussing Adobe Livecycle Designer
• Examples of Form field recognition
• Understanding form field types
• Recycle fields across documents
• Repeating fields and form logic
• Naming fields and workflow considerations
• Form logic and validation
• Using simplified field notation
• Mandatory form entry and options
• Sending a forms workflow message
• Configure the reset, print and submit buttons
• Personal or workgroup form distribution
• Submitting and saving data with Adobe Reader
• Using the forms tracker
• Adobe Reader Extensions
• Collecting data and analysis
• Filtering and sorting results
• Response file and PDF Portfolio
• Merging older responses into current
• Exporting to CSV and XML

Playing Adobe Flash inside Acrobat

• Embed FLV and SWF files into Acrobat
• Benefits of Adobe Flash runtime
• Conversion and viewing options
• Managing Flash content inside of Acrobat

Digital Signatures

• Creating a password driven digital signature
• Creating a signature appearance
• Siging and document – visibly and invisible
• Exchanging digital signatures
• Creating trusted identities
• Applying security policies with trusted identities

Stamp customisation

• Making a signature stamp
• Configure user preferences for stamps
• Printing and flattening stamps

Send for Shared Review

• On-line workflow
• Sending a shared review invite
• Connecting to shared server
• Adding and manipulating comments
• Collaborate Live on the same page
• Shared Tracker Review

Collaborate Live

• Send for shared review
• use acrobat.com hosting
• Collaborate together within page
• Shared panel options
• Combined input

Previewing content

• Headers/footers and watermarks
• Add heders and footers
• Edit headers and footers
• Transparency effects
• Remove content

PDF/X Standards for Publishing and Print**

• PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3 and PDF/X-4 standards
• Adobe PDF Print Engine

Configure Adobe Acrobat

• Page box geometry
• Overprint preview
• Page display options
• Smooth line art

Apply trapping

• Integrate trapping
• Trapping presets

Output Preview

• Simulation Preview
• Object Inspector
• Density readings
• Rich ink control
• Overprinting objects

Preflight and fixups

• Preflight templates
• Fix-ups options
• Build your own fixup
• Building profiles
• Conversion to PDF/X
• Conversion to PDF/A
• Preflight and fix-ups droplets

Convert colours

• Conversion from one colour space
• Tag objects with ICC pfofiles
• Embed output intent

Crop pages

• Enlarge PDF page sizes
• Configure page boxes
• Trim, bleed, crop, media and crop box

Fixing Hairlines

• Increase vector strokes
• Convey minimum stroke weights for Type3

Flatten Transparency

• Flatten live transparency
• Preview and conversion settings
• Transparency overview

Accessibility from Microsoft Word

• Setting document structure
• Using styles and choosing fonts
• Document Properties
• Tables and lists

PDF Maker options for reflow

• Setting options
• Importance of reflow
• Metadata
• PDF presets and options

Accessibility checker

• Checking the PDF for accessibility
• Understanding most common problems
• Fixing most common problems
• Font mapping and device issues

Adding and modifying tags / structure

• Changing the reading order of a tagged document
• Adding document structure to an untagged document
• Adding alt tags to objects
• Remapping to artifacts and other elements

Read-aloud and scrolling inside Acrobat/Reader

• Configure display options
• Configure read-aloud options
• Configure scrolling options

After Effects User Interface and Animation

• what’s a project file & what’s in it?
• tools & panels
• workspaces

Basic Animation

• transform properties of layers
• keyframing: making element move
• importing Photoshop & Illustrator files

Intermediate Animation

• in depth Keyframe manipulation & interpolation
• graph editor
• Motion Sketch/Smoother
• Auto-Orient/Motion
• blur
• roving
• Keyframes,
• Anchor Point/Pan Behind Tool
• panning a large graphic: technique
• hold Keyframes

Layer Control

• keyboard shortcuts
• quality
• SlipTool,
• sequence layers
• Solo Switches
• looping footage
• image sequences
• Frame Rate vs. Time Stretch
• blending Modes
• effects & Solids with Blending Modes
• effects & Presets Panel
• adjustment layers

Transparency

• Masks
• Shape
• Feather
• Expansion
• Masking with the Pen Tool
• Bezier curves,
• Mask Shape Interpolation
• Mask modes,
• Mattes and Stencils
• Mask shapes

• Type and Titles*
• simple Rules of Titling
• basic text
• text animators/range selectors
• Randomising
• applying & saving text animation presets
• per character animators

Nesting

• precomps
• editing Precomps,
• locking panels
• render Order
• how After Effects put it all together

Exporting Files

• render Queue
• export As/Same Frame As
• pre-render

Keyframes

• different types of Keyframe
• velocity
• Keyframe shortcuts
• Keyframe graph editor

Type Draw, Paint

• all About Alphas
• working with Photoshop
• dots, pixels & Inches
• working with Illustrator
• plugging in Type

The Matrix

• Particle Playground

More On Effects

• production Bundle Effects Round-Up
• compound Effects

Animation Assistants

• additional Assistants
• motion Fun
• express Yourself
• animation & behaviour presets

Keying

• using Keylight

Time and Tracking

• time Remapping
• time Games
• on Stable Ground
• motion tracking
• time warp

Expressions

• writing a simple expression
• linking expressions to motion track

Working with 3D

• cameras
• lights
• 3D layers

NLE Integration

• integration 101
• integration with Nonlinear Editing Systems

Format Issues and Rendering

• video issues
• playing the field
• 3:2 pulldown
• luminance & IRE issues
• working with D1/DV NTSC
• working with widescreen
• pre-rendering & proxies
• advanced ‘Rendering-Render Farm Concept’
• what’s Your Preference?
• The ‘Secret Preferences’

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

Autodesk Certified Associate Exam Preparation

• Test Quiz
• Work through Exam preparation Guide
• Take ACA Exam
• Come back and take the Autodesk Certified Professional Exam

Introduction to Captivate

• the CBT Development Process
• resolution and Recording Size
• the Captivate Interface
• recording Projects
• hybrid Projects

Text Captions and the Timeline

• inserting a Text Caption
• working with the Timeline
• using Check Spelling
• aligning Captions
• editing Objects – Position and Size

Working with Images

• working with Blank Slides
• set Image Size and Position
• timing Options and Transition Effects
• working with Image Stacks
• using the Library

Pointer Paths

• buttons and Highlight Boxes
• pointer Paths and Types
• insert a Text Button
• insert an Image Button
• highlight Boxes

Rollover Captions

• rollover Area Properties
• inserting a Rollover Image
• inserting a Zoom Area

Slide Labels and Notes

• add a Slide Label
• add a Slide Note
• adding Audio Files to Projects
• add a Sound Effect to an Object

Add Background Music to a Project

• recording Audio
• calibrate a Microphone
• record a Slide Note
• edit an Audio File
• insert Silence

Animation and Flash Video

• Frame Rates
• Change a Project’s Frame Rate
• Add Animation to a Slide
• Change an Animation’s Slide Position
• Text Animation
• Insert Text Animation
• Insert Flash Video
• Set Flash Video Properties

Captivate and PowerPoint Slides

• Import a PowerPoint Presentation
• Resizing Projects
• Importing Captivate Slides and Objects
• Use Buttons to Create a Branch
• Explore the Branching Tab
• Export Branching View
• Print Documents
• Publish Word Handouts
• Exporting and Importing Captions
• Perform a “Round Trip” From Word

Skins and Templates

• Apply a BMP Playbar to a Project
• Apply a Skin to a Project
• Edit and Save a Skin
• Loading Screens
• Add a Loading Screen
• Templates
• Create a Project Template
• Record a New Project Based on a Template

Compliant Movies

• Bandwidth and Publishing
• Enable 508 Compliance
• Closed Captioning
• Add Closed Captions
• Link to a Web Site
• Set Project Properties
• Use the Bandwidth Monitor
• Publishing Flash and Standalone Project
• Publish a Flash File

Question Slides

• Insert a Question Slide
• Add an Image to a Question Slide
• Copy and Paste a Slide Background
• Format the Question Title
• Use the Slide Grid
• Format the Question Answer
• Set Question Slide Options
• Edit the Submit Button Text

MenuBuilder

• Creating Menu Builder Projects
• Publish Projects
• Create a MenuBuilder Project
• Format Styles
• Edit Items
• Export a MenuBuilder Project

Learning Management Systems

• Reporting Options and the Manifest
• Set Reporting Options
• Create a Manifest File
• Advanced Interaction
• Adjust Slide Object Interaction
• Publish a Zipped Flash Project
• Create an LMS Account
• Create an LMS Lesson
• Create an LMS Course
• Create an LMS Curriculum
• Test an E-Learning Course

Reviewing the Essentials

• Set General Preferences
• Rehearse a Script
• Set Recording Preferences and Keys
• Record a Custom Simulation
• Edit a Text Capture Template

Importing and Branching

• Import a PowerPoint Presentation
• Edit a PowerPoint Presentation
• Resize a Project
• Import Project Slides and Objects
• Label a Slide
• Use Buttons to Create a Branch
• Explore the Branching Tab
• Create a Slide Group
• Aggregate Published SWFs

Question Pools

• Insert a Question Slide
• Create and Rename Question Pools
• Add Questions to Question Pools
• Insert Random Question Slides

Accessible Projects

• Set Document Information
• Enable Accessibility
• Add Accessibility Text to Slides
• Import Audio
• Add Shortcut Keys
• Add Closed Captions

Commenting, Image Editing and Photoshop Layers

• Send a Project for Review
• Create a Background Mask
• Edit a Slide Background
• Delete a Slide Background
• Import a Photoshop File
• Work with Photoshop Layers

Variables, Widgets and Buttons

• Add Document Information
• Insert a System Variable
• Edit a System Variable
• Create a User Variable
• Use a Variable to Gather Data
• Insert a Question Widget
• Insert a Certificate Widget
• Create Custom Buttons

Project and Design Templates

• Create a Project Template
• Create a Project From a Template
• Record Additional Slides
• Delete Unused Objects
• Create a Mask
• Add a Text Animation Placeholder
• Create a Design Template
• Format Design Template Objects
• Apply a Design Template to a Project

Advanced Actions

• Control Object Visibility
• Name Items
• Attach Multiple Actions to Objects
• Create Variables
• Add Text Entry Boxes
• Create a Script
• Attach a Script to a Slide
• Test and Edit a Script

Learning Management Systems

• Set Quiz Reporting Options
• Create a Manifest File
• Report a Button Interaction
• Adjust Slide Object Interaction
• Publish a Content Package
• Create an Inquisiq LMS Account
• Create an LMS Lesson
• Create an LMS Course
• Create an LMS Curriculum
• Test an eLearning Course

Introduction to Maxon Cinema 4D

• Overview
• Overview of Cinema 4D
• The Cinema 4D interface
• The Camera and Object views
• Customising your workspace

Modelling

• Creating a manipulating primitive shapes
• Creating and understanding splines
• Creating Nurbs
• Shapes and parameters
• Deformers
• Polygon modelling tools
• Creating and applying textures
• Adding text & company logos
• Importing Adobe Illustrator paths

Creating a scene

• Adding a floor object
• Adding the Sky object
• Adding Lighting
• Light textures, projections & shadows
• The Material Manager
• Creating new materials
• Concepts of colour, transparency, reflection…
• Applying a material to an object
• Changing a materials mapping
• Applying Video textures to objects

Body Paint 3D

• Introduction to UV maps
• How to use Body Paint 3D to create textures
• Camera mapping your new models flawlessly into existing imagery
• Projection Painting/Texturing
• How to leverage Adobe Photoshop to really enhance the texturing process.

Animation

• Timeline concepts
• Setting Keyframes
• Animating objects and cameras
• Editing animation sequences
• Creating an animation path for your object
• Animating the camera
• Rendering the animation
• Animating Nurbs
• Multiple cameras
• Animating the light

Rendering / Exporting

• Rendering a view
• Rendering settings
• Rendering for Print
• Rendering for Video
• Rendering with Alpha Channels
• Creating a Render queue
• Importing and exporting from other 3D packages
• Rendering your project to different formats (MOV, Image sequences & Quicktime VR)

Advanced Techniques

• Lighting and Materials
• The Material Manager
• Creating new materials
• Concepts of colour, transparency, reflection…
• Applying a material to an object
• Changing a materials mapping
• Manipulating lights

Learn

• Customising the interface
• Tailoring cinema 4D for you
• Intelligent working methods
• Filtering out surplus information

Rendering

• Lighting schemes
• Improve quality
• Enhance realism
• Vastly reduce render times

Modelling & Materials

• Deformers
• Optimising meshes
• SLA advanced textures
• Volumetric materials

Animation

• Animating everything
• F-Curve control
• Particle systems
• XPresso nodes

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 optimizing 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

After Effects User Interface and Animation

• What is a project file and what is in it?
• Tools and Panels how to around in the application
• Workspaces selecting/saving/setting

Basic Animation

• Transform properties of layers
• Keyframing: making element move
• Importing Photoshop and Illustrator files

Intermediate Animation

• In depth keyframe manipulation and interpolation
• Graph Editor
• Motion Sketch/Smoother
• Auto-Orient/Motion Blur
• Roving Keyframes
• Anchor Point/Pan Behind Tool
• Panning a large graphic: technique
• Hold Keyframes

Layer Control

• Trim-move-stack-split (keyboard shortcuts)
• Quality
• Slip Tool
• Sequence Layers
• Solo Switches
• Looping Footage
• Image Sequences
• Frame Rate vs. Time Stretch
• Blending Modes
• Effects and Solids with Blending Modes
• Effects and Presets Panel: animation presets
• Adjustment layers

Transparency

• Masks
• Shape
• feather
• expansion
• Masking with the Pen Tool: Bezier curves
• Mask Shape Interpolation
• Mask modes
• Mattes and Stencils
• Mask shapes

Type and Titles

• Simple Rules of Titling
• Basic Text
• Text Animators/Range Selectors
• Randomizing
• Applying and Saving Text Animation presets
• Per character animators in

Nesting

• Precomps
• Editing precomps
• Locking panels

Render Order

• How After Effects put it all together

Exporting Files

• Render Queue
• Export As
• Same Frame As
• Pre-render

The Workspace in Premiere Pro

• Workspaces
• Working with the Project window
• Importing clips and image files
• Working with the Monitor window
• Working with the Timeline window
• Navigating to a specific frame in the Timeline and Program View
• Using labels
• Using palettes

Sequencing and Basic Real-Time Editing

• The Real-Time editing experience
• Adding clips to the Timeline
• Developing a sequence and using Automate to Sequence
• Using the Automate to Sequence command
• Multiple sequencing
• Viewing the rough cut
• Refining the rough cut
• Pre-trimming clips using the Source view
• Fine-tuning in the Timeline
• Exporting the Timeline as a movie

Transitions

• About transitions
• The Effects palette
• Inserting a transition
• Previewing the transition
• Pre-trimming a clip and adding a transition
• Adding a transition using the Effects palette
• Changing the attributes of transitions
• Adding multiple transitions at one time
• Transitions used as special effects

Fundamentals of Multipoint Editing

• Understanding three-point and four-point editing
• Making a three-point edit
• Linking and unlinking clips
• Handling unsynchronized linked clips
• Closing a gap with the Ripple Delete command

Integrating Adobe After Effects

• Photoshop and Illustrator with Premiere Pro
• Using effects from other Adobe programs
• After Effects and Photoshop ‘inside’ Premiere Pro

Titles and Credits

• Creating a simple title
• Using the ellipse tool
• Mapping a textured fill
• Rolling titles and crawling titles
• Using titles in a Premiere Pro project
• Adding titles to the Timeline
• Using other programs to create titles

Audio

• Getting to know the Audio workspace
• Automating the mixing process
• Creating and adjusting audio effects
• Using markers to synchronise clips
• Finishing the movie with audio effects and music
• Multiple audio effects in a clip
• Working with 5.1 audio files
• Exporting the movie as a 5.1 audio file

Introducing the Course

• Understanding the course format
• Reviewing the course objectives and prerequisites
• Looking at the course outline
• Adobe Flash New Features*
• New user interface
• Adobe 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 Behaviours

• Using Script Assist
• Adding actions to a frame
• Creating and using Button symbols
• Adding behaviours 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 FLV Playback 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 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

Introducing the Course

• Understanding the course
• Reviewing the course objectives and pre-requisites
• 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
• Customising 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 email 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

Adobe Certification Prep and ACA Exam day

• Take Practice exam
• Work through exam preparation sheet
• Any other questions?
• Dreamweaver ACA Exam

Screening and Marking in the Final Cut Pro Interface

• Launching Final Cut Pro
• Final Cut Pro Interface
• Following a Workflow
• Working with Projects
• Organizing Elements
• Playing Clips in the Viewer
• Navigating Clips
• Project Tasks
• Navigating a Sequence
• Marking Clips
• Quitting & Hiding Final Cut Pro

Editing Clips in the Timeline

• Managing Project Elements
• Editing a Rough Cut
• Making Overwrite Edits
• Managing Timeline Tracks
• Making Insert Edits
• Adding Audio Clips
• Moving Clips in the Timeline
• Drag-and-Drop Editing
• Changing Volume of Edited Clips

Finishing the Rough Cut

• Adding Cutaways
• Editing to Narration
• Editing to Music
• Copying
• Cutting
• Pasting
• Positioning Clips

Trimming to Refine Clip Duration

• Preparing a Project for Trimming
• Trimming Overview
• Rippling Edit Points
• Rippling in the Viewer and by Numbers
• Trimming on the V2 Track
• Trimming One Track of a Linked Clip

Trimming to Refine a Sequence

• Preparing Your Sequence
• Adjusting Two Edit Points
• Slipping One Clip
• Slipping Sequence Clips
• Rolling Two Edit Points
• Sliding Clips to Refine Position
• Dragging Clips to New Locations
• Keeping Linked Clips in Sync

Refining the Edit Process

• Creating Subclips
• Adding Markers to Clips
• Storyboard Editing
• Replacing Edits
• Editing Multicamera

Supporting the Editing Process

• Reconnecting Media
• Playing Multiple Formats
• Working with Master Clips
• Logging Information in Browser Columns
• Finding and Labelling Project Items
• Customizing Shortcut Keys and Buttons
• Saving and Loading Layouts
• Optimizing User Preferences

Capturing Footage

• Connecting Sources for Capture
• Creating a New Project for Capturing
• Previewing and Marking Your Source
• Logging Clips
• Choosing Clip Settings
• Choosing Capture Settings
• Choosing Capturing Options
• Setting Capture Preferences
• Acquiring Other Media

Applying Transitions

• Evaluating Project Needs
• Understanding Transitions
• Viewing Transition Options
• Applying Transitions
• Modifying and Copying Transitions
• Using the Transition Editor
• Changing Transition Parameters
• Previewing and Rendering Effects

Mixing Audio Tracks

• Preparing the Project
• Organizing and Editing Audio Tracks
• Monitoring and Adjusting Audio Levels
• Applying Transitions to Fade Volume
• Setting Keyframes to Change Volume
• Using the Audio Mixer
• Recording a Narration Track
• Importing CD Tracks

Creating Titles

• Working with Video Generators
• Applying a Boris Title
• Creating a Credit Roll
• Adding Mattes and Other Generated Items
• Building a Composite Opening Title
• Using Master Templates
• Working with Graphics

Changing Motion Properties

• Changing Speed Properties
• Creating a Freeze-Frame
• Changing Clip Size and Position
• Building a Split Screen
• Animating Motion Parameters

Applying Filters

• Applying and Viewing Filters
• Viewing and Modifying Filter Parameters
• Applying Audio Filters
• Using a Colour Correction Filter
• Animating Filters

Finishing and Outputting

• Detecting Audio Peaks
• Adjusting Video Levels for Broadcast
• Understanding File Formats
• Exporting QuickTime Files
• Outputting to Tape
• Backing up Projects

Day 1 – Introducing Flash

Introducing Flash CS5

• 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

• strokes
• fills
• solving classic problems

Shape Interaction

• working in a single layer causes its problems
• accidental fill on fill
• but this can be useful
• 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
• a workflow for transparent content
• working with “vector” artwork

Being Symbolic ?

• the concept
• convert to symbol
• compare and discuss the symbol types
• look at color 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
• 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
• how to add a simple link

The Building Blocks of a Simple Microsite

• building a button o
• duplicating symbols
• bringing the buttons together
• using a movieclip for the background
• sketching out the design

Building our first page

• the home page

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

Day 3 – Pushing Our Movies Further

Banner adverts

• dimensions and file sizes
• working our graphics before use
• the kuler extension
• motion tweening with the motion editor and easing
• duplicating motion to a second symbol
• motion presets
• mask layers and movieclips in retrospect

Introducing Interaction

• movieclips as buttons
• using this to create popups
• blend modes and reflections
• instance names
• scaling symbols and 9-slice view
• the scroll pane and scrolling content

Frame by Frame Animation

• illustrator as a tool
• the import process
• drawn and scanned content
• import an image series
• tracing bitmaps and optimizing curves

Character Animation and the Bones Tool

• importing from illustrator and movie clips
• using the bones tool
• building a basic animation*

Working in 3D

• first, the limitations
• using perspective to produce a different design
• gradient styles
• bitmap fills
• blend modes to darken into the distance
• movement in 3D and the motion editor
• rotation in 3D and the classic problem of completion
• publish settings and GPU acceleration

Working with XFL

• After Effects to Flash workflow
• Indesign to Flash using xfl

Getting it All Online

• using a swf in a dreamweaver page
• window modes and overlapping divs
• the code produced by flash and how to use it

Day 4 – Building Better Microsites

The Flash Project

• creating a project
• separating content into separate swfs
• the UILoader component
• backgrounds and 9-slice scaling
• libraries and runtime sharing

Building Navigation

• movieclips as buttons
• frame labels
• audio on our buttons and runtime sharing
• grouping buttons as a navigation bar
• filters revisited
• instance names
• accessibility on our buttons
• applying a document class to intercept interaction

The Home Page

• static text and anti-aliasing
• importing an image for use
• converting to a movieclip to apply a filter
• introducing dynamic text
• fixing the size and making it scrollable
• adding the all important scroll bar
• making our text and images accessible
• considering localisation of content

The About Page

• working in the library
• producing more interesting content
• don’t forget accessibility and localisation
• using the scroll pane to make it scroll

The Products Page

• building another swf
• creating each “item” as a movieclip
• using the UILoader to load images at runtime
• the download preview

The Contact Page

• using scenes for navigation
• building a more interesting navigation bar with images
• applying a class to our buttons
• duplicating the scenes
• applying a document class to resolve navigation
• importing images
• making the map more exciting with a component
• building a form to collect information
• the importance of instance names

Publishing and Previewing Our Microsite

• reviewing the publish settings
• publishing the movie
• viewing in the browser

Day 5 – The Design <→ Develop Workflow*

The Key is in the Name

• planning and communication
• the initial design prototype and the first development meeting
• symbol names and types
• instance names
• “export for actionscript” and eloquent structure

Banner Advert ClickTags

• the theory of banner advert providers
• an insight into the html
• applying a document class to our banner
• viewing the example online

A Preloader

• movie structure
• “export for actionscript”
• looking at the bandwidth profiler
• adding a preloader scene
• changing the compiler settings
• using the deco tool to produce a preloader animation
• linking to our document class
• testing the movie and simulating the download

A ProgressBar

• the progress bar plan
• working in layers
• instance names and registration points
• masks can make things look great!
• clever looping animation
• using and naming our progress bar
• linking to the class definition
• testing the movie and simulating the download

A Photo Gallery

• the prototype sketch
• preparing our photos using batch processing
• writing an xml file
• building our flash movie
• creating dummy movieclips
• dynamic text and embedding fonts
• adding backgrounds and borders
• linking in our document class
• testing the movie and simulating the download

A Presentation

• working with scenes
• adding some animation
• playing it through
• it would be nice to have some control
• applying our code from the developer
• exploring the functionality

A Simple Tabbed View

• building our tabs
• building our pages
• naming the instances
• linking the pages and tabs to the base class
• enabling the component definitions
• viewing the component inspector
• setting the parameters
• testing the movie

A 3D Carousel

• building each item as a movieclip
• building a popup as a named instance
• creating a dummy movieclip to determine width, height and position
• applying a background gradient
• compile items into a CarouselItems movieclip and “export for actionscript”
• link our carousel to the developer’s code
• testing the movie

An MP3 Player

• building our individual components
• bringing them together and naming the instances
• linking our MP3Player to the developer’s code
• enabling the component definition
• drag and drop the component into the design
• use the component inspector to set the mp3 filename

An e-Book

• building our individual components
• bringing them together and naming the instances
• linking the document to our developer’s code
• testing the movie and exploring the functionality

A 3D Loader for Product Visualisation

• building a dummy placeholder
• linking to the developer’s code
• enabling the component definition
• adding the component to the movie
• setting the 3d filename in the component inspector
• testing the movie and exploring the functionality

Flash Adobe Certified Associate Exam

• Preparation
• Exam
• Pass or fail?

Day 1 – Introducing Actionscript

Introducing Actionscript

• a brief history of flash
• Actionscript 123
• building a flash file
• exploring the document settings
• adding code on the timeline
• layers, organization and good structure

The Actionscript Syntax

• adding comments
• variables and assigning memory
• data types and assigning values, String, Number, int, uint and Boolean
• complex data types and instantiation and Date
• trace – your best friend in flash development
• breakpoints, debugging and the downloads

Controlling our Visual Design with our Code

• the importance of instance names
• feeling your way in the dark
• strong typing and defining aliases in code
• using getChildByName to access the ‘named’ objects
• casting – giving flash a hint
• modifying a movieclip’s properties, x, y, alpha, scaleX, scaleY and rotation
• saving time (but not effort) with with

All the World’s a Stage

• the width and height of the stage
• some useful properties, frameRate, fullScreenWidth, fullScreenHeight, displayState and wmodeGPU

Using the Stage Dimensions

• randomizing properties, x (Math.random() * this.stage.stageWidth) etc
• its no fun with just 1 – the for loop and numChildren
• that’s great, but what if we want 142

Tidying up the Code

• functions to do stuff
• call the functions
• passing an object to a function

If you can do it in Design…

• we’ve seen alphas, what about a tint, importing extra libraries filters such as bevel, drop shadow and blur
• introducing arrays, some simple shorthand and more formal instantiation

Adding Mouse Interaction

• asking questions, an if and an is
• the buttonMode property
• adding event listeners (the trickiest of all)
• event handling functions and the game of catch
• back to trace
• event.target

Controlling the Flow

• stopping the movie
• making it start again, and designing a button to do it
• changing the mouse pointer
• adding an audible click using the code

Making Interaction More Interactive

• mouse down and mouse up
• enabling drag and drop
• limiting the drag area
• watching out for classic problems
• bringing our item to the top
• adding and removing a drop shadow

Scripted Animation Using the Tween Class

• importing the necessary
• on drop…. plummet
• its ok, but where’s gravity gone? – easing to the rescue

Day 2 – An Orientation to Object Oriented Development

Drawing is so passe

• when we draw we create an object, can we do it in code?
• our first class
• extending code to save time and effort
• the constructor function
• shapes and the drawing api
• this is all a bit conceptual, let’s put one on the stage
• making our shape randomly position itself
• applying a gradient fill with code
• applying a tint in a random colour

Perhaps this is a bit Extreme

• Design <→ Develop workflow
• draw in the library, control behaviour in code
• our second class
• public and private instance variables
• reintroducing our randomness
• add many from the stage and see the code take charge

So if we can Inherit Behaviour

• the concept of inheritance
• a simple UML diagram
• sneaking something in the gap
• writing a ‘drag and drop’ movieclip class
• applying this to our class using inheritance
• testing the behaviour

Controlling the Whole Movie

• if we can control each library item, can we control the movie?
• getting the code off the timeline
• the document class – a massive movieclip
• loading and playing an mp3 bed
• controlling the volume of the audio
• event listeners and the id3 meta data in the mp3

Allowing Our Objects to Move

• can we give an object motion?
• instance variables and introducing setters/getters
• waiting until our object is on the stage
• the ‘enter frame’ event
• handling the event in a protected function
• using the Point class to help with the trigonometry
• checking we’re still on the stage
• apply the behaviour to some library items as the ‘base class’

Keeping Track of Each Other

• instance versus class variables
• maintaining a list in a static variable
• iterating through the array on enter frame
• performing a hit test
• handling the collision
• notifying the parent container
• handling this notification

Watching Some Video

• building a simple interface
• toggling the play/pause button
• displaying the flv filename
• allowing our movie to change the filename
• getting the video to work

Watching Ourselves

• using the camera
• taking a snapshot
• bitmaps and bitmapdata
• using the UILoader class to display the snapshot

Day 3 – Working with an Entire Project

Working in a Project

• creating a flash project
• creating and setting our default document
• coming up with a design
• building our scene
• working in layers
• buttons, movieclips and navigation
• splitting out our pages into modules
• loading them in with the UILoader
• adding our document class and working in folders

Building a Preloader

• building a preloader animation
• adding a scene for it
• the bandwidth profiler gives it all away
• ‘export for actionscript’ and the compiler settings
• writing the ‘PreloadedDocument’ base class
• implementing the base class with inheritance
• testing the movie and simulating the download

Tracking the Progress

• creating the ‘ProgressDisplay’ movieclip
• discussing the design
• building the components and naming the instances
• adding it in, and naming it !
• writing the code to control it
• testing the movie and simulating the download

Building Our Pages as Separate Movies

• working with multiple swfs
• adding the movies to the project publish list
• designing the scenes
• implementing our preloader and progress
• testing the movies individually

Implementing the Navigation

• listening for mouse events
• event.target and the switch statement
• getChildByName and the UILoader
• loading the correct page
• testing the movie and simulating the download

Dynamically Loading Text

• The Home document class
• changing our static text to be dynamic
• getChildByName and setting the text programmatically
• font embedding
• extracting our text into an external file
• adding some html formatting to the text
• loading the text from the file
• tracking the load complete event
• displaying the text in the dynamic text box
• exploring the html formatting
• revisiting our font embedding
• adding scrollable functionality to the text box

Going Even Further

• we want to build a list of products
• building the list in another fla
• implementing the preloader
• using a scroll pane to load the content
• testing the project and simulating the download

Bonus Topic – Loading XML Data

• loading some xml, after all its only text
• breaking it down and grabbing what we want
• looping through and tracing out the data
• homework – try and build the products list dynamically

Day 4 – OO, Events and Design Patterns

Straight in at the Deep End

• a revision of OO and the document class
• design patterns and introducing mvc
• planning our strategy
• the model and the singleton pattern
• handling the logic in the controller
• custom events and inheritance
• the problem with events
• building an event bus
• commands to do the work and interfaces
• linking the event to the command
• triggering our first command
• utilizing someone else’s code – the flex sdk
• loading our data from an xml file
• strong typing and valueobjects
• responders, asynctokens and the model
• telling the view our data’s ready

Dynamically Creating Content

• first, build a visual representation of the component
• program the class and alias the visual children
• expose the properties using setters and getters
• think about accessibility
• linking to the model
• for each iteration
• adding and positioning children
• the scroll pane as a useful tool
• rollover interaction and the mouse enabled property

Custom Events that Carry Data

• previewing a product
• dispatch from a view, handle in the controller
• store the ‘selected’ item in the model
• notifying the view
• constructing the component
• writing the class to tie it all together

A Favourites List

• movieclips as buttons and a handy base class
• events and commands to add to the favourites
• using the List control and the DataProvider class
• checking we’re not adding the same product twice
• removing a single item from the list
• removing all the items from the list
• storing the favourites for next time
• loading the favourites next time in

Using FlashVars

• passing data from the html into the movie
• allow the xml filename to be passed in
• breakpoints and debugging
• making our movie load a different xml file

Making it Look Good

• nesting our movieclips allows us to apply effects, but not hinder functionality
• adding a little loading animation

Day 5 – Building and Implementing Components

Building an Audio Player

• the visual components
• an event architecture
• loading and playing the sound
• id3 tag info and displaying it in a text box
• controlling the volume
• muting the sound
• BONUS – analyzing the sound and displaying the frequency spectrum
• using compiler meta data to add a component definition
• using the component definition in the designer
• passing in the filename using the component inspector
• using our player in the products application

Toggling to Full Screen

• building a toggle button
• listening to the stage
• changing the display state
• making it work in the browser with html
• using our full screen toggle in the products application
• discussing the stage scale modes

Downloading Images From Our Application

• a custom event
• linking to a custom command
• the FileReference class
• event listeners and notification of the download
• notifying the user with a modal popup

Exploring the Idea of Popups

• a compare favourites panel
• iterating through the favourites data
• adding instances of a ‘compare’ movieclip
• using the scroll pane horizontally
• adding and removing the popup
• applying a transition with the transition manager

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 & 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

Creating Complex Illustrations

• Working with Compound Paths
• Use Expand Appearance to modify individual elements
• Keep your paths Simple & Cleaned Up
• Outline Strokes technique & option to add
• multiple Attributes to an Object
• Share the appearance attributes with Graphic Styles
• Create Custom Brushes: Calligraphy
• Scatter
• Pattern or Art – to place objects along a path
• Graphs – use your artworks instead of a simple bars

Modifying Artworks

• Discover Envelope Distort
• Utilize Clipping Masks for advanced design
• Live Paint as an easy way to colour artwork
• Learn about Transparency & Opacity Masks
• Stylize with Drop Shadows and Outer Glows
• Explore Gradient Mesh & its ability to add realistic
• 3D Shading and highlights to 2D graphics
• Learn the difference between Filters & Live Effects
• Advanced Blending techniques

Advanced Typographical Features

• Character Palette – adjust the kerning
• Baseline shift
• Horizontal & vertical scaling
• Paragraph Palette – Justification and Hyphenation options
• Use the 3D feature to extrude text or other Illustrator objects

Printing your Artwork

• Simulate multiple pages in Illustrator using the artboard and document setup
• Flattening Transparency for raster effects like drop shadows
• Glows and blurs
• Creating separations with Spot color vs. Process colour

Enhancing your workflow

• Live Colour for perfect Complementary / Analogous colours
• Creating Smart objects
• Dragging-and-dropping and exporting layers into Photoshop
• Editing options for PDFs
• Explore Links & Actions palettes
• Release to Layers command for quick web animations
• Get the best from Illustrator to Flash (SWF)

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 CS3 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

Enhancing your Workflow

• Section Starts
• Prefixes & Page Numbering
• Exploring Find / Change command
• Data Merge & Text Variables for Dynamic Data
• Customise advanced Preferences
• Synchronizing Book Documents
• Indexing & Table of Content
• Discover Interactive PDFs with Hyperlinks
• Navigational Buttons
• embedded Sounds and Movies

Advanced Typography

• Style Overrides & making use of Story Editor
• Share Styles with Snippets
• Explore Nested Styles
• Creating Hanging Indents
• Hyphenation & advanced Justification options
• Understand Anchored Objects

Mastering Tables in InDesign

• Working with Tabulators
• Table & Cells formatting
• Placing Graphics inside a Table
• Link Tables from MS Office for automated updates
• Importing Graphs & Charts from MS Office

Drawing Vector Graphics

• Using the Pen
• Pencil & Scissor Tools to work with Bézier Curves
• Combine Shapes for complex Compound Paths
• Utilise Clipping Paths for CD/DVD label design
• Gradient Feather tool
• Importing & Colouring B&W Images

Advanced Outputting & XML Export

• Learn about ICC Profiles & Colour Management
• Manage Rendering Intents
• Transparency Flattener & Trapping
• Outputting an Interactive PDF
• XML Tagging & mapping Tags to Style

Essentials

• Setting Your Project
• Views / Panels
• Hotbox
• Viewing Geometry
• Channel Box
• Layer Box
• Attributes Editor
• QWERTY Navigation
• Working with the Camera
• MEL
• User Interface
• Outliner / Hypergraph
• Grouping / Parenting
• Shelf
• Marking Menus

Modeling

• Curve Tools / Snapping
• Revolving
• History
• Duplicating
• Working with NURBS
• Detaching Surfaces
• Grouping / Duplicating
• Working with Polygons
• Combining Polygons
• Subdivisional surfaces
• Split Polygon Tool
• Lofting
• Extruding

Animation

• Lattices
• Clusters
• Set Driven Keys
• Set Driven Key advanced
• Joints / IK Handles
• Lightning Dynamics
• Keyframing / Time slider
• Attach to Path
• Secondary Animation
• Cycle Curves
• Playblasting

Rendering

• Hypershade
• Materials, Apply Materials
• Making Shader Networks
• Combining Ramps
• Layered Textures
• Intro to lights
• Making Bump Maps
• Working with Shadows
• UV Mapping
• Moving UV’s
• Specular Maps
• Paint FX
• Render View
• Camera Settings
• Render Globals