What you’ll learn

Advanced Illustrator 

Laying out a document

• options available for importing artwork by using the open command and the place command
• Working with shapes & objects
• transforming shapes by using the transform tools and/or the transform palette
• transforming shapes by using the distortion tools, such as warp, twirl, bloat, scallop, crystallize, wrinkle, liquify
• create, use, and customize brushes
• modify overlapping objects by using the transparency palette
• change the appearance of objects by using the styles palette and Effects menu
• change the appearance of objects by using the appearance palette
• create graphs by using the graph tools
• create, use, and edit symbols by using the symbols palette and symbols tools
• create and modify compound shapes by using pathfinder palette
• transform shapes by using warp effects
• more about selection techniques
• assign variables to objects

Live Paint

Text Formatting

• change the look of type by using the envelope command
• more about text
• creating columns of text
• making text wrap around graphics
• flowing text inside object
• setting tabs to create table

Creating 3D objects

• ways of making 3d objects :- Extrude, Bevel and Revolve
• fine tunning an 3d objects by setting different light sources, surface shading and mapping
• perspective settings

More about layers

• how layers can be used to help create and manage objects in a document
• change the attributes of objects in a layer by using the layers palette
• importing and exporting Adobe Photoshop layers
• export objects for a flash (SWF) by using the release to layers command

Publishing for the web

• options and considerations associated with preparing graphics that will be used on the web
• export Illustrator images that are optimized for publication on the web
• resolution and rasterization settings in the document setup dialog box
• create slices for objects and layers by using the slice tools

Advanced Photoshop  

Colour correction

• workflow of colour correction
• tonal range, highlight and shadow discussion
• how to read histogram
• using level command
• how to remove colour cast
• how to improve the overall contrast and brightness of a photo
• technique to locate the highlight (brightest area) and shadow (darkest area)
• using the curve tool
• colour correction using the curve tool
• creating solarize effects
• creating posterization effect
• variation
• HSB method
• unsharp mask
• why using unsharp mask
• discussion on how the amount / threshold and Radius affect an image

Advanced layers operation

• adjustment layer
• advanced techniques in colour correction with the use of adjustment layers
• layer mask
• bitmap mask
• vector mask
• clipping group

Channel operations

• general concepts of channel
• saving selection into alpha channel
• loading selection from alpha channel
• introduction to quick mask
• how to use quick mask to create complicated selection
• shadow text
• glowing effect
• channel editing

Using actions

• create an action by using options in the actions palette
• play an action by using the batch command including using File Browser as the source
• create a droplet from an action
• describe the purpose of specific automate commands

Advanced InDesign  

Using baseline grid

• setting the baseline grid distance
• locking paragraphs to the baseline grid
• grid threshold

Advanced settings on justifications and hyphenation

• word spacing - minimum, desired and maximum
• letter spacing - minimum, desired and maximum
• single word justification
• hyphenation options - after first, before last, hyphen limit
• hyphenation zone

Keep options

• widnow and orphan control
• keeping title and body text together
• start paragraphs
• widow and orphan control

Paragraph rules

• rule before and after
• using rule to create title text effect

More about find and change

• changing text attributes
• wildcard searching
• changing styles

Graphics

• using pen tool
• using pathfinder - add, substract, overlap

More on styles

• objects styles
• table styles

Libraries

• create your own libraries
• using libraries
• storing objects and retrieving objects

Managing long document

• using book function
• how to synchronize styles and colour swatches in different documents
• table of contents
• numbering and section
• creating index

Printing

• using printer styles function
• preflight and package

Customization

• keyboard shortcuts
• menu