What you’ll learn

Photoshop Module

Using the drawing aids

• About rulers, grids and guides
• Position with the ruler tool
• Position with guides and the grid
• Use snapping
• Show or hide Extras

File formats discussion

• PSD, JPEG,TIFF,AI,PNG,GIF

Working with selections

• Understanding image pixels
• Selecting images using the marquee, lasso, polygonal lasso tools
• Selecting images with the quick selection tool
• Moving, hiding, or inverting selections
• Adding, subtraction and intersection
• Softening image edges

Working with Colours

• Understanding the CMYK and RGB models
• Setting foreground and background colours
• Choosing colours using colour box, eyedropper.
• Working with the Adobe Colour Picker
• Swatches palette overview
• Select a colour in the Swatches palette
• Add, replace, and delete colour swatches

Transforming images

• Cropping images
• Distorting, skewing, scaling images
• Rotating or flipping images
• Changing the canvas and image size

Retouching and repairing images

• Removing unwanted objects with the healing brush tool
• Removing blemishes or spots using spot healing brush tool
• Heal and patch an area

Colourizing images with Fill command

• Choosing various fill contents – using foreground and background
• Filling with black, white and gray colours
• Using blending effect - hue
• Setting opacity

Adding text and text effects

• How to change the fonts, size and other type attributes
• Type effects

Layer Basics

• About layers
• Layers palette overview
• Convert background and layers
• Create layers, group and duplicate layers
• Show or hide a layer, group, or style
• View layers and groups within a group

Working with layers

• Add layers to a group
• Change the stack order of layers and groups
• Move the content of layers
• Rotate a layer
• Lock layers

Setting opacity

• Specify opacity for a layer or group
• Specify fill opacity for a layer
• Specify a blending mode for a layer or group
• Filling new layers with a neutral color

Managing layers

• Rename a layer or group
• Delete a layer or group
• Export and merge layers

Layer effects and styles

• About layer effects and styles
• Layer styles dialog box overview
• Apply or edit a custom layer style
• Layer style options
• Display or hide layer styles
• Remove layer effects

Correcting mistakes

• Using the Undo and Redo commands
• Restoring part of an image to its previously saved version
• Working with the history palette

Channels 

• About channels
• Channels palette overview
• Show or hide a channel
• Show colour channels in colour
• Select, edit and delete channels

Saving selections and using masks 

• About masks and alpha channels
• Create a temporary quick mask
• Create and edit alpha channel masks
• Save and load selections

Illustrator Module

Work area basics

• Workspace overview
• About screen modes
• Using the status bar
• Enter values in panels and dialog boxes
• Control panel overview

Viewing and managing artwork

• Change the size of the artboard
• About page tiling
• Zoom in or out
• Navigator panel overview
• View artwork as outlines
• Use multiple windows and views

Rulers, grids, and guides

• Use rulers
• Change the unit of measurement
• Use the grid
• Use guides
• About Smart Guides
• Measure the distance between objects
• Info panel overview

Drawing basics

• About vector graphics
• About paths
• About direction lines and direction points
• Specify direction line and direction point appearance

Drawing lines and shapes

• Draw straight lines with the Line Segment tool
• Draw rectangles and squares
• Change the corner radius of a rounded rectangle
• Draw ellipses , polygons, stars, arcs

Drawing with the Pen tool

• Draw straight line segments with the Pen tool
• Draw curves with the Pen tool
• Draw straight lines followed by curves
• Draw curves followed by straight lines
• Draw two curved segments connected by a corner
• Reposition anchor points as you draw
• Finish drawing a path

Editing paths

• Select paths, segments, and anchor points
• Adjust path segments
• Adding and deleting anchor points
• Convert between smooth points and corner points
• Erase artwork
• Split a path

Logo Drawing / Tracing

• Trace artwork
• Change the display of a tracing object
• Adjust the results of a tracing
• Specify the colours used for tracing

About colour

• Understanding differernt colour models
• Change the colour mode of a document
• Colour spaces and gamuts
• About spot and process colours
• Select colours using the Colour Picker or Colour Panel
• Colour panel overview

Creating and using swatches

• About swatches and swatch libraries
• Swatches panel overview
• Add colours from artwork to Swatches panel
• Share swatches between applications
• Create a process-colour swatch
• Change the tint of a colour
• Create gradient swatches
• Duplicate swatches
• Import swatches from another document
• Create swatch libraries

Fills and strokes

• Painting methods
• About fills and strokes
• Fill and Stroke controls
• Apply a fill colour to an object
• Stroke an object
• Convert strokes to compound paths
• Add arrowheads to lines
• Remove the fill or stroke from an object
• Select objects with the same fill and stroke
• Create multiple fills and strokes

Transparency effect

• About transparency
• Transparency panel overview
• View transparency in artwork

Gradients and colour blends

• About gradients
• Gradient panel overview
• Create or modify gradients
• Apply an existing gradient to an object
• Change gradient direction or apply across multiple objects

Selecting objects

• Options for selecting objects
• Isolate groups and sublayers
• Select objects using the Layers panel
• Select objects with the Selection tool
• Select objects with the Lasso tool
• Select filled objects
• Select groups and objects in a group
• Select the next object in the stacking order

Grouping and expanding objects

• Group or ungroup objects
• Expand objects

Moving, aligning, and distributing objects

• Move objects
• Paste an object relative to other objects
• Pasting objects between layers
• Align and distribute objects

Rotating and reflecting objects

• Rotate objects
• Rotate the x and y axes of a document
• Reflect objects

Using layers

• About layers
• Layers panel overview
• Create a new layer
• Move an object to a different layer
• Release items to separate layers
• Consolidate layers and groups
• Locate an item in the Layers panel

Managing Objects

• Locking, hiding, and deleting objects
• Change the stacking order using the Layers panel
• Change the stacking order using commands
• Duplicate objects by dragging
• Duplicate objects by using the Layers panel
• Duplicate selections using drag and drop
• Offset duplicate objects

Transforming objects

• Transform panel overview
• Transform using the bounding box
• Scaling, shearing, and distorting objects

Combining, cutting and dividing objects

• Work with compound shapes
• Cut a hole in an object using a compound path
• Apply fill rules to compound paths
• Return a compound path to its original components
• Cut objects with the Knife tool
• Divide an object into a grid

Clipping masks and Compound Path

• About clipping masks
• Hide parts of objects with a clipping mask
• Create a clipping mask for a group or layer
• Edit a clipping mask
• Add or remove an object from masked artwork
• Release objects from a clipping mask

Blending objects

• About blended objects
• Create blends
• Blend options
• Change the spine of a blended object
• Reverse the stacking order in a blended object
• Release or expand a blended object

Importing files

• About linked and embedded artwork
• Place (import) files
• Update modified links
• Set placement options for linked artwork
• Embed and unembed a linked file
• Relink an embedded file
• Importing artwork from Photoshop

Saving and exporting artwork

• Save in AI, EPS format
• JPEG export options

Working with area type

• Resize a text area
• Change the margin around a text area
• Raise or lower the first baseline in a text area
• Wrap text around an object

Working with type on a path

• Move or flip text along a path
• Apply path type effects
• Adjust the vertical alignment of type on a path

InDesign Module

The Document Window

• rulers, margins, guides, X and Y coordinates
• ruler origin, pasteboard and page views

Using Palettes

• align, attributes, character, colour
• layers, library, links, navigator
• pages, paragraph and character styles
• story, stroke, swatches, table, tabs palettes

Document Setup

• layout options, grids
• zoom and hand tools
• controlling windows and saving documents

Working with Text

• creating text frames
• typeface, point size, line
• character spacing, alignment
• indents, hanging indents, kerning, tracking, leading

More text formating

• space before, space after
• using rules, drop caps
• drop cap
• indent to here

Working with Text box

• splitting, merging text box
• multi-columns text box using column guides and text box option

Working with Objects

• types of frames, basic shapes
• selecting, altering, aligning
• step and repeat, transforming
• grouping and locking objects

Master Page

• master page setup
• overriding master page’s items
• applying master page to document to standardize the format
• section

Page Numbering

• insert auto page number
• adding jump line, sectioning
• manual page numbering, page number prefix

Style

• paragraph style, character style
• nested style, tips and techniques in using style to manage a project

Working in Colour

• creating Pantone (spot) and CMYK (process) colours
• appending, swatches, gradients
• tints, defining, storing, swatch libraries

Styling Objects

• fills, strokes, corner effects
• transparency, drop shadows
• feathering, using the eyedropper

Working with Graphics

• placing artwork or graphics
• image import options
• various kind of fits

Layers

• working with layers
• creating, duplicating and deleting layers

Tabs and Tables

• tab characters, tab stops
• leaders, creating tables
• table options, cell options, strokes and fills

Exporting

• file options
• creating PDF files
• PDF styles, exporting text