| Duration | Five days |
| Public scheduled course | £975 plus VAT |
| Individual tuition | £2100 plus VAT |
The cost of this course includes six months telephone Helpline support, course notes, lunch and a certificate |
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| 20-09 to 24-09 | Waterloo | Book course |
| 04-10 to 08-10 | Highbury | Book course |
| 15-11 to 19-11 | Waterloo | Book course |
| 13-12 to 17-12 | Highbury | Book course |
| 17-01 to 21-01 | Waterloo | Book course |
| 14-02 to 18-02 | Highbury | Book course |
| 14-03 to 18-03 | Waterloo | Book course |
| 11-04 to 15-04 | Highbury | Book course |
| 16-05 to 20-05 | Waterloo | Book course |
| 13-06 to 17-06 | Highbury | Book course |
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Creative Suite Five Day Workshop
Course Overview
This week long practical course has been designed to be the quickest and most efficient way to get to grips with the key applications that all print designers need to know - InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat.
You will create professional documentation using Adobe InDesign, edit and enhance images in Photoshop, create vector illustrations and logos using Illustrator and produce print-ready artwork with Acrobat. All in a five day practical course run by experienced industry professionals. This course is designed to unlock your creative potential.
This five day Workshop is designed for those who need to learn the fundamentals of all four major graphics applications quickly. If you require a comprehensive, in-depth knowledge of any of these individual applications, we would recommend you take the relevant two day introductory course instead.
Course content
Introduction
An overview of how page layout, image editing and drawing applications collaborate
Design essentials
• Understanding contrast, alignment and proximity
• Combining colours
Working with Adobe InDesign
• Creating a new document
• Creating and using frames
• Introducing layers
Working with text
• Selecting and editing text
• Working with Styles
• Character and paragraph styles
• Editing and applying styles
Combining text and graphics
• Importing graphics from Illustrator or Photoshop
• Wrapping text around graphics
• Introducing snippets
• Editing copy
• Using Find/change
Working with colour
• Spot and process colours
• Using stroke and fill options
Laying out pages accurately
• Using rulers, grids and guides
• Using the Info panel
• Working effectively with layers
Finessing text content
• Threading/unthreading frames
• Flowing text through frames
• Multi-column text frames
• Working with Master Pages
• Creating and editing Masters
• Auto-numbering pages
Introducing transparency
• Transparency options
• Creating drop shadows
Printing from Adobe InDesign
• Printing from Adobe InDesign
• Exporting as a pdf
• Performing a pre-flight check
Photoshop essentials
• The Photoshop interface
• Using the Tool Options bar
• Using the Navigator panel
Working with images
• Image resolution, dimensions and file size
• Colour channels and modes
• Creating cut outs
• Understanding file formats
Editing images
• Cropping and rotating artwork
• Understanding image histograms
• Adjusting colour balance
• Colour correcting images
• The Hue/Saturation command
• Replacing object colour
Defining selections
• Using the lasso, magic wand and marquee tools
• Feathering selections
• Retouching techniques
• Cloning parts of an image
• Saving for print and the web
Illustrator essentials
• About vectors and bitmaps
• Creating a new illustration
• Exploring panels and workspaces
• Rules, guides and grids
• Paths, points and handles
• Creating shapes
• Editing paths
• Fill and stroke attributes
• Working with layers
• Creating logos
Drawing in Illustrator
• Creating primitive shapes
• Drawing freehand paths
• Tips for drawing curves
• Exporting files from Illustrator
Adobe Acrobat essentials
• Understanding pdf files - their form and function
• Using Acrobat for proofing
• Creating ultra-compact pdfs
Printing your work
• Creating print-ready artwork from InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop
• A pre-flight checklist
• Problem-free printing
Questions and answers