Adobe CS3 Advanced Design Bootcamp

Course Overview

CS3 Advanced Design training is a blended learning solution which combines our 4 day instructor led CS3 Advanced Design Bootcamp course, with 6 months access to our Learning Management System (LMS) including the CS3 Advanced Design training slides and demos, course discussion forums, extensive glossary, additional exercises and samples, and other online learning support.

The 4 day CS3 Advanced Design course is a great way to get up and running with the Adobe CS3 Design bundle. The course is suitable for anybody that has already attended the CS3 Design Bootcamp or has equivalent experience.

Audience

• Designers,
• Pre-press professionals,
• production managers,
• Web designers
• Anyone who wishes to take their Creative Suite skills to the next level should attend this class.
• Graphic designers or people switching into a design job or taking on design responsibilities.
• You will already have already attended the CS3 Bootcamp or have equivalent experience.

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you should complete the following courses, or have equivalent knowledge:

• Adobe Illustrator CS3 Essentials
• Adobe Photoshop CS3 Essentials
• Adobe Indesign CS3 Essentials

or

• CS3 Design Bootcamp

Course Outline

Photoshop CS3 Section

Actions

• Running
• Loading
• Recording
• Editing

Advanced masking

• Background Eraser/Magic Eraser
• Extracting
• Layer Masks
• Masking Shortcuts
• QuickMask mode
• Refine Edge

Advanced cloning

• Clone source
• Healing Brush
• Spot Healing
• Patch
• Quick Masking

Bridge

• Loupe
• Compare
• Stacking
• Colour management
• Rotations, Ratings, and Labels
• Batch re-naming
• Customising
• Slideshow

Editing brightness and contrast

• Curves, Brightness + Contrast
• Shadow/Highlight
• Levels - input and output

Advanced Compositing

• Auto Align
• Auto Blend (Photomerge)
• Image stack processing

Colour adjustment

• Colour balance
• Colour primaries
• Colour complements
• Hue-Saturation
• Hue Adjustment
• Refining the colour range

Sharpening

• Unsharp mask
• smart sharpen

Advanced layers

• Layer Comps
• Layer Clipping
• Fills
• Adjustment layers

Smart Objects and Smart filters

• How to create smart objects
• How to use smart objects
• Smart filters

Camera Raw 4

• Interface
• White balance
• Saving changes
• Exposure
• Warnings
• Vibrance/Saturation
• Tone curve adjustment
• HSL controls
• Colours to Black and white
• jpgs and tiffs

Vanishing Point version 2

• Planes and perspective
• Gridlines - exporting
• Cloning
• Healing
• Blending
• Masking/Shading
• Adding type
• Swinging planes
• Wrapping art

Advanced filter techniques

• Displacement maps
• Lighting
• Patterns

Optional Online Units

• Photoshop and 3D
• Measurement & Analysis
• Photoshop and movies

InDesign CS3 Section

Master Page Setup

• Basing Masters on Existing Master Pages
• Applying Master Pages to Multiple Document Pages
• Different page sizes
• Page shuffling
• Sections

Advanced Styles

• Local Overrides in Style
• Basing One Style on Another
• Importing and Redefining Styles
• Object styles
• Effects

Text Flow Control

• Inline Graphics
• Composition, Hyphenation, and Justification
• Tracking and Kerning
• Scaling Text
• Anchoring objects
• Advanced styles

Page Elements and Graphics

• Item Duplication
• File Formats
• Libraries
• Placing multiple files
• Placing InDesign files within InDesign files

Bezier Shapes

• Bezier Paths
• Compound Paths
• Clipping Paths
• Type Outlines

Document Sectioning

• Sectioned Documents
• Sectioned Document Navigation

Managing Long Documents

• Tables of Contents
• Indexing
• Creating a Book

Print Settings

• Print Presets
• Colour Separations Print Settings

InDesign and data

• Datamerge with InDesign
• Structuring InDesign Documents with XML
• Importing XML

Customising

• Important preferences
• Customising the menus, palettes, and keyboard shortcuts
• Text variables

Advanced tables

• Table styles
• Cell styles

Illustrator CS3 Section

Creating Complex Illustrations

• Create Shapes Using the Pathfinder Commands
• Create Compound Paths
• Offset Paths
• Apply Effects
• Create Symbols
• Create Custom Pattern Brushes
• Organise Objects with Layers
• Modify Global Colours
• Envelope distort
• Creating 3D Shapes

Providing Support for PSD and PDF Files

• Open Layered Photoshop Documents
• Create an Adobe PDF File

Tracing graphics - Live Trace

• Live Trace
• Adjust the Results of a Tracing
• Apply a Custom Preset
• Convert a Tracing Object to Paths

Colouring Artwork Using Live Paint

• Apply Paint Using Live Paint
• Correct Gaps in Objects
• Convert Objects to Live Paint Groups

Creating a Poster

• Simplify Paths
• Create Clipping Masks
• Create 3D Effects
• Create Blends
• Share Graphic Styles

Exporting Graphics for the Web

• Convert Colours to Web-Safe Colors
• Create Slices
• Add Interactivity to an SVG File
• Export Web Graphics

Applying Colour Management

• Decide When to Use Colour Management
• Set Up Colour Management

Outputting Documents

• Print a Composite Proof
• Create Colour Separations

Gradient Mesh tool

• Using the Gradient Mesh tool
• Creating sophisticated shading with the gradient mesh tool

Adobe CS3 Advanced Design Bootcamp / CS3ADB