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CS4 Design Workflow

CS4 Design Workflow

By the time you have finished watching this training course video series from AdobeCourses, you will be very proficient and confident in the new CS4 Design products. The chapters begin with a look at Adobe Bridge, then show you all about raster image editing with Photoshop, vector image editing with Illustrator and how to create a professional layout with InDesign. You'll also learn how to add multimedia with Acrobat, animate with Flash, edit web graphics with Fireworks and design a web layout with Dreamweaver. Before you are done, you will have all the tools you will need to give your next design project a professional polish and stay competitive in todays fast paced marketplace.

Highlights

  • Learn how to make the best use of Photoshop's color correction tools
  • Find out how to set up and manage multiple artboards in Illustrator
  • Discover how to add interactivity and multimedia to a PDF in Acrobat
  • See how to build a Flash movie for use in a Dreamweaver layout
  • Learn how to build a CSS-based layout from scratch in Dreamweaver


Single DVD-ROM
£ 66.66
See Also:
Dreamweaver CS4: Essentials Training
Flash CS4 Pro: Essentials Training
Illustrator CS4 Essentials

PACKAGE INCLUDES

  • Format - 1 DVD-ROM
  • Duration - 6 Hours of Beginner to Intermediate Training
  • Author - Geoff Blake
  • Platform - Windows & Mac OS

    • Course Outline

    COURSE OUTLINE

    Chapter 1: BRIDGE: THE HUB OF CREATIVE SUITE 4 (23 min)
    1. A Quick Tour of the Bridge Interface
    2. Browsing Images & Previewing Thumbnails
    3. Metadata, Keywords, Filtering & Collections
    4. Moving, Copying & Deleting Images
    5. Establishing the Creative Suite Color Settings
    6. Using Additional Bridge Tools & Adobe Services

    Chapter 2: RASTER IMAGE EDITING WITH PHOTOSHOP® (63 min)
    1. Introducing Photoshop CS4
    2. Basic Color Correction
    3. Selection Techniques
    4. Quick Mask Mode & the Masks Panel
    5. Working with Layers & Compositing
    6. Using Illustrator® Objects in Photoshop
    7. Adding Layer Styles & Creating Layer Comps
    8. Saving & Outputting from Photoshop

    Chapter 3: VECTOR IMAGE EDITING WITH ILLUSTRATOR® (60 min)
    1. Introducing Illustrator CS4
    2. Setting Up Multiple Artboards
    3. Working with Shapes, Fills & Strokes
    4. Tracing a Pencil Drawing with the Pen Tool
    5. Working with Live Trace
    6. Adjusting Colors & Gradients
    7. Working with Effects
    8. Outputting from Illustrator

    Chapter 4: LAYING IT ALL OUT WITH INDESIGN® (62 min)
    1. InDesign CS4 Interface & Navigation
    2. Drawing Shapes & Working with Color
    3. Managing Master Pages & Variables
    4. Inserting & Scaling Graphics
    5. Object Layer Options, Links & Edit Original
    6. Importing Text & Threading Text Frames
    7. Creating Paragraph Styles
    8. Adding Interactive Elements
    9. Outputting Your Work

    Chapter 5: ADDING MULTIMEDIA WITH ACROBAT® (30 min)
    1. Introducing Acrobat 9 Professional
    2. Adding Interactivity to PDF Layers
    3. Inserting Sound & Video into a PDF
    4. Merging Files & Creating a Full Screen Slideshow
    5. Assembling a PDF Portfolio

    Chapter 6: GETTING ANIMATED WITH FLASH® (43 min)
    1. Introducing Flash CS4
    2. Importing Illustrator Files
    3. Importing Photoshop Files & Layer Selections
    4. Creating & Animating Flash Symbols
    5. Applying an Action to a Button
    6. Motion Tweens, the Motion Editor & Motion Presets
    7. Creating a Banner Layout & Publishing to .SWF

    Chapter 7: EDITING WEB GRAPHICS WITH FIREWORKS® (16min)
    1. Opening Photoshop Files in Fireworks CS4
    2. Resizing Images
    3. Optimizing Images
    4. Setting Hotspots

    Chapter 8: DESIGNING A WEB LAYOUT WITH DREAMWEAVER® (56 min)
    1. Getting to Know Dreamweaver CS4
    2. Slicing an Image in Photoshop
    3. Creating a CSS Layout from Scratch
    4. Centering a CSS Layout
    5. Hyperlinks & CSS
    6. Using a Class Style to Control Layout
    7. Inserting Flash Video
    8. Integrating Photoshop Smart Objects
    9. Finishing Touches
    10. Credits