Adobe Creative Suite: Introduction (Mac)

During the course you will cover:

• Outline
• Getting Acquainted with CC New Features
• Ascertain New Design Features in Adobe CC
• Examine Coding Features
• Identify Features for Media Usage
• Use Adobe Online Services
• Upgrading Photoshop Skills
• Customize the Interface
• Manipulate Images
• Enhance Photos
• Create Enhanced 3D Objects
• Creating Artistic Illustrator Graphics
• Organize Artwork in an Illustrator Document
• Create Complex Vector Shapes with Ease
• Simplify Artwork Creation
• Ensure Artwork Quality
• Export Illustrator Files
• Designing Documents with InDesign CC
• Ease Document Handling
• Manipulate Frames Using the Enhanced Features
• Lay Out Text in an InDesign Document
• Create Interactive Documents
• Export InDesign Documents
• Use InDesign Authoring Features

Upon completion of the course, students will:

• be familiar with selection techniques, and the most important tools and techniques in Photoshop
• be able to enhance any photograph in Photoshop by improving contrast, sharpness and colour balance
• know how to construct creative designs that combine shapes, text and images in Illustrator
• understand how to format text and images for business cards and posters in InDesign
• be able to create multi-page documents with text flow and images in InDesign 

Please note that while this class is perfect for beginners to the Adobe Creative suite, you will require basic computer skills. This includes keyboard and mouse skills (including being familiar with various right mouse click functions) and being able to comfortably navigate your way around either an apple or windows environment.

This course will not teach those basic computer skills.