By the time you've finished watching this video series, you'll be very proficient and confident in the new CS4 Design products. The chapters begin with a look at Adobe Bridge, and then show you all about raster image editing with Photoshop, vector image editing with Illustrator and how to create a professional layout with InDesign.
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
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Total Training All-Access library.
In Adobe CS4: Design Workflow, 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’re done, you’ll have all the tools you’ll need to give your next design project a professional polish and stay competitive in today’s fast paced marketplace.
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Course outline
Chapter 1: BRIDGE: THE HUB OF CREATIVE SUITE 4 (23 min)
Chapter 2: RASTER IMAGE EDITING WITH PHOTOSHOP® (63 min)
Introducing Photoshop CS4
Basic Color Correction
Selection Techniques
Quick Mask Mode & the Masks Panel
Working with Layers & Compositing
Using Illustrator® Objects in Photoshop
Adding Layer Styles & Creating Layer Comps
Saving & Outputting from Photoshop
Chapter 3: VECTOR IMAGE EDITING WITH ILLUSTRATOR® (60 min)
Introducing Illustrator CS4
Setting Up Multiple Artboards
Working with Shapes, Fills & Strokes
Tracing a Pencil Drawing with the Pen Tool
Working with Live Trace
Adjusting Colors & Gradients
Working with Effects
Outputting from Illustrator
Chapter 4: LAYING IT ALL OUT WITH INDESIGN® (62 min)
InDesign CS4 Interface & Navigation
Drawing Shapes & Working with Color
Managing Master Pages & Variables
Inserting & Scaling Graphics
Object Layer Options, Links & Edit Original
Importing Text & Threading Text Frames
Creating Paragraph Styles
Adding Interactive Elements
Outputting Your Work
Chapter 5: ADDING MULTIMEDIA WITH ACROBAT® (30 min)
Introducing Acrobat 9 Professional
Adding Interactivity to PDF Layers
Inserting Sound & Video into a PDF
Merging Files & Creating a Full Screen Slideshow
Assembling a PDF Portfolio
Chapter 6: GETTING ANIMATED WITH FLASH® (43 min)
Introducing Flash CS4
Importing Illustrator Files
Importing Photoshop Files & Layer Selections
Creating & Animating Flash Symbols
Applying an Action to a Button
Motion Tweens, the Motion Editor & Motion Presets
Creating a Banner Layout & Publishing to .SWF
Chapter 7: EDITING WEB GRAPHICS WITH FIREWORKS® (16min)
1. Opening Photoshop Files in Fireworks CS4
Resizing Images
Optimizing Images
Setting Hotspots
Chapter 8: DESIGNING A WEB LAYOUT WITH DREAMWEAVER® (56 min)
Getting to Know Dreamweaver CS4
Slicing an Image in Photoshop
Creating a CSS Layout from Scratch
Centering a CSS Layout
Hyperlinks & CSS
Using a Class Style to Control Layout
Inserting Flash Video
Integrating Photoshop Smart Objects
Finishing Touches
Credits
Presenter Info
Geoff Blake is a Toronto-based author, trainer, designer, and artist. For the past ten years, he’s provided a wide range of graphic design, artwork, consulting, in-class training, and web design services.
A professional public speaker since 1997, Geoff has taught desktop publishing, web design ,and graphics courses in both the corporate and post-secondary environments, working closely with some of the largest training providers and colleges in the Toronto area. His appearances, in-class training, and consulting have taken him throughout North America, where he’s built a solid reputation for delivering otherwise jargony material in a fun, enjoyable, and entertaining way. With his diverse print and web experience, he regularly contributes to magazines and web sites, and is currently working on a series of print, web, and design books—penning Ten Ton Dreamweaver in 2006 with Peachpit Press, and following up with Ten Ton Flash, which is in current production.
Geoff is very comfortable with modern digital and pre-press print preparation, cutting edge web design techniques, and software/hardware troubleshooting. Throughout his career, he’s provided expert training and support for a variety of applications, including Microsoft Office, Dreamweaver, Flash, Photoshop, Acrobat, InDesign, Illustrator.
You can visit Geoff online at tentonbooks.com, where he posts his latest tricks, techniques, reviews, and other discoveries in the ever-expanding world of technology.
