Short Courses
Graphic Design
Course Outline
Photoshop CS4
MODULE ONE
- What is Photoshop?
- Getting to know your work area
- Using the file browser
- Working with selections
MODULE TWO
- Photoshop overview
- Layer basics
- Image modes and adjustments
- Creating special effects
MODULE THREE
- Painting and editing
- Mask and channels
- Filter basics
- Typographic Design
MODULE FOUR
- Basic Photo correction
- Retouching and repairing
- Advanced layer effects and techniques
- Correcting and enhancing digital photographs
MODULE FIVE
- Vector Drawing techniques
- Automating a multistep task
- Applying smart filters
Illustrator CS4
MODULE ONE
- Getting to know your work area and navigation
- Selecting and aligning
- Creating shapes
- Transforming objects
- Drawing with the pen tool
MODULE TWO
- Colour and painting
- Working with type
- Working with layers
- Working with brushes
- Blending shapes and colours
MODULE THREE
- Working with brushes
- Appling layer effects
- Transforming objects
- Applying transparency and blending modes
MODULE FOUR
- Applying appearance, attributes, styles, and effects
- Blending shapes and colours
- Working with symbols
- Creating shapes with the Pathfinder
MODULE FIVE
- Combining Illustrator CS3with the Creative suite
- Printing artwork and producing colour separations
- Creating special effects
- Creating envelopes for text
InDesign CS4
MODULE ONE
- A quick tour of Adobe InDesign
- Looking at the work area
- Changing the magnification of your document
- How to start a new document
- Creating and editing master pages
- Placing text and graphic on the document pages
- Navigation through your document
MODULE TWO
- Text threading in text frames
- Modifying text graphics
- Creating frames
- Working with a tint, spot, colour, and gradients
- Applying colour text
- Orienting objects in space
- Importing graphics from other programs
- Working with clipping paths, alpha channels
- Adding colours to the swatches palette
- Importing Photoshop and Illustrator files
- Applying colours to objects
- Placing a PDF file
- Defining printing requirements
MODULE THREE
- Setting up documents grids
- Drawing segments
- Creating a compound path
- Creating shapes
- Reflecting objects
- Importing and colorizing image
- Applying transparency
- Exporting to Adobe Acrobat PDF files
MODULE FOUR
- Working with styles
- Aligning and threading text
- Working with columns on a page
- Creating text on a path
- Changing fonts and type style
- Changing paragraph alignment
- Working with tabs
- Creating a hanging indent
- Adding a rule below a paragraph
MODULE FIVE
- Importing and formatting tables
- Using graphics and formatting text within tables
- Working with the structure pane
- Defining a book
- Working table of contents
- Maintaining consistency in a book
- Indexing the book
