Course Name

Adobe CS4 Design: Workflow

Contact Hours: 10

Course Description

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, 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 youre done, you'll have all the tools you'll need to give your next design project a professional polish and stay competitive in todays fast paced marketplace. The student will have access to this course for 1 year. This self-directed course can be completed within 90 days or sooner depending on time and learning capabilities of the student.

Outcome

By completing this course you will: 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

Assessment

Project files are included with this course to aid in your learning. There are no exams or tests.

Outline

Chapter 1: BRIDGE: THE HUB OF CREATIVE SUITE 4 A Quick Tour of the Bridge Interface Browsing Images & Previewing Thumbnails Metadata, Keywords, Filtering & Collections Moving, Copying & Deleting Images Establishing the Creative Suite Color Settings Using Additional Bridge Tools & Adobe Services Chapter 2: RASTER IMAGE EDITING WITH PHOTOSHOP® 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 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 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 Opening Photoshop Files in Fireworks CS4 Resizing Images Optimizing Images Setting Hotspots Chapter 8: DESIGNING A WEB LAYOUT WITH DREAMWEAVER 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