CS3 Advanced Design Bootcamp Course
Categories: Adobe Creative Suite
CS3 Advanced Design Bootcamp Course

Highlander's CS3 Advanced Design training is a blended learning solution which combines our 4 day instructor led CS3 Advanced Design Bootcamp course, with 6 months access to our Learning Management System (LMS) including the CS3 Advanced Design training slides and demos, course discussion forums, extensive glossary, additional exercises and samples, and other online learning support.

The 4 day CS3 Advanced Design course is run monthly at our London centre or available at your own location, and is a great way to get up and running with the Adobe CS3 Design bundle. The course is suitable for anybody that has already attended the CS3 Design Bootcamp or has equivalent experience.

Audience
Designers, pre-press professionals, production managers, Web designers and anyone who wishes to take their Creative Suite skills to the next level should attend this class. Graphic designers or people switching into a design job or taking on design responsibilities. You will already have already attended the CS3 Bootcamp or have equivalent experience.

Prerequisites
Before taking this course, you should complete the following Highlander courses, or have equivalent knowledge:

- Adobe Illustrator CS3 Essentials
- Adobe Photoshop CS3 Essentials
- Adobe Indesign CS3 Essentials
or
- CS3 Design Bootcamp

Course Overview

Photoshop CS3 Section
Actions
- Running
- Loading
- Recording
- Editing

Advanced masking
- Background Eraser/Magic Eraser
- Extracting
- Layer Masks
- Masking Shortcuts
- QuickMask mode
- Refine Edge 

Advanced cloning
- Clone source
- Healing Brush
- Spot Healing
- Patch
- Quick Masking

Bridge
- Loupe
- Compare
- Stacking
- Colour management
- Rotations, Ratings, and Labels
- Batch re-naming
- Customising
- Slideshow

Editing brightness and contrast
-Curves, Brightness + Contrast
- Shadow/Highlight
- Levels - input and output

Advanced Compositing
- Auto Align
- Auto Blend (Photomerge)
- Image stack processing

Colour adjustment
- Colour balance
- Colour primaries
- Colour complements
- Hue-Saturation
- Hue Adjustment
- Refining the colour range

Sharpening
- Unsharp mask
- smart sharpen

Advanced layers
- Layer Comps
- Layer Clipping
- Fills
- Adjustment layers

Smart Objects and Smart filters
- How to create smart objects
- How to use smart objects
- Smart filters

Camera Raw 4
- Interface
- White balance
- Saving changes
- Exposure
- Warnings
- Vibrance/Saturation
- Tone curve adjustment
- HSL controls
- Colours to Black and white
- jpgs and tiffs

Vanishing Point version 2

Planes and perspective
- Gridlines - exporting
- Cloning
- Healing
- Blending
- Masking/Shading
- Adding type
- Swinging planes
- Wrapping art

Advanced filter techniques
- Displacement maps
- Lighting
- Patterns

Optional Online Units
- Photoshop and 3D
- Measurement & Analysis

Photoshop and movies

InDesign CS3 Section

Master Page Setup
- Basing Masters on Existing Master Pages
- Applying Master Pages to Multiple Document Pages
- Different page sizes
- Page shuffling
- Sections

Advanced Styles
- Local Overrides in Style
- Basing One Style on Another
- Importing and Redefining Styles
- Object styles
- Effects

Text Flow Control
- Inline Graphics
- Composition, Hyphenation, and Justification
- Tracking and Kerning
- Scaling Text
- Anchoring objects
- Advanced styles

Page Elements and Graphics
- Item Duplication
- File Formats
- Libraries
- Placing multiple files
- Placing InDesign files within InDesign files

Bézier Shapes
- Bézier Paths
- Compound Paths
- Clipping Paths
- Type Outlines

Document Sectioning
- Sectioned Documents
- Sectioned Document Navigation

Managing Long Documents
- Tables of Contents
- Indexing
- Creating a Book

Print Settings
- Print Presets
- Color Separations Print Settings

InDesign and data
- Datamerge with InDesign
- Structuring InDesign Documents with XML
- Importing XML
- Customising

Important preferences
Customising the menus, palettes, and keyboard shortcuts
Text variables
Advanced tables

Table styles
Cell styles
Illustrator CS3 Section

Creating Complex Illustrations


Create Shapes Using the Pathfinder Commands
Create Compound Paths
Offset Paths
Apply Effects
Create Symbols
Create Custom Pattern Brushes
Organize Objects with Layers
Modify Global Colors
Envelope distort
Creating 3D Shapes
Providing Support for PSD and PDF Files


Open Layered Photoshop Documents
Create an Adobe PDF File
Tracing graphics - Live Trace


Live Trace
Adjust the Results of a Tracing
Apply a Custom Preset
Convert a Tracing Object to Paths
Coloring Artwork Using Live Paint


Apply Paint Using Live Paint
Correct Gaps in Objects
Convert Objects to Live Paint Groups
Creating a Poster


Simplify Paths
Create Clipping Masks
Create 3D Effects
Create Blends
Share Graphic Styles
Exporting Graphics for the Web

Convert Colors to Web-Safe Colors
Create Slices
Add Interactivity to an SVG File
Export Web Graphics
Applying Color Management

Decide When to Use Color Management
Set Up Color Management
Outputting Documents

Print a Composite Proof
Create Color Separations
Gradient Mesh tool

Using the Gradient Mesh tool
Creating sophisticated shading with the gradient mesh tool


 
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Key Details
Provided by:
Highlander Ltd


 
Duration4 days
 
£1,145
per delegate
 
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