Adobe CS5 Design: Workflow

Course Name

Adobe CS5 Design: Workflow

Contact Hours: 10 (an estimated time frame devoted to a course of study from start to finish that can vary from student to student)

Course Description

The Creative Suite 5 applications were specifically designed to work together and help you streamline your workflow. Total Training for Adobe Creative Suite 5: Design Workflow, instructed by Adobe Certified Creative Suite Master, will teach you all the tools you need to successfully integrate all of your Adobe Creative Suite Design applications, making you more design savvy and efficient.

Beginning with creating artwork in Photoshop and Illustrator, you will use that artwork in print and on the web integrating InDesign, Flash, Fireworks, Dreamweaver and Flash Catalyst. Whether you are new to the Suite or a seasoned veteran, this series is chock full of insightful tips and real-world techniques that will appeal to everyone in the design field trying to make the most of their creative workflow.

Outcome

By completing this course you will learn to:

• Create interactive modules or complete web sites with Flash Catalyst
• Use InDesign to create documents using artwork from Photoshop and Illustrator
• Discover Illustrator's new Beautiful Strokes technologies
• Take advantage of Photoshop's Content Aware technology
• Build a rollover navigation panel in Fireworks

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 THE CREATIVE SUITE

• A Quick Tour of the Bridge Interface
• Browsing Images & Previewing Thumbnails
• Metadata, Keywords, Filtering & Collections
• Moving, Copying & Deleting Images
• Creating Web Galleries & PDFs from Bridge

• Quick Introduction to the Photoshop Workspace
• Color Correction & Sharpening
• Selection Techniques
• Content-Aware Scale & Fill
• Painting with New Brushes
• Quick Mask Mode & the Masks Panel
• Working with Layers & Compositing
• Using Illustrator® Objects in Photoshop
• Adding Layer Styles & Layer Comps

• Introducing Illustrator CS5
• Setting Up Multiple Artboards
• Working with Shapes, Fills & Strokes
• Using Symbols & Brushes
• Using the New Drawing Modes
• Working with Live Trace
• Adjusting Colors & Gradients
• Working with Effects & Graphic Styles
• Outputting from Illustrator

• InDesign CS5 Interface & Navigation
• Using Master Pages & the Pages Tool
• Frames, Swatches, Effects & Shapes
• Inserting & Scaling Graphics
• Using the Links Panel & Edit Original
• Formatting Text & Creating Styles
• Importing Text & Threading Text Frames
• Outputting from InDesign

• Introducing Flash Catalyst
• Working with Photoshop Files & Layers in Flash Catalyst
• Importing Illustrator Files
• Duplicating & Naming States
• Building Interactive Buttons & Transitions
• Adding Sound Effects to Transitions
• Outputting to SWF

• Introducing Flash Professional CS5
• Importing Illustrator Files into Flash
• Importing Photoshop Files & Layer Selections
• Opening InDesign Files in Flash
• Working with Actions & Symbols
• Using Code Snippets
• Motion Tweens, Motion Presets & the Motion Editor
• Publishing to SWF

• Opening Photoshop Files in Fireworks CS5
• Resizing Images
• Optimizing Images
• Creating Rollovers
• Setting Hotspots
• Exporting Your Work for the Web

• Creating a Site in Dreamweaver CS5
• Working with Templates
• Creating Pages in a Site
• Inserting SWF Files
• Inserting Photoshop & Fireworks Files & Applying a Template
• Using MAMP on Mac®
• Using XAMPP on Windows®
• Publishing a Website
• Credits