Course Specials

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Adobe CS5 Bootcamp
This Adobe CS5 Bootcamp training course is jammed pack with fundamental information to get you up in running.  You'll learn about four key Adobe CS5 applications and how they work together.  Each day we'll focus on one application - Adobe Illustrator CS5, Adobe Photoshop CS5, Dreamweaver CS5, and Flash CS5.  Whether you're a print designer or web developer you'll have a well-rounded idea of how these four key Adobe CS5 applications work.  These courses are also intended to help prepare students to take Adobe Certified Associate Exams. 

• Prerequistes:  Before taking these courses, students should be familiar with the functions of the computer's operating system such as creating folders, launching programs, copying and pasting objects, formatting text, retrieving and saving files.  Familiarity with other Adobe software applications is helpful, but not required.

Course Length

5 Days ($400/day for individual applications or $1,625 for all 5-days of training)
Click here to register for entire week or click individual registration dates below.

Illustrator CS5 (1-day) - May 2, 2011

Target audience:  This course is intended for designers, publishers, pre-press professionals, marketing communications professionals, or people switching to a design job or taking on design responsibilities and who need to use Illustrator to create illustrations, logos, advertisements, or other graphic documents.

Click here to register for this Illustrator course

Course Outline:

• Getting Acquainted with Adobe Illustrator CS5
• Examine imaging concepts
• Explore the interface
• Customize the interface
• Creating Shapes in a Document
• Create a document
• Draw basic shapes
• Save a document
• Creating Custom Paths
• Draw paths
• Modify paths
• Working with Text
• Insert text
• Flow text on a path
• Import body text
• Thread text
• Apply hyphenation
• Insert typographic characters
• Working with Objects
• Import Graphics
• Manipulate Objects
• Enhancing Documents
• Format objects
• Apply strokes
• Apply gradients
• Apply graphic styles
• Apply an envelope to text
• Proofing a Document
• Wrap text
• Find and replace text
• Fix spelling errors
• Saving Images for Web and Print
• Export images for print
• Save images for the web
• Save images as PDFs
• Appendix A: Organizing Assets Using Adobe Bridge
• Appendix B: New Features in Adobe Illustrator CS5

Photoshop CS5 (1-day) - May 3, 2011

Target audience:  Diverse audience including but not limited to, computer savvy professionals who want to create and enhance graphics for marketing materials, newsletters, blogs, and websites; photographers who want to work with and prepare photos for print or web; those with an interest in graphic design or those with novice design skills; and professionals who want to learn and use Photoshop CS5 as a compliment to other CS5 programs such as Illustrator. 

Click here to register for this Photoshop course

Course Outline:

• Initiating a Project
• Plan a project
• Identify copyright and citation requirements
• Exploring the Adobe Photoshop CS5 Environment
• Explore the Photoshop Interface
• Customize the workspace
• Explore Adobe Bridge
• Determining Graphic Type and Resolution
• Differentiate between raster and vector graphics
• Understand image resolution
• Working with Selections
• Create a selection
• Save a selection
• Modify a selection
• Apply color to a selection
• Working with Layers
• Create layers
• Work with layer types
• Transform layers
• Apply styles
• Undo previous steps
• Manage layers
• Enhancing Images with Paint and Filters
• Paint on an image
• Apply filter effects
• Exploring Image Modes and Color Adjustments
• Explore grayscale and bitmap modes
• Apply color adjustments
• Saving Images for Web and Print
• Save images for print
• Save images for the web
• Save images as PDF
• Appendix A: Organizing Assets Using Adobe Bridge
• Appendix B: New Features in Adobe Photoshop CS5

InDesign CS5 (1-day) - May 4, 2011

Target audience: For those who want to explore the basic tools and feature of InDesign for creating professional page layout and designs.  You will utilize Adobe InDesign CS5 to create and deliver eye-catching printed documents. 

Click here to register for this InDesign course

Course Outline 

• Exploring the InDesign Environment
• Identify the InDesign interface components
• Customize the interface
• Use the navigation controls
• Set general and interface preferences
• Designing Documents
• Create a document
• Add text
• Add graphical objects
• Enhancing Documents
• Format characters and paragraphs
• Apply colors, swatches and gradients
• Apply fills and strokes
• Working with Page Elements
• Arrange objects
• Align objects
• Manage page elements with layers
• Managing Objects
• Transform objects
• Manipulate objects
• Thread text frames
• Search and replace content
• Edit text
•  Working with Tables
• Create a table
• Modify a table structure
• Format a table
•  Finalizing Documents
• Check documents for errors
• Print a document
• Package files
• Export PDF files for commercial printing
• Prepare PDF files for web distribution
•  Appendix A: New Features in Adobe InDesign 

Dreamweaver CS5 (1-day) - May 5, 2011

Target audience:  Novice web designers, web developers, website designers and graphic artists with some programming background who need to build simple websites and want to utilize the features of Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.  It's helpful if you have some basic knowledge of HTML and or CSS, although this is our most introductory course to Dreamweaver.

Click here to register for this Dreamweaver class

Course Outline:

• Getting Started with Dreamweaver
• Identify the basic concepts of web design
• Locate Dreamweaver interface elements
• Customize the interface
• Initiating a Website
• Indentify the elements of a project plan
• Determine the workflow of a web project
• Define a website
• Create a document
• Designing Web Pages
• An introduction to cascading style sheets
• Format a web page
• Identify copyright and citation requirements
• Insert images
• Insert tables
• Import data from other applications
• Organize files and folders
• Creating Reusable Site Assets
• Create and use library items
• Update library items
• Use snippets
• Create a template
• Working with Links
• Create hyperlinks
• Create anchors
• Create email links
• Create image maps
• Create image link rollovers
• Uploading a Website
• Validate a website
• Upload files onto a site
• Appendix A: Using Dreamweaver Extensions
• Appendix B: New Features in Adobe Dreamweaver CS5

Flash CS5 (1-day) - May 6, 2011

Target audience:  Designers and developers who are new to Flash.  It covers the Adobe Rich Media Communication Using Flash Professional CS5 objectives.  Attendees should be familiar with the web and its terminologies and have a desire to know the basic terminologies and components of ActionScript and its role as a Flash programming language. 

Click here to register for this Flash class

Course Outline:

• Getting Started with Flash CS5
• Identify components of the Flash CS5 interface
• Customize the Flash CS5 interface
• Introduce rich media design principles
• Adding shapes, colors and lines with drawing and painting tools
• Identify Flash drawing and painting components
• Apply and customize colors
• Use drawing and painting tools
• Work with interacting objects
• Creating Symbols and Instances
• Create symbols
• Create symbol instances
• Identifying Image Types
• Identify copyright and citation requirements
• Compare vector and bitmap images
• Optimize bitmap images for Flash
• Apply color to a selection
• Manipulating Objects
• Select objects using the selection tools
• Transform objects
• Organize objects with layers
• Working with Text
• Add text to a document
• Create text fields
• Using Animation Basics to Create Animations
• Create animations with frames and keyframes
• Create tween animations
• Getting Started with ActionScript
• An introduction to ActionScript
• Coding with basic ActionScript
• Use code snippets
• Appendix A: Adobe Flash CS5 New Features Mapping

Contact Cathy Starkweather with questions - 404.845.3458 x 206/ cstarkweather@echoeleven.com