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:

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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

  • urves, 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

 

  

Course Facts

Name: CS3 Advanced Design Bootcamp
Duration: 4 days
Locations: London, onsite
Max Class: 10 delegates
Post Course Support: 6 months

Call Free on 0800 156 0777
for pricing, availability and advice.

 

Post Course Online Support Including:

Course slides, movies and exercises: You will have 6 months access to course slides, movies and exercises via our Learning Management System (LMS). Refresh your memory or rework something in your own time and environment.

6 Months Post Course Support: You will have 6 months support via the LMS. This is in the form of the course forums in which you can post questions on any topic within the course that you are struggling with, and the instructor (and sometimes other delegates) will respond.

Additional Sample Files: In addition to the files used in the course, the LMS gives you the ability to work through additional sample files, and real world examples thereby extending both your understanding of the CS3 Design bundle and your ability to apply the techniques.

CS3 Glossaries: The CS3 Advanced Design training glossaries allow you to search through a wide range of Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator CS3 terms, functions, data types etc. Due to the glossary being autolinked within our forums and other material, this also acts as a valuable quick reference directory when working through the material.

Useful Resources: Our instructors spend a vast amount of research time on technologies like Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator, and in doing so come across a lot of useful 3rd party material. In this section we republish links to some of the more useful resources they come across, letting you benefit from their research time.

CS3 Design Skills Assessment:
As part of the course you will also have the opportunity to take the CS3 Design Skills Assessment test. This multiple choice test is made up of 36 random questions, and is run over a timed period of 30 minutes. It is designed to give you an idea of how well your CS3 Web skills are developing and can be a nice way to measure improvement, not to mention provide feedback to management showing the value of the course.

 

Booking and Dates

The scheduled 4 day CS3 Advanced Design Bootcamp training course runs on the following dates at our London centre:

04 Aug 08
06 Oct 08
01 Dec 08