CS5 Advanced Design Bootcamp

Once you have mastered the basics of CS5, it's time to move on to the more advanced skills that will improve your performance, and allow you to stand out from the crowd.

Developing advanced skills through our professional CS5 training program will allow you to work faster, more efficiently and more effectively.

About the CS5 Advanced Design Bootcamp

CS5 Advanced Design Bootcamp is targeted at those who have already attended the CS5 Design Bootcamp and are looking to learn the more Advanced aspects of working with Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator.

The course is made up of 5 days of classroom based training which can be completed either at our London centre or your own location. This is then supported and extended by 12 months access to our learning management system containing video tutorials, exercises, sample files and instructor led support forums.

The Instructors

Our CS5 instructors all have years of experience working with Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator in a professional capacity and have all attained Adobe Certified Expert and Adobe Certified Instructor status.

The Audience 
The CS5 Advanced Design Bootcamp is suitable for anybody who has already attended the CS5 Design Bootcamp or has equivalent experience and wants to develop more advanced skills.

If you are unsure which courses are most suitable then why not try our free Skills Test to help you test your current skills.

The Prerequisites
This course is an advanced training course and you should have either attended the CS5 Design Bootcamp or have equivalent skills.

Days One and Two - Photoshop CS5

The following modules are covered in this course:

• Intro to the Advanced Photoshop training course
• Adobe Bridge & Mini Bridge
• Actions
• Advanced masking
• Advanced cloning & Content Aware Fill
• Advanced Levels and Curves
• Advanced Compositing - Stacks
• Colour adjustment
• Sharpening
• Advanced layers
• Smart Objects, Smart filters & Smart Layers
• Vanishing Point
• Advanced filter techniques
• Painting Effects
• Warping techniques - Puppet Warp
• Camera Raw*
• Photoshop Animation*
• Photoshop Video*
• Photoshop and Devices*
• Adobe Repoussé*
• HDR Pro*

Day Three - InDesign CS5

• More about Masters
• Sections
• Creating Interactive PDFs
• Text Flow Control
• Page Elements and Graphics
• Document Sectioning
• Managing Long Documents
• Print Settings
• Advanced tables
• Transparency
• Advanced Textual techniques including tracking changes
• InDesign and data*
• Customising
• Bézier Shapes
• GREP*
• Live Captions*

Days Four & Five - Illustrator CS5

• Intro to the Advanced Illustrator training course
• Using the Appearance panel
• Creating Complex Illustrations
• Effects and Styles
• Colour
• Brushes
• Tracing graphics - Live Trace Advanced
• Coloring Artwork Using Live Paint
• Symbols - Advanced
• More about paths
• Color
• Outputting Documents
• Blending shapes
• Exporting Graphics for the Web
• Gradient Mesh tool
• Creating an Interactive PDF
• Perspective Drawing
• Beautiful Strokes
• Bristle Brush
• Multiple Artboards
• Shape Builder Tool
• Using Illustrator for Flash*
• Roundtrip editing with Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5*

Previous Feedback From Our CS5 Courses

We thought you might like to know what some past delegates thought of our CS5 courses:

"Very clear and extremely patient. Alex would always relate back to your specific needs ie.fashion design"
Design Manager, Marks and Spencer

"Alex was a very good instructor, he had excellent knowledge and was always quick to provide assistance."
Senior Support Officer, Basic Skills Agency

"Very knowledgable and passionate about the subject.  Definitely a user not just an instructor"
Analyst, Jones Lang Lasalle

"Knows his subject very well and obviously uses the program on a daily basis, not just for teaching. Very approachable and eager to help with misunderstandings."
Medical Photographer, NHS

If you want CS5 training that actually works then call us on 0800 156 0777.