CREATIVE DESIGN BOOTCAMP
Master the Adobe CC design tools in 1 week with
Creative Design Bootcamp
Creative Design Bootcamp is targeted at those who are new to the Creative Cloud design tools and looking to learn the basics of working with Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator.
With our proven CC training you can improve your effectiveness, stand out from the crowd and boost your future career potential all in one go.
Learn to harness the power of the worlds leading design packages with one of the UK’s longest established providers of Adobe training courses, and benefit from our 25 year track record and wealth of experience.
This course starts at the very beginning and assumes no previous experience, teaching you core concepts and terminology, as well as all the core tools found in the main Adobe CC design tools.
Experienced Instructors
Over 20 years experience
Post Course Support
Hours of videos & more
Closed Courses
Live Online or inhouse
Secure Online Booking
£995.00
Scheduled Live Online Course Dates
Stages can be completed in any order
Prices ex VAT. Highlander standard terms and conditions apply to all bookings
Please contact us if you would like a private or onsite course
The first stage of the Design Bootcamp covers topics like colour and resolution and how to use Photoshop to enhance you images and get the best out of them.
Stage 1 - Photoshop (2 days)
Exploring Photoshop
- The panels
- The tools
- Preferences
Creating documents
- Settings
- Resolution
- Colour modes
- Web vs Print
- Mobile/tablet settings
- Presets
Colour Theory
- RGB
- CMYK
- Spot colours (eg: Pantones)
- Printing colour
- Web colour
Brushes
- Size
- Shape
- Options
- Custom brushes
Layers
- Creating
- Organising
- Using
- Duplicating
- Blend Modes
Adjustment Tools
- Dodge tool
- Burn tool
- Sponge tool
- Blur tool
- Sharpen tool
- Smudge tool
Adjustment Commands
- Brightness and Contrast
- Levels
- Curves
- Others
- Adjustment layers
- Auto adjustments
Selections
- Selection tools
- Making selections
- Adjusting your selections
- Saving your selections
- Channels
Cropping
- Cropping images
- Cropping options
- Perspective cropping
Layer masks
- Making layer masks
- Editing layer masks
- Using layer masks
Cloning and Repairing
- The clone tool
- The Healing brush tool
- The Spot healing brush tool
- The patch tool
- Content aware options
- Content aware move
- Content aware patch
Text
- Adding text
- Formatting text
Shapes
- Vector shapes
- Shapes
- Custom shapes
Effects
- Layer Effects
- Effect Options
The second stage of the Design Bootcamp introduces InDesign, and teaches you how to create professional materials for print and digital using the worlds leading desktop publishing package.
Stage 2 - InDesign (2 days)
Introduction
- What is Desktop Publishing
- Why InDesign
- What you will learn
InDesign Interface
- Overview of the interface
- Creating customised Workspaces
- Organising Panels
- Customising Menus
- Changing Default Settings
Document Creation
- Creating a New Document
- Bleed, Slug and Margins
- Facing Pages
- Columns and Gutter
Frames and Shapes
- What are frames
- Creating frames
- Moving frames
- Aligning frames
- Sizing and positioning
- Rounded corners
- Anchoring frames
- Rotating and skewing
- Creating frames from text
Working with Text
- Creating text frames
- Using placeholder text
- Inserting special characters
- Glyphs
- Threading text frames
- Viewing threads
- The Story Editor
- Text frame options, inset spacing etc..
- Hyphenation
- Importing from Word
Formatting Text
- Leading
- Kerning & tracking
- Drop caps
- Baseline shift
- Justification & Alignment
- Uppercase, lowercase, sentence case & title case
- Indents
- Bullets
- Formatting Bullets
Working with Objects
- Grouping and ungrouping
- Change object shape
- Rotating a spread
- Arranging objects
- Layers Panel
Images
- Using mini bridge
- Different file formats
- Placing images
- Frame Fitting Options
- Text wrap options
- Resizing and positioning images
- Select v direct select
- Content Grabber (and how to turn it off)
- Display performance
- Clipping paths
Layout
- Creating layouts
- Guides and smart guides
- The gap tool
- Liquid Layout
- Alternate Layout
- Using the page tool
- Live distribute
- Merging frames
- Compound shapes
Parents and Pages
- Working with parents
- Creating parents
- Importing parents
- Applying parents
- Parents options
- Page numbering
- Numbering and sections
- Parents based on parents
Colours
- Understanding Colours: CMYK, RGB, Pantone etc..
- Creating colours
- Saving colours as swatches
- Sampling colors from images
- Exporting and importing colours
- Applying colours to strokes and fills
- Creating gradients
- Saving gradients as swatches
- Applying gradients to items
Gradient Feather
- Applied to what?
- Linear v radial
- Angle and location
Tables
- Creating a new table
- Convert text to table
- Strokes and fills
- Alternating row and column strokes
- Adding rows and columns
- Deleting rows and columns
- Merge and unmerge
Other Effects
- Applied to what?
- Drop & Inner Shadow
- Inner & Outer Glow
- Bevel and Emboss
- Satin
- Transparency
Basic Styles
- Character styles
- Paragraph styles
- Style Priority
- Creating styles
- Applying and removing styles
- Overrides
- Redefining styles
- Importing Styles
- Removing unused styles
- Nested Styles
Preflighting
- Why preflighting
- Detecting errors
- Identify & correct errors
- Custom profiles
Output
- Packaging all files
- PDF Presets (print ready, small size etc.)
- Including printers marks / bleed
- Compression
- Export to interactive PDF
- Page transitions (eg: fade, blind, etc.)
Stage 3 of the Design Bootcamp introduces Illustrator and teaches you how to create vector images such as logos. Below are some examples of the topics covered in this section of the course
Stage 3 - Illustrator (1 day)
Illustrator Overview
- What are vectors
- What are Bézier curves
- The pen tools
Creating shapes
- The pen tool
- Primitive shapes
- Adding/deleting anchor points
- Creating Bézier curves
- Combining shapes
- Creating outlines from text
- The shape builder tool
- The blend tool
Editing shapes
- Adjusting existing shapes
- Cutting paths
- Combining paths and shapes
- Erasing paths and shapes
Organising your work
- Artboards
- Custom artboards
- Layers
- Sub-layers
- Layer properties
- Templates
- Group Isolation mode
Color
- Choosing a colour
- Using swatches
- Saving your swatches
- Spot colours
- Process colours
- Global colours
Stroke and Fill
- Creating strokes
- Creating fill
- Applying colour to strokes and fills
Transforming shapes
- Duplicating
- Moving, rotating
- Reflecting, Shearing
- Scaling
- Step and repeat
- Transform again
Effects
- 3D
- Stylize
- Distort & Transform
- Warp
- Organising your effects
- etc
Text
- Adding text
- Text within a a shape
- Text on a shape
- Controlling text
- Creating outlines from text
Saving and Exporting
- Saving options
- Exporting options
- Exporting to pdf
- Other export formats
- Using Illustrator with other applications
The Creative Design Bootcamp is the most comprehensive begginners course available for people looking to master the design tools found in the Adobe Creative Cloud offering. With specific sections focusing on Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator the course covers a wide range of topics and you will quickly develop a wide range of skills such as those below
You will learn to
On Stage 1
- Understand subjects like colour modes and resolution.
- Understand the difference between raster and vector images
- Correct faults in images and remove unwanted items
- Correct colour issues in images
- Change colours in an image or convert to black and white
- Accurately crop and resize images
- Use a wide range of tools to pricesely select areas in an image
- Sharpen and blur areas of an image
- and lots more
On Stage 2
- Setup new documents correctly
- Add and format text within a document
- Add and manipulate images in a document
- Work with text styles and parents to speed up your work
- Create and apply colour swatches
- Apply effects such as shadows, gradients and more
- Add tables and format tables in a document
- Preflight documents to check for errors
- Output documents into a range of formats from PDF to HTML5 app
On Stage 3
- Create artwork such as logos, technical drawings, typography and illustrations
- Customise the Illustrator tools to be more efficient
- Create shapes, lines and bezier curves
- Understand and organise layers, artboards etc....
- Apply colours gradients and a wide range of effects to your illustrations
- Output your illustrations for both print and web use in formats such as PDF, AI and SVG
Who should attend this course
The Creative Design Bootcamp is suitable for anybody who wants to learn to use Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator but has no previous experience. If you already have experience using these packages you might want to consider our CC Advanced Design Bootcamp.
If you are unsure which courses are most suitable then why not try our free Skills Test to help you test your current skills.
Comments from delegates that attended
"He was friendly, helpful and polite. Knowledgeable about subject matter and recent changes. I would recommend others to seek him out for training in future."
Artwork Coordinator, Taylors of Harrogate
"He was excellent and I found the balance between learning and practical application very useful. As this was bespoke training, Andy dealt very well with the mixed ability group and the whole team kept up and content was covered quickly yet effectively to suit the team ability."
Senior Marketing Executive, Varlink
"Without doubt one of (if not the best) instructor ive had. Perfect learning style, and always has time. Thank you so much."
Communications Support, Health Education West Midlands
"He was really knowledgeable and explained everything patiently and clearly. As someone with no design experience I was able to learn quickly and retain this new knowledge well."
Marketing Manager, Razorblue Ltd
"One of the best trainers I've had, calm, friendly,good sense of humour, self effacing but personable, energetic and enthusiastic but laid back, always ready to help, good at prioritising competing demands, got through loads of material, v reassuring, clearly had an excellent knowledge of the material."
Bid Coordinator, Biffa Waste Services
"Fantastic. Really helpful, knowledgeable and any questions I/we had, he explained perfectly. Couldn;t have asked for a better teacher. Awesome."
Marketing Coordinator, Zizzi
"Excellent knowledge, approachable and v patient. Willing to answer individual questions and respond to our real life queries and how we can use the product in the workplace."
Sales and Marketing, Atos
"He was absolutely fantastic the course was brilliant. I feel that the course content was great i learned loads and am looking forward to next weeks advanced session too. I am going to save a lot of time now that i know how to use the product properly"
Marketing Comms Exec, UK Trade and Industry
