Course Code: adobegraphicsandvideo
Duration: 28 hours
Prerequisites:
  • No previous experience with Adobe products is necessary
Overview:

Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign are graphic design applications, each with unique features suited for specific types of tasks and projects. Premiere Pro and After Effects are video editing and compositing software applications, each one also specializing in different tasks.

In this instructor-led, live training (onsite or remote), participants will which application to use for which tasks as they step through a sample graphic and video content design project.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

  • Install and configure Adobe graphics and video applications
  • Create and edit scalable graphics for print
  • Edit photos to improve their appearance
  • Implement efficient design workflows for graphic and video projects
  • Prepare various designs for print, including logos, business cards, and brochures

Audience

  • Digital designers (content, graphics and video)

Format of the Course

  • Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Notes

  • To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.
Course Outline:

Introduction

Installing and Configuring Adobe Applications

Overview of Adobe Software Suites Features

InDesign

  • Preparing an InDesign document
  • Screen InDesign
  • Working with Text
  • Working with graphics
  • Style Sheets
  • Working with Color
  • The composition of publication
  • Printing and preparation for exposure

Photoshop

  • Basics of building a computer image
  • Photoshop Tools
  • Document size
  • Selection and marking
  • Path - Create and edit paths
  • Retouch
  • Palette, History
  • Layers and work with them
  • Transformations
  • Adjust photos - color and tonal correction
  • Color correction - examples
  • The text and work with text
  • Print, Save

Illustrator

  • The rules for creating vector graphics
  • Shapes Vector
  • Paths
  • Transformations
  • Working with Color
  • Working with Text
  • Creating tables and charts
  • Filters and Effects
  • Working with bitmap graphics
  • Prepare simple documents
  • Print

Premiere Pro

  • Importing and organizing material
  • Basic video editing
  • Art video editing
  • Helpful editing techniques
  • Set the properties of a clip
  • Attributes videos
  • Applying Transitions video
  • Working with audio
  • Basics of composition
  • Color correction
  • Creating titles
  • Exporting video
  • Working with Adobe Cloud

After Effects

  • Overview of workspace, tools and panels
  • Creating Compositions
  • Working with Solid, Text and Null layers
  • Creating animations using keyframes
  • Interpolation and velocity
  • Fine tuning animatins with graph editor
  • Working with masks, mattes and track mattes
  • Integrating video with Photoshop and Illustrator graphics
  • Video layering techniques with transfer and blending modes
  • Applying and animating Effects
  • Using Colour Correction / Glows + Curves
  • Applying special effects with filters
  • Rendering your final project

Troubleshooting

Summary and Conclusion