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Adobe Masterclass Training Course in the Midlands...

Adobe MasterClass Courses...

Our Adobe MasterClass Training Courses are designed to give you the skills to work in both a print or a digital design environment. We cover the most popular elements of Adobe CC including InDesign, Photoshop & Illustrator courses or are happy to mix and match these with other courses such as Adobe Acrobat.

On this five day MasterClass course you will learn how to create images in Photoshop, various page layouts in InDesign and vector artwork such as logo's in Illustrator.

We provide this either as onsite training hosted at your premises or as virtual online training sessions held with a live instructor.

During your time with us whether onsite or online you will get a thorough understanding of the process of digital design from creating, developing your assets, editing existing documents /images /artwork through to publishing content to digital or print.

Online Adobe MasterClass Training

We also run this as an Online Adobe MasterClass Course with a live instructor. Our virtual Adobe Training sessions are run in most of the popular video editing software such as Teams, Zoom & Google Meet.

At all times you have direct live contact with your trainer throughout the course via video, audio and screen sharing in real time.

What will I need for Online Adobe Training?

You will need a computer with audio /video camera or webcam. Some people prefer to work with two screens whilst others work with one screen.

You will need either a trial or full version of the software installed for the training.

Onsite Adobe MasterClass Training

The Adobe MasterClass training will be held onsite at your premises and hosted by our trainer. This is ideal for company groups or for one to one individual sessions.

All our training courses are run at times and dates to suit you.

What are the benefits of Onsite Adobe Training?

The course content can be tailored completely around you and at times and dates that work for you. It is also:

Cost Effective Pricing
There are no travel or accompanying expenses
Tailored Training, the focus is specifically around you and your company
Dates & Times which are mutually agreed.

Adobe MasterClass Overview...

The course content can be run in any order if you prefer. All our outlines are provided as rough guidelines you can specify the order they run in. As a general guide we tend to run Photoshop & InDesign over 4 days with the 5th day dedicated to Adobe Illustrator.

We are also happy to take a 'mix and match' approach to the overcall course and can substitue one or more courses such as Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Premier Pro. All of our Adobe Creative Cloud Training is totally flexible.

This is ideal for individuals and company groups or small businesses looking to bring their marketing & business design in-house. Times – Mutually agreed dates & times

Adobe MasterClass - What you will learn...

You work with a number of different projects during your MasterClass Course.

On the two day Photoshop course you work with various photographs to retouch, design and produce interesting and professional imagery.

These images can then be used on the InDesign Training days to enhance layouts and spreads giving a good idea of the workflow involved in Creative Cloud.

During the Photoshop Course we also look at creating & designing for social media channels and producing small marketing videos.

The InDesign Training days show you how to create and design a variety of designs and layouts such as flyers, corporate literature, brochures, tenders and so forth (this depends on what you need to learn for your particular work).

As well as designing for print you will also learn how to produce online interactive digital documents such as Adobe Interactive PDF's. The course will show how to insert rich media such as video and audio into a document plus add links, books and navigation in to the interactive PDF.

We also cover creating interactive forms in InDesign but this is purely optional.

The Illustrator Training Course introduces you to the basics of the software and teaches techniques to work with tools and panels to create vector driven graphics such as logos and infographics. You will also learn how to work with colour and branding and to design with social media in mind.

This content can be used as a baseline and you can specify exactly what content you want including prior to the training.

Adobe MasterClass Course Outline...

Adobe InDesign Day One & Two...

Getting started with InDesign Creating and saving a document New document setup Tools / panels Document navigation	Imagery Placing images Editing images / graphic frames Image formats Graphic frames
InDesign Interface New Document Settings Effective Dialogue Box Navigation Understanding New Document Features	QPR Codes Create a QPR Code QPR Code Styles Editing and Publishing QPR Codes
Tab Handling Tab palette Tab characters Editing tabs Adding leaders	Colour Panels Working with Colour Colour Modes Colour Swatches Changing / Matching Colour Understanding Colour
Smart Layout Grids & Guides Baseline Grids Smart Guides Align & Distribute Objects Rulers (Zero Point),	Text frames Formatting Text frames Text frame properties Fill & Stroking Frames Text frame – multi column setup Aligning to Grids
Custom Image Wraps - Roundtripping InDesign Clipping Masks Working with Clipping Paths in InDesign Editing Paths & Masks Detect Edges in InDesign Process of Clipping Paths & Photoshop Alph Channels	InDesign Tables (working with MS Office) Inserting a Table Cells, Rows & Columns Automated Formatting of Cells, Rows & Columns Table Linking to Microsoft Office Graphs & Chart Linking to Microsoft Office Graphs & Chart Live Links
Typography Placing External Text (Word, RTF) Paragraph & Character Formatting Typography & Layout Create Outlines Accurate Type for Print Baseline Grid Align to Baseline Grid /Align First Line Grid Properties Tracking /Kerning /Leading Working with Rules /above /below Handling Long Text Frames	Adobe InDesign Copy & Paste HTML Copy Code from Twitter Frame Size & Poster Image Alternative Layout - Liquid Disply Design for Mobile Devices Horizontal & Vertical Layouts Flexible Column Widths in Frames Autosize Text Frames Content Collector Tool Content Collector Tool Panel Align to Object
Images Placing & Importing Images Resizing, Rotating, Adjusting Images Working with Photoshop Images Positioning Images in Layouts Working with Multiple Images	Object Graphic Styles Designing Graphic Styles Adding to Object Graphic Styles Panel Editing Object Graphic Styles Graphic Styles to Frames Saving /Importing /Editing
Type & Images Working with Text & Images Working with Text Wrap Clipping Paths Removing Backgrounds for Text Wrap Text Insets	Printing Preview Preflight & Package Export (print) to .PDF

Photoshop MasterClass Day Three & Four

Photoshop Basics Training...

On this Photoshop Course learn how to work with the tools and panels to select, recolour and enhance photographs for InDesign layouts and spreads. This Photoshop Training gives an indepth look ad teaches you to digitally retouch and enhance images for both print and the web. It is particularly useful for anyone who needs to airbrush photographs intended for publishing in Corporate Publications, Company Reports. It shows you how to improve photographs and give a professional edge to photographs intended for publication. It makes use of the Clone Stamp, Healing Brush, Desaturate and a number of other Photoshop Tools and Features plus professional hints and tips about how to improve your images.

Photoshop Photography Tools...

This Introduction to Photoshop Course shows you how to work with images direct from the camera card or from other souces. It demonstrates how to use Smart Sharpen and Camera Shake Reduction to improve and work with and fix imperfect images. The Photoshop Course shows the fundamentals of Camera RAW to edit and improve your photography using the powerful tools contained in RAW.

Photoshop Introduction	Photoshop Repairing and Replacing Images
Photoshop Interface Control Bar Photoshop Panels Photoshop Techniques	Clone Tool (remove or replace part/s of an image Healing Brush (fix damages to part or whole of image) Red Eye (remove the red from the pupil
Photoshop Colour Adjustment	Photoshop Cosmetic Enhancement
Colour Adjustment Brush Channel Mixer Understanding Photoshop Channels Channel Mixer Presets Source Channels	Removing Skin Blemishes Even out Skin Tones Brighten the Eye, Whiten the Eye, Colourise the Iris Recolour the Skin and Improve Tone Range Sharpen, Diffuse and Desaturate Tools
Photoshop Precise Positioning	Photoshop Layers
Grids / Guides / Rulers Print v Pixel Image Resize / Resolution / Artwork sizing Rotation and Crop	Understanding Layers Creating, Editing, Shuffling Layers Merging & Flattening Layers Layer Palette
Photoshop Design	Photoshop Adjustment Layers
Converting to Black and White Tinting Images Adding Textures and Edge Effects Drop Shadows and Blending Black and White Conversions Lens Corrections * Distortions	Adjustment Panel for live Working /None /Destructive Image Adjustment Brightness, Contrast, Gamma, Hue and Saturation Colour Balance Layers Shadows, Highlights, Midtones Levels and Curves Layers
Photoshop Sharpening	Photoshop CC RAW
Working with Smart Sharpen Radius /Reduce Noise Sliders Minimise Halo Effects Camera Shake Filter	Basics of working with RAW files Understanding the Screen and the Tools in RAW Basics of working with HDR Camera RAW Tools and Features Upright and Auto Upright
Photoshop Selection & Selection Techniques	Photoshop Filters
Lasso, Magnetic Lasso, Magic Wand, Feathering / Expanding / Reducing Selections Modifying / Transforming Selections Save / Load a Selection Quick Select Tool Select Subject /Background Select & Mask	Working with SmartFilters Editing SmartFilters Using Neural Filters Downloading & working with Neural Filters Blur Gallery Working with Bokeh & Iris Blur
Photoshop Masking	Photoshop SmartObjects
Quick Masks Quick Mask Mode Creating Accurate Masks Adding to & Removing from a Mask	Working with SmartObjects Updating Single /Multiple SmartObjects SmartObjects & None Destructive Workflow Rasterising SmartObjects
Photoshop Type	Photoshop Colour
Creating Type Editing Type Type Masks Type & FX Effects Shaping Type Type & Good Design	Colour Palettes Colour Models, CMYK, RGB, LAB Gradients, creating & editing Mixing & matching Colour Pantones & Spot Colours Colour Profiles

Adobe Illustrator Course Duration...

This Adobe Illustrator Course runs for one day in which you will learn the tools and techniques used to get to grip with the software quickly and effectively. Having got a firm grip of the basics you the work with different types of artwork to create logo design, flyer layout, drawing over lineart and applying colour and shading to enhance current art.

Illustrator Introduction Course Day 5...

Meet Adobe Illustrator Tool Panel & Tools Palettes Overview Control Bar Views Working with Preferences	Adobe Illustrator Drawing Tools Bezier Pen Adding /Removing Anchor Points Joining / Cutting Paths Knife /Scissors /Shape /Eraser /Smooth Pen Drawing Techniques Curves & Angled Corners
Adobe Illustrator Selection Tools Selection Tool Direct Selection Tool Adding to /Removing from Selections Tips & Tricks for Sleeker Selections in Illustrator Select & Edit Paths Lasso Selection Tool Add /Remove to Lasso Selection Tool Select Menu Techniques	Adobe Illustrator Colour Colour Palettes Process /Spot /Global Colours /Pantones Swatches Palettes Adding /Editing /Deleting Swatches Eyedropper Paintbucket
Adobe Illustrator Type Tool Creating /Editing Type Typeface Attributes /Tracking /Leading /Kerning Type on a Path Type Path Options Outline Type Type Area Tool Frame Options	Adobe Illustrator Shapes Elliptic, Poly, Spiral, Rectangle Tools Geometric Shapes Reshaping / Resizing Transform Tool /Scale /Reflect /Shear /Rotate Pathfinder Palette Shear /Scale Tool
Adobe Illustrator Layout Tools Grids /Guides Rulers Stacking Order Grouping /Ungrouping Align & Distribute	Adobe Illustrator Images Importing & Placing Images Matching Image Colour Linking /Embedding Images Working with Links Palette Basic Image Tracing
Adobe Illustrator AutoTrace Using AutoTrace to map Outlines Use Threshold Tracing Options Working with Trace Paths Using Live Paint to recolour Artwork	Adobe Illustrator Print Options Understanding Print Jobs Print to .PDF Print to Professional Bureau Troubleshoot Print Issues