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Desktop Publishing Course in Sheffield...

Desktop Training Courses...

Adobe InDesign and Photoshop Courses...

Desktop Publishing Training in Sheffield combines Adobe InDesign and Photoshop Courses. Learn to enhance photography and produce beautiful graphics in Photoshop then include them in InDesign to create rich high impact layouts. With Adobe Design Training you can bring all your desktop publishing inhouse to design and publish your own professional marketing materials or company documents. Desktop Publishing Courses are run in Sheffield and across Yorkshire.

Adobe InDesign Course Overview...

The Adobe InDesign and Photoshop Introduction Course Overviews can be viewed below. We specialise in customising content for the Desktop Publishing Training so content from below can be combined in any way.

Desktop Publishing Training Course Options...

We provide free lifetime support post course and each Adobe Course is accompanied with a set of notes. The combined InDesign and Photoshop Training runs over 2 days.

This Desktop Publishing Training can consist of any combination of courses including the Illustrator Course or the Acrobat Course.

Adobe InDesign Course Design...

On this InDesign Course you create and design high impact spreads and layout. The InDesign Training is designed to cover all the features and functions needed to produce professional documentation from the first day.

We provide Interactive Adobe InDesign Courses both for ePublishing and Interactive design for digital devices. Learn how to create and design promotional and marketing materials then publish online content to iPads, iPhones, Android devices & Kindles. Get in touch to find out more about your options for either Desktop Publishing Training or InDesign Interactive Courses.

Adobe InDesign Course Outline...Day One

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 CC 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 Smart Guides Align & Distribute Objects Rulers (Zero Point),	Text frames Formatting Text frames Text frame properties Text frame – multi column setup Aligning to Grids
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 Introduction Course Day One...

This Photoshop Introduction Course is delivered Midlands wide and includes the new tools and features included in Adobe Photoshop CC.

Photoshop Digital Retouching for Faces & Figures...

The course includes an indepth look at digitally retouching images to improve and professionally enhance images. It is particularly useful for anyone who needs to airbrush photographs intended for publishing in Corporate Publications or company websites. This Photoshop Course would suit those working in HR, PR and Comms Depts as it shows 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...

Work with the new Smart Sharpen Tool and Camera Shake Reduction to improve 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. This section of the Photoshop Course would be of interest to those working in various admin depts including HR and PR for producing high quality images for professional digital output in company literature.

Find out about professional design techniques to retouch images, create visual masterpieces and work with imagery.

Learn to edit and improve your photography by using features such as Levels and Curves and change tones and colours in an image by working with Colour Replacement Brush or the Channel Mixer for image and enhancement and colour.

Photoshop Introduction Course Content Day Two...

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 Panels
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 Shadows, Highlights, Midtones Levels and Curves
Photoshop Sharpening	Photoshop CC RAW 8
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 Automation
Lasso, Magnetic Lasso, Magic Wand, Feathering Selections Expanding / Reducing Selections Modifying / Transforming Selections Quick Masks Save / Load a Selection	Creating a Web Gallery Contact Sheets Batch Processing Photoshop Merge & Panoramics Blending Panoramas Editing Panoramas
Photoshop Masking	Photoshop Roundtripping
Quick Masks Quick Mask Mode Creating Accurate Masks Adding to & Removing from a Mask	Placing Photoshop files in DTP software Editing Photoshop Files Save / Load a Selection
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