Getting Started

• Zooming
• Scrolling
• Getting around tools
• Copying and pasting

Photo Retouching

• Spot healing brush
• Healing brush
• Clone stamp
• Content-Aware Fill

Cropping Photos

• Cropping Photos
• Straightening Photos
• Straightening a Layer

Creating Graphics: Combining Photos, Text and Graphics

• Adding type
• Smart Objects
• Importing Vector Graphics (Such as Logos)

Replacing Backgrounds

• The Magic Wand tool
• Image Compositing

Color Correction Using Color Balance

• Creating adjustment layers for color correction
• Adjusting color balance
• Adjusting brightness/contrast
• Color correction with a levels adjustment layer
• Setting white, black and gray points

Preparing Digital Photos for Print

• viewing/ setting image size
• Resampling pros and cons
• Saving as PSD / TIFF

Saving Photos for the Web as JPEG

• Resizing images for web
• Reducing image size with resampling
• Setting JPEG Quality

Creating Shadows and Layers

• Adding effects to layers
• Drop shadows
• Bevel and Emboss

Ghosting Part of an Image

• Setting a layer’s opacity
• Feathering layers

Fill Opacity / Effects and Rotation

• More practice with layer effects
• Layer opacity vs fill
• Rotating Images

Layers

• Layer Basics
• Locking and Hidings
• Masks and Channels

Cropping, Resizing and Blending

• The Gradient tool
• Blending modes

Color Correction using Curves

• Color correction with a Curves adjustment layer
• More practice setting white, black and gray points
• Working with midpoints

Adjustment Layers and Masks

• More curves practice
• Masking out unwanted adjustments
• Organizing layers into groups

Shadows / Highlights

• Creating a Smart Object
• The Shadows / Highlights adjustment
• More masking out unwanted adjustments

Special Effects with Type and Clipping Masks

• Masking a photo with the type
• Clipping masks

Creating Paths with the Pen Tool

• The Pen Tool
• Creating paths of Bezier curves

Using Clipping Paths

• Clipping paths
• More pen tool practice

Using Filters for Special Effects

• The Motion and Spin Blur Effects
• Copying layers

Brochure Design

• Working with guides
• More practice with adjustment layers
• Layer Styles
• More Practice with blending modes

Addition Retouching

•  Converting Black and White Photo into Colors
•  Correcting and Enhancing Digital Photographs
•  Typographic Design
•  Advanced Layered Techniques
•  Animating GIF Images for the Web
•  File Formats

Exporting

• Right color mode selection
• Adjusting resolution and Image Size
• Bleed setting for Print

Basic Introduction

• Introduction to Illustrator
• Custom Workspace
• Control Palettes and Menus
• Rulers, Guides, Grids
• Components for Images
• Vectors Vs Bitmaps
• Text, Shapes and Colour

Enhancing and Drawing

• Using the shape tools
• Transforming tools
• Drawing with the line tools
• Developing a logo
• Locking, Hiding, Selecting, Copying and Moving
• Files and Colors
• Drawing Curves

Images

• Importing and Placing Images
• Gradient and Patterns
• Stroke and Fill Attributes
• Swatches and Paint Bucket Tool

Text

• Introduction to Text
• Alignment and Paragraph Text
• Coloring Text
• Adding point type and area type
• Vector path on text
• Type Effects
• Placing text around objects
• Find and replace Texts
• Using group and duplicate
• Layers objects hiding and locking
• Alignments
• Clipping Masks

Alignment and Path

• Creating and Editing Paths
• Pen Tools
• Drawing lines and curves
• Convert smooth points into corner
• Converting and anchor point and pinch a curve inward
• Bezier Curve

Colors and Brush

• Introduction to Colors
• Types of Colors
• Selections of Colors
• Introduction to Gradients
• Creation and modification of gradient
• Creating and editing Gradient meshes
• Drawing using Paintbrush tool
• Edit a brushstroke to an existing path
• Creation and modification of brushes
• Edit a scatter art or pattern brush

Layers and Tracing

• Creation and modification of layers
• Creating Sub Layers
• Hide and lock
• Layers Palette
• Converting Images into Designs

Introduction

• Introduction to Indesign
• Overview of Indesign tools and its outcomes

Letter Creation

• Setting preferences
• Control panel
• Text frames
• Basic text attributes
• Basic keyboard shortcuts

More Text Styling

• Baseline shift
• Small caps
• The line tool
• Making proper fractions

Magazine Ad

• Setting up a document bleed
• Placing images
• Combining text and images
• White type on a black background

Advanced Word Processing / Formatting

• Paragraph spacing
• Tabs

Sporktown Brochure Design

• Placing text, photos, and illustrations
• Gradient swatches
• Drop shadows
• Alignment
• Text wrap

Professional Typesetting Techniques

• Bulleted list
• Hanging bullets
• Hyphenation
• Discretionary hyphens
• Special break characters

Drawing Curves

• The pen tool
• Segments, anchor points and curves

Multiple Column Ad with Text Wrap

• Multiple text columns
• Drop caps
• The baseline grid
• Text wrap

Magazine Cover Design

• Placing transparent art
• Defining and using color swatches
• Type on a path

Style Sheets in a Magazine Article Design

• Paragraph styles
• Character styles
• Nested styles

Tables

• Placing Excel tables (with their formatting)
• Table Headers
• Formatting tables (Fills, strokes, etc)
• Reordering table cells

Pages

• Master Pages
• Automatic Page Numbering
• Automatic text flow
• Running headed

Creating a Table of Contents

• Defining and building a table of contents
• Formatting & updating a table of contents

Exporting

• Bleed and Slug Setting
• Exporting the files in printable format
• Saving the files in editable format