Step By Step Complete Training

• Corel Draw
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe Flash
• Adobe Premiere
• Swish Max
• In-page Urdu Software
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Corel Draw

Introduction to COREL DRAW

• Welcome screen + workspace tour + overview
• Vector vs. bitmap
• Customizing the page layout
• Working with multiple pages
• Using snap to + guidelines

Drawing shapes

• Rectangle tool – ellipse tool – ctrl +shift
• The pick tool + zooming
• Polygons, stars, spirals + graph paper
• The perfect shapes collection
• Selecting objects
• Deleting objects
• Duplicating objects + step + repeat
• Cut, copy, paste
• Undo, redo, repeat
• Arranging objects
• Grouping + un-grouping

Creating custom shapes

• Curve tools
• Freehand tool
• Bezier tool
• Curves + nodes
• Adding, deleting nodes
• Bending + straightening lines

Colors + Fills

• Introducing color palettes
• Cmyk, rgb and pantones

Filling objects

• Using the interactive fill tool
• Solid fills
• Linear, radial, conical + square fills
• Two color patter fills
• Full color pattern fills
• Bitmap pattern fills
• Texture fills
• No fill

Outlines

• Outlines and advanced outline options
• Converting outlines to objects
• Using the eye dropper and paint bucket tool

Working with artistic text

• Creating artistic text with the text tool
• Character formatting + fonts
• Spelling + quick correct
• Fitting text to path
• Inserting symbol characters
• Converting text to curves

Working with paragraph text

• Creating paragraph text with the text tool
• Creating columns
• Additional paragraph features

Shaping objects

• Using commands: Trim, break-apart, weld, simplify

Working with bitmaps

• Importing bitmaps
• Cropping bitmaps
• Using the image adjustment lab
• Applying effects to bitmaps
• Using photo-paint + the cut-out lab
• Using the magic wand mask tool
• Using the clone tool
• Resolution
• Re-sampling bitmaps
• Converting vector objects to bitmaps
• Exporting to jpeg + png formats

Using the interactive tools

• The interactive blend tool
• The interactive contour tool
• The interactive distortion tool
• The interactive drop shadow tool
• The extrude tool
• The interactive transparency tool

Final Assessment

• Designing a business card
• Designing a flyer
• Designing an invitation
• Designing a logo
• Publishing to pdf for print + web

Adobe Photoshop

Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CC

• Bitmap vs. vector
• Resolution and quality issues
• Viewing/opening documents
• Tool bar
• Most commonly used palettes

Rulers, guides and grids Layers

• Background v layer, creating layers
• Preserving data
• Re-arranging
• Hiding, locking/unlocking
• Naming, deleting
• Layer opacity

Layers Styles

• Shadow effect
• Glow effect
• Bevel & Emboss effect
• Color Overlay
• Gradient Overlay
• Pattern Overlay
• Stroke

Transformation

• Flipping, scaling, rotating, distorting, perspective
• Control options
• Free transform, straighten or tilt

Working with Text

• Warp Text
• Text with underline and Strikethrough
• Text with mask

Image

• Image sizes (handout)
• Image size vs. canvas size
• Cropping (and resizing), plus manual
• Image modes
• Basic retouching with clone, heal, patch tools

Color adjustment

• Basic tonal adjustment/enhancement
• Brightness/contrast: when to use levels (+ auto), shadow/highlight

‘Quality’ adjustment

• Dust and scratches, reduce noise
• Blur, Gaussian blur
• Sharpen/unsharpened, and size issues

Selections

• Various tools, tool options
• Inversing, feathering, grow, smooth, expand, similar
• Pen tool specifics
• Paths to selections
• Selection with Mask

Outputting for the Web

• Optimizing for Web colors
• Resizing and compressing an image for quick rendering

Saving

• Save options, file formats for InDesign, web etc.
• Paths to Illustrator
• Keyboard shortcuts

Project achievements:

• House ad/poster
• Duotone photograph
• Repaired photograph

Adobe Illustrator

What is Illustrator?

• Introduction
  Understanding vector graphics
• Setting preferences
• Exploring the panels
• Illustrator interface
• Creating and saving workspaces

Working with Documents

• Creating files for print& Web
• Managing multiple documents& Navigation
• Using rulers, guides, and grids
• Changing units of measurement
• Locking and hiding artwork
• Creating and using artboards
• Illustrator Artboards

Selecting and Transforming Objects

• Using the Direct Selection and Group Selection tools
• Using the Magic Wand & Lasso tool
• Grouping objects
• Using isolation mode
• Resizing your artwork
• Rotating objects

Distorting and transforming objects

• Reflecting and skewing objects
• Aligning and distributing objects

Working with Color

• RGB vs. CMYK

Working with Fills and Strokes

• Understanding fills and strokes
• Working with fills& strokes
• Creating and editing gradients
• Applying gradients to strokes
• Applying and editing pattern fills

Working with Paths

• Understanding paths
• Understanding anchor points
• Using the Scissors tool and the Knife tool

Creating Shapes

• Working with the Shape Builder tool
• Working with the Blob Brush and Eraser tools
• Working with the Paintbrush and Pencil tools
• Smoothing and erasing paths

Pen Tool

• Exploring the Pen tool
• Drawing straight lines
• Drawing simple curves
• Converting corners and curves
• Tracing artwork with the Pen tool

Using Type in Illustrator

• Adjusting your type settings
• Basic text editing
• Using the type panels
• Creating text on a path
• Converting text into paths
• Saving time with keyboard shortcuts

Working with Layers

• Exploring the Layers panel
• Creating and editing layers
• Targeting objects in the Layers panel
• Working with sublayers
• Hiding, locking, and deleting layers
• Using the Layers panel menu

Drawing in Perspective

• Defining a perspective grid
• Drawing artwork in perspective

Printing, Saving, and Exporting

• Saving & Printing your artwork
  • Saving for the web

Adobe Flash

Understanding the Interface

• Timeline, Layer Controls, Edit Bar, Panels

Animation Basics

• Understanding Key frames and Frames
• Frame-by-Frame Animation with Key frames
• What Is the Frame Rate?
• Recommended Frame Rates
• Copying, Reversing, Inserting and Deleting Frames
• Using Onion Skinning
• Testing Movies

Motion Tweening and Timeline Effects

• Classic Tween
• Shape Tweening vs. Motion Tweening
• Understanding Basic Motion Tweening
• Using Tweening Effects Editing Multiple Frames
• Using a Motion Guide
• Animating Text
• Animating with the Blur Filter
• Animating with the Drop Shadow Filter
• Basic use of Bone Tool

Working with Bitmaps

• Understanding the Benefits of Bitmaps
• Compression in Flash
• Importing and Compressing Bitmaps
• Importing Bitmap Sequences
• Converting Bitmaps to Vectors

Masking

• Using Basic Masking
• Using Animated Masks

Buttons

• Creating Rollover  & Invisible Buttons
• Duplicating and Aligning

Movie Clip

• What Is a Movie Clip?

• Creating a Movie Clip
• Animated Graphic Symbols vs. Movie Clip Symbols
• Creating an Animated Rollover Button with movie clips
• Putting an Animated Rollover Button into Action

Importing Sounds

• Creating Background Sound with Sound Effects

• Controlling Animation and Sound with Stop/Play Buttons

Publishing and Exporting

• Creating Projectors
• To Publish or to Export?
• Exporting Image Files
• More About the Publish Settings
• Flash, HTML, GIF, JPEG, and PNG Settings