Desktop Publishing/Graphics/Web

Understand how Acrobat documents are created from standard desktop applications. You will convert actual Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, and Excel spreadsheets to create electronic documents, and enhance those files using Acrobat, Acrobat Distiller, and Acrobat Catalog.

Learn to create professional looking marketing and promotional materials. Plan, design and produce documents such as brochures, advertisements, newletters and other publications that get your message across effectively to your audience.

Work with style sheets, forms and libraries, rollovers and behaviors, layers, and timelines; create head content and test sites in target browsers.

Understand the Internet and HTML; create and enhance web pages; design a web site; connect web pages; work with images; create table and frames; and upload sites.

You will be introduced to the web environment and tools, learn how to plan a successful web site, explore typography and graphics, use multimedia and interactivity on the web, and learn how to test, publish, market and maintain a web site.

Work with symbols and instances; explore interactivity in Flash; associate sound and videos; and publish on the web.

Learn to use ActionScript programming to add more complex interactivity to your movies. Plan your movies to make the process efficient and to allow code to be reused in multiple places. Create a quiz game with several types of questions, and learn about storing data in variables, accepting input via the keyboard and mouse, using arrays and loops, using debugging tools, and using Flash's built-in components. Prerequisite: Flash Introduction and Advanced.

Examine the Flash interface; create shapes; work with colors; manipulate shapes and images; insert text; use layers; and work with animation and templates.

Enhance web pages, create forms, use frames, script in HTML, work with graphic design and page layout principles, and create a personal web site.

Create, format, and enhance a web page using HTML and gain valuable tips on publishing to the web, increasing web site traffic, XML and HTML tags, color, and special character references.

Work with advanced type features; modify images; apply filters and effects; work with raster images; import, save, and export files; create web graphics; and automate tasks.

Explore the Illustrator environment; create simple illustrations; achieve precision in illustrations; add colors; work with text and layers; and print illustrations.

Work with master pages and advanced styles; control text flow, page elements and graphics; work with Bézier shapes; section documents and manage long documents; control print settings; and structure documents with XML.

Learn basic document setup, text and graphics; create master pages; import and thread text; apply colors and swatches; format text and paragraphs; manipulate graphics and wrap text; add finishing touches; and print documents.

Enhance web pages using JavaScript, work with arrays and custom objects, handle errors, and work with frames and cookies.

Learn JavaScript and programming basics; work with objects; understand objects, methods, and properties; work with document and window objects; write to a web page; and work with form objects and events.

Learn professional techniques for optimizing images for print using Photoshop's extensive print settings — skills which will also help you create attractive images for online use. Prerequisite: Photoshop Introduction and Intermediate

Use the web palette to optimize images for viewing; use ImageReady to create layouts, slice complex images into sections, and generate HTML code that joins the slices together in a table, including JavaScript rollovers and URL links; and create animated GIF images that combine slow transitions and fast motion. Prerequisite: Photoshop Introduction and Intermediate

Create and save masks with specialized tools, commands, modes, and layer elements; use vector paths for a variety of purposes, including masking, clipping paths, and illustration; and create and apply creative elements such as gradients, patterns, and color overlays.

Modify resolution, canvas size, and image size; crop and manipulate images; set Gamut color; manipulate layers by grouping, moving, linking and merging layers; and use many other photo manipulating tools available in Photoshop.

In this popular publishing software program created for home and business use, you will learn how to create a publication, adjust its page setup, enter and edit text, insert pictures, and create and modify text frames. You will also learn how to work with multipage publications, objects, graphics, and tables, as well as how to print publications.

Create graphic effects with Bézier Paths, create advanced type effects, organize elements in libraries, adjust space between items, manipulate items within groups, layer items, professionally typeset documents, apply color management, and manage long documents.

Create a single page document with graphics, structure a multi-page document, apply typesetting techniques, present text and graphics in tables, format item frames, inset text, apply page numbering, and finalize a document for commercial printing.

Learn the basics of web marketing and examine the fundamentals of eCommerce and the issues involved in doing business on the web.

Explore the capabilities of the Extensible Markup Language and examine an environment used to develop XML documents; create a well-formed XML document; validate an XML document; access XML documents with APIs; format and transform XML documents; and link XML documents. Prerequisites: HTML Introduction and HTML Advanced