Philippine Center for Creative Imaging

(Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks, Flash Professional, InDesign, Muse, and Adobe Acrobat)

The Adobe Creative Suite comprises a set of distinct applications for creating assets used in assembling publications for print, screen, and online viewing of static and dynamic interactive documents and dynamic media files. The Adobe Design Premium Suite contains eleven separate programs not to mention other resources available by Adobe Systems and third party vendors designed to work with the programs.

With all that is available in the Creative Suites, users are often confused about what suite to buy, what programs to use for a given purpose, and how much they really need to know about each program. How to use the programs to optimize files and integrate them between applications is critical for efficient design workflows.

This course is intended to help demystify the confusion and focus on essential features you need to know about Creative Suite 6 applications in order to be productive and create the precise content you hope to deploy. Emphasis is placed on creating assets for dynamic editing and learning common essential features available in all the programs.

Course content is geared exclusively to electronic document creations that can be deployed as digital magazines, ePubs, web sites, interactive PDF files, and standalone executable files in Adobe Air. All features discussed are intended for beginning and intermediate designers who wish to work without writing code or scripts to produce results either for immediate deployment or handing off to developers.

Participants should view the course as having fun and enjoying the learning process without struggling with the tools. You will discover that mastering all the applications is not required for producing exciting material with minimal exposure to a vast set of program features.

What will be covered

• Understanding Design Essentials
• Spec’ing Color and Typography
• Prototyping Designs
• Using Common Application Features
  • Knowing Essential Panels and Tools
• Creating Assets in the CS6 Applications
  • Creating Assets in Photoshop
  • Creating Assets in Adobe Illustrator
  • Using Adobe Flash for Media Development
  • Using Adobe Edge for Animating Web Designs
• Assembling Assets
  • Working With Adobe InDesign for Content Assembly
  • Creating Interactive PDF and Digital Magazines
  • Using Assets in Web Design Applications
• Deploying Documents
  • Exporting to Interactive PDF
  • Exporting to Adobe Flash SWF Files
  • Creating Digital Magazines Using the Adobe Digital Publishing System
  • Viewing Assets in Web Pages
  • Creating Adobe AIR Applications

Who should attend

This workshop is for everyone, either now in a production environment or those who wish to work in a creative sphere, for producing electronic documents for digital magazines, ePubs, web sites, or standalone interactive applications.

Prerequisites

Attendees should have experience with one of the applications in the Creative Suite (any application in any version back to CS3). What program you have experience in is not essential. Most important is understanding the application environment and UI (User Interface) common to almost all the CS applications. This course is designed for beginning to intermediate users who are familiar with computer applications software and at least a beginner level of one Adobe Creative Suite application.

What is NOT covered in this class:

No instruction is provided in the following areas:

• Commercial printing & prepress & preflighting.
• CMYK color.
• No coverage for Web design applications and CSS3.
• Coding & Scripting are limited to minor edits in ActionScript 3.0 and JavaScript.
• New features in CS6 are limited to asset creation for the purpose of developing interactive content.
• No coverage of Device Central or exports for mobile devices are mentioned. However, iPad and Android devices are covered.
• Coverage of Adobe Acrobat is limited to viewing and navigating documents.