creative suite training

Discover breakthrough interactive design tools that enable you to create, deliver and optimize beautiful high-impact digital experiences across media and devices using Adobe Creative Suite 5.

Intended Audience

The Introduction to CS5 course is for designers who want to deliver innovative ideas in print, web, interactive and mobile design.

Courses

Introduction to CS5 Entry level 1 day

Discover breakthrough interactive design tools that enable you to create, deliver and optimize beautiful high-impact digital experiences across media and devices. Introduction to Creative Suite 5 training provides students with the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to deliver high-impact digital experiences virtually everywhere. The course includes InDesign CS5, Photoshop CS5 and Illustrator CS5.

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[+] Full course outline for Introduction to CS5

INDESIGN CS5 NEW FEATURES
- DESIGN AND LAYOUT
  - Multiple page sizes
  - New Layers panel
  - Custom page sizes
  - Simplified transformations
  - Content grabber
  - Double-click behavior
  - Frame edge highlighting
  - Path and point highlighting
  - Rotate
  - Transform multiple selected items
  - Live Screen Drawing
  - Favor the selected object
  - Live Distribute
  - Reordering of the Transformation Tools
  - Gap tool
  - Paragraphs that span or split columns
  - Keep with previous
  - Balanced columns
  - Vertical justification in non-rectangular frames
  - Live corner effects
  - Swatches in Control panel
  - Grid place enhancements
  - Auto-Fit
  - Drawing multiple frames in a grid
  - Duplicating objects into a grid
  - Live captions from metadata
  - Mini Bridge
  - Page Thumbnails
  - View Links in an InDesign File while in Bridge
- CROSS MEDIA DESIGN
  - Interactive documents and presentations
  - FLV and MP3 import
  - Media panel
  - Motion presets
  - Animation panel
  - Timing panel
  - Object States panel
  - Preview panel
  - Pixels as unit of measurement
  - Convert URLs to hyperlinks
  - Improved export to Flash Player
  - Improved export to Flash Professional
  - Improved export to Interactive PDF
  - Improved JPEG export
- COLLABORATION
  - Integrated comment and review
  - Track text changes
  - Document Installed Fonts
  - Buzzword Integration
  - Presentation Mode
- USABILITY AND PRODUCTIVITY
  - Background tasks
  - Spring-loaded tools shortcut
  - Tool Hints panel
  - Community Help
  - Edit Original for multiple selected items
  - New options for locking objects
  - Relink file extensions
  - Hide objects
  - Sticky Preview check boxes
  - Place cursor when dragging from Adobe Bridge
  - Open book files in Explorer or Finder
- MISCELLANEOUS ENHANCEMENTS
  - Round CMYK values to whole numbers
  - Delete all guides
  - Zoom from dialog boxes
  - New default font
  - Collapse multiple links to same source
  - Remember Story Editor window location
  - Fold marks
  - Menu commands changed or moved
PHOTOSHOP CS5 NEW FEATURES
- Easier interface management with live workspaces
- Content-aware filling and healing
- HDR Pro
- Extraordinary painting effects
- Puppet Warp
- Automated lens correction
- Easy extrusions with 3D repoussé
- Enhanced 3D performance, workflow, and materials
- Streamlined creative reviews
- Integrated media management
- State of the art RAW processing
- New GPU-accelerated features
- Faster performance with cross-platform 64-bit support
ILLUSTRATOR CS5 NEW FEATURES
- Perspective drawing
- Beautiful strokes
- Variable-width strokes
- Dashed line adjustments
- Precise arrowheads
- Stretch control for brushes
- Brushes with corner control
- Bristle brush
- Crisp graphics for web and mobile devices
- Multiple artboards enhancements
- Shape Builder tool
- Drawing enhancements
- Symbol enhancements