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Creative Suite 2 Standard Bundle

By Total Training
Adobe Creative Suite 2 Standard Bundle
Creative Suite 2 Standard Bundle
Adobe CS2 Standard Bundle £175.00 + VAT
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Illustrator CS2
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Program 1 - Discovering Illustrator

1. Introducing Illustrator (37 min)
Lesson 1: Using the Welcome Screen
Lesson 2: Introducing Vector Based Paths
Lesson 3: Working with Layers in Illustrator
Lesson 4: Introducing Anchor Points
Lesson 5: Creating a New Document
Lesson 6: Repositioning and Adjusting View
Lesson 7: Saving the Document
Lesson 8: Utilizing Illustrator Startup Documents

2. The Bridge (29 min)
Lesson 1: Intro to Bridge and The Bridge Center in CS
Lesson 2: Finding Folders and The Thunbnail View
Lesson 3: Opening, Moving and Previewing Bridge Files
Lesson 4: Preview, Filtering and Rating Options
Lesson 5: Orgainizing Files using Preferences
Lesson 6: Deleting, Duplicating, Moving files in Bridge
Lesson 7: Renaming Sorting and Batch Renaming files
Lesson 8: Presenting a slide show from the Bridge

3. Workspace & Navigation (36 min)
Lesson 1: Setting Up Preferences
Lesson 2: Using Color Settings
Lesson 3: Configuring Pallettes & Workspaces
Lesson 4: Using Navigation

4. Symetrical Shapes (40 min)
Lesson 1: Setting Palette Options and Using Transparacy
Lesson 2: A Look at the Shape Tools. Creating a Circle
Lesson 3: Aligning Circle Shapes
Lesson 4: Creating Star Shapes
Lesson 5: Creating Rectangle Shapes
Lesson 6: Using the Flip Tool to Mirror Shapes
Lesson 7: Combining Shapes
Lesson 8: Tilde Key Function

5. Fill, Stroke and Color (55 min)
Lesson 1: Introduction to Fill and Stroke
Lesson 2: An Overview of the Color Pallette
Lesson 3: The Color Spectrum Bar and Dialing in colors
Lesson 4: Black vs. Rich Black in the Color Palette
Lesson 5: CMYK vs. RGB
Lesson 6: Creating and Saving new Color Swatches
Lesson 7: Filling and Arranging Objects in a document
Lesson 8: Modifying and Arranging the Stroke of an Object
Lesson 9: Display Artifacts and Stroke Pallete options
Lesson 10: Creating a fill Pattern

6. Transforming Paths (60 min)
Lesson 1: Introducing Path Transformations
Lesson 2: Duplicating Objects
Lesson 3: Moving Objects in Increments
Lesson 4: Using the Reshape Tool
Lesson 5: Moving Paths
Lesson 6: Using the Offset Path Dialogue Box
Lesson 7: Working with Swatches
Lesson 8: Grouping Paths
Lesson 9: Using the Scale Tool
Lesson 10: Using the Rotate Tool
Lesson 11: Rotating Multiple Objects
Lesson 12: Advanced Rotate Options

7. Using the Powerful Pen Tool (48 min)
Lesson 1: Using Bridge
Lesson 2: Creating a Tracing Template
Lesson 3: Drawing with the Pen Tool
Lesson 4: Modifying a Path
Lesson 5: Using and Editing Spline Curves
Lesson 6: Using Beziér Curves
Lesson 7: Creating a Cusp Point
Lesson 8: Modifying and Converting Beziér Curves
Lesson 9: Cutting, Extending, and Closing Paths
Lesson 10: Filling Paths

8. Selecting Points and Paths (59 min)
Lesson 1: Strokes and Fills
Lesson 2: Appearance Palate - Transform And Tweak
Lesson 3: Working With Layers - Uzz Character
Lesson 4: Making Use of the Join Command
Lesson 5: Locked Layers
Lesson 6: Making Center Points
Lesson 7: Intro To Pathfinder - Intersect Shape Areas
Lesson 8: Precision Filling Selection
Lesson 9: Various Selection Commands & Methods
Lesson 10: Various Scaling Methods
Lesson 11: Lacemaking Using Shape Tool - Rotate & Fill
Lesson 12: Merging Strokes & Fills With Compound Path
Lesson 13: Lacemaking Using Direction Handles & Anchor Points
Lesson 14: Pucker & Bloat

9. Pathfinder Operations (40 min)
Lesson 1: Touring the Project
Lesson 2: An Introduction to the Pathfinder Operations
Lesson 3: Working with the Pathfinder Palete
Lesson 4: Comparing Pathfinder Behaviors
Lesson 5: Joining Paths and the Miter Limit
Lesson 6: Croping, Uniting and Arranging
Lesson 7: Selectiing and Deselecting Paths
Lesson 8: Fill Options and other pathfinder operations

10. Liquify & Envelope (33 min)
Lesson 1: Preparing an Image for Liquify & Envelope
Lesson 2: Using the Warp Tool to Liquify
Lesson 3: Using the Envelope Functions
Lesson 4: Editing Enveloped Content
Lesson 5: Liquify with Live Trace

11. Creating and Formatting Type (50 min)
Lesson 1: Importing Text into Illustrator
Lesson 2: Selecting Text for Reformatting
Lesson 3: Moving Text to a New Text Container
Lesson 4: Reformatting Text with the Paragraphs Pallet
Lesson 5: Altering Text Font and Size
Lesson 6: Moving Text and Altering Line Spacing
Lesson 7: Copying Text Formats

Program 2 - Treasures from the Object Orient

1. Gradients & Gradient Mesh (46 min)
Lesson 1: Applying a Gradient
Lesson 2: Using Swatches
Lesson 3: Using the Gradient Palette
Lesson 4: Using the Gradient Slider Bar
Lesson 5: Adding Colors
Lesson 6: Using the Gradient Tool
Lesson 7: Making Color Adjustments
Lesson 8: Using the Eye Dropper Tool
Lesson 9: Reviewing the Appearance Palette and Gradients on Strokes
Lesson 10: Expanding Appearance
Lesson 11: Creating a Gradient Mesh
Lesson 12: Expanding a Gradient Mesh
Lesson 13: Modifying Gradient Mesh Colors
Lesson 14: Modifying Gradient Mesh Points and Control Handles
Lesson 15: Applying Other Gradient Mesh Color Change
Lesson 16: Adjusting Gradient Mesh Preferences
Lesson 17: Blending Objects into the Gradient Mesh

2. Blends and Masks (34 min)
Lesson 1: Creating Simple Color Gradients
Lesson 2: Creating Custom Gradients via Blending
Lesson 3: Cropping Custom Gradient Blends
Lesson 4: Customizing Blends for Specific Shapes
Lesson 5: Creating Blends Between Two Shapes
Lesson 6: Changing the Shape of Customized Blends
Lesson 7: Masking Edges with Clipping Masks
Lesson 8: Masking the Shape of Customized Blends
Lesson 9: Changing Opacities of Clipping Mask Layers

3. Brushing with Vectors (45 min)
Lesson 1: Illustrator CS 2's Brush Tool
Lesson 2: The Brush Options Dialogue Box
Lesson 3: Extending Selected Paths
Lesson 4: Illustrator Art Brushes
Lesson 5: Editing Your Art Brush Strokes
Lesson 6: Making a Custom Art Brush
Lesson 7: Finishing Up Your Art Brush and Typing on a Path
Lesson 8: Fixing Your Text
Lesson 9: Converting Text To An Art Brush

4. Using Transparency (38 min)
Lesson 1: Assigning Different Opacity For Stroke And Fill
Lesson 2: Working With Knockout Group
Lesson 3: Creating an Opacity Mask
Lesson 4: Multiply Mode
Lesson 5: Adding Objects To Opacity Masks
Lesson 6: Opacity Mask With a Gradient
Lesson 7: Blend Mode - Multiply Mode
Lesson 8: Transpacency Palatte
Lesson 9: Blend Mode - Color Mode
Lesson 10: Making Translucent Gradient in Blend Mode
Lesson 11: Create Mask With Boundary Layer
Lesson 12: Printing Tips With Flattener Preview

5. Pre-Assembly (50 min)
Lesson 1: Introducing Live Effects
Lesson 2: Dealing with Fills and Strokes
Lesson 3: Using the Scribble Dialogue Box
Lesson 4: Managing the Appearance Palette
Lesson 5: Introducing the Transform Command
Lesson 6: Reapplying the Transform Command
Lesson 7: Modifying Stroke Attributes
Lesson 8: Changing the Transform Origin
Lesson 9: Saving and Loading Graphic Styles

6. Dynamic Type Treatments (41 min)
Lesson 1: Dynamic Effects for Objects
Lesson 2: Transform Effects and Stacking Order
Lesson 3: Text Effects, Warnings and Selection Settings
Lesson 4: Applying the Warp Effect and Editing Text
Lesson 5: Applying a Stroke and Transforming the Text
Lesson 6: Thickening the text using Path options
Lesson 7: Creating Drop shadows & Text Effects
Lesson 8: Filling Text with Color and Gradients

7. Live Trace (33 min)
Lesson 1: Reviewing Files for Live Trace
Lesson 2: Using the Live Trace Tool
Lesson 3: Applying Threshold and Minimum Area
Lesson 4: Reviewing Adjustments and View Tracing Option
Lesson 5: Reviewing Trace Settings Tracing Option
Lesson 6: Expanding Traced Items to Paths
Lesson 7: Using Tracing Options for Color
Lesson 8: Altering Swatches in Color Tracing

8. Live Paint (43 min)
Lesson 1: Live Painting Fills
Lesson 2: Live Painting Strokes
Lesson 3: Live Paint-Bucket Basics
Lesson 4: Live Painting Update On Fly
Lesson 5: Paint Bucket Tricks
Lesson 6: Live Painting Paths
Lesson 7: Leaving Isolation Mode
Lesson 8: Selecting Paths In Live Paint
Lesson 9: Selection Tool In Live Paint
Lesson 10: Layering Strokes In Live Paint
Lesson 11: Live Painting A Trace
Lesson 12: Gap Detection
Lesson 13: Close Gaps With Paths

9. Using Symbols (25 min)
Lesson 1: Introducing Symbols
Lesson 2: Accessing Symbol Libraries
Lesson 3: Manipulating and Duplicating Symbols
Lesson 4: Altering All Instances of a Symbol
Lesson 5: Replacing All Instances of a Symbol
Lesson 6: Creating Symbols
Lesson 7: Applying Symbols with the Symbol Spray Tool
Lesson 8: Modifying Symbols with Symbol Tools

10. 3D Effects (44 min)
Lesson 1: Introduction to 3D space and 3D Effects
Lesson 2: Applying and Adjusting the Extrude and Bevel effect
Lesson 3: Lighting, Shading and Gradation
Lesson 4: Mapping the Artwork onto the extruded object
Lesson 5: Modifying the object and the Mapped artwork
Lesson 6: Applying and Adjusting the Revolve Effect
Lesson 7: Using Photoshop to help with 3D Effects

11. Printing & Exporting (31 min)
Lesson 1: Setting Document Trim Size
Lesson 2: Creating Page Bleed
Lesson 3: Setting Imageable Portion of Output Page
Lesson 4: Preparing General Setup Output Settings
Lesson 5: Preparing Print Bleed Settings
Lesson 6: Preparing Printer Settings
Lesson 7: Altering Document Rasterize Settings
Lesson 8: Saving Print Settings
Lesson 9: Exporting Documents as Different File Types

12. Flash Animation (39 min)
Lesson 1: Intro To SWF Animation
Lesson 2: Animating Live Effects
Lesson 3: Exporting Flash Animations
Lesson 4: Adding Frames To Animations
Lesson 5: Creating A Symbol File
Lesson 6: Animating A Symbol
Lesson 7: Animating Between 3D Extrusions

InDesign CS2
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Program 1

1. Quick Start Tour of Adobe InDesign CS2 (34 min)
Lesson 1: Creating