CS4 Design Workflow

Chapter 1: BRIDGE: THE HUB OF CREATIVE SUITE 4 (23 min)
1. A Quick Tour of the Bridge Interface
2. Browsing Images & Previewing Thumbnails
3. Metadata, Keywords, Filtering & Collections
4. Moving, Copying & Deleting Images
5. Establishing the Creative Suite Color Settings
6. Using Additional Bridge Tools & Adobe Services

Chapter 2: RASTER IMAGE EDITING WITH PHOTOSHOP? (63 min)
1. Introducing Photoshop CS4
2. Basic Color Correction
3. Selection Techniques
4. Quick Mask Mode & the Masks Panel
5. Working with Layers & Compositing
6. Using Illustrator? Objects in Photoshop
7. Adding Layer Styles & Creating Layer Comps
8. Saving & Outputting from Photoshop

Chapter 3: VECTOR IMAGE EDITING WITH ILLUSTRATOR? (60 min)
1. Introducing Illustrator CS4
2. Setting Up Multiple Artboards
3. Working with Shapes, Fills & Strokes
4. Tracing a Pencil Drawing with the Pen Tool
5. Working with Live Trace
6. Adjusting Colors & Gradients
7. Working with Effects
8. Outputting from Illustrator

Chapter 4: LAYING IT ALL OUT WITH INDESIGN? (62 min)
1. InDesign CS4 Interface & Navigation
2. Drawing Shapes & Working with Color
3. Managing Master Pages & Variables
4. Inserting & Scaling Graphics
5. Object Layer Options, Links & Edit Original
6. Importing Text & Threading Text Frames
7. Creating Paragraph Styles
8. Adding Interactive Elements
9. Outputting Your Work

Chapter 5: ADDING MULTIMEDIA WITH ACROBAT? (30 min)
1. Introducing Acrobat 9 Professional
2. Adding Interactivity to PDF Layers
3. Inserting Sound & Video into a PDF
4. Merging Files & Creating a Full Screen Slideshow
5. Assembling a PDF Portfolio

Chapter 6: GETTING ANIMATED WITH FLASH? (43 min)
1. Introducing Flash CS4
2. Importing Illustrator Files
3. Importing Photoshop Files & Layer Selections
4. Creating & Animating Flash Symbols
5. Applying an Action to a Button
6. Motion Tweens, the Motion Editor & Motion Presets
7. Creating a Banner Layout & Publishing to .SWF

Chapter 7: EDITING WEB GRAPHICS WITH FIREWORKS? (16min)
1. Opening Photoshop Files in Fireworks CS4
2. Resizing Images
3. Optimizing Images
4. Setting Hotspots

Chapter 8: DESIGNING A WEB LAYOUT WITH DREAMWEAVER? (56 min)
1. Getting to Know Dreamweaver CS4
2. Slicing an Image in Photoshop
3. Creating a CSS Layout from Scratch
4. Centering a CSS Layout
5. Hyperlinks & CSS
6. Using a Class Style to Control Layout
7. Inserting Flash Video
8. Integrating Photoshop Smart Objects
9. Finishing Touches
10. Credits