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Adobe CS5 Design New Features - Two Day Upgrade Training— Bespoke

This is an upgrade course covering the new features of the Adobe CS5 design applications of InDesign CS5, Photoshop CS5, Illustrator CS5 and Adobe Bridge over a 2 day session. The course is ideally suited to current users of the applications who are upgrading from CS3 or CS4.

The duration of this course will enable an all round grounding in the most important new features of these 4 applications to your design workflow but will not allow a fully comprehensive introduction to all aspects of each application.

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As part of our dedication to offering you the very best learning experience, XChange Training offer every trainee a copy of Adobe InDesign CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide when they attend this course.
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Adobe CS5 Design New Features - Two Day Upgrade Training Outline

The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.

InDesign CS5 New Features

Easier Selecting and Transforming
-Working with the Selection tool
-Live corner effects
-The enhanced Layers panel
-Using Auto-Fit to set images

New Layout Tools
-Exploring Mini-Bridge
-Using the Gridify technique
-Working with the Gap tool
-Live Distribute
-Live Captions
-Mixed page sizes with the new Page
tool

New Production Features
-Working in Presentation mode
-Understanding document-installed
fonts
-Using multithreading for faster PDF
exports
-Managing tracked changes in a
document

New Text Frame Controls
-Spanning and splitting columns
-Balancing columns

Enhanced Production for Cross-Media
-Creating documents with interactive
features
-The new Preview panel
-Exploring new FLA export options
-Using the Export to Interactive PDF
command

Working with Video and Audio
-The Media panel
-Creating and using navigation points

Animations
-Animating objects with the Animation
panel
-Creating and editing motion presets
-Controlling animations with events and
actions
-Managing multiple animations with the
Timing panel

Creating Multi-State Objects
-Creating multistate objects with the
States panel
-Navigating states with button actions

Photoshop CS5 New Features

Easier interface management with live workspaces
-Automatically store task-specific workspaces that reflect your workflow, and quickly switch between them

Intelligent selection technology
-Extract subjects from backgrounds more quickly and accurately, creating realistic composites

Content-aware filling and healing
-Easily remove image elements and replace them with content that seamlessly integrates into its surroundings

HDR Pro
-Apply greater tone-mapping power, creating high dynamic range images that range from photorealistic to surreal. Apply an HDR look to standard images with the HDR Toning adjustment

Extraordinary painting effects
-Take advantage of realistic painting effects, mixing colors on the canvas and simulating bristles to produce results that rival traditional painting media

Puppet Warp
-Radically transform specific image areas, while anchoring others in place

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Automated lens correction
-Quickly fix distortion using installed profiles of popular lenses, or custom profiles of additional models

Easy extrusions with 3D repoussé
-Convert 2D text and artwork into 3D objects, and then extrude and inflate their surfaces

Enhanced 3D performance, workflow, and materials
-Quickly optimize performance with dedicated 3D preferences. Get faster previews and rendering with the improved Adobe Ray Tracer engine
-Apply materials interactively with Material Load and Drop tools

Collaborate with colleagues and quickly get client feedback with CS Review, an online service that accelerates the review process.

Integrated media management
-Take advantage of improved watermarking, web galleries, and batch processing in Adobe Bridge CS5
-Access assets directly in Photoshop using the Mini Bridge panel

State of the art RAW processing
-Remove noise in high ISO images while preserving color and detail
-Add creative effects like film grain and post-crop vignetting
-Precisely sharpen images with minimal artifacts

Boost your efficiency with countless workflow improvements. Selected highlights let you:
-Create layers by dragging files from Windows or Mac OS
-Straighten images with the Ruler tool
-Protect detail with the Sharpen tool
-Apply a graduated neutral density filter
-Reverse the direction of a clone source.
-Customise defaults for layer styles
-Paste in the same relative location, or into or outside selections
-Store image-specific print settings
-New GPU-accelerated features
-Harness increased hardware power with features like brush previews, a colour sampler ring for the Eyedropper tool, and a -Rule Of Thirds grid for the Crop tool

Illustrator CS5 New Features

Perspective Drawing and Strokes
-New perspective grid
-Beautiful strokes
-Variable Width Strokes
-Dashed line adjustments

Brush Features
-Stretch control
-Brushes with corner control
-Bristle Brush

Graphics for web and mobile devices
-Crisp graphic creation with pixel grid

Artboard Enhancements
-Multiple Artboard functionality with new artboard panel
-Add, re-order, re-arrange and duplicate artboards
-Artboard ruler origin and coordinate changes

Resolution Independent Effects
-Use Blur and Texture to maintain a consistent approach across media

Draw Behind and Inside Tools
-Draw behind objects easily
-Draw or place and image inside a shape

Bridge CS5
-Coverage of the new functionality of Bridge CS5 and how it works in relation to each application will be included

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Advantages of learning Adobe CS5 Design Combo with XChangeTraining

-Our Creative Suite 5 trainers are experienced print and design professionals with excellent knowledge of all aspects of print workflows from creating artwork to guaranteeing successful output.
-XChange Training is an Adobe Authorised Training Centre
-It's bespoke and solutions based: before you come to XChange Training we agree the course content with you based on your needs.
-We take the time to work specifically on any files you bring along to the course, ensuring that you see benefits to your workflow immediately.
-XChange training focuses on real tasks that reflect how the software is used in professional situations.
-On-site and off-site training is available for the whole UK.
-Free email support service for 6 months after course.
-We get consistently good feedback from our clients.
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Training Pricing

On-site course pricing
Prices include a set of course notes per trainee, 6 months telephone and/or e-mail support service after the course, all refreshments and lunch if held at the training centre.

For training onsite courses outside of London a standard return train fare and/or taxi fare may be applicable.

Training centre pricing
Pricing for training at the Clerkenwell facility:
1 person £895 for a 2 day course
2 people £995 for a 2 day course
3 people £1095 for a 2 day course
4 people £1195 for a 2 day course
5 people £1245 for a 2 day course
6 people £1295 for a 2 day course
7 people £1345 for a 2 day course
8 people £1395 for a 2 day course
All prices subject to VAT

 

Training Centre address
5 St John's Lane
Clerkenwell, London
EC1M 4BH

Tel: 0845 363 1130
Email: info@xchangetraining.co.uk

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For courses held outside of London for less than 3 trainees, an additional charge may be applicable depending upon the location - please ask for details.

Training Booking
To reserve a place on a training course, please click the link at right or contact us by telephone or email on the details above. You will then be contacted shortly to confirm the booking.

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