Adobe Creative Cloud Course for Graphic Design

• Exploring the Illustrator interface
• Choosing a workspace
• Opening a file
• Using artboards
• Changing your view
• Zooming and scrolling
• Using tools and panels
• Exploring the Control panel
• Working with panels and the dock
• Saving workspaces and shortcuts

Adobe Illustrator CC essentials

• Using Illustrator's shape tools
• Repositioning and visually resizing the shapes
• Putting the Transform panel to work
• Constraining a shape
• Entering exact dimensions
• Selecting artwork
• Using the shape and transform tools
• Introducing layers
• Cutting and pasting objects
• Repeating transformations

Adding Color using Adobe Illustrator CC

• Exploring the Appearance panel
• Changing colors in Illustrator
• Adding effects
• Using Live Paint
• Adding a symbol
• Saving swatches
• Selecting the same color
• Creating a color group
• Using the Color panel
• Adding Pantone colors

Working with the Adobe Illustrator CC drawing tools

• Understanding the Pen tool
• Drawing straight, curved and hinged lines
• Tracing images
• Creating a tracing template
• Working with Image Trace
• Using the Line, Pencil and Eraser tools
• Editing existing paths
• Adding and removing points
• Cutting and joining paths
• Combining shapes with the Shape Builder

Exploring additional Adobe CC Illustrator color options

• Adding tonal values with gradients
• Customizing an existing gradient
• Saving the gradient
• Applying a second instance of the gradient
• Using the Gradient panel
• Updating a gradient
• Creating and using patterns
• Creating a bounding box
• Applying the pattern
• Editing a pattern fill
• Locating existing patterns
• Finishing up the illustration
• Creating a Color Group
• Using the Color Guide

Formatting Text using Illustrator CC

• Formatting text
• Paragraph formatting
• Using paragraph and character styles
• Editing styles
• Putting text on a path
• Warping text
• Putting text in a shape
• Creating outlines
• Checking spelling
• Using Find and Replace

Introduction to Illustrator CC layers

• Getting to know the Layers panel
• Using layers to organize your illustrations
• Using the Layers panel to make selections
• Creating new layers
• Showing and hiding layers
• Locking and unlocking layers
• Rearranging layers
• Moving items between layers
• Remembering layers when pasting
• Creating a template layer

InDesign CC Essential Skills

• InDesign tools
• The InDesign workspace
• The document window
• Using guides
• Viewing modes
• Working with panels
• Managing panels
• Saving your workspace
• Working with the Control panel
• Navigating through a document

Building InDesign CC documents with master pages

• Planning your document
• Creating a custom-sized document
• Formatting master pages
• Using text variables
• Basing master pages on other masters
• Overriding master page items
• Adding layout pages
• Placing formatted text
• Adding images and text to master pages
• Applying masters to pages

Working with Text and Type in InDesign CC

• Creating a text frame
• Inputting text
• Changing character attributes
• Changing paragraph attributes
• Finding and changing text
• Checking and correcting spelling
• Using the Glyphs panel
• Creating Glyph sets
• Flowing text
• Threading text between frames

Working with InDesign CC styles

• Style types
• Defining paragraph styles
• Applying paragraph styles
• Defining character styles
• Applying character styles
• Updating styles
• Loading styles from another document
• Organizing styles into groups
• Creating object styles
• Applying object styles

Working with graphics in InDesign CC

• How InDesign handles graphics
• Locating missing images
• The Links panel and Link badge
• Creating a graphic frame
• Adding graphics
• Repositioning graphics
• Fitting graphics to frames
• Placing multiple graphics
• Wrapping text around graphics
• Importing layered Photoshop files

Using Color in Your InDesign CC and Illustrator CC Documents

• Applying color to text
• Applying color to frames
• Creating and saving a new swatch
• Applying Live Corner effects
• Applying strokes to text
• Creating a tint reduction
• Working with gradients
• Sampling colors using the Eyedropper tool
• Updating and editing colors
• Using and saving spot colors

Using InDesign CC to print, create PDFs, and share files

• Package inventory
• Actual vs. effective resolution
• Preflight checks for overflow text, fonts, colors, resolution, and more
• Packaging your document
• Creating a PDF
• PDF Export Options
• Previewing separated colors for printing
• Printing a proof