A basic understanding of PCs, use of a keyboard and mouse plus knowledge of Microsoft Windows is required. No previous knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud is needed.

This course is designed to cover the main aspects of the programs within the Creative Cloud suite giving you an essential overview of the Fundamentals:

• Illustrator -  is used to edit a vector based graphics
• Photoshop -  is used for editing rastor or pixel based images
• Indesign - is similar to illustrator, but can be used to create multiple pages and create masters
• Acrobat - enhance and convert documents into pdfs

A Look at Illustrator

• Basic Drawing Tools
• Bezier Drawing (Pen Tool)
• Shaping with Pathfinder
• Fills and Strokes
• Working with Text
• Basic Layers
• Creating 3D graphics
• Live Paint
• Image Trace
• Saving and Exporting

A Look at PhotoShop

• Cropping to Size
• Rotate and Resizing
• Colour Modes
• File Formats
• Enhancing Images
• Using the Touch-Up Tools
• Basic Layers
• Layer Masks

What is InDesign?

• Document Setup and Bleed
• Working with Text
• Paragraph Styles
• Working with Columns
• Working with Images
• Applying Text Wrap
• Framing a Text Box
• Inset Spacing
• Working with Colour
• Multiple Pages
• Master Pages
• Page Numbering
• Different Document Layouts
• Errors/Links/Package/PDF
• Saving as JPEG

The course runs from 9:30am through to 4:30pm.

You will learn in a relaxed environment with a small group of people. A specialist tutor will guide and encourage you through all the learning necessary to develop your skills and questions are always welcome.

Included with your course
We provide the following with online and training centre delivered courses.

• Course notes
• Certificate of attendance
• 90 days post course support

Online Delivery
A link to the online training platform will be sent before the course, simply click the link and follow the instructions.

• See Virtual / Remote training information for more details
• Contact us if you'd like to test the platform before the morning of the course
• You can be located anywhere in the world with an internet connection and your computer

Our Training Centres
For training courses run at one of our training centres we include.

• Free onsite parking
• Lunch and refreshments
• Notepad, pen and Polos

Our Norwich on-site parking (NR3 1UB) is free and situated 5 minutes walk along the river to our training centre at St James Mill. If you arrive by train it is about 20 minutes on the Riverside walk or a short taxi ride to get to us. View full directions for Norwich and all our other venues.