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DMTS Inside Adobe Creative Suite 2 - Project Based Training. Award winning Creative Suite tutorial DVD by DMTS - Learn the latest tips, tricks, and tutorials in Creative Suite 2.

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The Adobe® Creative Suite Training Bundle is the fastest, easiest way to master all the professional features of Photoshop® CS2, Illustrator® CS2, InDesign® CS2, Acrobat 7, and GoLive® CS2. Work alongside the instructors using the included media files, and learn how to make the most of your software.

This 8 disc set contains over 46 hours of comprehensive training!

Includes:

DMTS™ Inside Photoshop CS2: Project-Based Training
DMTS™ InDesign CS2: Project-Based Training
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- Instructor Bio
DMTS™ Inside Illustrator CS2: Project-Based Training
Lynda's Golive CS2 Essential Training
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Lynda's Acrobat 7 Essential Training
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	This training provides a comprehensive hands-on view of Adobe Photoshop CS2, with an emphasis on new features; the preparation of web-ready graphics; and the animation and video-ready functionality of Photoshop. Travel imagery provided by Adobe Certified Photoshop Instructor Steve Weinrebe will be used to guide you through a tour of the Photoshop CS2 interface, and its powerful new features like Bridge, Vanishing Point, Smart Objects, Lens Correction, Warp, and Video Actions. As you optimize the color photographs provided on this disc and create a stunning interactive web site, you will review Photoshop fundamentals like tools, palettes, and filters. You will learn the intuitive, richly featured animation tools of Photoshop, import vector graphics, and create and preview animation for the web. Finally, you will input and output video, and explore the many automated and embedded features of Photoshop that allow you to prepare still images for video.

Introduction and Section Overview

Introduction
Section Overview

Interface Overview
Tool, Palette and Menu Basics
1. Navigation and Selection
2. Masking and Color
Working with Adobe Bridge

Basic Color Correction
Basic Retouching

Working with Vanishing Point

Preparing a Picture
The Vanishing Point Filter * watch free video lesson

Working with Camera Raw
Lens Correction

Smart Objects
Smart Sharpen Tool
Reduce Noise

Photoshop to Image Ready
1. Creating a Web Interface
2. Creating Rollover Buttons
Working with Text

Creating Animations in Photoshop
1. Smart Objects and Warp
2. Preparing an Animation
3. Layer Based Animations
Working with Video
1. Importing Video to Photoshop
2. Manipulating Video in Photoshop
3. Exporting Video
4. Preparing Stills for Video
5. Conclusion


	Steve Weinrebe Adobe® Certified Photoshop Instructor Steve Weinrebe is an Adobe Certified Photoshop Instructor and has been teaching Photoshop since 1991. Steve has over 30 years experience in commercial photography, photo-illustration and digital imaging, and has won numerous awards, including honors for some of the work contained on this disc. As President of Steve Weinrebe Productions, he routinely creates magic with Photoshop and can effectively demonstrate myriad techniques that will greatly enhance any Photoshop project. Steve holds a B.A. from Beloit College, an MBA with Honors from Temple University.

Project Files

Interactive Index

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Inside Adobe's InDesign CS2: Prject Based Training


	Inside InDesign CS2 will take you through all of the essentials as well as many advanced features of InDesign CS2 as you complete a layout project for a fictional magazine. You will work alongside Adobe Certified Instructor Jeff Witchel using specially included media files so that you will quickly be up and running in this latest version of InDesign. By the end of the training, you will feel comfortable working with advanced type formatting such as nested paragraph styles, creating object styles and working with Snippets. You will be confident in your knowledge of the new functionality of anchored objects as well as the fluid interoperability that InDesign shares with other Creative Suite applications. This training is especially well-suited for users of existing layout programs, educators and small businesses.

Introduction to the Training
Section Overview

Transparency
Interoperability Within Creative Suite 2
Type Composition

Setting Defaults
Palettes and Workspaces
New Document Settings
Margins and Guides
Setting Up Master Pages
Automatic Page Numbers
Unlocking and Detaching Objects
Adding and Deleting Pages
Using Layers

Bringing in Copy
Find and Replace Paragraph Returns
The Character Palette
The Paragraph Palette
Creating Paragraph Styles
Creating Character and Nested Styles
Loading Styles and Copy into the Main Document
Inset Text
Fonts and Special Characters
Working with Tabs

Text Wrap Palette
Paragraph Rules
Grouping Objects
Inline and Anchored Graphics
Text Continuing To or From Pages
Creating a Table of Contents

Transforming with the Selection Tools
The Align Palette
Creating a Look with Strokes
Custom Strokes
Object Styles
Finishing the Photo Layout

The Color and Swatches Palette
Spot Colors
Replacing Colors in Your Document
Creating Gradients

Transparency in InDesign
Blending Modes
Transparent Effects

Exporting as Adobe PDF
Print to File
Checking a PDF within Acrobat Professional
Exporting as Interchange File
Snippets

Prepress and Preparing for Output

Output Preview Options
Type Layers and Transparency
Creating Outlines of Type
Packaging An InDesign File


	Jeff Witchel Adobe® Certified Instructor Jeff is an award-winning advertising art director, writer, designer, illustrator, and TV producer. Before founding his own advertising agency, Jeff built his career at top agencies such as Young & Rubicam, Grey Advertising, and Wells, Rich, Greene. Some of Jeff’s many clients include: AT&T; Blue Cross/Blue Shield; Jell-O Pudding; The Plaza Hotel; and Pfizer. His work has won many honors, including the: N.Y. Art Directors Club Gold Award; One Show Gold Award; N.J. Art Directors Club Award; along with multiple Andy Awards and an Emmy nomination. As an Adobe Certified Expert, Jeff provides online support for Adobe, and is now an Adobe Certified Training Provider for both Adobe Illustrator CS2 and Adobe InDesign CS2. Jeff is also a Certified Expert in QuarkXPress 6, as well as a master of Adobe Photoshop and related applications. He counts among his training clients ad agencies, design studios, magazines, illustrators, and photographers.

Lynda’s Illustrator CS2 Essential Training. Venture to new vector freedoms. Illustrator artwork appears everywhere.


	Adobe Certified Instructor, Jeff Witchel, gives you step-by-step instruction on Adobe Illustrator CS2 including Blends, Effects and the new features: Live Trace and Live Paint. From Blends and Effects to incredible new features like Live Trace and Live Paint, Adobe Certified Instructor, Jeff Witchel's easy-to-follow lessons will help you master new ways to create assets quickly and efficiently in Illustrator CS 2. Many of the features discussed are completely undocumented, and are sure to cut time and production costs from your projects.

Introduction

Introduction to the Training.
Section Overview

Postscript Language
Vector Graphics
RGB vs CMYK

File and Edit Menu
Object Menu
Filter and Effect
View Menu

Illustrator Tools Tour

Selection tools
Drawing and Object Creation tools
Transformation Tools
Using Tools in a Project

Illustrator Palettes

Arranging Palettes and Adding a Color Fill
Color and Swatches Palettes
Gradient and Stroke Palette
Brushes and Symbols Palette
Layers and the Appearance Palettes
Pathfinder Palette
New Control Palette

Turning a Pixel Image into Vectors
Turning a Line Drawing into Vectors

Filling in Gaps from a Live Traced image
Painting in a Line Drawing
Making a Live Paint Object

Using the Blend Tool
Blending in Steps

3D Effects and Bevel on the Swift Logo
3D Revolve on an Outline
Mapping a Glow Effect to a 3D object

Blending Effects

Simple Effect Blends
Blending for 2D Illusion of Movement
Blending for Animation

Export to PDF, EPS, JPEG, and Web formats
Exporting to Photoshop
Exporting to Flash Animation
Preparing Files for After Effects


	Jeff Witchel Adobe® Certified Instructor Jeff Witchel is an award-winning art director, writer, designer and producer. He is also an Adobe® Certified Instructor. Over the years, he has created award-winning work for clients including AT&T, Jell-O and Pfizer. His many awards include an Andy, as well as an Emmy Award nomination. As an Adobe Certified Training Provider for both Adobe Illustrator CS2 and Adobe InDesign CS2, Jeff is one of just a handful of Adobe Certified Instructors in the New York area. He counts among his training clients ad agencies, design studios, magazines, illustrators, and photographers.

Project Files

Table of Contents

Learn Short Cut Keys

Lynda’s GoLive CS2 Essential Training. Learn to design sophisticated websites for web and mobile devices.


	GoLive CS2 Essential Training is a tutorial designed for beginning to intermediate GoLive users who want to quickly get up to speed with the latest version of this popular web design application. This tutorial teaches basic web authoring skills using GoLive's vast array of tools, and covers working with text and images, creating links, adding rollovers and JavaScript actions, creating forms, and managing your site. The training also shows how to use many of the new features of CS2, including designing with the new Cascading Style Sheets "liquid layout" tools and using the new automated favicon creation tool. Exercise files accompany the training, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.

Introduction

Getting Started

Basic Concepts
Opening GoLive
Creating a Site
The Site Window
The GoLive Workspace
The Document Window
Page Title
Browser Setup

Working with Text

Adding Text
Working with Fonts
Structural vs. Style Formatting
Text Size
Text Color
Paragraph Formatting

Adding Images
Aligning Images
Smart Objects
Background Images
Favicons

Creating Text Links
Link Colors
Image Links
Image Maps
External Links
Email Links
Link History
Linking to PDFs

Tables

What Are Tables?
Adding and Selecting Rows and Columns
Pixel-Based Tables
Percentage-Based Tables
Nesting Tables
Text Wrap
Background Color
Table Palette
Importing Data

The Layout Grid

Layout Grid Options
Layout Grid Layout

Cascading Style Sheets

What is CSS?
Markup Styles
Class Styles
Modifying Link Appearances
Descendent Selectors
Markup Classes
CSS Margins and Borders
Background Styles
External Style Sheets
Setting the Default Style Sheet
Internal and External Style Sheets
CSS Objects

Forms

Creating a Form
Text Fields
Pop-Up Menus
Checkboxes
Radio Buttons
Submit and Reset Buttons
Labels
Modifying the Tabbing Chain

Rollovers and JavaScript Actions

What Are Actions?
Head Actions
Body and Text Actions
Creating Rollovers
Adding a Pop-Up Window Action
Adding a Time and Date Stamp Action
Creating a Jump Menu
JavaScript Library

Adding Video and SWF Files

Adding a QuickTime Movie
Adding a Click-to-Play Link
Adding a SWF File
11. Site Assets
Templates
Components
Stationery and Snippets

Managing and Publishing a Site

Finding and Correcting Errors
Find and Replace
Spell-Checking
Making Global Changes
Cleaning Up the Site
Entering Remote Server Info
Publishing the Site
Updating Files

Lynda’s Acrobat 7 Essential Training. Learn to create and share more secure and reliable Acrobat PDF documents


	PDF has become the standard format for electronically sharing documents. But what can you do with your PDFs once they're created? Acrobat 7 Essential Training shows you how to take your PDFs to the next level by adding interactive elements such as links, bookmarks, and form fields. You'll learn to tweak your PDFs using Acrobat Distiller, make changes to them using Acrobat's editing tools, and keep them safe using the new security features. Covering both the Standard and Professional versions of Acrobat 7, these movies ensure that you'll master the key features of this diverse application in no time.