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lesson highlights
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Photoshop CS3: Quick Selection Tool
The Quick Selection tool can be used in conjunction
with all of the other powerful selection tools
in Photoshop. Whether it's simple or complicated
image selections, or image area extraction for
advanced compositing, the new Quick Selection
tool is a real time saver.
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Illustrator CS3: Flash Integration
The integrity of critical elements in your Illustrator
artwork is now maintained in Flash, with intact
paths – and correct anchor point positions – as
well as gradients, clipping masks, and symbols.
Now you can move back and forth between
software more easily and take full advantage
of the strengths of Illustrator to create intricate
and unique vectors for your animations.
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InDesign CS3: Working with Effects
Explore design possibilities directly in your
page layout. Apply a variety of Photoshop effects
to objects on a page, and experiment with blending
modes, opacity, and other options. Quickly and
easily edit these nondestructive effects without
permanently altering the object. Effects can
then be saved as part of an object style for
easy reuse or sharing.
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top 5 things you will learn:
- Get all-new versions of essential creative tools
- Get unprecedented integration for exceptional productivity
- Access the power of the nondestructive Smart Filters
- Enhanced control of anchor point selection and editing
- Expanded creativity of more effects
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table of contents
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Photoshop CS3
- Introduction to Photoshop CS3
- Adobe Bridge CS3
- Camera Raw 4.0
- Photomerge and Auto-Align
- New Adjustment Layers
- Quick Selection Tool
- Smart Filters
- Clone Source
- Export Options in CS3
- Improved Print Experience
Illustrator CS3
- Introduction to Illustrator CS3
- The New Workspace
- Setting Up New Documents
- The Control Panel
- Working with Anchor Points
- Working in Isolation Mode
- Working with the Eraser Tool
- Crop Tool
- Working with Live Color
- Preparing for Flash
InDesign CS3
- Introduction to InDesign CS3
- The New Workspace
- The New Control Panel
- Working with Transparency
- New Effects
- Working with Text
- Table & Cell Styles
- Bullets & Numbering
- Placing Files
- Fast Frame Fitting
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| about the instructors |
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Jeffery Morse
Jeffery Morse is an award-winning producer, editor, trainer and photographer. Apple Certified in Final Cut Studio and Aperture, Jeffery specializes in post-production workflows and training for video and digital photography.
Jeffery is the founder of deepfield.net, a multimedia production company that designs, produces and implements a variety of media from Flash-based websites to videos and interactive DVDs At deepfield.net the work philosophy is taken from Thoreau: "Simplification of means and elevation of ends is the goal."
On the training side, Jeffery has worked with companies like CNN, Sony, Universal Studios, BMW, Bunim-Murray Productions, Weynand Training and Apple Inc. For Apple he is a Master Trainer for both Aperture and Final Cut Studio.
As a speaker, Jeffery has been featured at Macworld, DVExpo, WPPI, BEA, and the Jackson Hole Film Festival.
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Jeff Witchel
Jeff Witchel graduated from Pratt Institute in 1973 with a B.F.A. (Cum Laude) in Advertising Design and Visual Communications. He has been an award-winning advertising art director, writer, designer, illustrator, and TV producer ever since.
Before starting his own advertising agency in New Jersey, Jeff built his career at top New York ad agencies such as Young & Rubicam, Grey Advertising, and Wells, Rich, Greene. Over the years, he has created award-winning work for many clients including AT&T, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Jell-O Pudding, The Plaza Hotel, and Pfizer. His many prestigious awards include N.Y. Art Directors Club Gold Award, One Show Gold Award, N.J. Art Directors Club Award, multiple Andy Awards, Graphis Annual, numerous readership awards, plus an Emmy Award nomination.
Jeff is a self-taught computer artist with over 20 years of experience. His initial introduction to the computer was with PageMaker, but he switched to Quark 1.0 when it was first introduced in 1987. Having arrived on the desktop publishing scene so early, Jeff became the "go to" guy for answers when others started getting into computer graphics.
As an Adobe Certified Expert, he's provided online support for Adobe and is now an Adobe Certified Training Provider for both Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign. Jeff is one of just a handful of Adobe Certified Instructors in the New York metropolitan area. He also is a Quark 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 in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.
Jeff is the author and instructor for two training DVDs produced by Magnet Media Films in New York - "Inside Adobe Illustrator CS2" and "Inside Adobe InDesign CS2." He also writes tutorials for Layers magazine's website, authors Layers Magazine's "Tips of the Day," which are delivered daily to subscribers by email, and is a regular contributor to Adobe Illustrator Techniques magazine.
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