Course
AB6
Introduction to InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat DC («AB6»)
Course facts
- Learning the basics of the most common publishing tools
- Gaining an overview of the Adobe Creative Cloud and its services
- Gaining personal experience through hands-on project work
- Gaining an overview of publishing workflows
1 Adobe Creative Cloud overview
- Using Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and Acrobat DC
- Asset management
- File formats
- Color spaces
- Pixel and vector properties
- CC libraries
2 Adobe InDesign CC
- Creating documents
- Setting up pages
- Sample pages basics
- Formatting fonts
- Colors and gradients
- Placing images and graphics
- The layers principle
- Control with Preflight Basics
- PDF creation for print
3 Adobe Illustrator CC
- Creating documents with artboards
- Drawing with vectors
- Creating/modifying basic geometric shapes
- Colors and gradients
- Placing images
- Working with texts
- PDF creation
4 Adobe Photoshop CC
- The RGB workflow
- Selecting image areas efficiently
- Working with layers
- Simple color corrections
- Simple image retouching
- Masking image areas (cropping)
5 Adobe Acrobat DC
- PDF validation
- Getting to know comment functions
6 Project
- Concrete, small project work created across programs
- Application of learned skills using InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat DC
Component of the following courses
- Informative, exemplary and practice-orientated teaching sequence
- You start with one day each of Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign training
- Over the following two days, you will deepen your knowledge of the programmes and apply what you have learned in project work. PDF creation for print and web is integrated.
This intensive course is aimed at marketers, career changers and anyone interested in publishing.
You enjoy creative processes and have good PC user knowledge.
Information about Classroom Equipment
Our courses are usually held on Windows devices. However, we are happy to provide you with an Apple computer in Zurich, Bern, and Basel upon request. Please let us know in advance by emailing info@digicomp.ch.
Of course, you are also welcome to bring your own laptop.
For virtual participation, we recommend using an additional monitor (not just a laptop) so that you can follow the lessons and participate fully.
Adobe CC Software
Adobe Creative Cloud software will be made available to you without restriction in the course rooms during the course.
If you are participating virtually, you can work on your own device. Please let us know if you do not have your own «Adobe Creative Cloud» license. In this case, we will be happy to provide you with the software via remote access for the duration of the course.
The remote environment will be set up on a Windows device; Apple devices are not an option here. Unfortunately, it is not possible to use this environment beyond the course period.
Advanced courses
After this course you will be ready for the following advanced courses: «Adobe InDesign CC», «Adobe Illustrator CC», «Adobe Photoshop CC» und «Adobe Acrobat DC».