Course
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 on room equipment
We will provide you with a Windows device for this course (in presence format). On request, we will be happy to provide you with an Apple computer in Zurich and Bern. Please let us know in advance by sending an email to info@digicomp.ch.
Before the course, we will provide you with external course materials for download. Please bring your own laptop so that you can work with the course materials during the course.
For virtual participation, we recommend the use of an additional monitor (not just a laptop) so that you can fully follow and participate in the lesson.
Adobe CC software
The Adobe Creative Cloud software will be made available to you without restriction in the course rooms during the course. However, it is not possible to use the software via the Digicomp licenses from home during the course.
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».