Summary

Course Aim:

The Publishing Overview course examines the stages of Publishing production and techniques. Participants will be able to efficiently identify each stage of production and the software and hardware required for each stage. This workshop is aimed at professionals providing support within the publishing industry who require a working knowledge of the workflow and each stage of production, but not opertor level skills. Comprehensive skills are gained from out L1, L2, L3 courses in each application (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat). Courseware supplied; Alpha designed 250 pages.

Course Prerequisites:

The prerequisites for this workshop is that you have some experience within the publishing industry and experience using applications on a PC or Macintosh is an essential prerequisite for this course.

Course Duration:

Three days (2-day version available, topics marked * are either not included or content reduced); 9:00am - 4:30pm

Classroom courses include:

• Adobe Certified instructors (with min 10 yrs experience)
• Alpha prepared comprehensive coursenotes with tutorials and exercises (updated frequently to reflect industry trends)
• Certificates
• eLearning DVD Package (FREE at course registration where available, see our SPECIALS)
• After course support, unlimited HELP DESK (via email, to reinforce the learning), helpdesk@alphacc.com.au
• Training guarantee
• FREE repeat of public course within 6 months (where required, and on same version), see terms & conditions

Content

Course Content

During this course you will learn about:

Section 1 Publishing Stages of Production/Workflow

*Topic 1 Digital Publishing Workflow

• Topic Objectives
• Digital Publishing Workflow
• Did you know?

• Printing Processes
• Common forms of Printing in Australia
• Classifications

Section 2 Output Requirements; Print Specifications

*Topic 2 Customising reproduction for print

• Print Industry Standards
• Litho S heet-Fed (Commercial):

• Litho Web-Fed (Magazine):
• Newspaper SWOP:

Section 3 Colour Management Overview

*Topic 3 Colour Management Overview

• Reproducing Colour
• Colour Management Basics

• Setting up Colour Management in Photoshop
• Monitor Calibration

Section 4 Bitmap Graphics; Photoshop Overview

*Topic 4 Interface

• Topic Objectives
• Photoshop Overview
• Bitmap images and Vector graphics
• The Photoshop Interface
• Application bar
• Using panels
• Using the Tools panel
• Workspaces
• The default panel positions
• Viewing file information

• About Adobe Bridge
• Zooming in and out
• Navigating around the image
• The History panel
• Correcting mistakes
• Setting and Restoring Preferences
• Overview of Photoshop’s Preferences
• Adding Metadata to an Image
• Print
• A Photoshop Primer

Topic 5 Preparing an RGB image for print

• Topic Objectives

• Preparing an RGB/CMYK image for print

Topic 6 Making Selections

• Topic Objectives
• Why make selections?
• Selection tool options
• Anti-aliased selections
• The Marquee Tools
• The Lasso tools

• The Magic Wand tool
• The Quick Selection tool
• Refining selection edges
• Inversing the selected areas
• Working with Selections

Topic 7 Layers

• Topic Objectives
• The Layers panel
• Creating layers
• Converting a background into a layer
• Changing the visibility of layers
• Changing a layer’s opacity
• Selecting layers
• Moving objects on Layers

• Applying a blending mode for a layer
• Duplicating a layer
• Renaming a layer
• Rearranging layers
• Deleting layers
• Linking and unlinking layers
• Merging layers
• Flattening layers

*Topic 8 Type in Photoshop

• Topic Objectives
• Creating point type
• Creating paragraph type
• Committing changes to type
• Selecting type

• Formatting type
• Transforming the type bounding box
• Warping type
• Applying layer styles to type layers

*Topic 9 Retouching

• Topic Objectives
• The Clone Stamp tool
• The Spot Healing Brush tool

• The Healing Brush tool
• The Dodge and Burn tools

Section 5 Vector Graphics; Illustrator Overview

*Topic 10 Illustrator’s Interface

• Topic Objectives
• The Tools panel
• Working with panels
• Customizing your workspace
• The Application bar

• The Control panel
• The context menu
• Zooming in and out
• Preview and Outline Views
• Illustrator’s preferences

Topic 11 Artwork Essentials

• Topic Objectives
• Vector images
• Bitmap images
• Creating a new Illustrator document

• Opening a file
• Templates
• The Illustrator artboard

Topic 12 Drawing Vector Art

• Topic Objectives
• About vector paths
• Drawing lines with the Line Segment tool
• Drawing rectangles

• Drawing ellipses
• Drawing polygons
• Drawing stars
• Drawing straight lines with the Pen tool

*Topic 13 Clipping Masks and Transparency

• Topic Objectives
• Clipping masks
• Creating a clipping mask for objects
• Creating a clipping mask for a group or layer
• Editing a clipping mask

• Adding or removing objects from a clipping mask
• Releasing objects from a clipping mask
• Transparency
• Using the Transparency panel
• Illustrator’s blending modes

*Topic 14 Saving and exporting artwork

• Topic Objectives
• Saving and exporting artwork
• Saving in Illustrator format (AI)
• Illustrator format (AI) options
• Saving in EPS format

• EPS format options
• About Adobe PDF format
• Saving in Adobe PDF format
• Creating a layered Adobe PDF file
• Adobe PDF presets
• Exporting artwork to other formats

Section 6 Page Layout; InDesign Overview

*Topic 15 InDesign’s Interface

• Topic Objectives
• The Welcome Screen
• Application bar
• The Tools panel
• An Overview of the Tools panel
• Using context menus
• The Control panel
• Displaying InDesign’s panels
• Panel menus

• Resizing panels
• Moving panels
• Dock and undock panels
• Using Workspaces
• Zooming in and out
• Scrolling the view
• Turning pages in a document
• Managing Document windows

Topic 16 Creating Documents

• Topic Objectives
• Creating a new document
• Examining the document window
• Modifying document setup
• Modifying the margins and columns
• Making unequal column widths
• Using ruler guides
• Defining document presets
• Preview mode

• Opening documents
• Using templates
• Saving documents
• Saving to previous InDesign versions
• Opening QuarkXPress and PageMaker files
• Recovering documents after system failures
• Undoing and reverting

Topic 17 Adding Text and Graphics

• Topic Objectives
• Typing or pasting text
• Placing text
• Adding placeholder text
• Making the frame fit the text
• Placing graphics
• Placing multiple graphics
• Fitting a graphic to its frame
• Resizing graphics

• Placing InDesign documents
• Moving a frame and its content
• Grouping objects
• Selecting objects
• Copying an image into a new frame
• Stacking objects
• The reference point locator
• Use smart guides to align objects

Topic 18 Master Pages

• Topic Objectives
• About master pages
• Editing master pages
• Creating a master page
• Using automatic page numbering
• Applying master pages to document pages

• Customising master objects
• Preventing a master item from being overridden
• Restoring master objects

Topic 19 Layers

• Topic Objectives
• The Layers panel
• Creating layers
• Putting objects on to layers

• Rearranging layers
• Hiding or showing a layer
• Locking layers
• Deleting a layer

Topic 20 Working With Text

• Topic Objectives
• Text frames
• Creating text frames
• Moving and resizing text frames
• Connecting text frames
• Threading
• Setting text frame options

• Displaying hidden characters
• Text selection techniques
• Using special characters
• Using white space characters
• Inserting break characters
• Text import filters

Topic 21 Formatting Text

• Topic Objectives
• Fonts and Typefaces
• Using the Control panel to format text
• Using the Character panel
• Choosing a font and style

• Setting type size
• Changing text using keyboard shortcuts
• Underline and strikethrough
• Paragraph formatting

Topic 22 Text Wrap

• Topic Objectives
• Wrap To options

• Making a frame ignore text wrap
• Changing the shape of a text wrap

Topic 23 Colours

• Topic Objectives
• Process colours

• Spot colours
• Using the Swatches panel to create colours

*Topic 24 Transparency

• Topic Objectives
• The Effects panel
• Applying transparency effects

• Overview of transparency effects
• Editing a transparency effect
• Clearing effects from an object

*Topic 25 Preflighting, Packaging and Printing

• Topic Objectives
• Preflighting a document

• Defining preflight profiles
• Packaging files

Topic 26 Outputting to PDF

• Topic Objectives
• Producing PDF files for approval

• Producing press quality PDF files
• Exporting to PDF format

*Section 7 Electronic Distribution; Acrobat Overview

Topic 27 Using Acrobat Distiller

• Topic Objectives
• Why use Acrobat Distiller?

• The default settings explained

Topic 28 Commenting a PDF

• Topic Objectives
• About adding comments

• Sticky Notes

Topic 29 Optimising, Preflighting, and Preparing for Print

• Topic Objectives
• PDF Optimizer
• Auditing the space usage of a PDF file
• Optimizing a PDF file

• Preflighting PDF documents
• Analysing preflight results
• Previewing output on screen
• Advanced print options

Appendix A: Index

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