Adobe CS4 New Features Training in Sydney: $495

Adobe CS4 New Features Course Outline

InDesign CS4 New Features

• - The new interface
• - Getting familiar with the new interface
• - Working with tabbed windows
• - Exploring the new workspaces and panels
• - Navigating with Power Zoom
• - Using new file formats
• - Smart Guides
• - Working with the Smart Cursor
• - Using Smart Guides to align objects
• - Using Smart Guides for dimension, spacing, and rotation
• - Smart Text Reflow
• - Auto-flowing text with Smart Text Reflow
• - Using Smart Text Reflow with any story
• - Conditional Text
• - Developing multipurpose layouts with conditional text
• - Creating conditions and applying them to text
• - Applying conditions quickly and creatively
• - Making images and frames conditional
• - Combining conditional text with Smart Text Reflow
• - Links Panel
• - Discovering the new features in the Links panel
• - Customizing with panel options
• - New commands in the Links panels
• - Image Layout Helpers
• - Using Auto-Fit to place images
• - Placing via Contact Sheet Cascade
• - Reviewing updated image commands
• - Cross References
• - Getting familiar with cross references
• - Creating cross references
• - Cross-referencing multiple documents
• - Customizing cross reference formats
• - Text Formatting Helpers
• - Creating nested line styles
• - Dynamic GREP styles
• - Editing tables in the Story Editor
• - Working with rotated spreads
• - Creating styles on the fly
• - Interactive Documents
• - Creating hyperlinks with the streamlined Hyperlinks panel
• - Creating interactive buttons with the new Buttons panel
• - Creating page transitions for PDFs and SWFs
• - Exporting layouts to SWF files
• - Exporting layouts to XFL (editable Flash format) files
• - Preflighting
• - Checking and correcting layouts with Live Preflight
• - Creating and sharing custom preflight profiles
• - Generating preflight reports
• - Preflighting a book

Photoshop CS4 New Features

• - The new tabbed window interface
• - Application Frame
• - Application Bar
• - Working with panels
• - Dragging and dropping between tabs
• - Where's my navigator panel?
• - Navigation and OpenGL
• - The new zoom behavior
• - Bridge 3.0 enhancements
• - The Adjustments panel
• - The Target Adjustment tool
• - The Masks panel
• - Smarter Smart Objects
• - The improved toning tools
• - Scaling a brush
• - Spring-loaded tools
• - Improved Healing Brush previews
• - Camera Raw 5.0
• - Adjustments Brush
• - Graduated Filter Tool
• - Post Crop Vignetting
• - Panoramic vignette removal
• - Blending depths of field
• - Content-aware scaling
• - Outputting from Bridge
• - Revamped keyboard shortcuts

Illustrator CS4 New Features

• - The common Adobe user interface
• - Using multiple Artboards with Bleed Support
• - The improved Appearance panel
• - The new Graphic Styles behavior
• - Enhanced clipping masks
• - Expressive Blob brush
• - Easy-to-edit transparent gradients
• - Intuitive Smart Guides
• - The Separations Preview panel
• - Isolation mode enhancements
• - Easy-to-use alignment features
• - The Color Blindness preview
• - Changes to the default Pathfinder behavior
• - The Crop Marks live effect
• - New templates and content