Topics covered in this Adobe Creative eLearning Course bundle

Unit 1: Adobe Illustrator

• Instructor and course introduction.
• Getting started looks at what vectors are, creating new documents and navigating the interface.
• Drawing and Manipulating Primitive Shapes along with additional tools.
• Drawing Custom Shapes Part 1-3 covered.
• Importing images and Understanding the layers and sublayer.
• Colour theory, in-depth dive into the colour palette and looking at creating colour swatches.
• Creating and Manipulating Gradients pt. 2 and 3.
• Looking at appearance palette and understanding Pathfinder palette.
• Drawing with Intent pt.1 and 2 and blending modes pt. 1 and 2.
• Introduction to typography and types of tools in illustrator.
• How to envelop warp and mesh along with Breaking text into an outline.
• Live Trace, Paint Brush, and Blob Brush and Exporting.

Unit 2: Adobe After Effects

• Getting started, course introduction, keyboard short cuts and tips and things to do before starting.
• General interface, starting a project and looking at basic animation using keyframes
• Keyframe interpolation and assistant along with renaming and composition.
• Soloing a layer for edits and continuing the interface looking at the toolbar, timeline panel, preferences and workspace features.
• Render and export.
• Importing Files from Bridge and Creating a New Composition along with Horizontal Type Tool and Guides.
• Controls, Effects and Presets for Titles and Logos.
• How to animate text, creating style, text layer with characters & paragraph panels while also previewing and applying and how to edit and import.
• Working with Shape Layers.
• Animating a Multimedia Presentation and animating photoshop layers.
• Working with masks including setup of a basic mask, refining and applying and creating a reflection.
• Distorting Objects with Puppet Tools and Using the Roto Brush Tool.
• Performing Color Correction and Creating Motion Graphics Templates.

Unit 3: Adobe InDesign

• Introduction and getting started.
• Understanding and applying colours.
• How pages work and typography focusing on term and definitions along with the text.
• Packing and Exporting for Web and Print and Principles of Design.
• Designing for Your Output and Advanced Techniques in InDesign.
• Lastly interactive InDesign and end of course review.

Unit 4: Adobe Premiere Pro

• Course introduction and Touring Adobe part 1 and 2.
• Setting up a project and how to import and organise media.
• Essential video editing skills and working with clips and markers.
• Multi-camera editing.
• How to work motion, sound and more.

Unit 5: Adobe Photoshop

• Getting started introduction, zoom and pan, how to resize, zoom and pan along with crop and straighten features.
• Layer and more looks at basics needed, styles, merging photos and adding text
• Editing, techniques and more

Assessment

• Once you successfully pass the programme(s), you will be able to download a CMIT Digital Certificate of Completion. This can be accessed via the Progress Reports section located on the top right side of your eLearning platform.

Technical Requirements

• Broadband internet connection of at least 10Mbps.
• Browser – we recommend Chrome or Safari for Tablet or Apple Mac; and Firefox or Internet Explorer for PC hardware.
• Operating System – PC (Windows 7 or later), Mac or Android.