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Photoshop Tips

Regina — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:00:15 +0000

Photoshop short cuts for Windows (Ctrl or Alt) and Mac (Cmd or Option):

1. Ungroup Layers – Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + G
2. Black & White – Ctrl/Cmd + Alt/Option + Shift + B
3. Create / Release Clipping Mask – Ctrl/Cmd + Alt/Option + G
4. Free transform – Ctrl/Cmd + T
5. Spot Healing / Healing / Patch / Red Eye – J key
6. Cycle screen mode (background) canvas color – Spacebar + Shift + F
7. Copy selected object to a new layer and name the new layer at the same time – Ctrl/Cmd + Alt/Option + J.
8. A little something from Russel Brown

InDesign Tips

Regina — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:00:12 +0000

InDesign’s Find Font and/or Find/Change in Style sheets tips:
You always like to find an efficient way to work on your Style sheet on InDesign, read more about this article InDesign CS4 techniques

Dreamweaver Tips

Regina — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 02:00:47 +0000

Our learners always asked us how to design an html email have it supported in different email channels. We would like to share this report “Guide to CSS support in email clients” (suggested by Campaign Monitor) for your reference.

Illustrator Tips

Regina — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 01:30:38 +0000

We would like to share a couple of tips to help creating better illustration.
(suggested by Computer Arts UK)

1. Choose colors wisely
A dramatic or iconic sketch can be compromised if your final version doesn’t have a considered palette. By contrast, a well-chosen range can help make an image memorable, and is another way of drawing attention to key elements or establishing a mood.

2. Utilize angles
Think carefully how the visual elements you’re using ‘bounce’ the viewer’s eye around a piece. You want the viewer to be drawn deeper into your image from the edges, rather than have their gaze led off the canvas. Utilize angles and shape to retain the viewer’s gaze.

InDesign CS4 Advanced: Level 3 (Custom)

Trish — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:22:13 +0000

What our Trainer, Trish Anderson, said:

Yes, this is a very industrious course outline for just six-hours of training—but you asked for it!

Right now I am working as hard as I can to combine all of these techniques into one large project (or perhaps two).

What does this mean for the Learner? You need to have really good basic to mid-intermediate InDesign skills (minimum our level 2) to keep up with the pace. All of these skills build on TrainStation’s / Hands-On-Workshops Level 2 training.

We cover lots of material on Styles, for example, so if you are a little shy in this skill area you would need to brush up on your Style knowledge or take our standard Level 2 course where they are explained in detail.

Anyone with demonstrated advanced skills is welcome!

Click on the PDF for complete Table of Contents and read more course schedule.

Courses Development Survey

Regina — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:48:41 +0000

In redeveloping our training workshops to serve you better and meet your training expectations, we have developed an online survey. We appreciated your time and effort to provide us with feedback by completing the survey.

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Photoshop CS4 Foundation: Level 1 – August 30 & 31, 2010

Trish — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:00:36 +0000

Instructor: Trish Anderson
Date: August 30 & 31, 2010
Days: Monday / Tuesday
Days: 2-days
Cost: $655.00 plus HST
Time: 9:00am – 4:00pm
Seats Remaining: 5

This introductory to intermediate CS4 Hands-on-Workshop begins with an overview of the Photoshop CS4 digital editing environment and proceeds through Photoshop CS4 powerful suite of editing tools, tips and techniques. Learners will develop fundamental skills including: Working with photographs, starting with a new document, various selection techniques, layers, introductory blend modes, adjustment layers, and layer masks.

Outline

InDesign CS4 Foundation: Level 1-September 13 & 14, 2010

Trish — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:30:03 +0000

Instructor: Trish Anderson
Date: September 13 & 14, 2010
Days: Monday & Tuesday
Days: 2-days
Cost: $655.00 plus HST
Time: 9:00am – 4:00pm
Seats Remaining: 6

This Hands-on-Workshop instructs the learner on exploring the core features and techniques that make that powerful page layout application fun and easy to use. We will show you how to navigate and customize the workspace, manage documents and pages, work with text frames and graphics, export and print finished documents, and much more.

Outline

Flash CS4 Foundation: Level 1 – September 15 & 16, 2010

Trish — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:00:49 +0000

Instructor: Leslie Williams
Date: September 15 & 16, 2010
Days: Wednesday & Thursday
Days: 2-days
Cost: $655.00 plus HST
Time: 9:00am – 4:00pm
Seats Remaining: 8

This Hands-on-Workshop instructs the learners on how to develop the fundamental skills and become proficient with flash, drawing, basic frame by frame animation, tweening and symbols.

Outline

InDesign CS4 Advanced: Level 2 – September 20 & 21, 2010

Trish — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:30:23 +0000

Instructor: Trish Anderson
Date: September 20 & 21, 2010
Days: Monday / Tuesday
Days: 2-days
Cost: $655.00 plus HST
Time: 9:00am – 4:00pm
Seats Remaining: 6

This intermediate to advanced InDesign CS4 Hands-on-Workshop continues to build on the skills learned in TrainStation’s level 1 training. Advanced Managing long documents, working with Baxier paths, importing layered files, table of contents and indexing, table building and formatting, interactivity and automation, anchored objects and footnoting, adjusting print settings and working with XML.

Outline