Learning CSS, Part 3: What's Coming in CSS3

The future of web design is here… CSS3! Many web browsers and all major web-enabled mobile devices support many of the amazing capabilities of CSS3. Among them is support for animation, new pseudo-classes, media queries, and even fonts! Of these, media queries are the power behind making your web design responsive to multiple screens sizes and devices. Join us to explore how CSS3 is changing the future of web design. In this training program you’ll learn to:

• Understand new properties in CSS3
• Work with new pseudo-classes
• Understand responsive web design
• CSS3 for animation
• Using *real* fonts on the web
• Learn simple jQuery to invoke CSS3 animation

Sandee Cohen's InDesign Tips

Sandee Cohen is the only third-party author to have written educational materials for all versions of Adobe InDesign. She digs deep into her trunk of power-user tips and tricks for working with InDesign. Even if you’ve been working with InDesign for a while, you’ll definitely learn much from this fast-paced seminar. From layout to text to workspaces, discover how to:

• “Do the math” when working with number fields
• Use Photoshop layers and layer comps in InDesign
• Break up the text threads in stories
• Create automatic grids of placed images and objects
• Control objects with Smart Guides and the Alignment panel
• Add pages automatically as you type
• And much more!

Steve Werner's Interactivity Tips

Steve Werner has been using and teaching InDesign since version 1. In recent years, he has specialized in showing users how to move beyond print output and add interactivity to Adobe InDesign to create dynamic PDF and SWF files. In this session, he’ll dig into the bag of tips and techniques he has developed for adding hyperlinks, buttons, slide shows, video and sound, and more to create a compelling presentation. He’ll teach you to:

• Create hyperlinks to other pages or to web sites, and find out when it can happen automatically
• Set up a navigation system for your presentation
• Create a slide show and find out where and how you can use it
• Convert video and save it for PDF and SWF files
• Work around problems placing sound in Acrobat
• Learn which button actions work in PDF, SWF, or both formats
• Discover which things can be previewed in the Preview panel and which cannot
• And much more!

Claudia McCue's Photoshop Tips

Claudia McCue specializes in teaching both creative and production professionals. Her national client base includes printers, design firms, agencies and in-house marketing departments. She is the author of “Real World Print Production with Adobe Creative Suite Applications” (Peachpit Press, 2009), and a frequent presenter at graphic arts conferences. As a true Photoshop expert, she has some timeless techniques that can speed up your production and make it easier. In this webinar, you'll learn some great Photoshop tips, including:

• How to use the mysterious Lab color space for quick color corrections
• How to "print" a logo on a 3-dimensional surface
• Using Smart Objects to contain Camera RAW files
• Using Clipping Groups to mask multiple layers simultaneously
• How to include vector content in a Photoshop file—and have it truly render as vector, not pixels.
• Using Puppet Warp to make people smile
• And much more!

April Clark's Illustrator Tips

A consultant and trainer for web and print professionals, April Clark specializes in helping graphic designers get the most of out applications like Illustrator. In this session, she’ll show you parts of this deep application that will make you more productive. She’ll show you how to:

• Discover how a few clicks of the Illustrator Magic Wand can help select colors all over the document
• Apply formatting using Graphic Styles and text styles
• Use Symbols created from existing artwork to speed up production
• Use Global and Spot colors for quick-change styling
• Create alternative color schemes using the Live Color editing tools
• Coordinate colors between InDesign and Illustrator for a better production workflow
• And much more!

Introducing Adobe Digital Publishing Suite

Adobe’s released the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite in 2011 to let tablet users (like those who have the iPad) work with interactive content in a magazine or publication format. Examples of publications using this technology include WIRED, Reader’s Digest and Martha Stewart Living. You can use the tools provided to work within InDesign CS5 and 5.5 to create interactivity that responds to gestures—for example, flipping through a slide show, panning images, rotating objects 360 degrees, and more. In this training program, you’ll learn how to:

• Get an overview of the workflow and structure required to create a digital publication
• Create layouts for both horizontal and vertical orientations
• Create and edit interactivity, and learn what InDesign features work
• Create and preview a .folio file that will be loaded or downloaded on a tablet device
• Make your folios available to customers

Introducing Adobe Edge

In August 2011, Adobe released a preview of its upcoming Adobe Edge software. This is a new web development tool that makes it easy to create animations and interactive websites with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. These three technologies are beginning to add the interaction and multimedia we’ve come to expect from the web without forcing users to download plug-ins like Adobe Flash or Microsoft Silverlight. It’s new technology and it’s evolving quickly to stay ahead of evolving web standards, but it will change the way we create and view animations on desktop computers, tablet devices, and smartphones. In this training program, you’ll learn:

• What is Edge and how does it work?
• Exploring the interface and understanding a time-based timeline
• Creating basic animation
• Saving and publishing your work
• Adding interactivity like looping, hyperlinks, and greater animation control
• Adding animation to existing web content
• Examining examples of what Adobe Edge can produce

Introducing Adobe Muse

Adobe Muse has been released as a public beta. It lets designers create websites in a visual way in the same way they create pages for print. Sharing an interface similar to InDesign, it lets you design and publish HTML pages using the latest web standards but without writing code. You’ll learn:

• What is Muse and how does it work?
• How to set up your site with Muse
• How to create headers, footers, and menus
• Placing text and graphics
• Creating slides shows, hyperlinks, and embedding arbitrary HTML
• How to preview and publish your site

Acrobat PDF Creation and Editing Techniques

Acrobat is one of the workhorse applications for designers and production people. If we learn its full capabilities we can enhance our publishing workflows and save both time and money. In this webinar, we’ll learn some powerful techniques for creating and editing PDF files. We’ll learn where its features are hidden, and how to use them. In this training program, you will learn how to:

• Find your way around the Acrobat 9 and X user interface
• Create PDF files from a web site and by scanning your documents
• Edit text and images (and learn what can’t be changed)
• Learn the difference between changing page numbering display and adding page numbers
• Add watermarks, headers and footers, bookmarks and metadata
• Combine and rearrange PDF files
• Extract and convert PDF content to reuse it

Acrobat Collaboration Techniques

Adobe offers many ways for you to collaborate — either with other designers or with your clients. Adobe Acrobat Pro has the ability to do shared reviews with clients by preparing PDF files for Comment and Markup. You have the ability to Share your Screen directly from any of the Creative Suite applications (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.), using www.acrobat.com. Now, as part of the latest CS Live features in Adobe Creative Suite 5, there is a new service called CS Review. Join us in this session to learn the differences between each of these collaboration techniques and discover the best way for you to collaborate with others. In this training program you'll learn to:

• Review the pros and cons of each collaboration technique
• Save a PDF for Comment and Markup
• Set up your Adobe Connect Room on www.acrobat.com
• Use the Share your Screen feature when collaborating
• Create a CS Review in InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop

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