Just like the rest of the Adobe® Creative Cloud Suite, Indesign® has a ton of advanced features and hidden gems! In Adobe InDesign CC: Advanced Features Jason will show you how to take your basic understanding of InDesign and take it to the next level so you can create amazing designs!

We’ve designed a class perfect for those wanting to learn how to make vector art. And one of our most popular instructors, Adobe® Certified Expert Jason Hoppe, is back to break down Adobe’s newest version of Illustrator to create vector art using Adobe Stock imagery.

Knowing how to utilize the tools and opportunities in Adobe® After Effects® can take your video from amateur to professional. Award-winning filmmaker and author Chad Perkins will help you get started with utilizing this motion software. This course covers the basics of starting a project and how to make the most of the many ways to bring life to a video.

Have you ever sat through an excruciatingly mind-numbing speech, one that you seem to have heard a thousand times before? If you don’t want to be that presenter who bores people to tears, you’ll need to find a way to inject some originality into your presentations. But how?

Snapchat is unique. Snapchat is complex. And until recently, the only way to run ads on Snapchat was to go through one of its ads partners. But that changed with the launch of the Snapchat Ads Manager.

Learn to give your designs and artwork shape and depth by leveraging 3D in Adobe® Illustrator CC. In this class, Jason teaches you how to extrude and manipulate type or shapes, image surface mapping, lighting, and a whole lot more!

Once you understand the concepts of good manners and amass a powerful arsenal of positive behaviors, it’s time to put that learning into action. This course is designed to review the principles of good etiquette and then teach you how to apply those principles to your own life.

Surely you’ve thought it countless times: “If only I had an assistant!” But having someone to help take care of your ever-growing to-do list seems like a luxury you simply can’t afford. What’s more, onboarding and training a new employee can feel like more trouble than it’s worth.

Building a great magazine layout can be a time-consuming and difficult process. In this course, graphic designer Nigel French shares effective design techniques that can help you create dynamic magazine layouts using Adobe InDesign CC. From setting up a document to working with images and typography, Nigel takes you through the whole process of designing a magazine spread—from concept to completion. Learn how to tidy up and finesse the layout of your document, prepare your final document for print, and more.

InDesign gets better all the time. This course is your tour of the latest and greatest, and will be updated with new features as soon as they are released. Anne-Marie Concepción starts with the 2019 update, released in October 2018, featuring new panels, shortcuts, and production workflows that will make you a faster and more efficient designer. Learn how to use the new context-sensitive Properties panel and quick actions, import comments from PDF documents, use the automated layout features such as Adjust Layout and Content-Aware Fit, adjust the font formatting of form fields, and convert footnotes to endnotes and back again. Anne-Marie covers many other improvements along the way, such as SVG font support and export enhancements. Check back every time InDesign is updated for more tips and tricks.

Adobe InDesign is an essential tool for design firms, ad agencies, magazines, newspapers, print and ebook publishers, and freelance designers around the world. InDesign CC Essential Training presents a thorough explanation of the core features and techniques that make this powerful page-layout application so fun and easy to use, providing a foundation upon which advanced skills and workflows can be built. Instructor David Blatner shows how to navigate and customize the workspace, manage documents and pages, work with text frames and graphics, export and print finished documents, create interactive documents and forms, and much more. Take the entire course, or focus on just the features you need to learn. If you're pressed for time, skip straight to chapter one, which teaches the very basics of InDesign in less than 30 minutes.

InDesign CC 2018 boasts long-requested new features and enhancements that make it even easier for you to create and publish polished layouts. In this course, Anne-Marie Concepción provides an in-depth review of each of the new InDesign features and capabilities, including tips on how to best use them in your projects. To quickly get you up to speed, Anne-Marie starts by providing a fast-paced overview of where every new menu, preference setting, and button is located in InDesign CC 2018, and a rundown of which bugs have been fixed. She then does a deep dive into all the enhancements and new features you'll find for type and text, CC Libraries, endnotes, object styles, and more.

InDesign is an essential tool for design firms, ad agencies, magazines, newspapers, book publishers, and freelance designers around the world. InDesign 2018 Essential Training presents the core features and techniques that make this powerful page layout application so fun and easy to use—and provides a foundation to build more advanced skills and workflows. InDesign insider David Blatner shows how to navigate and customize the workspace, manage documents, create flexible master pages, work with text frames and graphics, export and print finished documents, create interactive PDFs, and much more. He also provides a quick-start guide that teaches InDesign basics in just 30 minutes. Get a quick refresher, watch the tutorials all the way through, or focus on just the areas that interest you. Whatever your InDesign training needs, this course has you covered.

Learn how to create an ebook in Adobe InDesign. This course helps you convert an InDesign publication to a reflowable EPUB, the open-source ebook format that is the standard for most distribution channels, including Apple iBook Store, Barnes & Noble Nook book store, Google Play Books, Kobo, and OverDrive, and is the basis for Kindle ebooks. Instructor Anne-Marie Concepción explains exactly what an EPUB is, and then steps you through the process of editing and proofing in easy-to-follow stages. Learn how to prepare your InDesign file for EPUB conversion, convert Word manuscripts, optimize text and images, embed fonts, use free scripts, and add special features for accessibility and cleaner HTML and CSS. Anne-Marie reviews the many different export options, providing recommendations on which to choose; shows how to validate and proof your final export on mobile ereaders; and explains how to set up publisher accounts at resellers like the iBook Store and Amazon Kindle Store. Finally, she shows to convert an EPUB to the Kindle format and preview it on the desktop before uploading it to your Kindle Direct Publishing account

Discover how to trace artwork in Adobe Illustrator and convert raster graphics—drawings, photos, and more—into vector form. This course shows how to perform auto tracing with the presets in the Image Trace panel and then expand tracing objects into vector paths. Instructor Justin Seeley also shows how to refine the artwork for best results using the Path Eraser and the Pen tools, and reset any typography. The course closes with a challenge video so you can practice your skills and compare your tracing results with Justin's.

Learn Adobe Illustrator on your lunch break. This short introductory course teaches you the basics of this industry-standard vector art tool in 30 minutes. Once you have these fundamental techniques out of the way, you can move on to more in-depth training and hone your skills in the areas you want to focus. Start here to learn how to import a hand-drawn sketch, create a drawing layer, draw and transform basic shapes, use colors and gradients, and add text.

Many companies are bringing design in-house for greater creative control and cost efficiency. However, you may find the role of an in-house designer is very different from that of a freelancer. There is a stronger emphasis on templates and styles, consistent file output, and shared workflows. This course helps designers transition their Illustrator skills to in-house design work, with a focus on efficiency, compatibility, and collaboration. Designer and creative consultant Tony Harmer shows how to produce graphics for print and digital display; work more effectively with Illustrator artboards, symbols, and layers; and prepare files for print production. Plus, learn about some useful Illustrator scripts and plugins to save you time on common design tasks, including sketching, halftone shading, and isometry.

If you've ever thought your illustration skills to be somewhat lacking, it's never too late to add drawing to your toolkit. In this course, Von Glitschka breaks down the fundamentals of drawing—specifically, digital drawing—by taking you through how to work with Adobe Illustrator. He shows how to work with different drawing tools in Illustrator; covers drawing fundamentals such as how to work with light, shadow, and texture; discusses different forms of drawing, such as gesture drawing, contour drawing, and still life; and highlights how to use Illustrator in ways you may not have considered. Von ends the course with a review of several inspiring digital illustrators, and a drawing challenge that can help you find your own unique style.

Learn to draw detailed technical flats, or CADs, for the fashion industry using Adobe Illustrator. This course provides easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions to get you up and running quickly. By focusing on only the tools and techniques needed for fashion, you can generate professional-quality fashion flats in no time.

Learn how to draw technical flats quickly and efficiently using Adobe Illustrator, with easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions from fashion design instructor Robin Schneider. Generate professional-quality fashion flats in no time with her timesaving tricks. Find out how to use templates, build custom keyboard shortcuts and actions, and make fashion brushes that you can use to "paint" details such as stitching, zippers, and trim. Learn how to create a bank of reusable symbols for common elements such as button holes and drawstrings. Discover how to build realistic pattern fills from scratch or using fabric scans. Robin brings it all together for some examples drawing denim and knitwear, and provides tips to modify existing flats, such as adapting pants from straight leg to boot cut. Last but not least, explore professional practices that incorporate style guides, libraries, and sources, for a more consistent style and a more collaborative workflow.

Guides, grids, and tools related to these bring structure and consistency to your designs. By suggesting visual relationships, such tools can help you design more efficiently and experiment more easily with different layout options. In this course, learn how to work with the suite of guide and grid tools in Adobe Illustrator to improve your designs and mockups. Review fundamental concepts—including how to set basic guide options and grid preferences—and discover how to create modular and baseline grids, and work with perspective and diagonal grids. Plus, learn how to create a grid from an object mosaic, a logo from a grid of circles, and more.

Designers and artists spend a lot of time coloring artwork: finding inspiration, searching for just the right hue, applying color, and converting the color of existing artwork. This course shows how to speed up the process and maximize color choice and control in Adobe Illustrator. Theresa Jackson, a graphic artist and instructor, guides you through the three stages: creation, inspiration, and editing. Follow along and learn how to set up your files for color accuracy, mix and save custom colors, use color guides and themes, and color and recolor artwork. Theresa also shows how to build art in a way that allows you to make changes quickly and take advantage of the latest features in Illustrator.

The 2019 release of Adobe Illustrator CC offers several cool new features and enhancements. In this course, get acquainted with how the new and improved Illustrator can help you accelerate and enhance your illustration and design workflows. Instructor Tony Harmer goes over these new features, updating the course every time Adobe releases changes. He covers enhancements to the interface, including the latest developments to the Properties panel. Plus, text enhancements, intelligence in features like Puppet Warp, exciting new ways to work with gradients, and more.

Adobe Illustrator CC can help you accomplish many different design tasks—from creating minimalistic logos to full-blown illustrations. For this reason, this course teaches core concepts and techniques that can be applied to any workflow for print, the web, or assets that will find their way into other applications. Instructor Tony Harmer explains key elements of Adobe Illustrator, such as artboards, workspaces, layers, and shapes. Tony discusses vector graphics—which are composed of paths, strokes, and fills—and shows how to create and edit them using the Illustrator drawing tools. He also covers how to organize artwork into groups and layers, combine and clean up paths, work with type and effects, leverage CC Libraries, print and export your work, and much more.