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Adobe Photoshop and Acrobat seminar
Co-hosted by Adobe and Lake Erie Graphics

Date
January 14, 2010

Time
Registration and light breakfast: 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Presentation: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Speaker
Claudia McCue
Adobe Certified Instructor for Photoshop, Acrobat and InDesign.
Read her blog at
http://www.claudiamccue.com

Location
Cuyahoga Valley Career Center
Conference Room A
8001 Brecksville Road
Brecksville, OH 44141
Map

Giveaways
A copy of Creative Suite 4
Must be present to win!

Building the Perfect PDF—Proof in the Pudding
Adobe® Acrobat®  is the de facto standard for distributing documents in today’s electronic workflow. Anyone who purchased Acrobat, or one of the variety of shareware and freeware programs to build a PDF can make a PDF file, but that doesn’t mean they are making a PDF that displays and prints well on all computer platforms. In this seminar we will cover the best practices for building reliable, complete and consistent PDF documents that work on any platform.
 

• Creating PDF files anyone can open and print

• Preventing common file problems
  

• Document properties
  

• Checking font embed status
  

• PDF/X - Why does this matter
  

• Where and when to flatten transparency
  

• Customizing adobe PDF output quality
  

• Building a preflight profile
  

• Performing single fixups
  

• Converting color
  

• Adding or removing crop marks
  

• Modifying PDF files

• The best distiller settings

Photoshop® & Bridge CS4 What's New and Power User Tips & Tricks
Photoshop® is the professional standard for image editing, not to mention very popular for hobbyists. Photoshop® CS4 offers a more intuitive user interface, significant productivity enhancements and greater editing freedom. Did you know that images can be adjusted in half the time using the new Adjustments panel? Here are some of the highlighted topics we will cover:

• Creating 3D postcards

• New content aware scaling

• Enhanced auto blending of images

• Video card acceleration for panning and zooming

• Modify your images at any angle with the new rotate view tool

• Edit at the highest magnification with the new pixel grid

• New adjustments panel

• Modify masks non-destructively with the new masks panel

• Little known keyboard shortcut

• Setting the best preferences
  

Contact Kendra Johnson at 216-265-7575 or email
kjohnson@lakeeriegraphics.com with any questions or to be put on the waiting list.