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Adobe InDesign

This class provides you with the concepts and skills to use Adobe InDesign effectively. You get hands-on practice working with basic through advanced techniques to get the most out of your experience. You will learn type controls, graphics file management, layers and document setup. Whether you are a designer, prepress professional or just a beginner, you will find InDesign to be a powerful but intuitive page layout application. We also recommend this course for those planning to obtain the Adobe Certified Expert status.

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  • Cost: 899 USD
  • Financial support for those who qualify
  • Get certified in just one week or three days

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Lesson 1

Introducing the Workspace
  • Working with panels
  • Learning the Tools panel
  • Customizing your workspace
  • Changing the magnification
  • Navigating the document
  • Using context menus
  • Finding resources for using InDesign

Lesson 2

Getting to know InDesign
  • Viewing the lesson document
  • Preflighing as you work
  • Viewing guides
  • Adding text
  • Working with styles
  • Working with graphics
  • Working with objects
  • Placing graphics and text
  • Working with object syles

Lesson 3

Setting up a document and working with pages
  • Creating and saving custom page settings
  • Creating a new document
  • Switching between open InDesign documents
  • Working with master pages
  • Applying master pages to document pages
  • Adding sections to change page numbers
  • Adding new pages
  • Arranging and deleting pages
  • Placing text and graphics on the document pages
  • Overriding master page items on document pages
  • Changing the size of the pages
  • Viewing the completed spread

Lesson 4

Working with objects
  • Working with layers
  • Creating and editing text frames
  • Creating and editing graphics frames
  • Adding metadata captions to graphics frames
  • Changing the shape of a frame
  • Wrapping text around a graphic
  • Modifying the shape of frames
  • Transforming and aligning objects
  • Selecting and modifying grouped
  • Objects finishing up

Lesson 5

Flowing Text
  • Flowing text into an existing frame
  • Flowing text manually
  • Creating text frames while flowing text
  • Flowing text automatically
  • Creating threaded frames automatically
  • Adding a jump line page number

Lesson 6

Editing Text
  • Finding and changing a missing font
  • Entering and importing text
  • Finding and changing text and formatting
  • Check spelling
  • Editing text by dragging and dropping
  • Using story editor
  • Tracking changes

Lesson 7

Working with Typography
  • Adjusting vertical spacing
  • Changing fonts and type styles
  • Fine-tuning columns
  • Changing paragraph alignment
  • Creating a drop cap
  • Adjusting letter and word spacing Setting tabs
  • Adding rule above a paragraph

Lesson 8

Working with Color
  • Defining printing requirements
  • Creating and applying colors
  • Working with gradients
  • Creating a tint
  • Creating a spot color
  • Applying colors to text and objects
  • Using advanced gradients techniques

Lesson 9

Working with Styles
  • Creating and applying paragraph styles
  • Creating and applying character styles
  • Nesting character styles inside paragraph styles
  • Creating and applying object styles
  • Globally updating styles
  • Loading styles from another document

Lesson 10

Importing and modifying graphics
  • Adding graphics from other programs
  • Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
  • Managing links to imported files
  • Updating revised graphics
  • Adjusting display quality
  • Working with clipping paths
  • Working with alpha channels
  • Importing native Adobe graphics files
  • Using a library to manage objects
  • Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics

Lesson 11

Creating tables
  • Adding text to a table
  • Formatting a table
  • Creating a header row
  • Adding graphics to table cells
  • Creating and applying table and cell styles

Lesson 12

Working with Transparency
  • Importing and colorizing grayscale images
  • Applying transparency settings
  • Adjusting transparency to settings for EPS images
  • Adding transparency effects
  • Importing and adjusting Illustrator files
  • Applying transparency settings to text
  • Working with Effects

Lesson 13

Output and Exporting
  • Preflighting files
  • Packaging files
  • Creating an Adobe PDF proof
  • Previewing separations
  • Previewing how transparency will be flattened
  • Previewing the page
  • Printing a laser or inkjet proof
  • Using the ink manager

Lesson 14

Creating rich interactive documents
  • Setting up an online document
  • Adding buttons, page transitions, and hyperlinks
  • Exporting as Shockwave Flash (SWF)
  • Exporting as Adobe PDF (interactive)
  • Converting a print document for online use
  • Adding advanced interactivity, animation, and video

 

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