From Zero to Hero in just 4 days!

Learn Indesign from intro to an advanced level in just 4 days.

Imagine being able to create documents of many types, from single page advertisements and flyers, to complex multi-page colour. And then later being able to improve on your existing Indesign skills by being able to use additional techniques to manipulate text, pictures, and pages. Control type formatting, create and edit graphics, and create and modify layouts with efficiency and accuracy - all after just 4 days of training!!

That's what you'll be able to do after this Indesign training course offered by Academy Class.

Managing the Adobe InDesign CS Environment

• Preferences - Enhanced in CS3
  
• Customize Your Workspace
  
• Set General Preferences - Enhanced in CS3
  
• Manage Document Presets
  
• Workspace and Window arrangement - Enhanced in CS3
  
• Visual pages Panel - New in CS3

Designing Documents

• Create a New Document
  
• Alter a Document’s Layout
  
• Create the Structure of a Document
  
• Develop Master Pages
  
• Manage Text and Graphic Placement

Type and Text

• Add Tex
  
• Edit Text
  
• Spell Check Text
• Bullets and Numbering - Enhanced in CS3
  
• Find/ Change - Enhanced in CS3
  
• Change Text Threads
  
• Format Characters
  
• Format Paragraphs
  
• Numbering paragraphs - New in CS3
  
• Text variables
  
• Nested Styles - Enhanced in CS3
  
• Manage Styles /Style Groups - New in CS3
  
• Quick Apply - Enhanced in CS3
  
• Improved Text Wrap - Enhanced in CS3
  
• Text on a path
  
• Rules
  
• The Glyphs panel - Enhanced in CS3
  
• Flexible dictionary management

Layers

• Layers Panel
  
• Moving across layers

Objects

• Arranging, Aligning and Distributing
  
• Transforming Objects
  
• Duplicating
  
• Rotating
  
• Scaling
  
• Skewing
  
• Mirroring
  
• The Transform Again commands
  
• Object Styles
  
• InDesign Snippets
  
• Links Panel

Utilizing Colours, Swatches, and Gradients

• Utilize Colour
  
• Utilize Swatches
  
• Apply Fills, Gradients, and Strokes

Managing Transparency

• Apply Transparency - Enhanced in CS3
  
• Apply Transparency Flattener Presets

Graphics

• File Types
  
• Multiple image placement- New in CS3
  
• Importing options
  
• Adobe Photoshop support
  
• Adobe PDF layer support
  
• Selectively display layers and layer comps
  
• Image Frames simple, compound & custom
  
• Fitting images Control Palette and shortcuts - Enhanced in CS3
  
• Anchored Objects
  
• Clipping Paths, Alpha channels
  
• Importing InDesign documents - New in CS3

Libraries

• Using InDesign libraries

Pen & Bezier tools

Path tools in InDesign

Effects - New in CS3

• Inner Shadow - New in CS3
  
• Bevel and Emboss - New in CS3
  
• Gradient Feather - New in CS3
  
• Inner Glow and Outer Glow- New in CS3

Tabs and Tables

• Creating a table
  
• Adjusting rows and columns
  
• Adding and deleting rows and columns
  
• Formatting a table
  
• Formatting cells
  
• Headers and footers
  
• Table styles - New in CS3
  
• Placing graphics in cells
  
• Working with Microsoft Word and
  
• Exceltables tables

Long Documents

• Page Palette and working with pages
  
• Text Flow and Links
  
• Multple Master Pages
  
• Numbering Pages
  
• Making & Packaging Books
  
• Table of Contents
  
• Indexes

Preparing for Handoff to a Service Provider

• Check Documents for Problems
  
• Print a Document
  
• Package Files
  
• Preview Output
  
• Print, Separation, Flattening
  
• Print options - Enhanced in CS3
  
• PostScript, preflighting and Packaging

Creating Acrobat PDF Files

Prepare PDF Files for Web Distribution

Manage PDF Presets

Export PDF Files for Printing

Workflows

• Export to XHTML - New in CS3
  
• Emai lbased assignments for InCopy workflow - New in CS3
  
• Automatically generated layouts from XML - New in CS3

Adobe Bridge

• Improved performance - Enhanced in CS3
  
• Filter panel - New in CS3
  
• Compare and preview images - Enhanced in CS3
  
• Compare multiple images in the Preview panel and use the Loupe tool to zoom in on image previews - Enhanced in CS3
  
• Version Cue Inspector and Version Cue buttons - Enhanced in CS3
  
• Workspace flexibility - Enhanced in CS3

Before taking this course, the student must have basic PC skills, including a basic understanding of a computer's operating system, how to launch an application and create and save files, as well as how to copy files from CDs and other media.

This course is intended for graphic designers, creative professionals, print professionals, publishers, pre-press professionals, and marketing communications professionals. Anyone who wants to learn Indesign to advanced level very quickly.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Manage the Adobe InDesign CS2 environment
• Design documents
• Manage text
• Utilize colours, swatches, and gradients
• Manage transparency
• Utilize tables
• Prepare for handoff to a service provider
• Create Acrobat PDF files
• Administer advanced styles
• Control text
• Handle page elements, graphics, and paths
• Develop Bézier paths
• Manage long documents
• Import and export files
• Adjust print settings
• Work with XML

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