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Essentials of Adobe InDesign CS 4

During the step-by-step lessons presented in this course, you will use InDesign?s incredible typography commands to set beautiful type. You will also import and manipulate a myriad of graphic formats. You will create a flyer from scratch and then package it into a folder with key components such as the layout, images and fonts. You will then export the document in a Portable Document Format (PDF).

Duration: 4 days

Price: 1495.00
GSA Price: 1495.00
Online Price: 1695.00

Course Prerequisites

Students should be familiar with basic computing concepts such as operating a mouse and opening/closing files on windows-based PC's.

Course Outline

Unit 1: The InDesign Environment

  • InDesign Basics
  • Workspaces
  • New Documents
  • The Tools Palette
  • Preferences

Unit 2: Text Basics

  • Text Frames
  • Typing Text
  • Overset Text
  • Formatting Text Frames
  • On-screen Editing
  • Selecting Text
  • Moving Text
  • Character Attributes

Unit 3: Placing Text and Formatting Paragraphs

  • Document Presets
  • Placing Text
  • Paragraph Alignment
  • Paragraph Spacing
  • Leading
  • Paragraph Rules
  • Bullets and Numbers

Unit 4: Text Frames and Threads

  • Placing Longer Text Files
  • Navigating Multi-Page Documents
  • Master Text Frames
  • Step-and-Repeat and Ruler Guides
  • Threading Text Frames
  • Unthrading and Changing a Thread
  • Thread Text Over Multiple Pages
  • Text Threads into Shapes

Unit 5: Tab Stops, Strokes, and Inset Spacing

  • Set Tabs Stops
  • Hanging Indents
  • Frame Strokes and Inset Spacing

Unit 6: Graphics

  • Placing and Altering Images
  • Clipping Paths
  • Clipping Thresholds and Inset Frames

Unit 7: Working with Objects

  • Step and Repeat
  • Alignment
  • Grouping and Ungrouping
  • Combining Objects
  • Stacking Order
  • Shape Editing
  • Object Styles

Unit 8: Create a One-Page Flyer

  • Multiple Column Text Frames
  • The Find/Change Command
  • Paragraph Styles
  • Text Wrap
  • Spell Check
  • Autocorrect
  • Preflight and Package for Handoff
  • PDFs

Unit 9: Picas, CMYK Color, Libraries, and Bridge

  • Working with Picas
  • CMYK Colors
  • Libraries
  • Adobe Bridge

Unit 10: Master Pages

  • Creating Master Pages
  • Automatic Page Numbers
  • Layout Adjustment
  • Custom Text Wrap Around Objects

Unit 11: Styles

  • Creating and Using Styles
  • The Story Editor
  • Editing Styles
  • Orphan and Widow Control
  • Direct Formatting
  • The Baselien Grid
  • Drop Caps
  • Character and Nested Styles

Unit 12: Tracking, Kerning, and Hyphenation

  • Tracking
  • Kerning
  • Tracking in Layouts
  • Hypenation
  • User Dictionaries

Unit 13: Tables

  • Creating Tables from Scratch
  • Converting Text to Tables

Unit 14: Fonts, Links, and Templates

  • Fonts and InDesign
  • Links to Graphics
  • Templates

Unit 15: Layers, Inline Graphics, and Anchored Objects

  • Working with Layers
  • Inline Graphics

Unit 16: Books

  • Book Files
  • Synchronize Book Files
  • Table of Contents
  • Indexing
  • Cross-references

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