Essentials of Adobe InDesign CS 3

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).

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