Course Overview
Desktop publishing demystified. Create professional layouts to create everything from a business card to a book in this two-day InDesign comprehensive training class. Your instructor will work with you to properly create flowing text, and incorporate graphic frames to import images and backgrounds. You will be introduced to several color and typography concepts for use in your InDesign workflow. Work with master pages, paragraph and character styles to build layouts fast and effectively. Learn how to export an Acrobat PDF with the proper settings so that your audience or printer can see your layouts, colors and fonts just as you intended.
Your instructor will cover the pitfalls and the best practices will be followed so that you are creating rich layouts with the latest design standards in this InDesign hands on training course.
This InDesign training is intensive, but not complicated. Our job is to make difficult concepts easy to understand and implement into your own projects.
Course Outline
NEW FEATURES OF CS5 COVERED
- Interactive documents and presentations
- Simplified object selection and editing
- Multiple page sizes
- Track text changes
- Paragraphs that span and split columns
- All-new Layers panel
LEARNING THE WORK AREA
- Pull Down Menus
- Quick Keys
- Learning the Tools Panel
- The Control Panel
- Viewing and Arranging Panels
- Using the Panel Menus
- Customizing Your Workspace
- Changing the magnification
- Using the Zoom tool
- Navigating the Document
- Scrolling through a Document
- Using InDesign Help
- InDesign Foundations:
- Resolution & Color for Print & Screen
- When to use InDesign, Illustrator or Photoshop
- File Formats
- The Difference between Raster and Vector
BUILD A DOCUMENT AND GO
- Measurement Preferences
- Create a New Document
- Place a Photo and Resize it
- Rectangle Tool
- Draw Shapes for Your Design
- Control Panel for an Exact Size
- Fill Shapes with Color
- Arrange Design Elements
- Place and Format Text
SETTING UP YOUR DOCUMENT
- Creating a New Document & Preset
- Working with Master Pages
- Adding Guides to the Master
- Dragging Guides from Rulers
- Creating Additional Master Pages
- Adding Placeholders for Graphics
- Adding New Pages from Master
- Arranging and Deleting Pages
- Overriding Master Page Items
- Preview the Completed Spread
IMPORTING AND LINKING GRAPHICS
- Linking External Content
- Managing Links to Imported Files
- Links Panel
- Updating Modified Graphics
- Fix Missing Links
- Layered File Types
- Placing Layered Files
- Change Visibility of Layered Files
WORKING WITH FRAMES
- Working with Layers
- Creating Multiple Columns
- Aligning Text within a Frame
- Creating Graphics Frames
- Placing and Resizing Graphics
- Working with Frames and Pathfinders
- Rotating an Object
- Aligning and Scaling Objects
IMPORTING AND EDITING TEXT
- Fix Missing Fonts
- Creating and Entering Rext
- Vertically Aligning Text
- Flowing Text Manually
- Flowing Text Automatically
- Resizing a Text Frame
- Adding a Column Break
- Working with Page Columns
- Find and Replace in InDesign
- Changing Format
- Checking Spelling Dynamically
- Drag and Drop Text Editing
WORKING WITH TYPOGRAPHY
- Clear Existing Type Settings
- Set a Space Before
- Word and Letter Spacing
- Adjusted Vertical Spacing
- Changing Fonts and Type Style
- Changing Paragraph Alignment
- Creating a Drop Cap
- Applying Fill and Stroke to Text
- Adjusting Letter and Word Spacing
- Working with Tabs
- Creating a Hanging Indent
- Adding a Rule Below a Paragraph
WORKING WITH COLOR
- Adding Colors to the Swatches Panel
- Applying Colors to Objects
- Working with Gradients
- Creating a Tint
- Creating a Spot Color
- Applying Color to Text
- Assuring Consistent Color
WORKING WITH STYLES
- Creating and Applying Paragraph Styles
- Creating a Character Style
- Nesting Character Styles
- Creating and Applying Object Styles
- Creating and Applying Cell Styles
- Globally Updating Styles
- Loading Styles from Another Document
PRINTING AND PDF EXPORTING
- Create a High and Low Res .pdf
- Save .pdf Presets for Use Later Using
- Preflight
- Create a Package
- Separation Preview
- Previewing the Page
- Printing a Laser or Inkjet Proof
Prerequisites
InDesign Training: Essential Skills I Course Prerequisites
- Basic Computer Skills on Windows or Mac