InDesign Training: Essential Skills I

Course Length

2.0 day(s)

Prerequisites

Basic Computer Skills on Windows or Mac

Course Objectives

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 Topics

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
What a link is
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 object

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

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