Mastering Adobe InDesign CS

Features:

• Learn Adobe InDesign CS2 Quickly and Easily
• Easy to follow Step-by-step Instructions
• Full screen for maximum viewing.
• Clear narrated instruction makes learning a snap.
• Interact with program to retain maximum learning.
• Use Sample Files to Practice along with InDesign CS2

Table of contents

Lesson 1:

• 1.1 Launch Adobe InDesign CS
• 2.
• 1.2 Open and close Adobe Photoshop files.
• 1.3 Navigate around your work area.
• 1.4 View your document at different magnifications.
• 1.5 Use some of the basic tools from the Toolbox to edit images.
• 1.6 Select, rearrange, and use various palettes on your workspace.
• 1.7 Customize your workspace.
• 1.8 Use palette menus.
• 1.9 Navigate through your document.
• 1.10 Work with layers.
• 1.11 Use InDesign Help

Lesson 2:

• 2.1 Create and save a custom page size.
• 2.2 Create a new document based on your custom page definitions.
• 2.3 Set up and edit master pages.
• 2.4 Create foot note frames in your master page.
• 2.5 Add text and graphic placeholder frames.
• 2.6 Create text frames with columns.
• 2.7 Apply master pages to document pages.
• 2.8 Add sections in your document to change page numbering.
• 2.9 Add, delete, and rearrange pages in your document.
• 2.10 Place text and graphics on document pages.
• 2.11 Override master page items on your document pages.

Lesson 3:

• 3.1 Modify text and graphic frames.
• 3.2 Create new frames.
• 3.3 Duplicate a frame and its contents.
• 3.4 Move and replace contents within its frames.
• 3.5 Convert frame shapes.
• 3.6 Rotate, align, and group objects.
• 3.7 Adjust the text inset in a frame.
• 3.8 Wrap text around an image.

Lesson 4:

• 4.1 Create a headline and apply a style.
• 4.2 Use various ways to flow text into your document.
• 4.3 Resize your text frames to fit your text.
• 4.4 Load and apply styles from another document.
• 4.5 Align your text vertically and horizontally.
• 4.6 Work with columns.
• 4.7 Thread text.
• 4.8 Create a page continuation note.
• 4.9 Use the Find/Change function.
• 4.10 Use Check Spelling and other InDesign spell check features.
• 4.11 Create text on a path.

Lesson 5:

• 5.1 Use a baseline grid to align your text.
• 5.2 Adjust the spacing above and below a paragraph.
• 5.3 Change fonts and type style.
• 5.4 Change paragraph alignment.
• 5.5 Apply fills, strokes, and gradients to text.
• 5.6 Create a drop cap in your paragraph.
• 5.7 Adjust the kerning and tracking between text.
• 5.8 Create a hanging indent.
• 5.9 Create a paragraph rule.

Lesson 6:

• 6.1 Add colors to the Swatches palette.
• 6.2 Create tints, spot colors, and gradients.
• 6.3 Apply colors to objects to text.
• 6.4 Create dashed strokes.
• 6.5 Create a gradient with multiple colors.
• 6.6 Apply a gradient across multiple objects.
• 6.7 Set up color management in InDesign.

Lesson 7:

• 7.1 Create and apply object styles.
• 7.2 Create and apply character styles.
• 7.3 Create and apply paragraph styles.
• 7.4 Load styles from another document.
• 7.5 Nest character styles inside paragraph styles.
• 7.6 Globally update styles.

Lesson 8:

• 8.1 Update revised graphics.
• 8.2 Remove a white background in InDesign.
• 8.3 Import graphics using Adobe Bridge.
• 8.4 Work with alpha channels in Photoshop files.
• 8.5 Import Photoshop files with layers and layer comps.
• 8.6 Import an Illustrator file.
• 8.7 Import an Illustrator file with layers.
• 8.8 Use a library to store commonly used objects.

Lesson 9:

• 9.1 Import a table created in Microsoft Word.
• 9.2 Format the borders of the table.
• 9.3 Apply alternating row colors.
• 9.4 Apply strokes to table cells.
• 9.5 Format the heading cells in the table.
• 9.6 Add and delete columns.
• 9.7 Adjust column width and row height.
• 9.8 Place graphics in table cells.
• 9.9 Apply character styles to text in a table.

Lesson 10:

• 10.1 Adjust the transparency of solid-colored objects.
• 10.2 Apply different blending modes to transparency.
• 10.3 Apply feathering to objects to soften their edges.
• 10.4 Create a drop shadow.
• 10.5 Adjust the transparency of an EPS image.
• 10.6 Adjust the transparency of a Photoshop image.
• 10.7 Adjust the transparency of an Illustrator image.
• 10.8 Apply transparency to text.

Lesson 11:

• 11.1 Create a book project.
• 11.2 Add documents to the book.
• 11.3 Set the order for the documents in the book project.
• 11.4 Set the page numbering in documents for the book.
• 11.5 Generate a table of contents.
• 11.6 Reassign the style source and synchronize the book documents to the styles source to create consistency across the book files
• 11.7 Create index references and cross-references.
• 11.8 Generate an index for the book.

Lesson 12:

• 12.1 Use Preflight to check for errors.
• 12.2 Package your document and get it ready for printing.
• 12.3 Create an Adobe PDF file for proofing.
• 12.4 Use Separation Preview to see how colors affect your document.
• 12.5 Use the Transparency Flattener preview.
• 12.6 Preview the page
• 12.7 Set up and print a proof.

Total training time: ~20 hours

• Windows Vista / XP / 2000 / 9x / NT
• Pentium 133 Mhz or higher
• 32MB RAM
• 10MB free hard disk space
• 24x CD-ROM Drive speed