InDesign Work Area (quick review)

• Looking at the work area
  
• Viewing and arranging palettes
  
• Customizing your workspace
  
• Using palette menus
  
• Changing the magnification of your document
  
• Navigating through your document
  
• Working with layers
  
• Using context menus
  
• Selecting objects
  
• Changing the view of artwork
  
  

Working with Color

• Adding colors to the Swatches palette
  
• Applying colors to objects
  
• Creating dashed strokes
  
• Working with gradients
  
• Creating a tint
  
• Creating a spot color
  
• Applying color to text
  
• Applying colors to additional objects
  
• Creating a gradient swatch with multiple colors
  
• Applying the gradient to an object
  
  

Drawing Vector Graphics

• Applying color to a path
  
• Drawing with the Pencil tool
  
• Drawing curved segments with the Pen tool
  
• Drawing combinations of curved and straight segments
  
• Changing the shape of existing segments
  
• Creating a compound path
  
• Creating a perfect semicircle
  
• Slicing a path with the Scissors tool
  
• Adding an end shape to an open path
  
• Creating a texture effect using a colorized image
  
• Creating and adding an inline graphic
  
  

Working with Transparency

• Applying transparency settings
  
• Changing the opacity of solid-color objects
  
• Applying the Multiply blending mode
  
• Applying feathering to the margins of an image
  
• Adjusting the transparency settings of EPS images
  
• Creating a drop shadow
  

Creating Interactive Documents

• Bookmarks
  
• Hyperlinks
  
• Adding a Navigational button
  
• Adding a movie
  
• Adding a button with rollover and down states
  
• Adding a play movie action to a button
  
• Exporting the final document as an Adobe PDF
  
  

Combining Files into Books

• Defining a book
  
• Creating a book file
  
• Setting the order and pagination
  
• Adding the table of contents file
  
• Maintaining consistency across book files
  
• Synchronizing book documents
  
• Updating the table of contents after editing
  
• Indexing the book
  
  

Printing and Print Preparation

• Preflight
  
• Package
  
• Separation preview
  
• Transparency flattener preview
  
• Printing a laser or inject proof
  
  

Exporting to PDF

• Selecting PDF quality
  
• Create PDF for email or web pages
  
• Viewing the PDF created from Adobe InDesign CS
  
• Creating a PDF File with layers
  
• Viewing a layered PDF
  
• Creating & applying a PDF Preset
  
• Using your PDF preset
  
  

Ensuring Consistent Color

• Color management: An overview
  
• Setting up color management in InDesign
  
• Color-managing imported graphics in InDesign
  
• Setting up color management in Photocells
  
• Assigning a profile while importing a graphic
  
• Setting up color management in Illustrator .