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Training: InDesign CS - Basics
Two day course covering the work area, frames, importing text, typography functions, colour, graphic import, tables, graphic tools and transparency controls.
Training: InDesign CS - Advanced
Two day course, covering the more of the advanced features of InDesign CS, including vector graphics, transparency, interactive documents, book building, preflighting, PDF export, and colour consistentancy.
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Adobe InDesign CS - Basics
With this two day course, you will learn the how to use Adobe InDesign to create graphically rich documents. This course is designed for all creative and graphic arts professionals.
Topics covered in this course:
The InDesign Work Area
- 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
Setting Up a Document
- Creating and saving a custom page size
- Starting a new document
- Editing master pages
- Creating a master for footers
- Creating a footer text frame in the master
- Creating a placeholder master
- Applying masters to document pages
- Editing master pages
Working With Frames
- Modifying text frames
- Resizing text frames
- Modifying graphics frames
- Resizing a graphics frame
- Wrapping text around a graphic
- Creating new frames and adjusting
- the contents
- Duplicating a frame and its contents
- Adjusting text inset within a frame
- Rotating an object
- Aligning multiple objects
- Rotating an image within its frame
Importing and Editing Text
- Managing fonts
- Creating and entering text
- Creating a headline and applying a style
- Flowing text
- Working with styles
- Vertically aligning text
- Threading text
- Changing the number of columns on a page
- Changing horizontal and vertical text alignment
- Creating and applying a character style
- Finding and changing items
- Spell-checking a story
- Creating text on a path
- Scrolling through a document
- Working with palettes
- Using shortcuts
Working with Typography
- Adjusting vertical spacing
- Using a baseline grid to align text
- Changing the spacing and below paragraphs
- Changing fonts and type style
- Changing paragraph alignment
- Applying special font features
- Creating a drop caps
- Applying a fill and stroke to text
- Adjusting the kerning and tracking
- Working with tabs
- Adding a rule below a paragraph
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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
Importing and Linking Graphics
- Adding graphics from other programs
- Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
- Managing links to imported files
- Updating revised graphics
- Working with clipping paths
- Display settings for display performance
- Using a library to manage objects
Creating Tables
- Importing and formatting a table
- Formatting borders and alternating row colors
- Using graphics within tables
- Formatting text within a table
- Applying character styles to text in a table
- Dragging to adjust column size
- Working with tables within existing text frames
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
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