Acquired Skills:

Prerequisites:

Duration of the Course

Curriculum Material

Course Topics:

• Overview of toolbox, panels, page navigation and online help
• Create a new document and saving the new document settings
• Working with the panels
• Saving a workspace
• Setting up page size, margins, columns, and bleeds, for a new document, then saving these as document
• Using the pages panels to add, move, and delete pages and more

Objects, Drawing & selecting

• Drawing and manipulating the 3 types of frames
• Selecting multipe objects using the marquee select, select all and shift select.
• Drawing paths, objects and work with strokes and fills
• Using transform panel to scale, rotate and modify objects
• Drawing frames & change line color, style and width of strokes.
• Working text frame options for text frames and options for graphic frames

Text: Place and Format

• Creating text frames with single or multiple columns
• Using the NEW split column or span column features
• Placing text using automatic, semi-automatic and manual placements
• Linking and unlinking from one text frame to another on the same page or other pages
• Character Formats: Applying fonts, changing size, kerning & tracking
• Using the control panel, info panel and shortcuts for text formatting
• Paragraph Formats: indenting paragraphs adjusting the sapce before or after the paragraphs and adding or dropping caps
• Applying paragraph rules above and below a paragraph and changing offset values
• Working with tabs to align a column of text or figures

Graphics

• Placing pictures and graphics such as EPS, PCT, TIFF, AL, PDF, and PSD.
• Using the fitting commands to change size of a graphic relative to its frame
• Changing the size of frames and graphics
• Using the selection tools and NEW target selection to select the frame or the graphic and to easily move graphics within a frame
• Modifying the corners of any graphic frame
• Using the NEW gap tool and the Auto Fit feature
• Applying text wrap to control the way text wraps around a graphic, then changing the outset and the shape
• Understanding the Links Palette to Edit Original, then updating and relinking graphics
• Using the Eyedropper tool to pick up formatting from one object to apply to another

Color, Gradients and Transparency

• Creating new Process, Spot & Pantone colors using the swatches palette then creating Tints
• Creating Gradients to be applied to fills, strokes and text
• Using the Gradient Tool to adjust the angle of a linear gradient or the center point of a radial gradient
• Applying Transparency to objects
• Applying Drop Shadow to text or an object
• Understanding how to use transparency settings effectively and considerations for pre-press

Styles

• Understading Paragraph and character Style for Text
• Creating and applying styles sheets to paragraphs using menus and palettes
• Creating character styles and applying to words or phrases within a paragraph
• Changing the attributes of a style
• Redefining a style from document text

Master Pages

• Understanding Master Pages and how they are used
• Modifying the deafault master page with graphics, margins, columns and guides
• Creating automatic page numbering
• Applying a master to a page or range of pages
• Creating and removing local overrides

Export and Print

• Saving an InDesign file(.indd) and InDesign Template (.indt)
• Understanding the benefit of saving a file as an InDesign Markup (.idml)
• Creating Adob PDF files: Exporting to PDF< setting preferences and creasting PDF Export presets
• Printing Options
• Transparency Flattener settings and tips

Certificate of Completion