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InDesgin Basics
  • Course length - 2 days

Adobe® InDesign® CS5 software breaks down the barriers between online and offline publishing. Create compelling print layouts, immersive content for playback in the Adobe Flash® Player runtime, and interactive PDF documents. Our Instructor has rich experience working with InDesign and is an Adobe Certified Instructor for InDesign.

Upcoming Courses

Audience

Our Adobe InDesign CS5 course is a beginning course for InDesign.

  • This is a Basic course. No previous experience with the program is required. All students should be familiar with using a mouse, file management and general operations of a Macintosh or Windows operating system.
Course Outline

Unit 1: PROGRAM BASICS of InDesign

  • 1. Start Screen, Application Bar & Workspace Menu
  • 2. Panels and Sub-Panel Choices
  • 3. Using the Control Panel
  • 4. Use of Keyboard Shortcuts
  • 5. Tools and View Menu

Unit 2: STARTING A DOCUMENT

  • 1. Setting Up a New Document & Saving a Preset
  • 2. Working with Templates
  • 3. Replacing Missing Fonts & Updating Links
  • 4. Converting Documents for Back-saving Compatibility

Unit 3: NAVIGATING & VIEWING DOCUMENTS

  • 1. Navigating Pages & Layers
  • 2. Links, Editing, Updating Originals
  • 3. Zooming, Display Performance Options
  • 4. Changing View Quality

Unit 4: USER PREFERENCES

  • 1. Setting Up Units, Margins & Columns
  • 2. Using Rulers
  • 3. Working with Guides and Grids
  • 4. Using Smart Guides to Align and Place Objects
  • 5. Spelling, Setting Type, and Glyphs

Unit 5: ADDING TEXT FRAMES

  • 1. Adding and Formatting Text in a Frame
  • 2. Exploring Frame Types
  • 3. Placing Text from a File
  • 4. Threading Text Frames
  • 5. Creating Text on a Path
  • 6. Auto-Flowing Text

Unit 6: TEXT FORMATTING

  • 1. Choosing Fonts
  • 2. Controlling Font Size and Leading
  • 3. Changing Text Color in the Swatches and Color Panels
  • 4. Adjusting Alignment, Tracking and Kerning
  • 5. Optical vs. Metric Text Attributes
  • 6. Finding and Replacing Fonts
  • 7. Adding Indents and Spacing
  • 8. Controlling Hyphenation and Justification
  • 9. Creating Drop Caps

Unit 7: PLACING GRAPHICS

  • 1. Placing and Scaling Images
  • 2. Choosing Colors and Creating New Swatches
  • 3. Working with Gradients
  • 4. Using Transparency
  • 5. Transparency Effects

Unit 8: CREATING SHAPES

  • 1. Creating Shapes and Frames
  • 2. Customizing and Transforming Shapes
  • 3. Aligning and Distributing Shapes

Unit 9: COLOR & SWATCHES

  • 1. Introduction to Swatches
  • 2. Choosing Colors and Creating New Swatches
  • 3. Working with Gradients
  • 4. Using Transparency
  • 5. Transparency Effects

Unit 10: USING LAYERS

  • 1. Creating Layers
  • 2. Placing Content on Layers
  • 3. Moving Content between Layers
  • 4. Managing Layers

Unit 11: PREFLIGHT, PRINT and PDFs

  • 1. Introducing Preflighting
  • 2. Packaging for Output
  • 3. Understanding Printing Options
  • 4. Printing Booklets
  • 5. Exporting to Adobe PDF

Unit 9: COLOR & SWATCHES

  • 1. Introduction to Swatches
  • 2. Choosing Colors and Creating New Swatches
  • 3. Working with Gradients
  • 4. Using Transparency
  • 5. Transparency Effects