Indesign Training Courses: Adobe Indesign CS3 - Introduction
Course Summary
Imagine being able to create documents of many types, from single page advertisements and flyers, to complex multi-page colour publications after just 2 days of training!
That's what you'll be able to do after you take the Indesign training course offered by Academy Class.
You are starting to familiarize yourself with print layout and design using Adobe Indesign CS3. You would like to learn about the tools and features available to you in Adobe Indesign CS3. In this course, you will work with some of the tools and features to create eye-catching printed documents using Adobe Indesign CS3.
This Indesign training course allows you to take desktop publishing and design to a new level, combining extraordinary production power and creative freedom with tight integration with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat software. Create simple documents and prepare them for print or export as a PDF. Topics in this training course include learning the work area, working with text and graphics, creating simple vector based graphics, and the basics of design.
Through this training course, you can join the growing ranks of creative professionals discovering new levels of creative freedom and productivity using Adobe InDesign software. Tightly integrated with the Adobe applications you use most, InDesign delivers faster production workflows and a more fluid creative environment for designing professional layouts with sophisticated graphics and typography.
Course Content
Managing the Adobe InDesign CS Environment
Preferences - Enhanced in CS3
Customize Your Workspace
Set General Preferences - Enhanced in CS3
Manage Document Presets
Workspace and Window arrangement - Enhanced in CS3 Designing Documents
Create a New Document
Alter a Document’s Layout
Create the Structure of a Document
Develop Master Pages
Manage Text and Graphic Placement
Develop Layers Managing and Formatting Text
Add Tex
Edit Text
Spell Check Text
Thread Text
Find/ Change - Enhanced in CS3
Change Text Threads
Format Characters
Format Paragraphs
Numbering paragraphs - New in CS3
Text variables - New in CS3
Manage Styles - New in CS3
Style Groups - New in CS3
Quick Apply - Enhanced in CS3
Text Wrap - Enhanced in CS3
Text on a path
Rules
The Glyphs panel - Enhanced in CS3 Objects
Arranging, Aligning and Distributing
Transforming Objects
Duplicating
Rotating
Scaling
Skewing
Mirroring
The Transform Again commands
Object Styles
InDesign Snippets
Links Panel Utilizing Colours, Swatches, and Gradients
Utilize Colour
Utilize Swatches
Apply Fills, Gradients, and Strokes Managing Transparency
Apply Transparency - Enhanced in CS3
Apply Transparency Flattener Presets Graphics
File Types
Importing options
Image Frames simple, compound and custom
Fitting images Control Palette and shortcuts- Enhanced in CS3
Inline graphics
Clipping Paths, Alpha channels
Importing InDesign documents - New in CS3 Pen & Bezier tools
Path tools in InDesign Effects - New in CS3
Inner Shadow - New in CS3
Bevel and Emboss - New in CS3
Gradient Feather - New in CS3
Inner Glow and Outer Glow - New in CS3 Tabs and Tables
Create a Table
Modify a Table
Format a Table
Table Styles - New in CS3 Libraries
Using InDesign libraries Preparing for Handoff to a Service Provider
Check Documents for Problems
Print a Document
Package Files
Preview Output
Print, Separation, Flattening
Print options - Enhanced in CS3
PostScript, preflighting and Packaging Creating Acrobat PDF Files
Prepare PDF Files for Web Distribution
Manage PDF Presets
Export PDF Files for Printing
