Adobe Indesign CS4 hands on training, Adobe Authorized Training Center

Training Provided by Digital Services Find out how to incorporate elements from Photoshop and Illustrator and lay them out in a flyer, brochure, or an entire book using Adobe Indesign CS4 in one day hands on training class in Los Angeles. Class time starts from 9: 30am to 5pm. Cost $375. Check our syllabus and call 323-666-6068 for more information. Attendees will get a pdf version of the Adobe Press book, "Indesign CS3, Classroom in a Book" and a collections of tutorials.

Adobe Indesign CS4 hands on training, Adobe Authorized Training Center Find out how to incorporate elements from Photoshop and Illustrator and lay them out in a flyer, brochure, or an entire book using Adobe Indesign CS4. Cost $195.

Adobe Indesign CS class syllabus

Work Area

• arranging palettes
• customizing workspace
• palette menus
• navigation and magnification
• layers
• context menus
• selecting objects
• using help

Documents

• starting new documents and page size
• master pages
• footers
• placeholder master
• applying master and overriding master
• editing master pages

Frames

• modifying and resizing text frames
• modifying and resizing graphic frames
• wrapping graphics
• creating and duplicating frames
• rotating and aligning objects

Importing and editing text

• managing fonts
• creating and entering text
• creating headline
• flowing text
• working with styles
• aligning text
• threading text
• changing number of columns
• changing text alignment
• character style
• find and Replace and Spell check
• text on a path

Typography

• vertical spacing
• baseline grid
• space above and below paragraph
• font and type style
• paragraph alignment
• special font features and drop cap
• fill and stroke for text
• kerning and tracking
• working with tabs
• rule for paragraph

Working with color

• adding color to swatch palette
• applying color to objects
• dash stroke
• gradient
• tint
• spot color
• apply color to text
• apply color to object
• creating and applying gradient swatch

Importing and linking graphics

• adding graphics
• vector and bitmap graphics
• managing links to imported graphics
• updating graphics
• clipping paths
• settings for display performance
• library to manage objects

Tables

• importing and formatting a table
• formatting borders and alternating row colors
• graphics within tables
• formatting text in table
• character style to table text
• adjust column size

Vector graphics

• document grids
• applying color to path
• pencil tool
• pen tool
• drawing curve and straight segments
• compound path
• slicing a path with scissor
• adding end shape to open path
• creating texture effects
• inline graphics

Transparency

• transparency setting
• opacity of objects
• blending modes
• feathering
• transparency settings for EPS images
• drop shadow

Interactive document

• bookmarks
• hyperlinks
• navigation buttons
• adding a movie
• button with rollover and down states
• adding an action to button
• exporting to pdf

Book

• defining a book
• creating book file
• order and pagination
• table of content
• maintaining consistency
• synchronizing book document
• updating table of content
• indexing the book

Printing and preparation

• preflight
• package
• separation preview
• transparency preview
• transparency flattener preview
• printing proof

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