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InDesign Training in Chicago by Training Connection

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InDesign CS3 Fundamentals

This course is aimed at anyone who needs to create documents such as ads, flyers, brochures or newsletters, but has little to no experience doing so. Participants will learn the necessary technical skills required to create full colour, multiple page computer generated digital artwork for print.

What you will learn

• To design professional looking ads
• Create flyers and newsletters
• Create multi-page color brochures
• Integrate Photoshop and Illustrator graphics
• Build pages 3 times faster than other programs
• Prepare documents for Print
• Advanced features and tips to get best out of InDesign

Outline

Getting Started

• Why Use InDesign?
• InDesign for QuarkXPress Users
• InDesign for PageMaker Users
• New Features in InDesign CS3

Interface

• The Welcome Screen
• Interface Overview
• The Toolbox
• Toolbox Fly-Out Menus
• InDesign Palettes
• InDesign Keyboard Shortcuts
  

Setting Up Documents

• Opening InDesign Documents from Previous Versions
• Opening QuarkXPress Files
• Opening PageMaker Files
• Setting Initial Preferences
• Creating a New Document
• Saving Document Presets
• Saving InDesign Files
• Working with Rulers and Guides
• Changing the Zero Point in InDesign
• Starting from an InDesign Template

Working with Text

• Working with Text Frames
• Typing Text on the Page
• Basic Character Formatting
• Applying Character Formatting
• Text Import Options for Plain Text Files Explained
• Placing Text
• Creating Multiple Columns with a Single Text Frame
• Threading Text
• Unthreading Text Frames
• Applying Paragraph Formatting
• Checking Spelling
  

Typography in InDesign

• Character vs. Paragraph Formatting
• Finding and Replacing Missing Fonts
• Working with Leading, Kerning, and Tracking
• Applying Leading
• Applying Kerning
• Working with Tracking
• Drop Caps
• What Is Hyphenation?
• Working with Tabs
• Creating Bulleted and Numbered Lists
• Paragraph Rules
• Working with Glyphs
• Changing Type Case
• Sampling Text Formatting
• Find/Change in Text
  

Type Styles

• Creating Paragraph Styles Manually
• Creating Paragraph Styles from Text
• Applying Paragraph Styles
• Editing Paragraph Styles
• Basing Paragraph Styles
• Creating Character Styles Manually
• Creating Character Styles from Formatted Text
• Applying Character Styles
• What Are Nested Styles
• Working with Nested Styles
• Using the Story Editor
  

Working with Color

• Color Modes in InDesign CS2
• The Color Picker
• Stroke and Fill
• Creating a CMYK Color Using the Color Picker
• Creating a Color Using the Color Palette
• The Swatches Palette
• Saving Colors in the Swatches Palette
• Creating a Tint
• What Is a Spot Color?
• Creating a Spot Color
• What Are Gradients?
• Applying a Stroke
  

Bringing in Graphics

• InDesign-Accepted Graphic Types
• The Place Dialog Box
• Graphics and Frames
• Linking Graphics vs. Embedding
• Placing Graphics
• The Adobe Bridge
• Resized Graphics and Resolution
• The Info Palette and Graphics
• Scale Tool Options
• The Control Palette and Graphics
• Fitting Options
• Cropping and Scaling Graphics
• Rotating and Flipping Graphics
• The Links Palette
• Editing and Relinking Using the Links Palette
• Text Wrap

Vector Artwork

• Why Use InDesign for Vector Artwork?
• Shapes in InDesign
• Creating Basic Shapes
• Understanding Transformation Operations
• What Are Convert Shape Operations?
• Corner Effects
• The Transform Palette
• Transforming and Converting Shapes
• What Is a Path?
• Using Pathfinder Operations
• Creating Compound Paths
• Understanding the Stroke Options
• Using Stroke and Fill
• Aligning and Distributing Objects
• What Is the Create Outlines Operation?
• Converting Text to Vector Outlines
• Pen Tool Paths Explained
• Creating Shapes with the Pen Tool
• The Direct Selection Tool
• The Pen Tool Editing Tools
• Editing Paths
• Placing Graphics into Shapes
• What Are Object Styles?
  

Pages, Master Pages, and Layers

• Facing-Page vs. Nonfacing-Page Documents
• The Pages Palette
• Adding Document Pages
• Working with Nonfacing Master Pages
• Creating Facing-Page Master Pages and Documents
• Adding Automatic Page Numbers
• Changing Automatic Page Numbering
• Working with Sections
• Why Use More than One Master Page?
• Basing One Master Page on Another
• Master Text Frames
• Using Text Frames on a Master Page
• Working with Master Objects
• Overriding Master Objects
• What Are Layers?
• The Layers Palette
  

Working with Tables

• What Is a Table in InDesign CS2?
• Creating Tables Manually
• The Control and Table Palettes
• Selecting Rows, Columns, and Cells in a Table
• Editing and Formatting Tables
• Understanding Table and Cell Options
• Editing Table Strokes and Fills
• How Tables and Frames Work Together
• Placing Tables from Other Programs
• Excel Table Import Options
• Word Table Import Options

Transparency

• What Is Transparency?
• How Can You Tell That Transparency Is Present in a Document?
• Applying Drop Shadows
• The Transparency Palette
• Blending Modes
• Applying Transparency
• Feathering in InDesign
• Transparency from Photoshop and Illustrator
• Placing Transparent Graphics from Photoshop
• Previewing Transparency and Blends
  

Long-Document Tools

• What Is a Library?
• Creating and Using a Library
• Updating Library Items
• Footnotes Options
• Creating and formatting a Footnote
• How Is a Table of Contents Made?
• What Are Baseline Grids?
• What Is an InDesign Book?
• What Is an Index?
  

Output and Export

• Preflighting Options and Packaging Options
• Preflighting and Packaging a Document
• Previewing Separations
• Printing in InDesign
• What Is Imposition?
• What Is a Template?
• Saving a File as an InDesign Template
• Exporting as PDF
• Creating PDF Presets
• Exporting as EPS
• Exporting to Earlier Versions of InDesign
• Exporting Text from InDesign
• What Is Color Management?
• What Is Soft Proofing?

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Course Level: introductory Duration: 3 days Training Presented in: English

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