Adobe InDesign CS6: Mastering the Essentials

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Course Overview

Adobe InDesign, Adobe's page layout and design software, has been updated to accelerate user productivity with loads of new effects--including gradient feathering, inner shadows, and glows--that you can apply to objects on a page; finer transparency controls, which let you apply transparency settings independently to an object's fill, stroke, and content for more complex visual looks; numerous productivity enhancements; advanced find/change features; new table and cell styles; export to XHTML, and more.

 

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Adobe InDesign Essentials – 3 Days Schedule

Day 1

09.00am – 10.00am

Introducing the workspace

  • Looking at the workspace
  • Working with panels
  • Customizing the workspace
10.00am – 10.30am

Breakfast

10.30am – 12.45pm

  • Changing the magnification of a document
  • Navigating through a document
  • Using context menus
  • Finding resources for using InDesign

12.45pm – 02.15pm

Lunch

02.15pm – 05.00pm

Getting to know InDesign

  • Viewing the lesson document
  • Preflighting as you work
  • Viewing guides
  • Adding text
  • Working with styles
  • Working with graphics
  • Working with objects
  • Working with object styles

Day 2

09.00am – 10.00am

Setting up a document and working with pages

  • Creating and saving custom document settings
  • Creating a new document
  • Switching between open InDesign documents
  • Working with master pages

10.00am – 10.30am

Breakfast

10.30am – 12.45pm

  • Applying master pages to document pages
  • Adding sections to change page numbering
  • Adding new pages
  • Arranging and deleting pages
  • Placing text and graphics on the document pages
  • Overriding master page items on document pages
  • Changing the size of pages
  • View the completed spread

12.45pm – 02.15pm

Lunch

02.15pm – 05.00pm

Working with objects

  • Working with layers
  • Creating and editing text frames
  • Creating and editing graphics frames
  • Adding metadata captions to graphics frames
  • Placing and linking graphics frames
  • Changing the shape of a frame
  • Wrapping text around a graphic
  • Modifying the shape of frames
  • Transforming and aligning objects
  • Selecting and modifying grouped objects
  • Finishing up

Day 3

09.00am – 10.00am

Flowing text

  • Flowing text into an existing frame
  • Flowing text manually
  • Creating text frames while flowing text

10.00am – 10.30am

Breakfast

10.30am – 12.45pm

  • Flowing text automatically
  • Creating threaded frames automatically
  • Resizing text frames automatically
  • Adding a jump line page number

Editing text

  • Finding and changing a missing font
  • Entering and importing text
  • Finding and changing text and formatting
  • Checking spelling
  • Editing test by dragging and dropping
  • Using the Story Editor
  • Tracking changes

12.45pm – 02.15pm

Lunch

02.15pm – 05.00pm

Working with typography

  • Adjusting vertical spacing
  • Changing fonts and type style
  • Fine-tuning Columns
  • Changing paragraph alignment
  • Creating a drop cap
  • Adjusting letter and work spacing
  • Setting tabs
  • Adding a rule above a paragraph