Adobe InDesign CS5 training syllabus
Adobe InDesign CS5 level I
2 days. In this fundamentals class, you w ill learn to use Adobe InDesign CS5 to create graphics- and text-intensive publications.
We focus on setting up and organizing the document, and placing both text and graphics on its pages. This course introduces you to the main principles and ideas of page layout software and covers key procedures including:
- Getting to know the tools, panels, and workspaces
- Learning how to navigate and zoom in a document
- Working with layers for efficiency and organization
- Setting up master pages in a document
- Building automatic page numbering and sections
- Creating text and graphics placeholder frames
- Placing text and graphics on document pages
- Understanding and editing text and graphics frames
- Grouping and transforming frames
- Formatting text using paragraph and character styles
- Flowing, threading, and spell-checking text in text frames
- Adding color using swatches, gradients and tints
- Frequently-used shortcuts and technique
- Your questions are always welcome
Prerequisites:
Suggested Follow Ups:
- Creating Section 508 Compliant Documents
- Adobe InDesign II and III
- Adobe InDesign for Long Documents
- Adobe InCopy for Workgroups
- Adobe Acrobat I
- Adobe Illustrator I
- Adobe Photoshop I
- Typography and Font Management
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Adobe InDesign CS5 level II (managing document content)
2 days. Take the next step in learning Adobe InDesign CS5 page layout software. We take a deeper look at its powerful typesetting capabilities. Then we go deeper into the proper workflow of Photoshop and Illustrator graphics placed into the InDesign document, including how files should be created in those programs. Also, we will get to know how to work with placed spreadsheet tables. You will learn to work effectively with InDesign CS5 by studying these advanced topics:
- Working with typography, including tracking and kerning
- Creating drop caps, rules, tabs, dot leaders and hanging indents
- Developing paragraph, character and object styles
- Nesting character styles within paragraph styles
- Loading styles from one document to another
- Placing, managing and editing linked graphics
- Working with clipping paths and alpha channel masks
- Workflow tips for placing graphics into InDesign
- Using the Library panel for placing frequently-used content
- Using Adobe Bridge for organizing and placing graphics
- Creating tables from spreadsheets; formatting cells and text
- Placing graphics within the cells of a table
- Working with live Preflight
- Exporting documents to PDF for commercial printing
- Your questions are always welcome
Prerequisites:
Suggested Follow Ups:
- Creating Section 508 Compliant Documents
- Adobe InDesign III
- Adobe Illustrator I
- Adobe InDesign for Long Documents
- Adobe Acrobat I and II
- Adobe InCopy for Workgroups
- Adobe Photoshop I
- Typography and Font Management
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Adobe InDesign CS5 level III (tools for interactivity)
2 days. This class focuses on preparing your publication for final output, both commercial printing and online use. Color management ensures the color stays accurate throughout the workflow. Interactive multimedia features of PDFs and Flash SWF files will be demonstrated for content designed for online publishing. Tips concerning use of transparency will be examined. Troubleshooting and preparing your files for commercial printing is critical to meeting both deadline and budget.
- Setting up color management for your publishing workflow
- Transparency features including feathering, opacity, drop shadows, etc.
- Working with the transparency flattener and preview panel
- Applying transparency settings to text
- Converting a document for online use
- Building JavaScript action buttons for interactive presentations
- Adding bookmarks, hyperlinks, and page transitions
- Creating animations and controlling their timing
- Creating multistate objects and buttons to activate them
- Placing videos into InDesign
- Exporting to Flash SWF and interactive PDF
- Using advanced frame nesting techniques
- Drawing with the Bézier Pen tool
- How to preflight, package, and PDF for the commercial printer
- Your questions are always welcome
Prerequisites:
Suggested Follow Ups:
- Creating Section 508 Compliant Documents
- Adobe InDesign for Long Documents
- Adobe InCopy for Workgroups
- Adobe Acrobat I
- Adobe Creative Suite 5 Bootcamp
- Adobe Photoshop I
- Color Management for Digital Publishing
- JavaScript for Non-Programmers
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Adobe InDesign CS5 level IV (automation and GREP)
2 days. Deep-Dive Master series. Learn to speed up productivity in your workflow by getting to know the many presets within InDesign CS5. Experiment with GREP for finding and changing text. Try out JavaScripts for driving InDesign to do more work in less time. Setup a Data merge project for joining your design with personalized data from an external spreadsheet file.
- Automating repetitive tasks with 21 presets
- Preserving your presets from loss when defaults are reset
- Using GREP queries in the Find/Change dialog box
- Conditional GREP styles and Line Styles within a paragraph style
- Working with Glyphs and Objects in the Find/Change dialog box
- Introduction to JavaScripts that automate tasks in InDesign
- How to find, download, install, organize, and use JavaScripts
- Setting up a Data Merge for joining database info from a spreadsheet file
- Shortcuts, productivity thinking
- Your questions are always welcome
Prerequisites:
Suggested Follow Ups:
- Creating Section 508 Compliant Documents
- Adobe Acrobat I and II
- Adobe Illustrator I
- Adobe Creative Suite 5 Bootcamp
- Adobe InDesign for Long Documents
- Adobe InCopy for Workgroups
- Adobe Photoshop I
- Color Management for Digital Publishing
- JavaScript for Non-Programmers
- Typography and Font Management
Reserve today! Click for our Onsite Custom Training Request form, or register to take classroom training.
