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.

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
  

Before taking this course, the student must have basic PC skills, including a basic understanding of a computer's operating system, how to launch an application and create and save files, as well as how to copy files from CDs and other media.

This course is intended for graphic designers, creative professionals, print professionals, publishers, pre-press professionals, and marketing communications professionals.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Manage the InDesign environment
• Design documents
• Manage text
• Utilize colors, swatches, and gradients
• Manage transparency
• Utilize tables
• Prepare for handoff to a service provider
• Create Acrobat PDF files

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