Adobe InDesign

 

 

Adobe InDesign CS6
This instructor-led course in Adobe InDesign is ideal for the beginning to intermediate student who wants to master the key features of this program, Using project-based lessons the instructor builds upon the designer's growing knowledge of the program while reinforcing the most important skills learned in each lesson. InDesign has been updated to accelerate user productivity with loads of new features: new Photoshop 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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Course Outline | Adobe InDesign CS6 — Introduction

 

 

INTRODUCING THE WORKSPACE

    Working with panels
  • Customizing the workspace
  • Changing the magnification of a document
  • Navigating through a document
  • Using context menus
  • Finding resources for using InDesign

GETTING TO KNOW INDESIGN

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

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
  • 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
  • Viewing the completed spread

WORKING WITH OBJECTS

  • Working with layers
  • Creating and editing text frames
  • Creating and editing graphics frames
  • Adding metadata captions to 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

FLOWING TEXT

  • Flowing text into an existing frame
  • Flowing text manually
  • Creating text frames while flowing text
  • Flowing text automatically
  • Creating threaded 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 text by dragging and dropping
  • Using the Story Editor
  • Tracking changes

WORKING WITH TYPOGRAPHY

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

WORKING WITH COLOR

  • Denting printing requirements
  • Creating and applying colors
  • Working with gradients
  • Creating a tint
  • Creating a spot color
  • Applying colors to text and objects
  • Using advanced gradient techniques

 

WORKING WITH STYLES

  • Creating and applying paragraph styles
  • Creating and applying character styles
  • Nesting character styles inside paragraph styles
  • Creating and applying object styles
  • Creating and applying table and cell styles
  • Globally updating styles
  • Loading styles from another document

IMPORTING AND MODIFYING GRAPHICS

  • Adding graphics from other programs
  • Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
  • Managing links to import
  • Updating revised graphics
  • Adjusting display quality
  • Working with clipping paths
  • Working with alpha channels
  • Importing native Adobe graphics
  • Using a library to manage objects
  • Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics

CREATING TABLES

  • Converting text to a table
  • Formatting a table
  • Creating a header row
  • Adding graphics to table cells
  • Creating and applying table and cell styles

WORKING WITH TRANSPARENCY

  • Importing and colorizing a grayscale image
  • Applying transparency settings
  • Adjusting transparency settings for EPS images
  • Adding transparency effects
  • Importing and adjusting Illustrator that use transparency
  • Applying transparency settings to text
  • Working with effects

OUTPUT AND EXPORTING

  • Preflighting
  • Packaging
  • Creating an Adobe PDF proof
  • Previewing separations
  • Previewing how transparency
  • Effects will be attended
  • Previewing the page
  • Printing a laser or inkjet proof
  • Using the Ink Manager

CREATING RICH INTERACTIVE DOCUMENTS

  • Setting up an online document
  • Adding buttons, page transitions, and hyperlinks
  • Exporting as Flash Player (SWF)
  • Exporting as Adobe PDF (Interactive)
  • Converting a print document for online use
  • Adding advanced interactivity, animation, and video

COLOR MANAGEMENT

  • The need for color management
  • Synchronizing color settings in Adobe Bridge
  • Specifying color settings in InDesign
  • Displaying images at full resolution
  • Proofing colors onscreen

WORKING WITH LONG DOCUMENTS

  • Creating a running footer
  • Adding a footnote
  • Adding a cross-reference
  • Synchronizing a book
  • Generating a table of contents
  • Indexing a book

Course Outline | Adobe InDesign CS6 — Advanced

 

 

Importing and Modifying Graphics

  • Adding graphics from other programs
  • Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
  • Managing links to imported files
  • Updating revised graphics
  • Adjusting view quality
  • Working with clipping paths
  • Working with alpha channels
  • Placing native files
  • Using a library to manage objects
  • Creating a library
  • Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics

Creating Tables

  • Importing and formatting a table
  • Using graphics within tables
  • Formatting text within a table

Working with Transparency

  • Importing and colorizing a grayscale image
  • Applying transparency settings
  • Adjusting transparency settings for EPS images
  • Adjusting transparency to images
  • Importing and adjusting Illustrator files that use transparency
  • Applying transparency settings to text
  • Working with effects

 

Working with Long Documents

  • Creating a running footer
  • Adding a footnote
  • Adding a cross-reference
  • Synchronizing a book
  • Generating a table of contents
  • Chapter Title paragraph style applied to Table of Contents
  • Indexing a book

Output and Exporting

  • Preflighting files
  • Packaging files
  • Creating an Adobe PDF proof
  • Previewing separations
  • Previewing how transparency will be flattened
  • Previewing the page
  • Printing a laser or inkjet proof

Creating Rich Interactive Documents

  • Setting up an online document
  • Adding buttons, page transitions, and hyperlinks
  • Exporting as Flash
  • Exporting as Adobe PDF
  • Converting a print document for online use

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Included In The Cost Of The Course: Customized training from an Adobe Certified Instructor, Course Book, and Parking Vouchers.

Instructor

Rich Baim

An Adobe Certified Instructor for Adobe Premiere Pro with over twenty years of video editing experience. Rich has a Master of Science degree in Instructional Media and was one of the beta testers for Premiere Pro 1.5. He currently works in the eLearning department at a technology center and specializes in streaming media for health education. Rich emphasizes real-world problem solving and provides "hands-on" experiences for students.

Margaret A. Gaeddert

Margaret "Margee" Gaeddert, is a certified professional designer and owner of G Art & Design in Oklahoma City. A 30 year career in design as an art director, graphic designer, illustrator, and web designer has awarded her regional, national and international awards. She has worked with Fortune 500 and 1000 corporations such as AOL, Avon, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co, Sony Music, CNBC.com and Gucci. Local corporations include American Fidelity, KOCO Television, Metropolitan Library Association and Sperry Van Ness. She teaches design at the University of Central Oklahoma. Gaeddert enjoys serving on the board of the Oklahoma Watercolor Association, and two design advisory boards supporting education in Oklahoma. She holds a bachelor's of fine arts degree and is an accomplished award winning fine artist in watercolor media, calligraphy and caricature art.

Jason Gaines

Mr. Gaines is a certified professional in both Logic Pro 8 and Soundtrack 2. He is currently in demand as an instructor of both applications. Current projects include independent film work and collaboration on the television series, LA Ink. Jason Gaines is a New York City based trumpeter, composer and arranger. He has performed and recorded with some of the most influential performers in the jazz idiom including Arturo Sandoval, Roy Hargrove, Joshua Redman, Freddie Hubbard, Jackie McLean, Gerald Wilson and others. He holds degrees from Manhattan School of Music, New York University and Teachers College, Columbia University.

Foster Johnson

Foster Johnson is one of only a handful of instructors with multiple Adobe Creative Suite Master Designations. He currently holds one each for Web, Video and Design. An Adobe Certified Instructor since 2006, he provides relevant instruction due to real world work experience with the entire Adobe Creative Suite. He maintains application development and interactive concentrations in HTML 5, CSS, PHP, SQL, AJAX, XML and JavaScript. Mr. Johnson is the Owner and lead Pre Visualization Producer for Clarendon Cr Design in Southern California. He has 16 years of professional creative development and management experience in interactive, entertainment, advertising and print. He is an architect of numerous web based commerce and database connectivity solutions, as well as a developer of e-commerce systems for telecoms and Southern California entertainment studios. He is a specialist in digital photography and video for broadband.

Rick Allen Lippert

Rick Allen Lippert is president of Lippert Media in Oklahoma City with 30 years experience on both sides of the camera. Specializing in industrial production, he has won numerous awards for his writing, producing, and directing for clients such as the Oklahoma Arts Institute, Oklahoma City University, the City of Oklahoma City, the University of Central Oklahoma, the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration.His commercial clients include CompSource Oklahoma and Dane Design. Rick has been using Final Cut Pro since version 1.25. As an adjunct instructor, he teaches video production at Oklahoma City Community College and media writing at the University of Oklahoma.

Kiri Roberts

Kiri Christopher Roberts is the creative director of One Media USA, a media production house located in Albany, NY. Born in Zimbabwe, Kiri migrated to the UK where he received a Masters in Audio Production from the University of Westminster in London. With a diverse international experience he has worked on music production, TV commercials, documentary films, music videos and currently ‘Frozen River’ the movie. Kiri is also a contributing writer for the Edit-Well magazine whose editor is Larry Jordan of LA. Kiri balances his time between his business and as a trainer for Apple Pro Apps. He is an Apple Certified end user and trainer for Motion, FCP, STP & Logic.

Adam Karneboge

Adam Karneboge, an avid road warrior and trainer for Metro Technology Centers, is a partner, and Director of Services & Technology, for MacSpecialist, a full-service Apple shop with locations in Villa Park and Chicago, IL. Adam is an Apple Certified Macintosh Technician, Apple Certified Technical Coordinator and Apple Certified System Administrator, teaching all of Apple's IT courses. including Xsan. Over the past five years, Adam has taught more than 160 classes for Apple, MacSpecialist, AATC's, and various companies and school districts, to outstanding reviews. He is also an avid fan who wholeheartedly stands with the Chicago Cubs. He wants you to know that he has a brick in the pavement outside Wrigley Field reading, "The Karneboge's, If It Takes Forever.”

Rob Daniels

Rob Daniels is President and Owner of Tech Wyze, Inc., in Kansas City, a computer consulting and training company. Rob began his career in professional digital photography in the early 1990s and found himself supporting his employer's computer imaging systems. After making a transition into the IT world, he became network manager of a publishing company and spent four years training graphics professionals across North America. Later, Rob established his own IT company to support such clients as Hallmark Cards, Kansas City Power & Light, and many more. Rob is a CompTia Certified Technical Trainer +, Apple Certified Trainer, and Adobe Certified Instructor. He holds numerous other IT certifications.

Cameron L. Fadjo

Cameron L. Fadjo is an instructor of iPhone/Objective-C 2.0 and Java development at Columbia University's Teachers College. A former Business Specialist with Apple and product specialist for Native Instruments, GmBH, Mr. Fadjo has over seven years of experience as a corporate trainer and leader. He holds a certification as a teacher in the state of New Hampshire and as a certified professional in Logic Pro 8. In addition, he holds a Bachelor of Music (B.M) in Music Synthesis from Berklee College of Music and an M.A. (Instructional Technology and Media) and Ed.M. (Cognitive Studies in Education) both from Teachers College, Columbia University. While he is pursuing his PhD from Columbia University, Mr. Fadjo is the lead researcher on a 4-year project using innovative and experimental ways to teach computer science and is concurrently the Director of the iPhone Development Group at Teachers College.

Jessica Thornhille-Skeete

Jessica Thornhille-Skeete is a recent Masters graduate from Columbia University in the area of Instructional Technology and Media, with a focus on mobile learning management system design. Ms. Skeete teaches iOS app development across the US, and enjoys introducing students of varying programming backgrounds to the wonderful world that is app development. Working in technical support for a top telecommunications company enriched Ms. Skeete's understanding of mobile devices and their capabilities ensuring her classroom a technilogically advanced environment. Ms. Skeete caters the hands-on-lab courseware to the level and interest of her students so they learn information relevant to their industry. Additionly, she is working on multiple apps, two of which will be available in the app store by September 2012.

Shelley Weiner

President of Business Rules, Inc., was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, and graduated from Colby College and Columbia University. She started her career in graphic arts production management and spent eight years in commercial printing sales before turning her hand to technology. Shelley moved to rural Columbia County, NY in 2002, and opened her own Apple authorized training center in Rhinecliff, NY in 2006. Jazzing jaded technicians and opening PC minds to the joys of Apple hardware and software are two of her biggest highs, along with cooking with, and for, friends, listening to everything from fado to opera to samba, and reading non-fiction of all types.




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