Getting to Know the InDesign Work Area
- Tools, submenus and palettes
- Setup up a new document
- Creating document
- Viewing the Document
Assignment 1: New Document Set up
Working with Typography
- Creating Text Frames
- Flowing copy
- Changing fonts and paragraph alignment
- Importing copy and entering it into frames
- Text frame options
- Spell Checking
Assignment 2: Text Ad
Working with Color
- Applying color to objects
- Creating dashed lines
- Working with gradients
- Creating and applying swatches and gradient swatches
- Creating a tint
- Multicolor gradient
Assignment 3: Create Coupon
Working with Images
- Working with Images
- Stacking and text wrap
- Align multiple objects
Project 1: Nightclub Postcard
Master Pages and Grids
- Creating Master pages
- Linking Master pages
- Editing master page items
- Keep spreads together and deleting pages
- Guides, preferences baseline grid
- The Layers palette
Assignment 4: Set up Master Pages for Newsletter
Style Sheets and Fine-Tuning Text
- Different text flow options
- Creating and applying styles
- Importing Styles from another document
- Creating a footer and Special Characters
- Finding and changing formatting and special characters
- Finding and changing a missing font
- Creating text on a path
- Working with tabs
- Drop shadows
Assignment 5: Update Newsletter
Image Manipulation in InDesign
- The Links palette and how to update and edit graphics in other applications
- Changing display settings
- Clipping Pages (Removing a white background)
- Examining Photoshop paths and alpha channels
- Importing Illustrator files
- Placing PDF files
Assignment 6: Adjust Images for Catalog Spread
Assignment 7: Apply Color Blends to Brochure
Preparing Files for Print
- Preflight
- Transparency flattener preview
- Ink Manager
- Determining how graphics print
- Setting options for fonts
- Creating a PDF preset
- Exporting to PDF
- Packaging an InDesign File
Project 2: Four Page Magazine Layout
