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Course ID: Adobe InDesign CS2
Level: Level 1
Duration: 2 days
Fee: $795
   
Overview: Adobe InDesign CS2 software combines extraordinary production power and creative freedom to take page layout and design to a new level.
   
Who Should Attend: InDesign is Adobe’s answer to the future of professional publishing for graphic designers, production artists, and prepress professionals.
   
Prerequisites:

This is a beginning InDesign course- no previous experience with the program is required. All students should be familiar with using a mouse, file management and general operations of a Macintosh or Windows operating system.

   
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Time: Daytime classes 9:00 am to 4:30 pm
   
Courseware: Courseware is provided.
   
   
   
Course Outline:  
   

LESSON 1: A Quick Tour of InDesign
What is InDesign?
Navigating in InDesign
Zooming a document
Place and flow text in frames
Working with styles
Placing graphics
Working with master pages

LESSON 2: Working with Frames
Modifying text frames
Modifying graphics frames
Wrapping text around an object
Fitting the content to the frame
Modifying the stroke of a frame
Transforming a frame

LESSON 3: Creating and Applying Colors
Adding colors to the Swatches palette
Applying colors to objects
Creating a spot color
Applying color to text

LESSON 4: Tints and Gradients
Working with gradients
Creating a tint

LESSON 5: Importing and Editing Text
Flowing text
Working with styles
Showing hidden characters
Threading text
Changing the number of columns
Creating and applying a character style
Finding and changing
Spell-checking a story

LESSON 6: Working with Typography
Preparing and using a baseline grid
Changing type spacing and appearance
Adding special characters
Creating a table using tabs

LESSON 7: Creating a PDF
Importing and Linking Graphics
Adding graphics from other programs
Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
Managing links to imported files
Using a library to manage objects


 

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