Adobe InDesign CS4 / CS5
Course length:
3 days
Prerequisite: None
In this 3-day introductory training course you’ll learn basic layout, text and graphics manipulation, typography rules, drawing tools (bezier curves), color creation and application, style sheets, master pages, multiple pages, baseline grid, hyphenation, libraries, indexing, and much more.
Topics covered include:
- Navigating Adobe InDesign’s desktop and your document
- Managing and working with InDesign's Palettes
- Setting up and creating custom documents in Adobe InDesign
- Creating and using InDesign Master pages
- Using footers and automatic page numbering
- Adding, deleting, and reordering pages in InDesign
- Inserting special characters and white space
- Utilize kerning, tracking, and baseline shift
- Altering fonts with vertical and horizontal scale for creative effects
- Auto flowing text in InDesign
- Using Paragraph and Character Styles
- Threading and unthreading text frames in Adobe InDesign
- Creating and working with tables in InDesign
- Combining multiple documents into a Book
- Creating a Table of Contents and Index
- Using layers in Adobe InDesign
- Importing and linking graphics
- Using Adobe Photoshop files with InDesign
- Scaling and rotating graphics
- Wrapping text around graphics
- Drawing basic shapes, lines, arrows and polygons in InDesign
- Using Ruler guides for exact placement of items on a page
Located in Norman, Oklahoma, we have been providing instructor-led training since 1998.
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