Course Overview
Adobe InDesign CS6 : A powerful design and production application
that offers precision, control, and seamless integration with other
Adobe professional graphics software. Using InDesign, you can
produce professional-quality, full color documents on high-volume
color printing presses, or print to a range of output devices on
high-volume color printing presses or print to a range of output
devices, such as desktop printers and high-resolution imaging
devices, or export to a range of formats including PDF and EPUB.
Job Profile
Graphic Designers, Production Staff, Print &
Interactive Designers.
Course Outline
1 INTRODUCING THE WORKSPACE
Getting started
Looking at the workspace
Working with panels
Customizing the workspace
Changing the magnification of a document
Navigating through a document
Using context menus
Exploring on your own
Finding resources for using InDesign
2 GETTING TO KNOW INDESIGN
Lesson overview
Getting started
Viewing the lesson document
Preflighting as you work
Viewing guides
Adding text
Working with styles
Working with graphics
Working with objects
Working with object styles
Exploring on your own
3 SETTING UP A DOCUMENT AND WORKING WITH PAGES
Getting started
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 new documents pages
Adding sections to change page numbering
Adding new 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
Exploring on your own
4 WORKING WITH OBJECTS
Getting started
Working with layers
Creating and modifying text frames
Creating and modifying graphics frames
Adding metadata captions to graphics frames
Placing and linking 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
Exploring on your own
5 FLOWING TEXT
Getting started
Flowing text into an existing frame
Flowing text manually
Creating text frames while flowing text
Flowing text automatically
Creating threaded frames automatically
Resizing text frames automatically
Adding a jump line page number
Exploring on your own
6 EDITING TEXT
Getting started
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
Exploring on your own
7 WORKING WITH TYPOGRAPHY
Getting started
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
Exploring on your own
8 WORKING WITH COLOR
Getting started
Managing color
Synchronizing color settings in Adobe Bridge
Specifying color settings in InDesign
Displaying images at full resolution
Proofing color onscreen
Defining 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
Exploring on your own
9 WORKING WITH STYLES
Getting started
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
Exploring on your own
10 IMPORTING AND MODIFYING GRAPHICS
Getting started
Adding graphics from other programs
Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
Managing links to imported files
Updating revised graphics
Adjusting display quality
Working with clipping paths
Working with alpha channels
Importing native Adobe graphics files
Using a library to manage objects
Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics
Exploring on your own
11 CREATING TABLES
Getting started
Converting text to a table
Formatting a table
Creating a header row
Adding graphics to table cells
Creating and applying table and cell styles
Exploring on your own
12 WORKING WITH TRANSPARENCY
Getting started
Importing and colorizing a grayscale image
Applying transparency settings
Adjusting transparency effects to imported vector and bitmap
graphics
Importing and adjusting Illustrator files
that use transparency
Applying transparency settings to text
Working with effects
Exploring on your own
13 PRINTING AND EXPORTING
Getting started
Preflighting files
Packing files
Creating an Adobe PDF proof
Previewing Separations
Previewing how transparency effects will be flattened
Previewing the page
Printing a laser or inkjet proof
using the Ink Manager
Exploring on your own
14 CREATING ADOBE PDF FILES WITH FORM FIELDS
Getting started
Adding form fields
Exporting an interactive Adobe PDF files
Exploring on your own
15 CREATING AND EXPORTING AN EBOOK
Getting started
Completing the booklet
Choosing the content of an ebook
Adding metadata
Exporting and EPUB file
Exploring on your own
16 WORKING WITH LONG DOCUMENTS
Getting started
Starting a book
Creating a running footer
Adding a footnote
Adding a cross-reference
Synchronizing a book
Generating a table of contents
Indexing a book
Exploring on your own