Course Duration 2 days Course Level 1

Indesign CS5 - L1

InDesign is an essential page layout application for design firms, ad agencies, magazines, newspapers, book publishers, and freelance designers throughout the world. InDesign CS5 Level 1 course demonstrates the core features and techniques that make this powerful page layout application ideal. Providing a foundation on which advanced skills and workflows can be built. The instructor will demonstrate how to navigate and customize the workspace, manage documents and pages, work with text frames and graphics, export and print finished documents, and much more. The course will also include new features in CS5

Course Outline

Understanding the Workspace

Application window
Navigating pages
Zooming and magnifying
Multiple document window
Setting rulers and measurements
New Window feature
Preferences

Indesign Features

Using the Tool panel
keyboard shortcuts
Spring-loaded tool shortcuts
Using contextual menus
Quick Apply

Creating a Document

Creating new documents
Saving and reverting documents
Using multiple Undo and Revert
Setting margin and column guides
Using ruler guides
Bleeding colors or images
Saving objects in libraries
Page snippets
Saving for CS5 with IDML

Managing Pages

Inserting, deleting, and moving pages
Changing page size
Adding page numbering
Changing page numbering with sections
Creating and applying master pages
Overriding master page items

Controlling Text

Understanding text frames
Typing and editing text
Filling with placeholder text
Baseline
Putting text on a path
Using the Story Editor
Checking spelling
Using Find/Change
Tracking text changes

Graphics

Importing graphics
Importing from Mini Bridge
Using the Links panel
Embedding links
Editing graphics in their original app
Fitting graphics to a frame
Clipping paths
Adding live captions
Colorizing images
Turning image layers on and off

Formatting Objects

Selecting objects
Applying basic strokes and fills
Using advanced strokes
Adjusting transparency
Adding drop shadows
Applying feathering
Eyedropper tool
Object formatting

Interactive Documents

Making interactive documents
Adding hyperlinks
Building bookmarks
Creating buttons
Animating an object

Color

Creating color swatches
The danger and power of unnamed colors
Building tint swatches
Creating gradient swatches
Applying gradients

Managing Objects

Page Gap tool
Stacking objects
Creating and controlling layers
Aligning and distributing
Understanding text wrap
Using anchored objects

Character Formatting

Applying basic character styling
Applying advanced character formatting
Changing case
Understanding OpenType features
Using Find/Change for text formatting
Using Find Font

Paragraph Formatting

Applying formatting to a paragraph
Splitting a paragraph into multiple columns
Using drop caps
Adjusting text hyphenation
Fine-tuning justified text
Setting tabs
Aligning to a baseline grid
Keep Options
Adding rules
Adding automatic bullets
Working with numbered lists

Styles

Paragraph styles
Using character styles
Applying styles automatically
Using object styles
Using Quick Apply with styles
Controlling Tables
Creating a table
Adjusting rows and columns
Formatting a table
Adding headers and footers
Applying table styles
Word and Excel tables

Preflighting

Preflight panel
Custom preflight profile
Separations Preview

Packaging, Printing, and Exporting

Packaging for output
Using the Print dialog box
Exporting a PDF
Exporting an interactive PDF
Exporting text
Exporting SWF files

Summary

Course Schedule

Title		Price	February	March	April
	Indesign CS5 - L1	£165 per day	29th	1st	25th

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