Adobe InDesign

Adobe InDesign CS3
This instructor-led course in Adobe InDesign is ideal for the beginning to intermediate student who wants to master the key features of this program, Using project-based lessons the instructor builds upon the designer's growing knowledge of the program while reinforcing the most important skills learned in each lesson. InDesign has been updated to accelerate user productivity with loads of new features: new Photoshop effects--including gradient feathering, inner shadows, and glows--that you can apply to objects on a page; finer transparency controls, which let you apply transparency settings independently to an object's fill, stroke, and content for more complex visual looks; numerous productivity enhancements; advanced find/change features; new table and cell styles; export to XHTML, and more.

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Course Outline | Adobe InDesign — Introduction

Introducing the Workspace

  • Looking at the workspace
  • Working with panels
  • Customizing the workspace
  • Changing the magnification of a document
  • Navigating through a document
  • Using context menus

Getting to Know InDesign

  • Preflighting as you work
  • Changing the View mode
  • Viewing guides
  • Adding text
  • Threading text in frames
  • Fine-tuning the layout
  • Working with styles
  • Working with graphics

Setting Up a Document and Working with Pages

  • Creating and saving custom page settings
  • Creating a new document
  • Switching between open InDesign documents
  • Working with master pages
  • Adding sections to change page numbering
  • Adding new pages
  • Arranging and deleting pages
  • Placing text and graphics on the document pages
  • Overriding master page items on document pages
  • Viewing the completed spread

Working with Frames

  • Working with layers
  • Creating and editing text frames
  • Creating and editing graphic frames
  • Working with frames
  • Transforming and aligning objects
  • Selecting and modifying grouped objects
  • Finishing up

Importing and Editing Text

  • Creating and entering text
  • Vertically aligning text
  • Flowing text manually
  • Working with styles
  • Flowing text automatically
  • Adding a jump line page number
  • Using semi-autoflow to place text frames
  • Changing the number of columns in a frame
  • Loading styles from another document
  • Flowing text into an existing frame
  • Adding pages while flowing text
  • Finding and changing text and formatting
  • Checking spelling
  • Editing text by dragging and dropping
  • Using the Story Editor

Typography

  • Adjusting vertical spacing
  • Changing fonts and type style
  • Changing paragraph alignment
  • Creating a drop cap
  • Adjusting letter and word spacing
  • Setting tabs
  • Adding a rule above a paragraph

Working with Color

  • Defining printing requirements
  • Creating and applying colors
  • Working with gradients
  • Creating a tint
  • Creating a spot color
  • Applying color to text
  • Using advanced gradient techniques
  • Setting up color management in InDesign CS4
  • A look at Adobe Bridge
  • Color-managing imported images in InDesign CS4

Working with Styles

  • 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

Course Outline | Adobe InDesign — Advanced

Importing and Modifying Graphics

  • Adding graphics from other programs
  • Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
  • Managing links to imported files
  • Updating revised graphics
  • Adjusting view quality
  • Working with clipping paths
  • Working with alpha channels
  • Placing native files
  • Using a library to manage objects
  • Creating a library
  • Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics

Creating Tables

  • Importing and formatting a table
  • Using graphics within tables
  • Formatting text within a table

Working with Transparency

  • Importing and colorizing a grayscale image
  • Applying transparency settings
  • Adjusting transparency settings for EPS images
  • Adjusting transparency to images
  • Importing and adjusting Illustrator files that use transparency
  • Applying transparency settings to text
  • Working with effects

Working with Long Documents

  • Creating a running footer
  • Adding a footnote
  • Adding a cross-reference
  • Synchronizing a book
  • Generating a table of contents
  • Chapter Title paragraph style applied to Table of Contents
  • Indexing a book

Output and Exporting

  • Preflighting files
  • Packaging files
  • Creating an Adobe PDF proof
  • Previewing separations
  • Previewing how transparency will be flattened
  • Previewing the page
  • Printing a laser or inkjet proof

Creating Rich Interactive Documents

  • Setting up an online document
  • Adding buttons, page transitions, and hyperlinks
  • Exporting as Flash
  • Exporting as Adobe PDF
  • Converting a print document for online use

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Adobe InDesign CS4 - Intro and Adv
Price
$1,500
Date
4/26/10 - 4/30/10
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Course Details

Name
Adobe InDesign CS4 Intro
Price
$995
Date
4/19/10 - 4/21/10
Length
3 days
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Advanced

Name
Adobe InDesign CS4 Advanced
Price
$695
Date
4/22/10 - 4/23/10
Length
2 days
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What's Included?

Included In The Cost Of The Course: Course Book, Breakfast And Lunch!

Instructor

Rich Baim

An Adobe Certified Instructor for Adobe Premiere Pro with over twenty years of video editing experience. Rich has a Master of Science degree in Instructional Media and was one of the beta testers for Premiere Pro 1.5. He currently works in the eLearning department at a technology center and specializes in streaming media for health education. Rich emphasizes real-world problem solving and provides "hands-on" experiences for students.

Brian Culp

Brian Culp is both an Adobe and Apple Certified trainer. He is a graduate of Kansas State University, where he was an Academic All American. After four years playing professional baseball, Brian graduated from the Vancouver Film School, where he learned to edit using film, tape-to-tape decks, and Avid editing stations. Since his time in film school, he has authored over dozen books and training courses for the Virtual Training Company and other publishers such as McGraw Hill, O’Reilly, and APress. When not teaching or writing, he is part of the producing team of Bean Lake Entertainment, where he has edited a wide variety of projects using Final Cut and Premiere Pro. The company recently completed its first feature film project and is working on its next. Brian lives in Kansas City.

Rob Daniels

Rob Daniels is President and Owner of Tech Wyze, Inc., in Kansas City, a computer consulting and training company. Rob began his career in professional digital photography in the early 1990s and found himself supporting his employer's computer imaging systems. After making a transition into the IT world, he became network manager of a publishing company and spent four years training graphics professionals across North America. Later, Rob established his own IT company to support such clients as Hallmark Cards, Kansas City Power & Light, and many more. Rob is a CompTia Certified Technical Trainer +, Apple Certified Trainer, and Adobe Certified Instructor. He holds numerous other IT certifications.

Margaret A. Gaeddert

Margaret "Margee" Gaeddert, is a certified professional designer and owner of G Art & Design in Oklahoma City. A 30 year career in design as an art director, graphic designer, illustrator, and web designer has awarded her regional, national and international awards. She has worked with Fortune 500 and 1000 corporations such as AOL, Avon, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co, Sony Music, CNBC.com and Gucci. Local corporations include American Fidelity, KOCO Television, Metropolitan Library Association and Sperry Van Ness. She teaches design at the University of Central Oklahoma. Gaeddert enjoys serving on the board of the Oklahoma Watercolor Association, and two design advisory boards supporting education in Oklahoma. She holds a bachelor's of fine arts degree and is an accomplished award winning fine artist in watercolor media, calligraphy and caricature art.

Jason Gaines

Mr. Gaines is a certified professional in both Logic Pro 8 and Soundtrack 2. He is currently in demand as an instructor of both applications. Current projects include independent film work and collaboration on the television series, LA Ink. Jason Gaines is a New York City based trumpeter, composer and arranger. He has performed and recorded with some of the most influential performers in the jazz idiom including Arturo Sandoval, Roy Hargrove, Joshua Redman, Freddie Hubbard, Jackie McLean, Gerald Wilson and others. He holds degrees from Manhattan School of Music, New York University and Teachers College, Columbia University.

Foster Johnson

Foster Johnson is the Owner and Lead Creative for Foster Johnson Studios. He has 10 years of professional creative development and leadership experience in interactive, print and advertising, executing creative direction, art direction and team strategy. An architect of numerous web based commerce and database connectivity solutions, as well as e-commerce, telecoms, entertainment, advertising, publishing, photography and video for broadband. Johnson is an Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI) with expert level application skills in Adobe Creative Suite 3, including: Flash using ActionScript 3.0, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects Pro, InDesign, Acrobat Pro, Captivate 3.0, LiveCycle ES as well as QuarkXPress and web application development using advanced CSS, SQL, AJAX, XML, RSS, Google AdSense and AdWords.

Rick Allen Lippert

Rick Allen Lippert is president of Lippert Media in Oklahoma City with 30 years experience on both sides of the camera. Specializing in industrial production, he has won numerous awards for his writing, producing, and directing for clients such as the Oklahoma Arts Institute, Oklahoma City University, the City of Oklahoma City, the University of Central Oklahoma, the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration.His commercial clients include CompSource Oklahoma and Dane Design. Rick has been using Final Cut Pro since version 1.25. As an adjunct instructor, he teaches video production at Oklahoma City Community College and media writing at the University of Oklahoma.

Kiri Roberts

Kiri Christopher Roberts is the creative director of One Media USA, a media production house located in Albany, NY. Born in Zimbabwe, Kiri migrated to the UK where he received a Masters in Audio Production from the University of Westminster in London. With a diverse international experience he has worked on music production, TV commercials, documentary films, music videos and currently ‘Frozen River’ the movie. Kiri is also a contributing writer for the Edit-Well magazine whose editor is Larry Jordan of LA. Kiri balances his time between his business and as a trainer for Apple Pro Apps. He is an Apple Certified end user and trainer for Motion 3, FCP6, STP2 & Logic 8.

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