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Training Course Summary:

Imagine being able to create documents of many types, from single page advertisements and flyers, to complex multi-page colour publications after just 2 days of training!

That's what you'll be able to do after you take the Indesign training course offered by Academy Class.

You are starting to familiarize yourself with print layout and design using Adobe Indesign CS3. You would like to learn about the tools and features available to you in Adobe Indesign CS3. In this course, you will work with some of the tools and features to create eye-catching printed documents using Adobe Indesign CS3.

This Indesign training course allows you to take desktop publishing and design to a new level, combining extraordinary production power and creative freedom with tight integration with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat software. Create simple documents and prepare them for print or export as a PDF. Topics in this training course include learning the work area, working with text and graphics, creating simple vector based graphics, and the basics of design.

Through this training course, you can join the growing ranks of creative professionals discovering new levels of creative freedom and productivity using Adobe InDesign software. Tightly integrated with the Adobe applications you use most, InDesign delivers faster production workflows and a more fluid creative environment for designing professional layouts with sophisticated graphics and typography.

Pre-Requisites:

Before taking this course, the student must have basic PC skills, including a basic understanding of a computer's operating system, how to launch an application and create and save files, as well as how to copy files from CDs and other media.

Who Should Attend:

This course is intended for graphic designers, creative professionals, print professionals, publishers, pre-press professionals, and marketing communications professionals.

Training Course Overview/Content:

Managing the Adobe InDesign CS Environment
Preferences - Enhanced in CS3

Customize Your Workspace

Set General Preferences - Enhanced in CS3

Manage Document Presets

Workspace and Window arrangement - Enhanced in CS3
Designing Documents
Create a New Document

Alter a Document’s Layout

Create the Structure of a Document

Develop Master Pages

Manage Text and Graphic Placement

Develop Layers
Managing and Formatting Text
Add Tex

Edit Text

Spell Check Text

Thread Text

Find/ Change - Enhanced in CS3

Change Text Threads

Format Characters

Format Paragraphs

Numbering paragraphs - New in CS3

Text variables - New in CS3

Manage Styles - New in CS3

Style Groups - New in CS3

Quick Apply - Enhanced in CS3

Text Wrap - Enhanced in CS3

Text on a path

Rules

The Glyphs panel - Enhanced in CS3
Objects
Arranging, Aligning and Distributing

Transforming Objects

Duplicating

Rotating

Scaling

Skewing

Mirroring

The Transform Again commands

Object Styles

InDesign Snippets
Links Panel
Utilizing Colours, Swatches, and Gradients
Utilize Colour

Utilize Swatches

Apply Fills, Gradients, and Strokes
Managing Transparency
Apply Transparency - Enhanced in CS3

Apply Transparency Flattener Presets
Graphics
File Types

Importing options

Image Frames simple, compound and custom

Fitting images Control Palette and shortcuts- Enhanced in CS3

Inline graphics

Clipping Paths, Alpha channels

Importing InDesign documents - New in CS3
Pen & Bezier tools
Path tools in InDesign
Effects - New in CS3
Inner Shadow - New in CS3

Bevel and Emboss - New in CS3

Gradient Feather - New in CS3

Inner Glow and Outer Glow - New in CS3
Tabs and Tables
Create a Table

Modify a Table

Format a Table

Table Styles - New in CS3
Libraries
Using InDesign libraries
Preparing for Handoff to a Service Provider
Check Documents for Problems

Print a Document

Package Files

Preview Output

Print, Separation, Flattening

Print options - Enhanced in CS3

PostScript, preflighting and Packaging
Creating Acrobat PDF Files
Prepare PDF Files for Web Distribution

Manage PDF Presets

Export PDF Files for Printing