Corporate Training By Zack Academy - InDesign Essentials

Why Should You Take This InDesign Essentials Course?

The InDesign Essentials class concentrates on the most common topics that we see in businesses using this program on a daily basis. By the end of this training course, you will feel confident in laying out a multiple page document, inserting photos, creating text styles, master documents and pages, flow in copy from Microsoft Word, sending a document off to print. This class is perfect to those seeking to feel comfortable with most InDesign tasks and duties, those looking to interview for positions that require solid InDesign skills, and those going into the Print, Advertising, Graphic Design or Business Industry.

The Following Materials Are Included:

• Adobe InDesign CS6 Printed Manual

The Following Topics Will Be Covered:

• Lesson 1—Getting to Know the InDesign Work Area
• Lesson 2—Working with Typography
• Lesson 3—Working with Color
• Lesson 3—Working with Images
• Lesson 4—Master Pages and Grids
• Lesson 5—Style Sheets and Fine-Tuning Text
• Lesson 6—Image Manipulation in InDesign
• Lesson 7—Preparing Files for Print

Syllabus

Lesson 1—Getting to Know the InDesign Work Area

• Tools, sub menus and palettes
• Setup up a new document
• Creating document
• Viewing the Document
• Assignment 1: New Document Set up

Lesson 2—Working with Typography

• Creating Text Frames
• Flowing copy
• Changing fonts and paragraph alignment
• Importing copy and entering it into frames
• Text frame options
• Spell Checking
• Assignment 2: Text Ad

Lesson 3—Working with Color

• Applying color to objects
• Creating dashed lines
• Working with gradients
• Creating and applying swatches and gradient swatches
• Creating a tint
• Multicolor gradient
• Assignment 5: Create Coupon

Lesson 3—Working with Images

• Placing graphics
• Stacking and text wrap
• Align multiple objects(212) 658-1918
• One Union Square West, Suite 805 NY, NY 10003
• Project 1: Nightclub Postcard

Lesson 4—Master Pages and Grids

• Creating Master pages
• Linking Master pages
• Editing master page items
• Keep spreads together and deleting pages
• Guides, preferences baseline grid
• The Layers palette
• Assignment 4: Set up Master Pages for Newsletter

Lesson 5—Style Sheets and Fine-Tuning Text

• Different text flow options
• Creating and applying styles
• Importing Styles from another document
• Creating a footer and Special Characters
• Finding and changing formatting and special characters
• Finding and changing a missing font
• Creating text on a path
• Working with tabs
• Drop shadows
• Assignment 4: Update Newsletter

Lesson 6—Image Manipulation in InDesign

• The Links palette and how to update and edit graphics in other applications
• Changing display settings
• Clipping Pages (Removing a white background)
• Examining Photoshop paths and alpha channels
• Importing Illustrator files
• Placing PDF files(212) 658-1918
• One Union Square West, Suite 805 NY, NY 10003
• Assignment 6: Adjust Images for Catalog Spread
• Assignment 7: Apply Color Blends to Brochure

Lesson 7—Preparing Files for Print

• Preflight
• Transparency flattener preview
• Ink Manager
• Determining how graphics print
• Setting options for fonts
• Creating a PDF preset
• Exporting to PDF
• Packaging an InDesign File
• Project 2: Four Page Magazine Layout