Adobe InDesign Course Curriculum
For beginners
GETTING TO KNOW THE WORKSPACE
• Application Bar
• Control bar
• Tool bar
• Floating panels
• Guides/Rulers
• Columns/Margins
• Using the zoom tool
• Customizing workspace
SETTING UP A DOCUMENT
• Saving custom page settings
• Bleeds and slugs
• Creating new document
• Adding/Deleting pages
• Arranging pages
GRAPHICS
• Placing graphics
• Graphic fitting options
• Frames
• Resizing frames
• Moving image within frame
LINKS PANEL
• Why are graphics linked?
• Updating graphics
• Replacing graphics
• Go to link
• Modified link
• Missing link
TYPE
• Character panel
• Paragraph panel
• Threading text
• Flowing text automatically
• Using a baseline grid
• Character style
• Paragraph style
• Drop caps
• Open type
• Text wrap
• Spell check
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• Adding layers
• Deleting layers
• Rearranging layers
• Layer visibility
STYLES
• Character styles
• Paragraph styles
• Object styles
• Nesting character styles
MASTER PAGES
• Multiple master pages
• Using master pages to create guides/grid
• Adding page numbers
• Renaming master page
• Base one page off another
• Placeholder frames
• Applying master to pages
CHANGING VIEW MODE
• Preview Mode
• View Guides/Hide Guides
• Display performance
COLOR
• Swatch panel
• CMYK vs. RGB
• Spot colors
• Color panel
• Kuler color panel
• Adding colors to swatch panel
• Creating tints
• Stroke vs. Fill
• Gradients
PEN TOOL IN INDESIGN
• Straight lines
• Curved paths
• Curves and corner anchor points
• Selecting and manipulating curves
WORKING WITH TRANSPARENCY
• Adding color to grayscale image
• Opacity and blending modes
• Isolate blending
• Knockout group
©2009–2011 All rights reserved. Visual Persuasion, LLC
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[email protected] IMPORTING AND MODIFYING GRAPHICS
• Vector vs. Bitmap
• Clipping paths
• Working with alpha channels
• Importing Illustrator files
USING A LIBRARY
• Library panel
• Naming library
• Using library for multiple documents
TABLES
• Importing tables (from Excel and Word)
• Creating table in InDesign
• Formatting cells
• Deleting columns/rows
• Placing graphics in table cells
• Formatting text in table
• Table styles/cell styles
PRINTING
• Understanding the print menu
• Transparency flattener
• Live preflight
• Packaging final files
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