Introduction to Adobe InDesign CS4 Training (3 days)

Introduction to Adobe InDesign CS4 Training Course Overview

In this Adobe InDesign training course, students will learn to use InDesign CS4 to create documents, import and edit text, create and work with styles, use graphics, work with tables and print documents.

Introduction to Adobe InDesign CS4 Training Course Goals

• Familiarize yourself with the InDesign workspace
• Learn to build documents with master pages
• Learn to work with text and type
• Learn to work with styles
• Learn to work with graphics
• Learn to create and use tables
• Learn to use color in your documents
• Learn to use effects
• Learn to work with variables, cross references
• Learn to build a table of contents and index
• Learn to publish documents in different formats
• Learn to work with XML
• Learn to create interactive PDFs

Introduction to Adobe InDesign CS4 Training Course Outline

1. InDesign CS4 Essential Skills
   1. InDesign tools
   2. The InDesign workspace
   3. The document window
   4. Using guides
   5. Viewing modes
   6. Working with panels
   7. The Tools panel
   8. Managing panels
   9. Working with the Control panel
   10. Saving your workspace
   11. Navigating through an InDesign document
   12. Using the Pages panel
   13. Changing the magnification of your document
   14. Working with type
   15. Entering and formatting type
   16. Placing and formatting type
   17. Flowing type
   18. Using styles
   19. Applying paragraph styles
   20. Applying character styles
   21. Apply styles using Find/Change
   22. Working with graphics
   23. Positioning graphics within a frame
   24. Applying text wrap
   25. Understanding layers
   26. Applying effects
   27. Resources for additional help
   28. In-product help
   29. On-line help
   30. Forums
   31. Conferences, seminars, and training
   32. Self study
2. Building Documents with Master Pages
   1. Planning your document
   2. Creating custom page sizes
   3. Creating a new custom-sized document
   4. Creating and formatting master pages
   5. Formatting master pages
   6. Adding automatic page numbering
   7. Using text variables
   8. Basing master pages on other master pages
   9. Overriding master page items
   10. Adding layout pages
   11. Placing formatted text
   12. Creating the classified page
   13. Adding images and text to the master frames
   14. Applying master pages to multiple pages
   15. Self study
3. Working with Text and Type
   1. Adding text to your document
   2. Creating a text frame
   3. Changing character attributes
   4. Changing font and type styles
   5. Adjusting size
   6. Adjusting line spacing
   7. Adjusting character spacing kerning and tracking
   8. Using a baseline shift
   9. Changing paragraph attributes
   10. Horizontally aligning text
   11. Changing the spacing before and after paragraphs
   12. Using tabs
   13. Adding rules above or below paragraphs
   14. Changing text color
   15. Creating drop caps
   16. Checking and correcting spelling
   17. Finding and changing text and text attributes
   18. Checking spelling
   19. Adding words to the dictionary
   20. Checking spelling as you type
   21. Automatically correcting spelling
   22. Editing text using the Story Editor
   23. Drag-and-drop text editing
   24. Special characters and glyphs
   25. Using the Glyphs panel and glyph sets
   26. Text frame options
   27. Adjusting text inset
   28. Vertically aligning text
   29. Importing text
   30. Flowing text manually
   31. Threading text between frames
   32. Using semi-autoflow to link several text frames
   33. Changing the number of columns in a text frame
   34. Baseline grid
   35. Viewing and changing the baseline grid
   36. Adding story jumps
   37. Using styles to format text
   38. Creating a headline and applying a style
   39. Importing styles from other documents
   40. Redefining styles
   41. Type on a path
   42. Importing text from Microsoft Word
   43. Missing fonts
   44. Finding and fixing missing fonts
4. Working with Styles
   1. Style types
   2. Applying a paragraph style
   3. Character styles
   4. Defining a character style
   5. Applying a character style Using nested styles
   6. Globally updating styles
   7. Loading styles from another document
   8. Quick Apply
   9. Organizing styles into groups
   10. Object styles
   11. Defining an object style
   12. Applying an object style
   13. Changing an object style
   14. Finishing up
5. Working with Graphics
   1. Understanding how InDesign handles graphics
   2. Locating missing images
   3. Working with the Links panel
   4. Customizing the Links panel
   5. Adding graphics to your layout
   6. Fitting an image within an existing frame
   7. Auto Fitting
   8. Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics
   9. Placing multiple graphics
   10. Using object styles for images
   11. Wrapping text around images
   12. Wrapping text around the bounding box
   13. Using graphics with clipping paths and alpha channels
   14. Removing an image background using InDesign
   15. Using anchored objects
   16. Advanced importing
   17. Importing layered Photoshop files
   18. Importing InDesign layouts as graphics
6. Creating and Using Tables
   1. Creating a table
   2. Designing a table from scratch
   3. Copying and pasting table information
   4. Converting text to table and table to text
   5. Importing a table
   6. Editing tables and table options
   7. Changing row width
   8. Editing the border
   9. Formatting rows and columns
   10. Using fills
   11. Formatting cells and text
   12. Resetting the cell styles within a table
   13. Text alignment and inset within a cell
   14. Formatting text within a cell and saving paragraph styles
   15. Formatting text in tables by column
   16. Working with tables in Story Editor
   17. Merging cells
   18. Defining a header cell
   19. Setting column and row dimensions
   20. Setting a fixed row height
   21. Setting column width
   22. Using graphics in tables
   23. Placing graphics in cells
   24. Cell styles and table styles
   25. Cell styles
   26. Applying cell styles
   27. Creating table styles
   28. Applying table styles
7. Using Color in Your Documents
   1. Applying colors to frames and text
   2. Applying color to text
   3. Applying color to frames
   4. Creating and saving a new swatch
   5. Applying strokes to text
   6. Creating a tint reduction
   7. Making a dashed stroke
   8. Creating and saving gradients
   9. Linear gradients
   10. Saving a gradient
   11. Adjusting fill opacity
   12. Radial gradient
   13. Adjusting the direction of a radial gradient
   14. One-click edits
   15. Using the Eyedropper tool to copy frame attributes
   16. Applying colors to multiple objects
   17. Updating and editing colors
   18. Using and saving spot colors
   19. Colorizing a grayscale image
   20. Setting up color management
   21. Color management essentials: about color models CMYK, RGB, and spot
   22. About the device-independent color space
   23. About profiles
   24. About color management engines
   25. Setting up color management
   26. Saving color settings
   27. Changing a source profile
   28. Assigning a new source profile
8. Using Effects
   1. Creative effects
   2. Applying opacity to objects
   3. Apply effects to stroke or fill only
   4. Drop shadow
   5. Adjusting effects for objects
   6. Bevel and Emboss
   7. Object styles with effects
   8. Basic Feather
   9. The Gradient Feather tool
   10. Converting text to a path
   11. Applying blending modes to objects
   12. The Screen blending mode
   13. The Multiply blending mode
   14. Working with imported files that use transparency
   15. Applying an alpha channel selection
   16. Applying a path selection
9. Advanced Document Features
   1. Adding text variables
   2. Creating a book from multiple files
   3. Defining pagination and document order
   4. Synchronizing attributes across a book file
   5. Creating a Table of Contents
   6. Building an index
   7. Adding topics
   8. Adding cross-references
   9. Generating the index
   10. Creating PDFs and printing from the Book panel
   11. Creating PDFs
   12. Printing
10. Document Delivery: Printing, PDFs, and XHTML
    1. Package inventory
    2. Preflight checks
    3. Packaging your document
    4. Creating an Adobe PDF
    5. Generating XHTML
    6. Adding CSS formatting
    7. Separation preview
    8. Printing a proof
11. Using XML with InDesign
    1. XML basics
    2. XML tags in InDesign
    3. Importing and applying XML Tags
    4. Using a DTD
    5. Viewing and organizing structure
    6. Viewing and applying attributes
    7. Exporting XML
    8. Importing XML
    9. Preparing the document template
    10. Applying an XSLT on import
    11. Mapping tags to styles
    12. Using data merge
12. Creating Interactive Documents
    1. Interactive design considerations
    2. Importing multimedia content
    3. Creating buttons to control multimedia content
    4. Adding more buttons
    5. Creating page transitions
    6. Creating an interactive PDF
    7. Viewing an interactive PDF
    8. Creating a Flash .swf file
    9. Viewing a Flash file

Introduction to Adobe InDesign CS4 Training Course Materials

Each student will receive a copy of InDesign CS4 Digital Classroom Book by Digital Classroom, which will serve as a guide for the class.

Each student will also receive a one-year subscription to Webucator's online reference library, which contains hundreds of the most current electronic technology books - a $149.95 per student value.

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