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Lesson 1 : The Work Space
Become familiar with the workspace palettes and menus. Learn how to save custom
settings and work with the improved interfaced of InDesign CS.
Lesson 2 : Navigating Around
Being able to navigate your way around is one of the more important fundamentals
of any graphics application. Zoom, pan and change pages with all of the shortcuts
for each.
Lesson 3 : Setting Preferences
Setting up preferences is a simple process, but very important for many tasks
such as text, graphics and keyboard shortcuts.
Lesson 4 : Creating Documents
Just creating new documents you can easily overlook some of the powerful new
document presets. Also learn about bleed, slug, facing pages, margins and columns.
Lesson 5 : The Use of Color
We can’t just work in black and white. This lesson sheds light on how
to apply color easily, including several different methods for swatches, fills
and strokes.
Lesson 6 : Transforming Objects
The best way to ensure your artwork is in the right place is to position things
numerically. By using the transforming options, you can clearly define width,
height and x and y coordinates.
Lesson 7 : InDesign for Quark Users
While InDesign has many similarities to Quark, there is still a lot to learn.
Here we compare to find some common ground and make old die hard Quark users
comfortable with InDesign.
Lesson 8: Text Frames
Text in InDesign has to be in a frame or text box. We can use them for linking
and flowing text from column to column and even between pages.
Lesson 9 : Character Formatting
Choosing fonts, setting point size, kerning, tracking, leading and everything
in between. The best text keyboard shortcuts and plenty of typography tricks.
Lesson 10 : Paragraph Formatting
There is a real art in setting great paragraphs, whether its justified text
or indented or even with a drop shadow. There are plenty of tips and tricks
with paragraphs in this lesson.
Lesson 11 : Style Sheets
Once you have decided on your text styles we can save them as a style sheet.
Learn how to create style sheets, adjust them and apply them to your text easily.
Lesson 12 : Drawing Shapes
Learn to use the shape tools in InDesign to create all sorts of graphics. Create
difficult effects and achieve some great graphic results quickly.
Lesson 13 : Importing Images
Images in InDesign need to go in a picture box or frame. There are many different
formats we can import and link to in order to achieve some visually stunning
effects.
Lesson 14 : Working with Images
Learn to go beyond simply placing images by working with images that have no
background and creating great layouts.
Lesson 15 : Doing a Text Wrap
Here we place an image within our page and have our text run around it. There
are some very important tips in this lesson to make text wrapping work for you.
Lesson 16 : Creating a Table
Use the table feature of InDesign to start creating visually rich tables with
information supplied in cell based formulas.
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