InDesign CS2

$99.00

Format: 1 DVD-ROM
Duration: 6 Hours
Platform: Apple Macintosh

Inside InDesign CS2 will take you through all of the essentials as well as many advanced features of InDesign CS2 as you complete a layout project for a fictional magazine. You will work alongside Adobe Certified Instructor Jeff Witchel using specially included media files so that you will quickly be up and running in this latest version of InDesign. By the end of the training, you will feel comfortable working with advanced type formatting such as nested paragraph styles, creating object styles and working with Snippets. You will be confident in your knowledge of the new functionality of anchored objects as well as the fluid interoperability that InDesign shares with other Creative Suite applications. This training is especially well-suited for users of existing layout programs, educators and small businesses.

Jeff Witchel

Jeff is an award-winning advertising art director, writer, designer, illustrator, and TV producer. Before founding his own advertising agency, Jeff built his career at top agencies such as Young & Rubicam, Grey Advertising, and Wells, Rich, Greene. Some of Jeff's many clients include: AT&T; Blue Cross/Blue Shield; Jell-O Pudding; The Plaza Hotel; and Pfizer. His work has won many honors, including the: N.Y. Art Directors Club Gold Award; One Show Gold Award; N.J. Art Directors Club Award; along with multiple Andy Awards and an Emmy nomination.

InDesign Advantages

Transparency
Interoperability Within Creative Suite 2
Type Composition

Setting Up an InDesign Document

Setting Defaults
Palettes and Workspaces
New Document Settings
Margins and Guides
Setting Up Master Pages
Automatic Page Numbers
Unlocking and Detaching Objects
Adding and Deleting Pages
Using Layers

  1. Introduction
    1. Introduction to the Training
    2. Section Overview
  2. InDesign Advantages
    1. Transparency
    2. Interoperability Within Creative Suite 2
    3. Type Composition
  3. Setting Up an InDesign Document
    1. Setting Defaults
    2. Palettes and Workspaces
    3. New Document Settings
    4. Margins and Guides
    5. Setting Up Master Pages
    6. Automatic Page Numbers
    7. Unlocking and Detaching Objects
    8. Adding and Deleting Pages
    9. Using Layers
  4. Formatting Copy
    1. Bringing in Copy
    2. Find and Replace Paragraph Returns
    3. The Character Palette
    4. The Paragraph Palette
    5. Creating Paragraph Styles
    6. Creating Character and Nested Styles
    7. Loading Styles and Copy into the Main Document
    8. Inset Text
    9. Fonts and Special Characters
    10. Working with Tabs
  5. Working with Text in a Layout
    1. Text Wrap Palette
    2. Paragraph Rules
    3. Grouping Objects
    4. Inline and Anchored Graphics
    5. Text Continuing To or From Pages
    6. Creating a Table of Contents
  6. Arranging and Transforming Objects
    1. Transforming with the Selection Tools
    2. The Align Palette
    3. Creating a Look with Strokes
    4. Custom Strokes
    5. Object Styles
    6. Finishing the Photo Layout
  7. Working With Color
    1. The Color and Swatches Palette
    2. Spot Colors
    3. Replacing Colors in Your Document
    4. Creating Gradients
  8. Working With Transparency
    1. Transparency in InDesign
    2. Blending Modes
    3. Transparent Effects
  9. Exporting Options
    1. Exporting as Adobe PDF
    2. Print to File
    3. Checking a PDF within Acrobat Professional
    4. Exporting as Interchange File
    5. Snippets
  10. Prepress and Preparing for Output
    1. Output Preview Options
    2. Type Layers and Transparency
    3. Creating Outlines of Type
    4. Packaging An InDesign File