InDesign CS3

$59.00

Format: 1 DVD-ROM
Duration: 1.5 hours / 10 Lessons
Platform: Apple Macintosh

Get a comprehensive look at Adobe's new InDesign CS3 with leading Adobe certified instructor Jeff Witchel. Master the basics and get introduced to the powerful new tools and features of InDesign CS3. By the end of the program, you will be up and running on your own layout and design projects, taking advantage of the additional effects, superior control of transparency, enhanced productivity tools and other advancements to this powerful application.

top 5 things you will learn:

1. Open Format Timeline
2. Mixing for 5.1 Audio
3. FX Plug Filters
4. SmoothCam
5. Editable Motion Templates

Jeff Witchel

Jeff Witchel graduated from Pratt Institute in 1973 with a B.F.A. (Cum Laude) in Advertising Design and Visual Communications. He has been an award-winning advertising art director, writer, designer, illustrator, and TV producer ever since. Before starting his own advertising agency in New Jersey, Jeff built his career at top New York ad agencies such as Young & Rubicam, Grey Advertising, and Wells, Rich, Greene. Over the years, he has created award-winning work for many clients including AT&T, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Jell-O Pudding, The Plaza Hotel, and Pfizer. His many prestigious awards include N.Y. Art Directors Club Gold Award, One Show Gold Award, N.J. Art Directors Club Award, multiple Andy Awards, Graphis Annual, numerous readership awards, plus an Emmy Award nomination. Jeff is a self-taught computer artist with over 20 years of experience. His initial introduction to the computer was with PageMaker, but he switched to Quark 1.0 when it was first introduced in 1987. Having arrived on the desktop publishing scene so early, Jeff became the "go to" guy for answers when others started getting into computer graphics. As an Adobe Certified Expert, he's provided online support for Adobe and is now an Adobe Certified Training Provider for both Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign. Jeff is one of just a handful of Adobe Certified Instructors in the New York metropolitan area. He also is a Quark Certified Expert in QuarkXPress 6 as well as a master of Adobe Photoshop and related applications. He counts among his training clients ad agencies, design studios, magazines, illustrators, and photographers in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. Jeff is the author and instructor for two training DVDs produced by Magnet Media Films in New York - "Inside Adobe Illustrator CS2" and "Inside Adobe InDesign CS2." He also writes tutorials for Layers magazine's website, authors Layers Magazine's "Tips of the Day," which are delivered daily to subscribers by email, and is a regular contributor to Adobe Illustrator Techniques magazine.

Working with Transparency

Jeff explores the Effects Panel, which has replaced CS2’s Transparency Palette, and how work in this single panel makes controlling effects and transparency easier and more efficient.

Working with Text

Jeff demonstrates the versatility of the Wrap To option in the Wraps Panel and explores the enhancements to the Glyph Panel.

  1. Introduction to InDesign CS3
  2. The New Workspace
  3. The New Control Panel
  4. Working with Transparency
  5. New Effects
  6. Working with Text
  7. Table & Cell Styles
  8. Bullets & Numbering
  9. Placing Files
  10. Fast Frame Fitting