Get an introduction to Adobe InDesign CS4 with this essential training that introduces you to the basics tools, skills and techniques required to create professionally styled text, layouts and graphics that deliver a powerful impact. In this series, you’ll be guided through the techniques needed to work with text and graphics in your layouts. You will also learn how to apply artistic effects to text and placed artwork, without prior knowledge of other applications like Illustrator or Photoshop.

Highlights:
Discover how InDesign CS4 provides a platform for communications beyond print. It can make electronic documents as PDF as well as web documents as SWF.
Find out whether your print jobs will cause problems at print shops by using the new Preflight panel.
Learn how design can be more efficient with Text and Object Styles.
See how InDesign CS4 can apply many artistic effects to your placed artwork, without knowledge of other applications like indesignor Photoshop.
Learn how to use layers to create different versions of your publications, for different languages, different markets, or more.
Course Outline

Chapter 1: EXPLORING THE INTERFACE (28 min)
1. Start Screen, Application Bar & Workspace Menu
2. Panels, Application Frame & Tab View
3. Using the Control Panel
4. Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts & Menus
5. Exploring Workspaces

Chapter 2: CUSTOMIZING APPLICATION PREFERENCES (38 min)
1. Setting General & Interface Preferences
2. Setting Type & Composition Preferences
3. Customizing Units, Grids & Guides
4. Dictionary, Spelling, Autocorrect & Story Editor Display Preferences
5. Display Performance & Appearance of Black Preferences
6. File & Clipboard Handling

Chapter 3: WORKING WITH DOCUMENTS (21 min)
1. Setting Up a New Document & Saving a Preset
2. Working with Templates
3. Replacing Missing Fonts & Updating Links
4. Converting Documents for Backwards Compatibility

Chapter 4: NAVIGATING & VIEWING DOCUMENTS (21 min)
1. Navigating Pages & Layers
2. Links, Edit Original & Rotate Spread View
3. Zooming, Display Performance & Panning
4. Changing View Modes & Customizing a Proof

Chapter 5: MARGINS, COLUMNS, RULERS & GUIDES (18 min)
1. Setting Up Units, Margins & Columns
2. Using Rulers
3. Working with Guides
4. Using Smart Guides to Align & Place Objects

Chapter 6: ADDING TEXT TO YOUR LAYOUT (32 min)
1. Adding & Formatting Text in a Frame
2. Exploring Frame Types
3. Placing Text from a File
4. Threading Text Frames
5. Creating Text on a Path
6. Auto-Flowing Text
7. Using Smart Text Reflow

Chapter 7: TEXT FORMATTING OPTIONS (33 min)
1. Choosing Fonts
2. Controlling Font Size & Leading
3. Changing Text Color in the Swatches & Color Panels
4. Adjusting Alignment, Tracking & Kerning
5. Using the Eyedropper Tool to Sample Text Attributes
6. Finding & Replacing Fonts
7. Adding Indents & Spacing
8. Controlling Hyphenation & Justification
9. Creating Drop Caps
10. Using Optical Margin Alignment

Chapter 8: FORMATTING TEXT USING STYLES (20 min)
1. Creating Paragraph Styles
2. Applying Styles
3. Understanding Next Styles
4. Clearing Style Options
5. Redefining Styles
6. Importing & Managing Styles

Chapter 9: TABS, TABLES & LISTS (33 min)
1. Formatting Text with Tabs
2. Creating, Selecting & Navigating Tables
3. Formatting Tables & Cells
4. Saving Time with Table & Cell Styles
5. Working with Bulleted & Numbered Lists

Chapter 10: WORKING WITH PLACED GRAPHICS (28 min)
1. Exploring Bridge & Assigning Keywords
2. Placing & Scaling Images
3. Using the Free Transform, Position & Scale Tools
4. Frame & Content Fitting Options
5. Placing Multiple Files
6. Using the Links Panel
7. Building a Library

Chapter 11: CREATING SHAPES & USING TEXT WRAP (21 min)
1. Creating Shapes & Frames
2. Customizing & Transforming Shapes
3. Aligning & Distributing Shapes
4. Applying Text Wrap

Chapter 12: WORKING WITH COLOR & SWATCHES (41 min)
1. Introduction to Swatches
2. Choosing Colors & Creating New Swatches
3. Working with Gradients
4. Using the Kuler Panel
5. Using Transparency
6. Transparency Effects

Chapter 13: USING LAYERS (12 min)
1. Creating Layers
2. Placing Content on Layers
3. Moving Content between Layers
4. Managing Layers

Chapter 14: INTRODUCING OBJECT STYLES (12 min)
1. Creating New Object Styles
2. Applying Object Styles
3. Updating Object Styles
4. Defining Default Object Styles

Chapter 15: ADDING INTERACTIVITY (26 min)
1. Making a Table of Contents Interactive
2. Creating Hyperlinks
3. Adding Buttons for Navigation
4. Adding Page Transitions
5. Exporting for the Web Using SWF & PDF

Chapter 16: PREFLIGHT, PRINT & PDF (19 min)
1. Introducing New Live Preflighting
2. Packaging for Output
3. Understanding Printing Options
4. Printing Booklets
5. Exporting to Adobe PDF
6. Credits

INSTALLATION
a. Extract
b. Mount/Burn
c. Play & Learn

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