course | Adobe InDesign CS6

Introducing The Workspace
 

• Getting started
• Looking at the workspace
• Working with panels
• Customizing the workspace
• Changing the magnification of a document
• Navigating through a document
• Using context menus
• Exploring on your own
• Finding resources for using InDesign

 

Getting To Know Indesign

 

• Lesson overview
• Getting started
• Viewing the lesson document
• Preflighting as you work
• Viewing guides
• Adding text
• Working with styles
• Working with graphics
• Working with objects
• Working with object styles
• Exploring on your own

 

Setting Up A Document And Working With Pages

 

• Getting started
• Creating and saving custom document settings
• Creating a new document: Hiding objects
• Applying selection techniques
• Switching between open InDesign documents
• Working with master pages
• Applying master pages to document pages
• Adding new document pages
• Adding sections to change page numbering
• Adding new pages
• Placing text and graphics on the document pages
• Overriding master page items on document pages
• Changing the size of pages
• Viewing the completed spread
• Exploring on your own

Working With Objects

 

• Getting started
• Working with layers
• Creating and modifying text frames
• Creating and modifying graphics frames
• Adding metadata captions to graphics frames
• Placing and linking graphics frames
• Changing the shape of a frame
• Wrapping text around a graphic
• Modifying the shape of frames
• Transforming and aligning objects
• Selecting and modifying grouped objects
• Finishing up
• Exploring on your own

 

Flowing Text

 

• Getting started
• Flowing text into an existing frame
• Flowing text manually
• Creating text frames while flowing text
• Flowing text automatically
• Creating threaded frames automatically
• Resizing text frames automatically
• Adding a jump line page number
• Exploring on your own

 

Editing Text

 

• Getting started
• Finding and changing a missing font
• Entering and importing text
• Finding and changing text and formatting
• Checking spelling
• Editing text by dragging and dropping
• Using the Story Editor
• Tracking changes
• Exploring on your own

Working With Typography

 

• Getting started
• Adjusting vertical spacing
• Changing fonts and type style
• Fine-tuning Columns
• Changing paragraph alignment
• Creating a drop cap
• Adjusting letter and word spacing
• Setting tabs
• Adding a rule above a paragraph
• Exploring on your own

 

Working With Color

 

• Getting started
• Managing color
• Synchronizing color settings in Adobe Bridge
• Specifying color settings in InDesign
• Displaying images at full resolution
• Proofing color onscreen
• Defining printing requirements
• Creating and applying colors
• Working with gradients
• Creating a tint
• Creating a spot color
• Applying colors to text and objects
• Using advanced gradient techniques
• Exploring on your own

 

Working With Styles

 

• Getting started
• Creating and applying paragraph styles
• Creating and applying character styles
• Nesting character styles inside paragraph styles
• Creating and applying object styles
• Creating and applying table and cell styles
• Globally updating styles
• Loading styles from another document
• Exploring on your own

Importing And Modifying Graphics

 

• Getting started
• Adding graphics from other programs
• Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
• Managing links to imported files
• Updating revised graphics
• Adjusting display quality
• Working with clipping paths
• Working with alpha channels
• Importing native Adobe graphics files
• Using a library to manage objects
• Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics
• Exploring on your own

 

Creating Tables

 

• Getting started
• Converting text to a table
• Formatting a table
• Creating a header row
• Adding graphics to table cells
• Creating and applying table and cell styles
• Exploring on your own

 

Working With Transparency

 

• Getting started
• Importing and colorizing a grayscale image
• Applying transparency settings
• Adjusting transparency effects to imported vector and bitmap graphics
• Importing and adjusting Illustrator files that use transparency
• Applying transparency settings to text
• Working with effects
• Exploring on your own

Printing And Exporting
 

• Getting started
• Preflighting files
• Packing files
• Creating an Adobe PDF proof
• Previewing Separations
• Previewing how transparency effects will be flattened
• Previewing the page
• Printing a laser or inkjet proof using the Ink Manager
• Exploring on your own

 

Creating Adobe PDF Files With Form Fields

 

• Getting started
• Adding form fields
• Exporting an interactive Adobe PDF file
• Exploring on your own
• CREATING AND EXPORTING AN EBOOK
• Getting started
• Completing the booklet
• Choosing the content of an ebook
• Adding metadata
• Exporting and EPUB file
• Exploring on your own

 

Working With Long Documents

 

• Getting started
• Starting a book
• Creating a running footer
• Adding a footnote
• Adding a cross-reference
• Synchronizing a book
• Generating a table of contents
• Indexing a book
• Exploring on your own