Description
InDesign CS5 Basic
Duration: 2 days
Description
InDesign CS5 Basic is part of a three-course ILT series, which is designed to help students prepare for the Adobe Certified Expert exam for InDesign CS5. This course will teach students fundamental concepts, terminology, and the basic features of Adobe InDesign CS5. Students will learn how to create documents, place text and graphics, and create custom color swatches. Students will also learn how to work with master pages and multi-page documents. In addition, students will learn how to format text, apply styles, work with threaded text frames, position and group objects, and work with layers. Finally, students will print documents, create print presets, create a PDF file, and package documents for commercial printing.
Outline
Unit 1: Getting started
- Topic A: The Adobe InDesign environment
- Topic B: Preferences and defaults
- Topic C: InDesign Help
Unit 2: Basic documents
- Topic A: New documents
- Topic B: Text frames
- Topic C: Graphics frames
- Topic D: Custom colors
Unit 3: Guides and master pages
- Topic A: Object positioning
- Topic B: Master pages
Unit 4: Typesetting
- Topic A: Text frame threading
- Topic B: Paragraph formatting
- Topic C: Styles
Unit 5: Modifying items
- Topic A: Text frame options
- Topic B: Graphics
- Topic C: Grouped items
- Topic D: Layers
Unit 6: Finalizing documents
- Topic A: Printing and exporting documents
- Topic B: Preparing for commercial printing
All Adobe class participants should bring their own device to class with the software pre-loaded.
